Winterveil (22 page)

Kate did not know what lay in her own future. She spent her early weeks in her room within the museum restoring
Wintercraft
, just as she had restored dozens of other books during her old life in the bookshop with Artemis. The spirit's rejuvenation of the pages had only taken it back to its original state, but with its permission, Kate rebound the cover, strengthened the spine, and reattached loose pages that could not restore themselves.

Tom had told her about the note Artemis had found inside the book. When Kate found it again, she sat down and read it for the first time. She did not want to believe that her life's course was set, but those words, written almost a century earlier, had changed lives long after their writer's death. If Ravik had never written it, Kate would not have found it hidden in the mirror and Artemis might still have been alive. If Dalliah had not encouraged Da'ru Marr to experiment upon Silas, he might never have gone looking for Kate. And if the book itself had never been written, Albion's history would certainly have followed a very different course.

It was impossible to know if the events Kate had seen were predetermined and prophesized by seers looking into the veil or if people's belief in what they had “seen” drove them to create situations that otherwise might never have happened on their own. She wanted to believe in free will. She needed to know that destiny could be changed, that she was not simply acting out a life whose course had already been witnessed by people who were now long dead.

Her father's family had been consumed by their search for knowledge at any price. Her mother's family had trusted the veil to show them the way, putting their lives in the hands of forces no one could truly understand. Kate did not sit easily upon either of their paths. She had her own life to live and her own history to make.

She secured Ravik's note into the back of
Wintercraft
, along with her own neatly written pages detailing how the book had acquired the Winters spirit that remained locked within it. She read the warning inside the cover and then closed the book gently, feeling the soul of her ancestor pass softly through the ink and paper within. Kate had her own story to add to the knowledge inside, but that could wait.
Wintercraft
's journey was over, for now, but her future had only just begun.

About the Author

JENNA BURTENSHAW
has been writing since she was a child, and she divides her time between her writing, her dogs, and her rescue rabbits. She is the author of
Shadowcry
and
Blackwatch
. She lives in England. jennaburtenshaw.blogspot.com

 

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Credits

Cover art © 2013 by Larry Rostant

Cover design by Sylvie Le Floc'h

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used to advance the fictional narrative. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real.

 

Winterveil

Copyright © 2012 by Jenna Burtenshaw

First published in 2012 in Great Britain by Headline Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Livre UK. First published in 2013 in the United States by Greenwillow Books.

The right of Jenna Burtenshaw to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her.

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Burtenshaw, Jenna.

[Legacy]

Winterveil / Jenna Burtenshaw.

pages cm.—(The secrets of Wintercraft ; [3])

“Greenwillow Books.”

First published in 2012 in Great Britain by Headline Publishing under the title Legacy.

Summary: Silas and Edgar try to rescue Kate after she is abducted by vicious Dalliah Grey, who wants to use Kate's power to bring down the veil between the living and the dead.

ISBN 978-0-06-202646-0 (trade ed.) [1. Fantasy. 2. Dead—Fiction.] I. Title.

EPUB Edition APRIL 2013 ISBN 9780062209290

PZ7.B94569Wi 2013 [Fic]—dc23 2012041112

 

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