![]() ![]() Kate senses danger, even before she realizes that she faces supernatural challengers-and even before the goblin king, Marak, lets it be known that he will take her by force to be his wife, to live forever in his subterranean realm. But others have plans for Kate as well, including her humorless official guardian and, so it seems, the goblins around whom so much local lore revolves. Sisters Kate and Emily, recently orphaned, move into Hallow Hill, the estate they are to inherit their great-aunts, dismayed at "all that book reading, all that flowery poetry," that has constituted the girls' education, plan to launch Kate into London society, as befits a modern 19th-century young woman. ![]() Paying tribute both to the elements of Victorian novels and fairy tales, first novelist Dunkle turns out a luminously polished fantasy that starts off strong and just gets better. ![]()
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