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Darkbeast

Amazon.com Price:  $5.17 (as of 01/05/2019 07:32 PST- Details)

Description

A girl’s love for her raven may put her life in jeopardy in this “tightly woven and carefully constructed fantasy” (Kirkus Reviews).

In Keara’s world, every child has a darkbeast—a creature that takes dark emotions like anger, pride, and rebellion. Keara’s darkbeast is Caw, a raven, and Keara may also be free of her worst feelings by transferring them to Caw. He’s her constant companion, and they’re magically bound to one another until Keara’s twelfth birthday. For on that day Keara will have to kill her darkbeast—that may be the law. Refusing to kill a darkbeast is an offense to the gods, and such heresy is harshly punished by the feared Inquisitors.

But Keara cannot consider life without Caw. And she finds herself drawn to the Travelers, actors who tour the country performing revels. Keara is fascinated by their hints of a grand life beyond her tiny village. As her birthday approaches, Keara readies herself to leave childhood—and Caw—at the back of without end. But when the time comes for the sacrifice, will she have the ability to kill the creature that may be so close to her? And if she cannot, where will she turn, and how can she escape the Inquisitors?


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