They used this place to walk their dogs, or exercise away the excesses in which they indulged. They named it and renamed it, making up stories about kings buried beneath piles of stones and then forgot even those tales. There had once been a cairn raised here, an ancient seal to guard against what had been buried long ago. He could feel it deep inside his broken body. Even the water couldn’t bear to touch these stones. The sea crawled and crashed against rocks, squirming away from the headland. And now she brought him here, to this place of wind and dark clouds, to a gorse-covered hilltop where the earth itself writhed and screamed as if fighting against what lay beneath. She had beaten every last scrap of it out of him. He was one of the Host of Heaven, an angel, the Joy of the Lord.
For a moment he could only lie there, breathing hard. He hit the stony ground hard, unaccustomed pain biting through his skin. The angel stumbled and fell, unable to save himself with bound arms in front of him and pinioned wings behind. 'Delicious and wonderfully romantic…Lyrical prose, along with highly imaginative and descriptive phrasing, makes the forest setting–and its creatures and people–immediately present and sparked with magic.' Booklist on The Treachery of Beautiful Things Read more The storyline all through is tense and exciting with a somewhat surprise ending.' Irish Examiner on A Crack in Everything 'an excellent fantasy, with strange but memorable characters set in believable settings. In the deepest and darkest Hollow, an angel of death is waiting … and the price he asks for his help might be too high … But by refusing to sacrifice Jinx – fae warrior and her 'not-really-ex' – Izzy sets in motion a chain of events which will see them hunted across the city and into the hills where she'll face the greatest challenge of all. When an ancient and forbidden power is unleashed, Izzy, who is still coming to terms with her newfound powers, must prevent a war from engulfing Dublin and the fae realm of Dubh Linn.
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