Among the Beasts & Briars* author-Brian Jacques on the eve of the

on the eve of the sisters' return

No easy answers

Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous

and she has a secret to share: This is not a school bus—it’s a pirate ship

Alexander Hamilton

Among the Beasts & Briars* author-Brian Jacques on the eve of the*SIGNED BOOKPLATE Cerys is safe in the kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered, the woods grew dark, cursed, and forbidden. Cerys knows this all too well: when she was young, she barely escaped as the woods killed her friends and her