Chime
By Franny Billingsley; Susan Duerden (Read by)
(Listening Library (Audio), Compact Disc, 9780307915191)
Publication Date: March 22, 2011
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover
Categories: Family - Siblings, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic, Love & Romance
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“Romantic, mysterious, and wildly inventive. I adored every gorgeous word.”-Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary
Briony has a secret. She believes her secret killed her stepmother, destroyed her twin sister’s mind, and threatens all the children in the Swampsea. She yearns to be rid of her terrible secret, but risks being hanged if she tells a soul. That’s what happens to witches: They’re hanged by the neck until dead.
Then Eldric arrives—Eldric with his golden mane and lion eyes and electric energy—and he refuses to believe anything dark about Briony. But he wonders what’s been buried beneath her self-hatred, hidden in Rose’s mangled thoughts, and whispered about by the Old Ones. And Briony wonders how Eldric can make her want to cry.
Especially when everyone knows that witches can’t cry.
A wild, haunting mystery and romance that is as beautifully written as it is captivating.
Franny Billingsley is the award-winning author of three previous books, including The Folk Keeper, which received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction. A graduate of Tufts University and the Boston University School of Law, Franny left the practice of law twenty-five years ago to write full-time and has never once looked back. Visit her website at www.frannybillingsley.com.
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