Book Review: Chrysler Szarlan’s The Hawley Book of the Dead
An ancient journal seems to hold the truth that could keep Reve Dyer and her daughters safe from the stranger who destroyed her family and has followed her to Hawley.
An ancient journal seems to hold the truth that could keep Reve Dyer and her daughters safe from the stranger who destroyed her family and has followed her to Hawley.
A vivid portrait of a passionate spirit who lived one of medieval England’s greatest love stories. A woman ahead of her time–making her own choices, flouting convention, and taking control of her destiny.
Ordered to conceive a child, Meredith Gentry, a half-mortal, half-faerie princess, returns to Los Angeles, only to find herself trapped between faerie and human law.
I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Source: the library A Christmas Hopeby Anne Perry historical mystery in a hardcover edition that was published by Ballantine Books on November 12, 2013 and has 197 pages.Explore it on Goodreads or Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Death in the Devil’s Acre, Cardington Crescent, Silence in Hanover Close, Bethlehem Road, The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Paragon Walk, Resurrection Row, Rutland Place, Farriers’ Lane, Bluegate Fields, Midnight at Marble Arch, Dark Tide RisingEleventh in Anne Perry’s Christmas Stories historical mystery series and set in Monk’s Victorian world of 1868, although Monk doesn’t appear in this. My Take It’s a bleak existence, attending parties for the sake of social and business advancement. Things get out of hand, however, and everything in Claudine’s world is overturned. And we encounter the double standards and the huge preference for appearance over character that are so disgusting in a society. People’s prejudices and expectations condemn another, mostly because it’s easier. Don’t want to rock the boat, do we? […]
Princess Meredith is trapped in Faerie with a harem of lovers to conceive an heir for the throne. And Mistral, the Queen’s captain of the guard, has helped to awaken old magic.
Attempts against Princess Meredith force Faerie to allow human police inside and sets up Mistral, Master of Storms, into Merry’s arms, awakening ancient magic.
Princess Merry’s dreams are bringing magic back to Faerie, but it’s not enough—or it’s too much—for some. For there are many Sidhe who refuse to see a mongrel queen upon the throne.
“I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne—if I can stay alive, conceive a child, and elude Prince Cel’s assassination attempts while enjoying the pleasures of her royal guard
Princess Meredith fled the high court of Faerie three years ago and has been in hiding ever since. As Merry Gentry, I am a private investigator, but the shadows have found me.
A family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters—Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde—go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home.