![]() Riley believes her gift could help Ian end the curse that has kept him tied to the land for centuries, but that would mean letting him go forever and she’s not sure she is strong enough to do that. As if her life wasn’t complicated enough, the malevolent spirit of the woman who killed Ian returns and she’ll stop at nothing to keep Riley from helping Ian find eternal peace. ![]() An uneasy truce quickly turns into friendship, and soon Riley’s falling hard for Ian. When her father moves the family to Scotland so they can all start over, Riley believes her life couldn’t get worse–that is until the ghost of nineteen-year-old Ian MacKinnon catches her purposely cutting herself. Sixteen-year-old Riley Williams has been able to see ghosts since the car crash that took her mother’s life and shattered her family. Guilt-ridden over the belief that she’s somehow responsible for her mom’s death, Riley is desperate to see her mother’s elusive spirit to gain her forgiveness. ![]() THE DEEPEST CUT, MacKinnon Curse series #1 Due to strong language, mention of alcohol, drug use, cutting, and sexual content, it is not recommended for younger readers. ![]() THE MACKINNON CURSE series is a mature YA paranormal romance series. ![]()
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![]() He thinks she should only associate with other British people. ![]() So she has been free to spend time with her best friend, Isha, who is Indian, and visit the bazaar in town.īut now that it is 1919, and the war is over and her father is home, he is unhappy that Rosalind was given so much freedom. Rosalind has had a lot of freedom the past couple of years, because her father, an army officer, was away fighting in World War I, and her mother has health problems and couldn't pay much attention to her. ![]() Unlike most British children in early 20th century India, she was not sent home to England to be educated, because her older brother died while at school in England and her mother couldn't bear to send another child away after that. Small Acts of Amazing Courage by Gloria Whelan (Published by Simon & Schuster, April 19, 2011)įifteen-year-old Rosalind was born in India to British parents. ![]() ![]() From their interrogation of Sax (where he spoke exclusively in inhuman tongues) to a related drug raid on a seedy rock club rife with arcane symbols and otherworldly lyrics, they suspect that they are on the trail of something awful… but nothing can prepare them for the creeping insanity and unspeakable terrors they will face in the small harbor town of Innsmouth. Comic book legend Alan Moore (WATCHMEN) and brilliant artist Jacen Burrows deliver a chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror! Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of ritual murders somehow tied to the final undercover assignment of Aldo Sax -the once golden boy of the Bureau, now a convicted killer and inmate of a maximum security prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out, Judgmental Guy isn’t too mean-okay, he kind of still is. Judgmental Guy decides Lucy and me-as well as baby Eli, are worth his friendship. Then something happens, I’m not even sure what. He judges my very round belly, Lucy’s inability to leave him alone, the bags under my eyes, and the fact that I couldn’t care less what I look like anymore. He doesn’t know me, but he’s already painting a picture of who he thinks I am in his mind. ![]() His cold, blunt observation of us doesn’t differ from any other stranger. I’m too busy most days between parenting, work, and finishing up my last year of nursing school to let their judging gaze tear me down until he moves into the vacant house next to the apartments I live in. I mean, why else would someone have a child so young, right? They couldn’t be more wrong. They see Lucy on my hip, and they see a mistake. ![]() |