The Book Of Thorns

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HQ
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 324 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You wont want to miss The Book of Thorns." Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport. A spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir to Blackwood Library!. Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleons Grande Arme. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any wound with herbal mixtures invites awe amongst the soldiers¦and suspicion. For behind Cornelias vast knowledge of the natural world is a secret she keeps hiddenthe flowers speak to her through a mystical connection she has felt since childhood. One that her mother taught her to heed, before she disappeared.. As Napoleons army descends on Waterloo, the flowers sing to her of a startling a girl who bears a striking resemblance to Cornelia. A girl she almost remembersher sister, lost long ago, who seems to share the same gifts. Determined to reunite with Lijsbeth despite being on opposite sides of the war, Cornelia is drawn into a whirlwind of betrayal, secrets, and lies. Brought together by fate and magic at the peak of the war, the sisters must uncover the key to the source of the power that connects them as accusations of witchcraft swirl and threaten to destroy their very lives.

ISBN: 9781038916426