A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories
Lily. A woman with power to heal, but no powers of speech. Then she meets a mage---a man who can hear the words she forms only in her mind. Will he help her find her voice?Ruen. A princess whose uncle leaves her deep in a cave to die at the hands of a stagman. But when she meets the stagman at...
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Lily. A woman with power to heal, but no powers of speech. Then she meets a mage---a man who can hear the words she forms only in her mind. Will he help her find her voice?Ruen. A princess whose uncle leaves her deep in a cave to die at the hands of a stagman. But when she meets the stagman at last, Ruendiscovers fatehas a few surprises in store for her.Erana, As a baby, she is taken be a witch in return for the healing herbs her father stole from the witch's garden. Raised alongsidethe witch's troll son, Erana learns that love comes in many forms. Coral. A beautiful young newcomerwho catches the eye of an older widowed farmer. He can't believe his good fortune when Coral consents to be his wife. But then the doubts set in---what is it that draws Coral to Butter Hill?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064406048 (0064406040)
ASIN: 64406040
Publish date: September 30th 1995
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Series: Damar
I loved the 5 stories in this book, but I was a bit disappointed with the last one, "A Knot in the Grain". The other 4 were of a different time period and all had the fantasy type settings of times gone by, but the last took place in modern day New York. I kept waiting for a time warp or something ...
re-read, because it was on my bookshelves and I needed something short and fun. I really like several of the stories in this collection; the weakest, for me, is the last, which breaks the fairy-tale setting. It’s not a bad story at all, but in this collection it feels just a little out of place.