Molly Cochran’s third Arthurian novel is both exciting and exasperating – exciting in the passages set in modern-day North America, exasperating when the action shifts to Dark Age or prehistoric Britain. In the descriptions of the young reincarnated Arthur living in the American Midwest, and the ...
Hal is an ex-FBI agent attempting to drown his memories in alcohol when he meets a strange man. Arther Blessing is a ten-year-old boy who accidentally found the Holy Grail. Saladin is the millennia-old man who lost it and will kill for its return. Their three lives tangle together in a story that...
Now that I’d come back to my senses, I tried to figure out what was going on.Mrs. Bean had asked me to make a wish, I knew that much. I remembered the sign in her tent at the Beltane fair that said WISHES $2. But Mrs. Bean wasn’t a real fortune-teller. Even if she were, fortune-tellers didn’t gra...
Someone was hugging me. Or punching me. I couldn’t tell which. Water poured out of my mouth. But it was still all around me. I would have screamed if I’d had the strength, but all I could do was stiffen my limbs. “Stop it. Relax. Listen to me. Relax.” &nb...
They had given the Meadow a very wide berth, especially since Hattie’s Kitchen was torn down. But on this Saturday morning they were out in force. Most of the twenty-seven families, including several who no longer lived in Whitfield, showed up. In fact, aside from the mayor and a few Wonderland o...
I finally recognized it: a woman weeping.Sobbing. And it was coming from Marie-Therèse’s room.I remembered what Peter had said about her having to leave the house on her birthday. She probably knows, I thought. It was a terrible thing to be kicked out of your home for no reason other than the fac...
It was all around him, cold and soothing, its blue clarity marbled with threads of dark blood seeping from his wounds. Justin's eyes opened slowly. He realized that he had automatically suspended his breathing. In the stillness of the water, he heard his own heart beating ...
Kate left her apartment unseen and headed across town. It was a warm night, and the neighborhood smelled of food from thousands of apartments with their windows left open after supper. The cup was in her handbag. It thumped against her with every step. Even through the lea...