![]() Her wrists and neck were encircled by green vines, and her brown dress was shot through with streaks of silver, like a child’s finger painting. “That was foolish, Brother,” the woman-Karin-said. Instead I saw another woman, walking through the forest. I fought the voice’s pull, straining to see where my mother had gone. “Liza?” A girl’s voice, from outside the vision, seeking to draw me back to my own time, my own place. Everything I felt-” She whirled from him and fled into the trees. One hand holding the blanket, she grabbed up clothing with the other-denim pants and cotton shirt, human clothes from Before. “I put your life before my own until I earn it.” I see that now, and I beg your forgiveness.” He bowed his head. In my time she looked older than Caleb, but in this vision she seemed the same age as me.Ĭaleb dropped to his knees before her. ![]() “How could you hold me at all?” There were flowers in Mom’s tangled brown hair, too, dying blooms that fell to the forest floor. His bright silver eyes watched Mom with concern but held none of the guarded caution I’d later see there. His rumpled linen tunic was green as well, and white flowers were woven into his faerie-clear hair. “I’ll hold you no longer.” Kaylen, whom I knew as Caleb, looked no younger in this vision than when I’d left for the well this morning. “How long, Kaylen?” Mom clutched a blanket around her, woven of green rushes. Around them, faerie trees held their bright leaves perfectly still, as if knowing, like I knew, that they saw something they shouldn’t. T he woman who would become my mother backed trembling away from the man who would save her life, and I did not know why. Here at last is the sequel to Bones of Faerie, for all those fans of dark fantasy and dystopian adventure who thrilled to Janni Lee Simner's unique vision of a postapocalyptic world infused with magic.Īsher Theodore, Jacob Samuel, and Zachary Elia To face it, Liza will have to find within herself something more powerful than magic alone. And deep in the forest a dark, malevolent will is at work. Winter crops won't grow, and the threat of starvation looms. Months ago, she used her powers to banish her dangerous father and to rescue her mother, lost in dreams, from the ruined land of Faerie.īorn in the wake of the war between humanity and Faerie, Liza lived in a world where green things never slept, where trees sought to root in living flesh and bone. And because magic works both ways, she can drive life away. ![]() She can draw life to herself, even from beyond the grave. The long-awaited sequel to Janni Lee Simner's breathtaking YA fantasy debut, Bones of Faerie. Series: The Bones of Faerie Trilogy Faerie Winter Janni Simner
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