<strong></strong><p><strong>When your education is all you have left</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>"The wind rustled through the leaves outside the window, soft sounds calling her soul to come out and play. Silky kitten steps tracked through her mind, a presence stealthily moving closer. The sway and twitch of a tail, hypnotic, tense, every hair alive with anticipation. She smiled with the memories of hunting, alive in the night.<br type="_moz"></p><p>&nbsp;She shifted in her stupor, her mouth opening to call, to warn of a danger that no one else would see. Her body twisted in the bedclothes, knotting her shirt around her waist. Frustration built at the constraints and a growl burst from her as the cat pounced and took over."<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>'The men go mad eventually – unable to separate themselves from the cats they control. The women? They fare little better...' The words from Lin's journal haunt Mika as she gains her Medici qualifications. Left homeless by his death, she tries to escape her grief by burying herself in her work, only to discover both old and new enemies waiting in the wings.<br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Woman, Shapeshifter, Healer</strong><br type="_moz"></p><p><br></p><p>Medici of Ackbarr is the third book of The Medici Chronicles<br type="_moz"></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>