This story has the feel of a wonderfully classic Scandinavian folktale while also being a wonderfully modern fantasy. When Rowan’s father crosses her, his daughter is taken in payment for the misdeed, and in the Huntress’ cold realm, Rowan finds something unexpected: her life’s purpose, and possibly more. She is an immortal embodiment of the hunt. The beast is instead The Huntress, a woman of legend whose beauty is as cold as the perpetual winter that surrounds her castle high in the mountains. In Thorn, the beast is known as The Huntress, a woman cursed for the carelessness with which she throws away life. This story follows Rowan, a city girl forcibly relocated to a village with her family due to financial ruin, Rowan herself used as a bargaining chip in an arranged marriage with the son of the village’s most powerful family. My second novel, Thorn, has been described as Frozen meets Beauty and the.

If you like your fantasy with an extra dark twist, exceptional world building and deeply. When a fatal mistake brings Rowan into the hands of the Huntress, she finds herself trapped in an enchantment that is every bit as alluring as it is cruel. Become a patron of Anna Burke today: Get access to exclusive content and. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Title/Author: Thorn - Anna Burke Genre(s): YA, Retellings, LGBTQ+ Is Anna Burke quickly joining the ranks of one of my favourite authors? I think so! After my enthusiastic enjoyment of her Robin Hood reimagining, Nottingham, I sought out more titles by this writer, and came across Thorn, an imaginative retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Anna Burke, award winning author of THORN and COMPASS ROSE. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress. There is only one problem―if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind.

Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose.

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