Named of the Dragon - Softcover

Kearsley, Susanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425173453 ISBN 13: 9780425173459

Publisher: Berkley, 1999

Synopsis

Tormented by horrific nightmares since the death of her baby five years before, literary agent Lyn Ravenshaw agrees to accompany an author to Wales, where she encounters an eccentric young widow desperately afraid for her own infant's safety and a reclusive playwright who could be her only salvation in an ancient world of prophecy, legend, and peril. Original.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

The invitation to spend Christmas in Angle, on the Pembrokeshire coast, is one that Lyn Ravenshaw is only too happy to accept. To escape London and the pressures of her literary agency is temptation enough, but the prospect of meeting Booker Prize nominee James Swift - conveniently in search of an agent - is the deciding factor.  On holiday she encounters the disturbing Elen Vaughan, recently widowed and with an eight-month-old son whose paternity is a subject for local gossip. Elen's baby arouses painful memories of Lyn's own dead child/ and strange, haunting dreams, in which a young woman in blue repeatedly tries to hand over her child to Lyn for safekeeping.

Who is the father of Elen's baby? What is the eerie, monstrous creature of Elen's dreams that tries to ensnare her son, and what makes her so sure that Lyn has been sent to protect him?  As she begins to untangle the truth behind the stories, the secret she discovers leads Lyn to an encounter with the past that will change her life forever.

About the Author:

Susanna Kearsley studied politics and international development at university, and has worked as a museum curator.  She is the author of The Shadowy Horses, The Splendour Falls, and Mariana, which won the prestigious Catherine Cookson Literary Prize.  She lives in Ontario.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0425173453
• ISBN 13: 9780425173459
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 295