An ancient ring, a weathered grimoire, and a drop of blood against a dark, mystical background

Fantasy

Blood Between the Worlds

Name: Blood Between the Worlds
Author: Deborah Griffin Hawke

by Deborah Griffin Hawke

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Some inheritances are worth killing for. Seventeen-year-old Jesse Marchand is ready to leave home for college. But when strangers begin hunting her, she discovers that the magical legacy passed down through generations of women in her family has made her a target. A long-buried family secret has surfaced. Another bloodline is laying claim to the power Jesse is destined to inherit—and someone is willing to kill to possess it. As the danger crosses from the human world into the mysterious realm of the Veil, Jesse must confront an enemy determined to rewrite her family's future. Her mother, Elizabeth, has spent her life protecting the legacy. Now she faces a far more difficult choice: protect her daughter—or trust her to fight for herself. The blood may determine the inheritance. But it cannot determine who deserves it. Blood Between the Worlds is the thrilling conclusion to Deborah Griffin Hawke's Lore of the Grandmothers trilogy.

What to expect

Mood: Dark and gritty Suspenseful Thought-provoking
Tropes: Unlikely hero Hidden identity
Setting and world: Small town Space and other worlds Magic and myth Real world, real problems
Pace and shape: Fast-paced Full of plot twists
Themes: Identity and self-discovery Secrets and lies

Book details

Author: Deborah Griffin Hawke
Genre: Fantasy
Formats: Ebook and paperback

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Deborah Griffin Hawke

I write speculative fiction about women, power, family, and what happens when the world people thought they understood begins to shift beneath them. Sometimes that shift involves inherited magic. Sometimes it involves a country discovering how quickly institutions can bend. My fantasy novels are about women who discover that the stories their grandmothers told them may not have been stories after all. They blend folklore, inherited magic, family secrets, and contemporary life—with women who have accumulated enough years and experience to know that discovering magic doesn't make the ordinary complications of life disappear. Generation Liberty, co-written with Simon Hawke, moves into near-future dystopian fiction, exploring power, obedience, resistance, and what happens when the institutions meant to protect liberty begin to bend. Before turning my attention to fiction, I spent much of my career in higher education, where I learned that people are considerably more complicated than any character a novelist could invent. That probably explains why I'm as interested in what extraordinary circumstances do to people and relationships as I am in the circumstances themselves. I write as Deborah Griffin Hawke. The Enchanted Legacy of Elizabeth Marchand begins my Lore of the Grandmothers series, followed by The Secrets of the Thistle & Shield. If you like folklore wandering into the present day, old family mysteries, complicated women and relationships—or speculative fiction that asks what people do when the familiar rules stop working—you'll probably feel at home in my books.