From the back cover: 'Elizabeth Valchar - pretty, popular and perfect - wakes up the moring after her eighteenth birthday party on her family's yacht, where she'd been celebrating with her five closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, what she discovers will change everything she thought she knew about her past, her future and what lies un between'.
A Great book! The blurb above doesnt even begin to unravel the complexities of this novel. Elizabeth goes on a journey into the past and the future to try and understand why she has died. And what she finds will suprise you as she comes to terms with the person she was and why she acted the way she did. It's a journey of self discovery until she finally finds peace at the end of the novel.
'Errand requiring immediate attention. Come. The note was on vellum pierced by the talons of the almost-crow that delivered it. Karou read the message. 'He never says please' she sighed but she gathered up her things. When Brimstone called she always came. In general Karou has managed to keep her two lives in balance. On the one hand she's a seventeen-year-old art student in Prague; on the other errand-girl to a monstrous creature who is the closest thing she has to family. Raised half in our world half in 'Elsewhere' she has never understood Brimstone's dark work - buying teeth from hunters and murderers - nor how she came into his keeping. She is a secret even to herself plagued by the sensation that she isn't whole . Now the doors to Elsewhere are closing and Karou must choose between the safety of her human life and the dangers of a war-ravaged world that may hold the answers she has always sought.'
'Ava Lee is a petite young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who works for an elderly Hong Kong-based 'Uncle'. In tracking millions of dollars across continents the stakes are often high, sometimes violent and always shady, but Ava Lee's razor-sharp intelligence and unorthodox rules of engagement allow her to succeed where traditional methods have failed.This is a novel full of suspense, with an equally fascinating heroine.'
