03973cam a2200769 4500 1228312631 TxAuBib 20240410120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781665936491 1665936495 B0C7RL44XT Amazon 45b78c0c-862e-4315-b3b9-4240de54dca1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9919938 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Poranek, A. B. Where the Dark Stands Still [Libby]. Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2024. superstition. secrets. romance. demon. Folklore. Manor. fairy tale. Gothic. captivity. acceptance. repression. servitude. trauma. mystery. Magic. dark. enemies to lovers. fantasy. beauty and the beast. naomi novik. debut author. enchanted forest. demon hunting. A Court of Thorns and Roses. sarah j maas. leshy. Margaret Rogerson. oppressive religion. An Enchantment of Ravens. books like a curse so dark and lonely. erin craig. magical demonic bargain. polish folklore. spirit wood. trope subversion. mentor apprentice romance. eldritch old god. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5805kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Folklore. Young Adult Fiction. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b><br /> <br /> <b>A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of <i>An</i> <i>Enchantment of Ravens</i> and <i>House of Salt and Sorrows</i>.</b><br /> Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous, demon-inhabited spirit-wood to steal a mythical fern flower. If she plucks it, she can use its one wish to banish her powers. Everyone who has sought the fern flower has fallen prey to unknown horrors, so when Liska is caught by the demon warden of the wood—called The Leszy—a bargain seems better than death: one year of servitude in exchange for the fern flower and its wish.<br /> <br /> Whisked away to The Leszy's crumbling manor, Liska soon makes an unsettling discovery: she is not the first person to strike this bargain, and all her predecessors have mysteriously vanished. If Liska wants to survive the year and return home, she must unravel her taciturn host's spool of secrets and face the ghosts—figurative and literal—of his past. Because something wakes in the woods, something deadly and without mercy. It frightens even The Leszy...and cannot be defeated unless Liska embraces the monster she's always feared becoming. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-04-10 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=45b78c0c-862e-4315-b3b9-4240de54dca1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=45b78c0c-862e-4315-b3b9-4240de54dca1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=45b78c0c-862e-4315-b3b9-4240de54dca1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)