6/30/2023 0 Comments Skulduggery pleasant midnight![]() “We were almost thinking you were avoiding us.”Ĭhina smiled, and stood. “It’s been a while, China,” Skulduggery said. China, reading through a file as she sat upon her throne, gave no indication that she saw their shifting reflections, until she closed the file and leaned back, a single eyebrow arched. They deactivated their cloaking spheres as they walked between the hundreds of thin columns of mirrored glass. The sorcerer frowned, but Skulduggery was already following Valkyrie in. ![]() He went to close the door after him, but Skulduggery put a hand to it and Valkyrie slipped under his arm. She dodged back, avoiding the man who came through. Valkyrie heard footsteps on the other side, and the handle turned and the left door opened. ![]() Using their personal cloaking spheres, they passed between the Cleavers standing guard, and waited at the double doors to China’s Room of Prisms. She met Skulduggery in the High Sanctuary’s lobby and together they slipped away from the sorcerers who were not doing a good job of keeping a surreptitious eye on them. ![]() She left the house, got in her car, and drove to Roarhaven. That’s very important.” Valkyrie straightened up. “I’m not to tell them you left,” Alice said. “And when you speak to Mum and Dad about this tomorrow …?” ![]()
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![]() ![]() Green cloth is rubbed at the extremities, illustrated end papers, name written on title page, bottom left corner tip loss at first page of text. Green cloth over boards with a full color paste down by Blanch Fischer Wright - similar to all color plates and illustrations inside. ![]() Offered here is an antique Children's Book: The Real Mother Goose, Pictures by Blanche Fisher Wright 1916, First Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, likely First Rand Edition, approximately 12 1/4" X 9 3/4" and maybe 150 unpaginated pages. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Slow hands by leslie kelly![]() ![]() The Black CATs and Extrasensory Agents series quickly put Leslie on the must-read list of romantic-suspense fans. ![]() In 2009, Leslie began tapping into her love for dark suspense by penning several books under the pseudonym Leslie Parrish. Since the publication of her first book in 1999, Leslie has gone on to pen more than forty sassy, sexy romances for Harlequin Temptation, Blaze, and HQN. A four-time RWA RITA Award nominee, eleven-time Romantic Times Award nominee and 2006 RT Award winner, Leslie has become known for her delightful characters, sparkling dialogue, and outrageous humor in her romances, and for the dark grittiness of her thrillers. New York Times Bestselling author, Leslie Kelly writes sexy romances and dark romantic thrillers. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() |