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Blood Between the Worlds

Name: Blood Between the Worlds
Author: Deborah Griffin Hawke

by Deborah Griffin Hawke

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Someone is hunting Jesse Marchand. And this time, no one knows why. At 17, Jesse is preparing to leave Camden Hills for college, but the magical legacy she was born into isn't finished with her yet. On her way home from visiting her father, three strangers begin following her—and what first appears to be a chance encounter quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Someone knew where Jesse would be. Someone had access to her brand-new car. And whatever is coming for her may have roots much closer to home than Elizabeth Marchand realizes. For years, Elizabeth has protected the ancient legacy entrusted to the women of her family: a grimoire, a mysterious ring, and powers passed through generations whose history reaches beyond the boundary between worlds. She has always known that one day the legacy will pass to Jesse. But bloodlines are rarely as simple as they appear. As old secrets begin to surface and an unexpected presence reaches across the Veil with a warning, Elizabeth and Jesse face a danger neither of them knew existed—one tied to family, inheritance, and a past that was never truly buried. Blood Between the Worlds is Book Three of Lore of the Grandmothers, a contemporary fantasy series of inherited magic, family secrets, ancient Celtic mysteries, and the women entrusted with carrying a legacy across generations.

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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.