**What would you give to be free?** Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger when she escapes her fiendish fiancΓ© to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown assassin can find him. Meanwhile, Captain Harry Tre
Close to the Wind
β Scribed by Walter, Jon
- Book ID
- 108130117
- Publisher
- David Fickling Books Ltd
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 131 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781910200254
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A war-torn country . . . a town that is burning. A single ship waits at the port for those who can escape. How can a boy and his grandfather hope to get on board? And will they find his mother before it leaves? When Papa meets two old friends, he makes a deal that could save them all. But this is only the beginning of the journey for Malik. If he is to escape, he will need all of his courage, his sense of right and wrong and a magic trick that he must practise till it's perfect.
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