Jewel and ThornOn his sixteenth birthday, Thorn Jack steals a curious crystal from the Treasury of a neighbouring settlement in his coming of age rite of passage. Returning home, he finds that his younger sister has been kidnapped. He sets out to find her with Racky Jagger, an enigmatic but wordly wise individual. Their way leads through Judy Wood, a place of mystery and ill repute. When fifteen years old Jewel Ranson's father, a travelling draper, is murdered at a

What Sam doesn't know is that his client

A good guy

He is told of the fate of the house's original architect

But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighbourhood

From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL

irresistible romance

for only this knowledge can stop the cruel hand of death from turning another page

After famine

Open the book and the first novella begins

As with Alan Bennett's previous two plays

to set their son on the altar of sacrifice

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