Summerfall (12 page)

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Claire Legrand used to be a musician until she realized she couldn’t stop thinking about the stories in her head. Now a writer, Ms. Legrand can often be found typing with purpose at her keyboard, losing herself in the stacks at her local library, or embarking upon spontaneous adventures to lands unknown. Her first novel is
The Cavendish Home for Boys and Girls
, a New York Public Library Best Book for Children in 2012. She is also the author of
The Year of Shadows
and
Winterspell.
Claire lives in New Jersey with a dragon and two cats. Visit her at
Claire-Legrand.com
.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Legrand, Claire, 1986–

Summerfall : a Winterspell novella / Claire Legrand.

pages cm

Summary: In this prequel to Winterspell, Rinka is a passionate and powerful fairy, determined to maintain the tenuous peace between faeries and humans, and Alban Somerhart is a human king, trapped into an arranged marriage but desperate to prevent war, and their love could either save the kingdom of Cane or shatter it forever.

ISBN 978-1-4814-2252-9 (eBook)

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Fairies—Fiction. 3. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—Fiction. 4. Love—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.L521297Sum 2014

[Fic]—dc23

2014008103