Kirjahaku

Twelve-year-old Anika's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lived at the university with her father, and move in with her grandmother on a country farm. But leaving Edinburgh is not so easy. Mishaps place her alone in a dark alley, where a well-dressed cat named Edward finds her and offers to guide her to safety. Anika is thoroughly seeped in Scottish Literature and is delighted to find that Edward is as quick with a quotation as she is. But safety is not so easily found in Edward's company. His brother and three sisters seem to have other plans for Anika. The cats lead her through a magical mansion within their alley. She finds delights, excitement, and great peril in the mansion, with the writings of great authors of Scottish history always as her guide.

Twelve-year-old Anika's life is turned upside down when she is forced to leave Edinburgh, Scotland, where she lived at the university with her father, and move in with her grandmother on a country farm. But leaving Edinburgh is not so easy. Mishaps place her alone in a dark alley, where a well-dressed cat named Edward finds her and offers to guide her to safety. Anika is thoroughly seeped in Scottish Literature and is delighted to find that Edward is as quick with a quotation as she is. But safety is not so easily found in Edward's company. His brother and three sisters seem to have other plans for Anika. The cats lead her through a magical mansion within their alley. She finds delights, excitement, and great peril in the mansion, with the writings of great authors of Scottish history always as her guide.

Kyra is an overlooked Hungarian village teen who flees her plague-ridden village. She is found filthy and unkempt in a field by a Gypsy kumpania as they caravan across the countryside. Taken in by the Gypsies, Kyra slowly becomes one of them, while at the same time changing them in profound and fundamental ways that will last forever. Along the way, Kyra discovers love in the arms of a young man. At a deeply emotional level, she experiences unfettered joy, inconsolable grief, treachery of the worst kind, and compassion on a level that is unmatched by anything she has ever known.Experience amazing performances that are presented to commoners and royalty alike while the Gypsies travel the Balkans. Share in the unique items that are offered by Gypsy merchants and savor the exotic aromas and flavors that accompany them wherever they travel.As this story comes to an absolutely thrilling conclusion, it travels beyond the realm of reality and straight into legend.

Kyra is an overlooked Hungarian village teen who flees her plague-ridden village. She is found filthy and unkempt in a field by a Gypsy kumpania as they caravan across the countryside. Taken in by the Gypsies, Kyra slowly becomes one of them, while at the same time changing them in profound and fundamental ways that will last forever. Along the way, Kyra discovers love in the arms of a young man. At a deeply emotional level, she experiences unfettered joy, inconsolable grief, treachery of the worst kind, and compassion on a level that is unmatched by anything she has ever known.Experience amazing performances that are presented to commoners and royalty alike while the Gypsies travel the Balkans. Share in the unique items that are offered by Gypsy merchants and savor the exotic aromas and flavors that accompany them wherever they travel.As this story comes to an absolutely thrilling conclusion, it travels beyond the realm of reality and straight into legend.

In this, the second book of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena, a teenage girl from suburban America, finds herself entwined in an ancient enterprise to protect the Holy Grail. She becomes the latest in a long line of Swan Knights -- the descendants of the Grail Knight Parsifal, sworn to protect the portal to The Sweeter Realm, where the Grail has been hidden for centuries. The portal calls for Verena and pulls her through, into the Sweeter Realm. In The Sweeter Realm, Verena is declared Queen of the Land and Shallow Waters, because of relation to the Swan Knights. She meets friends and enemies in her attempt to adjust to her new life. She learns to live, love, and fight like a Queen of the Sweeter Realm, as circumstances take her life beyond any of her previous fantasies.

In this final installment of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena and the Sweeter Realm recover from the War with the Deep. Her post-war bliss is cut short when her destiny and the fate of the Holy Grail force her and her loyal subjects back into action. God and the Grail present Verena with more hardship and more sacrifices, but also with more love and friendship as she follows the call of the Grail, away from the Sweeter Realm, to its providential completion and the ultimate fate of mankind.

In this final installment of The Swan Knights Trilogy, Verena and the Sweeter Realm recover from the War with the Deep. Her post-war bliss is cut short when her destiny and the fate of the Holy Grail force her and her loyal subjects back into action. God and the Grail present Verena with more hardship and more sacrifices, but also with more love and friendship as she follows the call of the Grail, away from the Sweeter Realm, to its providential completion and the ultimate fate of mankind.