Lani Forbes
YA Fantasy
On a harsh frontier where good and evil contend for people’s minds, a young woman must fight for her true identity in this scintillating YA fantasy from the author of the award-winning Age of the Seventh Sun trilogy.
Once, Catriona Macgregor led a charmed life. Daughter of a wealthy rancher, pretty and educated, she looked forward to all the world had to offer–until fate took a turn. Now family, home, and even her name have been stripped away. As “Black Cat Whitfield,” adopted daughter of an outlaw, she’s wanted by the authorities. It certainly wasn’t the destiny she imagined–especially as one of the Blessed.
The Blessed, rare people like Cat, are supposed to use their gifts to carry out missions for the Patron Saints, but she can only imagine that Saint Prudentia made a terrible mistake in choosing her. Still, her gift has never deserted her. Whenever danger threatens, Cat receives a vision–just in time to save her life. And when she meets a renegade priest, Father Ignatius, he helps her understand how her ability may be part of a much bigger picture. A picture that involves facing up to the monstrous Baron Caldwell – the one who ordered her parents killed – and his son, Adrian, who betrayed them all.
Cat is torn between guilt over her parents’ death, a longing for vengeance against their killers, and a dismaying new interest in Adrian. It would be easiest to flee the whole situation and never look back. But as someone once told her, you can’t outrun the darkness on your heels. There’s only one way to break through to sunrise – by turning to face the night.
-Excerpt taken from Goodreads.
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My Opinion
(4.5 / 5) Thank you to Blackstone Publishing and BiblioLifestye for the chance to be on the tour for Lani’s last book. She wrote this after learning of a devastating illness that ended up taking her life. Reading it with that in mind made it more special and even more meaningful.
It’s a book about love, found family, identity and fighting for yourself. But mostly how fighting for yourself can be the most difficult of all. I love it and the story came to life very easily. It’s a beautiful message for her last book.
General content summary: some language, physical violence (weapons, choking, gun shots, death, some details), house burned (gun shots and screams inside, previous, many killed, blood), alcohol (multiple), m/f kisses.
Thank you to BiblioLifestyle and Blackstone Publishing for the copy and chance to be on the tour!
The book released August 15, 2023.
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