By New York Times and USA Today Bestselling, RITA® Award winning author, Maggie Shayne“Maggie Shayne delivers romance with sweeping intensity and bewitching passion.” #1 NY Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz.*Originally titled Fairytale.A little boy’s haven… woods around their home. During one of his forest adventures, he crawled through tunnel and emerged into another world, a magical world, where a beautiful fairy child splashes in an enchanted pool.
It was just imagination…
Or so Adam tells himself as an adult. Until he finds a painting of that same crystal-strewn glade, that same glistening pool, the same mysterious girl splashing in its waters.
That painting becomes his most cherished possession.
Brigit thinks she knows who she is…
A fire razed the orphanage where she lived. But a homeless man saved her, and he saved the book that had been left on its doorstep with her.
She and Raze have been family to each other ever since.
Brigit can paint anything she sees precisely, and she uses her gift to get her and Raze off the streets when he gets too old and too sick to survive that way anymore.
The wrong people find out about her ability, though, and Raze is kidnapped. To get him back, Brigit must get close enough to Adam to copy his painting, switch them, and deliver the original to the kidnapper.
But it’s not just a painting…
It’s the key to Brigit’s secret past, her connection to the enchanted land Adam discovered as a boy, and a message from a twin sister she never knew she had pointing the way to her destiny.
Fans of films like The Huntsman will devour this series.
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I really enjoyed this book. It’s fantasy combined with contemporary romance. I would say fantasy forward and this was the part I enjoyed the most.
Fun, interesting characters.
I love all the other books I have read by Maggie Shayne, but I had a really hard time getting into this one. It started slow and I had a hard time reading it, because it didn’t hold my interest. It got better at the end of the book.
The beginning was slow but got better at the end
Ok
Another great Maggie Shayne book. Her books are always entertaining with unexpected twists and lots of romance.
Just ok, usually rate her 4
I love adult fairy tales, but this book fell pretty flat for me. An interesting enough concept that didn’t pan out well with the writing style. The POV breaks were confusing. I kept reading because I was interested in finding out what happened plot-wise, but I felt like I was reading mediocre fan fiction.
The story of a young boy who falls into an enchanted land, and of the twins–separated for most of their lives–who hold the answers to the questions he holds inside for over twenty years.
Hated to put the book down, but I really needed some sleep!
Didn’t want it to end….great!
On promotion right now and is free! Looking at the name and cover, I was expecting a fantasy novel with some romance thrown in, but this is really a romance novel with a minute amount of fantasy thrown in. Likable, if underdeveloped characters and a quick read.
It was much more steamy than it needed to be to get the plot across. Nobody wants to read pages and pages of sex when there is an exciting plot to go through. The rest of the book was a good read and would have been better if the sex part had been minimized more. It does leave you wondering what next? but not enough to buy the next book and …
Great mythology building: I hope to start on her sister’s story, too.
Well written. Excellent storyline. Keep me in suspense throughout.
Didn’t read it. Found it boring.
Didn’t finish, lost interest