The Hourglass
Coryn, Earl of Ardeth, has spent an eternity in Hell. Fed up, he gambles with the Devil and wins a second chance: if he can find his heart, his soul, and his hourglass in six months, he can return to life.Then he meets Genie, a disgraced water-girl at the Battle of Waterloo. Now, her only hope is...
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Coryn, Earl of Ardeth, has spent an eternity in Hell. Fed up, he gambles with the Devil and wins a second chance: if he can find his heart, his soul, and his hourglass in six months, he can return to life.Then he meets Genie, a disgraced water-girl at the Battle of Waterloo. Now, her only hope is this crazy stranger-and she's half-terrified of and half-in-love with the eccentric earl. Together they have to find his humanity, her social acceptance, and overcome someone bent on destroying their lives.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451220790 (045122079X)
Publish date: March 6th 2007
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
*Book source ~ Many thanks to Untreed Reads for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review. Coryn, Earl of Ardeth is really Ar Death and a reaper, a minion of the Devil. After centuries of reaping souls he wants a chance to be mortal and takes steps to that end in case he wins his ga...
Another moving tale by Barbara Metzger. Some supernatural elements for a twist on the typical romance.Genie, widowed, friendless, penniless, is at the end of the road, in Belgium after the Battle of Waterloo, but then she meeetsSir Coryn of Ardsley, former minion for St. Nick, given six months to re...
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