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The city of Larzeg glitters as bright as its famous Nectar Performance House, where violinist Kasia has worked her fingers to the bone to chase one dream: becoming Perla, the theater’s prestigious concertmaster. When the current Perla mysteriously dies during a performance, Kasia refuses to be distracted by whispers of a phantom in the theater’s wings. All she sees is her chance to replace the fallen star—until the orchestra director refuses her an audition because of her Azjarian heritage.
Devastated, Kasia is desperate enough to strike a bargain with the phantom of the theater—revealed to be Death herself. Behind her dark veil, Lady Death is prepared to help Kasia in her quest to become Perla, if Kasia becomes her companion. But one cannot be companion to Lady Death without bearing her mark, and soon Kasia discovers that her music is entrancing, capable of bending the audience to her will.
This alluring new gift thrusts Kasia into the spotlight, but also into the city’s highest circles of power, where influential men seek to control her, Lady Death’s demands grow increasingly dangerous, and Kasia finds herself falling further into the thrall of a master who promises her everything . . . as long as Death can call Kasia hers.
Devastated, Kasia is desperate enough to strike a bargain with the phantom of the theater—revealed to be Death herself. Behind her dark veil, Lady Death is prepared to help Kasia in her quest to become Perla, if Kasia becomes her companion. But one cannot be companion to Lady Death without bearing her mark, and soon Kasia discovers that her music is entrancing, capable of bending the audience to her will.
This alluring new gift thrusts Kasia into the spotlight, but also into the city’s highest circles of power, where influential men seek to control her, Lady Death’s demands grow increasingly dangerous, and Kasia finds herself falling further into the thrall of a master who promises her everything . . . as long as Death can call Kasia hers.
LAST RESORT AT HAVEN’S ROCK by Kelley Armstrong
ANYTHING FOR LOVE: A Therapist, Nine Case Studies, and the Power of Toxic Bonds by Catherine Gildiner
In her fascinating new collection of case studies, therapist Cathy Gildiner explores the nature of the parent child bond and the astonishing, creative and ingenious lengths people will go to keep that bond alive, however dysfunctional.
Dr. Gildiner presents nine memorable stories, including a schizophrenic man who builds religious altars in the tunnels of a now defunct mental hospital, a successful businessman whose relationship with his mother makes anger impossible and so rage bubbles out of his skin in debilitating eczema, and a librarian who is assigned to play the femme fatale on a murder mystery cruise and is unable to give up the role when she returns to her real life. Gildiner also presents the challenges of supporting those from dramatically diverse cultural backgrounds, from a Somali teenager to a Cambodian woman who survived the Pol Pot regime where people were forced to kill their parents to prove their bond was not to family but to the Khmer Rouge.
With wit and empathy, Gildiner brings each case study to vivid life. And unusually, she takes us not just to her office but to court, businesses, and hospitals. In the process, she lifts the curtain on the daily work of a therapist and celebrates humanity’s remarkable resilience.
Dr. Gildiner presents nine memorable stories, including a schizophrenic man who builds religious altars in the tunnels of a now defunct mental hospital, a successful businessman whose relationship with his mother makes anger impossible and so rage bubbles out of his skin in debilitating eczema, and a librarian who is assigned to play the femme fatale on a murder mystery cruise and is unable to give up the role when she returns to her real life. Gildiner also presents the challenges of supporting those from dramatically diverse cultural backgrounds, from a Somali teenager to a Cambodian woman who survived the Pol Pot regime where people were forced to kill their parents to prove their bond was not to family but to the Khmer Rouge.
With wit and empathy, Gildiner brings each case study to vivid life. And unusually, she takes us not just to her office but to court, businesses, and hospitals. In the process, she lifts the curtain on the daily work of a therapist and celebrates humanity’s remarkable resilience.
THE BOOKBINDER’S CODE by A. D. Bell
Read on if you dare! That is the epigraph in the hidden journal found by bookbinder Lilian “Lily” Delaney when her friend, mentor, and partner John Caxton disappears after a stranger comes knocking on the bindery door.
In the sweltering Oxford summer of 1903, while searching in his study for clues, Lily finds a hidden journal full of coded messages, written by Mr. Caxton forty years before. As Lily digs deeper, rumours surface of a secret society he belonged to in his university days and tales of a book that should not exist – the mythical, heretical, Liber Numerorum. The Book of Numbers.
But Lily is not the only one looking for Mr. Caxton and the threats start to pile up. She races across the country, to auction houses, Oxford colleges and into the ballrooms of high society. As she learns more of Mr. Caxton’s past, Lily begins to suspect her kindly mentor is anything but. When a member of his old university society is killed before her eyes, Lily fears Mr. Caxton will be next if she doesn’t find him soon. But even if she does, will he still be the same man she knew?
In the sweltering Oxford summer of 1903, while searching in his study for clues, Lily finds a hidden journal full of coded messages, written by Mr. Caxton forty years before. As Lily digs deeper, rumours surface of a secret society he belonged to in his university days and tales of a book that should not exist – the mythical, heretical, Liber Numerorum. The Book of Numbers.
But Lily is not the only one looking for Mr. Caxton and the threats start to pile up. She races across the country, to auction houses, Oxford colleges and into the ballrooms of high society. As she learns more of Mr. Caxton’s past, Lily begins to suspect her kindly mentor is anything but. When a member of his old university society is killed before her eyes, Lily fears Mr. Caxton will be next if she doesn’t find him soon. But even if she does, will he still be the same man she knew?