Shadow Hand

When I saw this book was available, I knew that I would like it because 1) It has the Irish/Scottish/Celtic history 2) It is a fantastical place 3) The cover looked pretty (hey....sometimes a girl has her priorities)

What I didn't know was the book was the sixth book in the Tales of Goldenstone Wood Series. Knowing that, I still ventured on.

For me, it took a bit for the book to get started. While some people read it from cover to cover in a couple sittings, it took me a little bit to get into it. Also, sometimes life got in the way.

This is a story about blood and love, and the many things that lie in between. By her father's wish, Lady Daylily is betrothed to the Prince of Southlands. Not the prince she loves- handsome and dispossessed Lionheart- but his cousin- the awkward and foolish Prince Foxbrush. As her wedding day dawns, Daylily flees into the dangerous Wilderlands, her only desire to vanish from living memory. But Goxbrush, determined to rescue his betrothed, pursues Daylily into a new world of magic and peril. A world where vicious Faerie beasts hold sway a world invaded by lethal parasite, a world that is hauntingly familiar.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl writes with such imagery that is is hard not to get drawn in to the world of fantasy.