Guardsman Black Ilex Winterberry has been aware of his
Heartmate since they connected during her second passage.
She knows nothing of him and it will stay that way if Ilex
has his way. Ilex has been seeing visions of his own death
for years and refuses to bond with a Heartmate only to die
shortly after and take her with him. When a series of
vicious murders rocks the city, Ilex moves to the same
building as his Heartmate to watch over her and keep her
out of harm's way, but he has every good intention of
keeping distance between them. Well, you know what they say
about good intentions.
Trif Clover is young, irrepressible and optimistic. Trif
starts a search for her Heartmate with all the enthusiasm
of her youth. She has a charm key fashioned and literally
goes door to door searching for her man. Instead, she
continually runs into Guardsman Winterberry, who briskly
sends her home whenever he finds her and her key touring
the city. What's up with that anyway? Sure, he's her
neighbor and friend and a guardsman, but the annoying man
pops up, literally, every time she leaves the house. Then
Trif makes a visit to a matchmaker who informs her that her
Heartmate knows who she is, but keeps apart from her for
reasons known only to himself. Stunned but undaunted, Trif
renews her effort to track down her intended and force, eh...
bring him to his senses. But while Trif is tracking down
her intended lover, Ilex is tracking down a coven of
killers with black magic on their minds. And now the
killers are focused on Trif.
Celta is a fascinating world, but it's the people and their
fams (sentient pets) who keep readers coming back for more.
There are many fantasy worlds to choose from these days and
a lot of them drawn in more detail. Heck, a lot of them
make more sense than Celta does most of the time, but Owens
cares about these people and their pets and passes her love
for them on to her readers. And you just know this woman
has cats, she knows them way too well. Caring about
characters and their relationships as much as the world
they live in or the "special effects," that's what we don't
get enough of. Owens is a writer who can make you feel
sorry for a house (I love that turquoise house...I want
things to turn out okay for it). Her legions of fans will
snap this one up and then whine, "But what about the
others?" In the words of Greyku, "We want more!"
Tucked away in the Druida City of Celta, Trif Clover knows
she has a HeartMate. She wants him so badly she’s actually
going door-to-door with her charmkey to find him. What she
doesn’t know is that he has already found her.
Guardsman Ilex Winterberry knows that Trif is his
HeartMate, but fears that being twice her age, with a
short life ahead of him, he will only scare her away. He
yearns to be close to her—and she needs to be close to
him. There’s a killer on the loose, stalking those with
unstable Flair psi power like Trif’s. Facing his most
difficult task yet, Ilex must reveal the truth of their
destiny or else leave Trif in the grasp of a vicious
murderer...
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