<p><strong>When something wakes that should be behind bars.</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>"The corridors were too bright in the torchlight, the edges of items blurred. A realistic dream, she acknowledged the salutes carelessly from the guards and felt the coolness of the night air. Should she go down to the city gates and persuade the guards to let her out? To change and stalk the countryside? The sleepy protest was muffled and she shook her head, there was no point in waking something that should remain asleep."<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>Addicted to the drugs she is taking to suppress her changing abilities, Mika is readying herself to take over the position of Court Medici when she hears her sons have arrived at the border between the two countries and are asking for her. They are strangers, she's not met them since she gave them up as babies thirteen years ago and they have their own problems. Her only hope - and theirs - lies in the changer community in the mountains.<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Woman, Shapeshifter, Healer</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>Blood Debt is the fourth book of The Medici Chronicles</p><p><br></p><p>The countries of Cassai and Ackbarr have held an uneasy truce for many years, with Cassai hidden between its ring of mountains and the sea beyond. The Medici Chronicles charts twenty years of Mika's life through her marriage and subsequent escape into the Medici – a caste of healers and doctors. Always the outsider, in her search for the truth about her brother's disappearance Mika uncovers more than she bargains for - she has been lied to - about her past, her people and her country.<br type="_moz"></p>