She knows- everyone knows-that the Dragon will take Kasia: beautiful, graceful, brave Kasia, all the things Agnieszka isn’t, and her dearest friend in the world. The next choosing is fast approaching, and Agnieszka is afraid. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years, a fate almost as terrible as falling to the Wood. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power, and its shadow lies over her life. He protects us against the Wood, and we’re grateful, but not that grateful.”Īgnieszka loves her valley home, her quiet village, the forests and the bright shining river. Of course that’s not true: he may be a wizard and immortal, but he’s still a man, and our fathers would band together and kill him if he wanted to eat one of us every ten years. They talk as though we were doing human sacrifice, and he were a real dragon. We hear them sometimes, from travelers passing through. “Our Dragon doesn’t eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley.
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Edgar Award-winning mystery writer, Megan Abbott says, “Thrilling, illuminating, and heart- pounding, Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel.”Ībbott’s previous books include the bestsellers, Sin in the Second City, and American Rose which prompted USA Today to call her a, “pioneer of sizzle history.” Abbott lives in New York City. She includes a cast of other real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, and Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies’ descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. In Karen Abbott’s Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy (Harper) the author illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the true stories of four courageous women–a socialite, a farm girl, an abolitionist, and a widow–who were spies. There are a ton of spoilers below so don’t continue reading if plan to read the Blue Bloods series on your own. I’m sort of surprised that I haven’t heard of her previous to this point, but hey, you can’t catch them all. She’s also published other literatures that seem very much in the vein of Chiclit. Besides The Blue Bloods series, she also has a series entitled Au Pairs and another called The Ashleys. What I discovered was that she has been astonishingly productive, publishing dozens and dozens of books over the last decades. 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