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Set in an alternate version of early 1900s England, "Copperhead" is
the sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut.
Helen Huntingdon is beautiful--so beautiful she has to wear an
iron mask.
Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over
the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in her
face--and now has to cover her face with iron so she won't be taken
over, her personality erased by the bodiless fey.
Not that Helen would mind that some days. Stuck in a marriage with
the wealthy and controlling Alistair, she lives at the edges of her
life, secretly helping Jane remove the dangerous fey beauty from
the wealthy society women who paid for it. But when the chancy
procedure turns deadly, Jane goes missing--and is implicated in a
murder.
Meanwhile, Alistair's influential clique Copperhead--whose emblem
is the poisonous copperhead hydra--is out to restore humans to
their "rightful" place, even to the point of destroying the
"dwarvven" who have always been allies.
Helen is determined to find her missing sister, as well as continue
the good fight against the fey. But when that pits her against her
own husband--and when she meets an enigmatic young
revolutionary--she's pushed to discover how far she'll bend
society's rules to do what's right. It may be more than her beauty
at stake. It may be her honor...and her heart.
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Ironskin (Book)
Tina Connolly
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R475
R357
Discovery Miles 3 570
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TINA CONNOLLY's enchanting debut--IRONSKIN. Jane Eliot wears an
iron mask.
It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek.
The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims
remain--the ironskin.
When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist
with a "delicate situation"--a child born during the Great
War--Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can
help.
Teaching the unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she
certainly didn't expect to fall for the girl's father, the
enigmatic artist Edward Rochart. But her blossoming crush is
stifled by her scars and by his parade of women. Ugly women, who
enter his closed studio...and come out as beautiful as the fey.
Jane knows Rochart cannot love her, just as she knows that she must
wear iron for the rest of her life. But what if neither of these
things are true? Step by step Jane unlocks the secrets of a new
life--and discovers just how far she will go to become whole again.
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