<p><strong>You are always welcome to come home... aren't you?</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>"The saw rasped against bone and Mika clenched her jaw as her own teeth remembered the red stained ivory sliding beneath them. A crack of powerful muscles and the marrow laid bare. Ears back, eyes hooded - watching. She knows the man will die on the table."</p><p><br></p><p>After five years of hard study, Mika has achieved the rank of Journeyman Medici. Few know that she is a girl pretending to be a boy in the male dominated world of Ackbarr. Far fewer know of the animal concealed beneath her skin.</p><p><br></p><p>Searching for any knowledge of her kind, she is determined to travel back to Cassai. The forests of her childhood are seductive, calling to the memories buried deep within but she discovers that her world has moved on without her. Or maybe it never was as she remembers.<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Woman, Shapeshifter, Healer</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>Blood Lore is the second 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>