
What I Loved: This story unraveled at a very nice pace, and had the flavor of a fairy-tale, which falls right into my current Beauty and the Beast mode as it is. Throw in a strong female lead, and I’m usually game! Plus I really love that cover. I’m not even sure what the allure of a book set in a place with no technology, bows and knives are hunting tools and trade is the best source of commodity is, but I am always drawn to them. And soon she will learn what has always made her different will make her a daunting and dangerous force. But Britta wields more power than she knows. She must go on a dangerous quest in a world of warring kingdoms, mad kings, and dark magic to find the real killer. The boy she once loved who broke her heart. The alleged killer is none other than Cohen McKay, her father’s former apprentice. When Britta is caught poaching by the royal guard, instead of facing the noose she is offered a deal: her freedom in exchange for her father’s killer.

Now outcast and alone and having no rights to her father’s land or inheritance, she seeks refuge where she feels most safe: the Ever Woods. She spends her days tracking criminals alongside her father, the legendary bounty hunter for the King of Malam-that is, until her father is murdered. Blurb: Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is at ease only in the woods with her dagger and bow.
