![]() ![]() ![]() The organ shattered years ago, leaving him an empty shell, incapable of feeling. Even though he vows to find the man who wants her dead, he cannot relinquish his heart to her. ![]() After a flash flood strands them in a hunting lodge for several days, Liam and Emeline can no longer deny their mutual attraction. She wants him, and sets out to heal his wounded soul and claim his broken heart. Only, when she becomes the target of hired assassins and the riveting, oh so tantalizing Highlander Liam MacKay charges to her aid, she realizes she cannot settle for mediocre. With no prospects, Emeline expects she’ll follow in her aunt’s footsteps and reluctantly settle into a lifetime of drudgery as a seamstress. She has no hope… Illegitimate and orphaned, Emeline LeClaire has lived in servitude to her strict spinster aunt her entire life. That is, until he unhesitatingly risks his life to save the alluring Emeline LeClaire, and the temptress utterly thwarts his well laid plans. He’s as dedicated to the prosperity and success of his feudal barony as he is to avoiding social gatherings and marriage-minded women. ![]() He has no heart… Since the tragic deaths of his wife and children, Liam MacKay, Baron Penderhaven, has fortified himself behind a carefully erected wall of indifference and aloofness. He only meant to rescue her…instead, she saved him from himself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those who survive to graduate become major or minor characters in fairy tales. 10-14)Ĭhainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied.Įvery four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school. Undoubtedly one of the cleverest graphic novels of the year let's hope this isn't the last of Mirka. Each page conveys fluid motion through his panel layout and text-bubble placement readers can easily grasp and empathize with Mirka’s feelings. Deutsch creates a beautiful, detail-rich world with a muted, ethereal palette that masterfully blends faith and fantasy with astounding harmony. When Mirka must battle a fierce troll, the skills she’s learned from Fruma prove to be not so entirely useless. A magical encounter leads Mirka to discover a witch who sends her on a quest to acquire a sword perfect for a fledgling dragon-slayer, just the role Mirka envisions for herself. She keeps herself amused while stitching by conversing with her stepmother, Fruma, a top-notch debater who can adeptly argue her way out of any dispute. Like all 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girls, ebullient Mirka must face a six-armed troll to avoid becoming his dinner and obtain a dragon-slaying sword-wait, what? This utterly ingenious graphic novel spins the darling yarn of Mirka, who finds tasks like knitting dull and tedious. ![]() ![]() ![]() ARC Review: When You Dare by Lori Foster.ARC Review: Trace of Fever by Lori Foster. ![]()
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