It’s not that you must know of previous events in order to appreciate the storyline, it’s simply that the story is so complex and references so much that’s gone on before that you cannot fully appreciate the novel without some idea of the rest of the series.Īny one novel in the series is great, it’s when you understand the full breadth of Stengl’s world that you begin to see her brilliance.

Up until this point in the Tales of Goldstone Wood, I would perfectly comfortable saying that you could read any novel as a standalone story, then retreat to the previous books. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory.īut Foxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril, a world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway, a world invaded by a lethal parasite. Not the prince she loves, handsome and dispossessed Lionheart, but his cousin, the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. Rose Red can scarcely guess at the consequences should he insist on continuing his search.Also by this author: Golden Daughter, Dragonwitch, Starflower, Moonblood, Veiled Rose, Heartless, Fallen Star: A Short Story of Goldstone Wood, Draven's Lightīy her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Leo, a lonely lad, befriends Rose Red, and together they begin hunting for the Mountain Monster which, rumor says, stalks these lands.īut the hunt which began as a game holds greater risk than Leo supposes. Until she meets a privileged young man sent to spend his summer in the mountains. She hides in the forest, her face veiled in rags, shunning the company of all save her old father and her nanny goat. And soon the heavens will burn.īack Cover: Rose Red trusts no one with her secret. With only a mysterious Faerie cat and a handsome slave-possessed of his own strange abilities-to help her, can Sairu shield her new mistress from evils she can neither see nor touch? For the Dragon is building an army of fire. Her skills are stretched to the limit, for assassins hunt in the shadows, and phantoms haunt in dreams. But when she learns that a sacred Dream Walker of the temple seeks the protection of a Golden Daughter, Sairu forgoes marriage in favor of this role.

One day, Sairu will be contracted in marriage to a patron, whom she will secretly guard for the rest of her life. She is one of the emperor’s Golden Daughters, as much a legend as she is a commodity. Description: BEYOND THE REALM OF DREAMS IS A WORLD SHE NEVER IMAGINED Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure.

Shadow Hand by Anne Elisabeth Stengl