The angels, as they are known, also have the power to sing prayers for weather intercessions from the god Jovah. A few of Samaria’s people have wings and live in the high reaches of the angel holds. “Flight,” the first novella, is set on Samaria, the world popularized by Archangel and its sequels. I’m happy to report that I enjoyed all the novellas in Quatrain to varying degrees. I remember being very excited when I first heard about your plans to write an anthology of four novellas set on four different worlds, the places first introduced in Archangel, Heart of Gold, Summers at Castle Auburn and Mystic and Rider. Ratings Hover over Icons for text rating.Janine A Review Category / A- Reviews / B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews angels / Faeries / Fantasy Romance / friends-to-lovers / good-description / interracial-romance / Magic / reunited-lovers / Romantic SF / romantic-elements / Royalty / Samaria / Sharon-Shinn / Twelve-Houses 22 Comments
Her choices, and the woman she becomes, will change Castle Auburn forever. Thus, at 17, amid a hotbed of family and political unrest, Corie comes of age, risking all that she loves for what she believes in her heart to be right. At the same time, Corie's eyes open to the misery of the magical aliora, whom she loves, but who are hunted for sport and enslaved by the nobility. The brash, arrogant youth matures into a cruel and self-centered man a man unfit to be king, some say. As the summers pass, however, Bryan shows his true colors. At the castle, Corie is groomed by her uncle for an eventual political alliance through marriage, though she is too dazzled by her handsome cousin Bryan, heir to the throne, to notice. She spends idyllic summers at Castle Auburn, home of her father's family, and the rest of the year with her maternal grandmother, learning the healer's craft. A woman blessed, or cursed, with a talent for witchcraft returns to Castle Auburn where she spent her childhood in joy-only to find an aura of dread awaiting her.Īs the illegitimate daughter of a royal lord, young Corie has the best of two worlds.
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