Pride, Prejudice & Penguins - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798235563896

Editeur : Katherine Gilbert, 2022

Synopsis

It is a truth universally acknowledged that witches raised as mundanes are going to be very, very confused. Until this morning, Lizzy Bennett thought the oddest thing in her life was the fact that her mother named her and all her four sisters after Jane Austen characters. Then two penguins appeared and ran amuck in her home, closely followed by the Magical Council barging in and arresting her father for keeping her and the rest of her family under a strong compulsion. Now, she and her sister Jena (her mother thought "Jane" was too plain) are being sent away to a magical college to learn how to wield their own magic--which, apparently, exists. Finding herself in a supposedly-abandoned medieval castle on a Scottish island, Lizzy tries to adapt to life at the Academy. But that's not so easily done when it's discovered that she's not only blind to magic, unlike every other witch, but also saddled with a Narrative Syndrome, a curse so rare the school has only dealt with it once before. She probably should have guessed when she met the much-too-handsome Mr. David Fitzwilliam of Pemberton, not to mention his friends Charles and Caro Bingham and her professor, Charlie Lucas. Apparently, being a romantic heroine is not for the faint of heart. But all her other challenges are nothing to the menacing man who shows up in her dream, stealing her necklace and some of her memories, all while proclaiming that she belongs to him. Now learning about the magical world with a seeing-magic imp on her shoulder and her friends' and roommates' support, she'll have to try not to fall into a narrative trap by liking Fitz way too much, which is easier said than done. But when she and her family visit his Pemberton estate over the holidays and her sister Liddy is abducted by a mysterious man known only as GW, that darn narrative may be the least of her worries--because there's an all-powerful, otherworldly elf king who believes he owns Lizzy completely, and he's very tired of waiting. Can she and her friends find a way to save both Liddy and herself? Pride, Prejudice & Penguins is a perfect introduction to the More in Heaven and Earth universe. Continuing readers will delight in visits from old friends, while new readers can easily enjoy the loads of quirky humor, romance, and suspense of this magical school story meets funny, updated regency romance. On a Katherine Gilbert wackiness scale of 1-to-10 sarcastic talking cats*, this one is a 8. *Warning: Not all stories contain talking cats. Wackiness may take other forms. The More in Heaven and Earth series is all set in the same magical universe filled with angels, witches, werewolves, demons, vampires, ghosts, and many other supernatural creatures. These intriguing tales can be read in any order or as stand-alones and will introduce the reader to a variety of fascinating characters throughout the many unique locales of this exciting world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Gilbert was born at house number 1313 and then transplanted to a crumbling antebellum ruin so gothic that The Munsters would have run from it. She has since gained several ridiculously-impractical degrees in English and Religious and Women's Studies. She now teaches at a South Carolina community college, where all her students think, correctly, that she is very, very strange, indeed. You can sign up for her newsletter at: http: //eepurl.com/dCcccL or her Reader Group at: https: //www.facebook.com/groups/1169120069919462/

While Katherine Gilbert is the author of several sweet paranormal romance/urban fantasy novels, when the werewolves, witches, angels, and their friends are on vacation, she transforms into her alter-ego, Kat Samuels, writer of steamy contemporary and historical romance. If you'd like to learn more about Kat Samuels' upcoming steamy historical and contemporary novels and get more inside-the-world stories, join her newsletter at: http: //eepurl.com/gB2bmL

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Katherine Gilbert
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798235563896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 270
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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