Mists, shimmering silver fingers, rose over the pale green water of the lake. They twined and twisted toward a sky quietly gray, while in the east, over the hills, a pink blush waited, like a held breath, to waken.
Breen Kelly had always been a rule follower. So, when her father left when she was twelve years old, promising to return, she waited. Now, more than a decade later, she’s working at a job she hates and is tired of the life that playing by the rules has dealt her. It’s time to make a change.
Breen makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland – her father’s homeland. Little does she know how much of a leap until a walk in the woods leads her through a portal into another world – Talamh – where Breen will find magic, family and a destiny she could never have dreamed of.
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Mists, shimmering silver fingers, rose over the pale green water of the lake. PROLOGUE (VALLEY OF THE FEY).
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(Piatkus Books, 24 November 2020, hardback, 448 pages, borrowed from North Ayrshire Libraries)
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The Awakening (The Dragon Heart Legacy #1) | Nora Roberts
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I’m a fan of the author. I loved The Awakening and can’t wait to read the other two books in the series. Breen is a great character. I really felt for her, smothered by her critical, over-bearing mother. It was easy to sympathise with her. I loved the blend of fantasy and reality as Breen discovers her unusual heritage and finds out more about the Fey world she was born into and belongs with, a world her mother hid from her and did everything to smother in her daughter. I can’t wait to find out what happens next. I’d recommend this.
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