![]() McKillip (The Book of Atrix Wolf, and winner in 1975 of a World Fantasy Award for her novel The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) weaves a dense web of desire and longing, human love and inhuman need. ![]() ![]() The pace here is deliberate and sure, with no false steps the writing is richly textured and evocative. To save her sister as well as Corbet, Rois will have to come to terms with the secret of her own changeling identity. Winter Rose Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will hound you and yours and the children of yours.Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his. When Corbet disappears, Laurel begins to sicken and fade. As Laurel falls hard for Corbet, Rois searches for the truth about the Lynns, but the answers she finds lead only to more questions. McKillip is a winner of the World Fantasy Award and the author of numerous novels including, The Bards of Bone Plain, The Bell at Sealey Head, and Solstice Wood. Despite her attraction to Corbet, Rois is warned by her otherworldly senses that he is not what he seems. Now Tearle's son, Corbet, has come home to rebuild crumbling Lynn Hall. Decades ago, according to village gossip, Tearle Lynn murdered his father and mysteriously disappeared. ![]() ![]() But both Rois, who narrates, and Laurel fall under the spell of the stranger who enters their world. Woods-wise and free-spirited, Rois Melior is the opposite of her sensible sister, Laurel. ![]()
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