β Scribed by Lee Carroll; Carol Goodman
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What secrets are hidden in her past . . . ?
Jewelry designer Garet James is still coming to terms with theastounding revelation in BLACK SWAN RISING that she is the last in a long line of women swornto protect the world from evil. Now she has received a sign from WillHughes, the 400-year-old vampire who once helped her defeat the evilthreatening to destroy New York City. Hughes, tortured by his own violent history which is vividly reenacted here,has asked her to join himon a quest to rid himself of his curse of vampirism. While lookingfor Will in Paris, Garet encounters a number of mysterious figures-anancient botanist metamorphosed into the oldest tree in Paris, a gnomewho lives under the Labyrinth at the Jardin des Plantes, a librarian atthe Institut Oceanographique, and a dryad in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Each encounter leads Garet closer to finding Will Hughes, but she realizes that shes not the only one whos trying to find the way to the magical world called the Summer Country. As Garet struggles to understand her family legacy, each answer she finds only leads to more questionsand to more danger.
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A gothic and elegant page-turner.
--The Boston Globe on The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
[A] complex and lyrical literary thriller
-- Publishers Weekly on The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
Goodman mixes literary prose with a page-turning plot, making her work appealing to a broad range of readers.
--Library Journal on The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
Goodman has made a name for herself writing elegant literary thrillers. Graceful, fluid prose; an intricately plotted dual mystery set in the past and present; a strong heroine; and handsome and mysterious men all combine to make for a thoroughly scintillating read.
--Booklist on The Night Villa by Carol Goodman
Lee Carrollis a pseudonym for the collaboration between HammettAward-winning mystery novelist Carol Goodman and her poet and hedge fundmanager husband, Lee Slonimsky. Goodman and Slonimsky live in New York's Hudson Valley.
Library : Fantasy
Universes : Black Swan Rising [02]
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780765325983
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