{"title":"The Falcon's Binding","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Tudor court where the magic runs just beneath the record. Start with the trilogy, in order. The six standalones sit in the same world and can be read from any door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine novels by Beverly McLeod.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"one-crowned","title":"One Crowned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey wrote her into history as a witch. 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But the one sorcery she is charged with, the bewitching of a king, is the single working she has refused all her life to do. She won Henry of England with nothing but her wit, and she means to hold him the same way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen her children begin to die before they can be born, and Anne discovers another witch reaching across the kingdom to empty her womb one child at a time, a grieving, untaught, unstoppable power that will not stop until Anne has nothing left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo save the last daughter she has, Anne must work the greatest binding of her life, one that cannot be cast by a living hand, only sealed by a death freely given. The world will call it her execution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe calls it the last working of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this reimagining of the fall of Anne Boleyn, every fact of the Tudor court is true, and the magic runs just beneath the record, drawn up from under the history itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeverly McLeod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Falcon's Binding, Book One\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 264 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Trace Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44628267270186,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/one-crowned-front.jpg?v=1785271408"},{"product_id":"two-daughters-of-ash","title":"Two Daughters of Ash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne daughter was warded to live. 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Something was sealed that morning in her stepmother's blood, and it has folded itself into her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a country nursery a red-haired child grows up bastardized, forgotten, and impossibly hard to harm. Fevers break in the night. Blades turn aside. Elizabeth calls it luck, and God, and her own quick wit, and never learns what her mother paid to buy it for her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor seventeen years the daughters of Henry Tudor circle one another through stepmothers, scandals, and a dying boy king. One is warded and unknowing. 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She is Queen of England now, and she is cursed still, and she has begun to understand that a queen has lawful access to other lives, and that a sacrifice must hurt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJane Grey reigns for nine days and refuses the crown aloud in front of witnesses, and no working in all of England can reach a soul that has been given wholly to God. So it must be done with a signature instead, and a girl of sixteen goes to the block on Tower Green for a throne she had refused in public and never wanted at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd Elizabeth survives. She survives the Tower, and Woodstock, and a warrant that will not close, and comes at last to a coronation and to forty-four years of a reign built over a locked room. 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It is taken.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrder this book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=GJxD6IsOgkeO4Tm0OPTLUFdd3RLXO8FZADzLsCGPkkh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ePaperback from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.ingramspark.com\/b\/084?params=caG2RZ1WUGwCR55iHBgC4R3uTGwWWhO8k5E7PEG0bp6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eHardcover from IngramSpark →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/01rv8dSq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eKindle edition on Amazon →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the back cover\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBallyvadlea, County Tipperary, 1895. The people of the valley will say afterward that they always knew there was something not right about Bridget Cleary, and they will mean it as an accusation, and they will be telling, without understanding it, the plain truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe is a woman who earns her own money, keeps her own hens, wears her own hat, and walks up toward the rath on Kylenagranagh when she should not. When the fever takes her, her husband goes looking for a reason, and the lore gives him one: that the woman in the bed is not his wife at all, but a thing of the other country wearing a borrowed shape, and that a changeling can be made to give the stolen place back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe way of the doing of it is hard on the changeling. And on the fourth night Michael Cleary will go up to the fort with a black-handled knife to wait for his wife to come riding out on a grey horse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA novel of the last woman in Ireland burned for a fairy, and of the country that was certain it was saving her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeverly McLeod\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrace Press\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Falcon's Binding, a standalone novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 108 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Trace Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44628271071274,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/files\/grey-horse-front.jpg?v=1785271408"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0228\/4330\/collections\/one-crowned-front.jpg?v=1785271593","url":"https:\/\/northlume.org\/collections\/the-falcons-binding.oembed","provider":"Northlume ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}