Disillusioned healer Blackthorn and her companion, Grim, have settled in Dalriada to wait out the s. Read more ISBNĪward-winning author Juliet Marillier's "lavishly detailed"* Blackthorn & Grim series continues as a mysterious creature holds an enchanted and imperiled ancient Ireland in thrall. With danger on two fronts, Blackthorn and Grim are faced with a heartbreaking choice to stand once again by each other s side or to fight their battles alone. Back at Winterfalls, the evil touch of Blackthorn s sworn enemy reopens old wounds and fuels her long-simmering passion for justice. It doesn t take Grim long to realize that everything in Wolf Glen is not as it seems the place is full of perilous secrets and deadly lies.
Despite her personal struggles, Blackthorn agrees to help the princess of Dalriada in taking care of a troubled young girl who has recently been brought to court, while Grim is sent to the girl s home at Wolf Glen to aid her wealthy father with a strange task repairing a broken-down house deep in the woods. But after the recent ordeal she and her companion, Grim, have suffered, she knows she cannot let go of her quest to bring justice to the man who ruined her life. ll the rules of her bond to the fey: seek no vengeance, help any who ask, do only good. Feather bright and feather fine, None shall harm this child of mine. The powerful and emotionally-charged * fantasy series from the author of the Sevenwaters novels continues, as Blackthorn and Grim face haunting secrets and old adversaries. To save Oran from his treacherous nuptials, Blackthorn and Grim will need all their resources: courage, ingenuity, leaps of deduction, and more than a little magic. Word has spread that Blackthorn possesses a remarkable gift for solving knotty problems, so the prince asks her for help. With the strategic marriage imminent, Oran sees no way out of his dilemma. For although his intended exactly resembles her portrait, her brutality upon arrival proves she is nothing like the sensitive woman of the letters.
He knows her only from a portrait and sweetly poetic correspondence that have convinced him Flidais is his destined true love. Oran, crown prince of Dalriada, has waited anxiously for the arrival of his future bride, Lady Flidais. There she'll live on the fringe of a mysterious forest, duty bound for seven years to assist anyone who asks for her help.
Followed by a former prison mate, a silent hulk of a man named Grim, she travels north to Dalriada. er long and wrongful imprisonment, embittered magical healer Blackthorn has vowed to set aside her bid for vengeance against the man who destroyed all that she once held dear. Now she begins an all-new and enchanting series that will transport readers to a magical vision of ancient Ireland.
Award-winning author Juliet Marillier weaves magic, mythology, and folklore into every sentence on the page (The Book Smugglers).
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