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Authors: E. M. Tippetts
Shattered Castles 1 : Castles on the Sand (32 page)
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A curse that makes a man unable to die, also prevents him from living. He feels no pain and no emotion, merely drifting through existence like a ghost until he collides with a young woman with the inborn power to change his fate. Payton and sixteen of his clan members and allies were afflicted with the curse back in the seventeenth century, only not all of them consider it an affliction. When Samantha, a descendant of their bitter enemies, arrives in modern day Scotland, she steps into a centuries old feud between men who want to live again and those who don’t dare feel the crushing guilt for the sins they committed so long ago.
German indie author, Emily Bold, writes historical and paranormal romance. Her first English translation,
The Curse
, is a complex and compelling book with a story that spans three centuries. While we’ve all seen the immortal guy in love with a mortal woman storyline before, Bold packs the pages with a rich backstory full of historical detail about clan warfare in medieval Scotland, something that the main character, Samantha, knows little about. She is on a modern day exchange program in a small Scottish town when she is nearly knocked over by Payton, who enjoys riding his bike at breakneck speed. It’s a trivial amusement for someone who can’t actually break his neck, only his fleeting encounter with Sam evokes real, physical pain.
This book is written in a mix of British English and Scots dialect. In choosing a translator, Bold wisely went with someone fluent in Scots dialect, able to write it in a way that all of us English speakers should understand. While it is possible at points to see that this is a translation, the underlying bone structure and emotional core of this book is first class. I’m very much looking forward to the sequel, which just came out in German. Everyone buy this book so she can afford to have the next one translated!
Castles on the Sand
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, business establishments or locales is entirely coincidental.
No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. All rights reserved.
Cover design © 2012 Sima Vaziry
Copyright © 2012 by Emily Mah Tippetts
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