The Warding, Tome 1: Iron
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- Robin L. Cole (Écrivain)
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Chapter One
Any woman who says she didn't freak out turning thirty is a damn liar.
Maybe she didn't do it all grand and flashy - you know, like that one friend who had to be peeled, bawling, off the bathroom floor in the middle of her own birthday party. Maybe she did it quiet-like, when she was all alone in her apartment with a glass of wine after everyone went home. Maybe she had herself a nice, long "I thought my life would be different by now" mope if not an all-out "where the hell is my life going" cry.
One way or another, at one time or another, though? She did it.
It's inevitable. It's cruel twist of fate. Like reaching for the milk to make that first cup of coffee you absolutely need to help you face the day... only to realize said milk two weeks ago... and that might explain why your Oreos tasted funny when you were dunking them in a big glass fo it last night. Turning thirty is like hitting your own expiration date. It's the end of those years where it's okay to be a little wild, a little lost - hell, even a little stupid. Thirty marks an end to that en when you could make bad decisions and change your mind a zillion times, because you were young and hadn't found your way yet; hadn't found yourself yet. You had all the time in the world to get it all figured out. You know; time to build your career, meet Mr Right, get married, buy a cute little starter house, and maybe even get a dog. All that was what your thirties were for.
Only, one day you turned around to see that thirty was on the horizon and at that very moment you realized non of that stuff had fallen into place.
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Not every fairy-tale needs a Prince Charming.
When a troll no one else can see attacks her outside the bar on her 30th birthday, Caitlin Moore thinks someone spiked her drink. It isn’t until a team of faeries rescues her and reveals that she has a special Gift that she realizes it’s something worse: she’s just become the star of her own twisted fairy-tale.
Her newly awakened Gift of the Warding makes her immune to fae magic, something unheard of in a human. Her rescuers are exiled enemies of the High King who has allowed bestial creatures like the troll to cross the boundary that separates their worlds. They promise to right the King’s wrongs, but first they need her Gift to find the key to breaking their banishment.
Unable to turn a blind eye to the danger she now sees in every shadow, Caitlin dives headfirst into their world of crazy. In return for her help they teach her to fight back against the nasties, but she isn’t prepared for the thrill she feels on the hunt. As the normal life she once knew slips further and further away, she wonders if protecting humanity from the monsters is worth the stain killing leaves on her soul.
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