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Bestselling author Sarah A Parker offers readers an eerie and beautifully illustrated retelling of Rapunzel with To Bleed A Crystal Bloom. Nineteen years ago, Orlaith survived an attack by strange creatures, wild beasts who were not quite feline, nor canine but who knew how to attack humans. (If, indeed that is what Orlaith is.) The same attack killed her family, her mother still in the process of dying when her lover from some years before arrives too late to rescue the family. A deathbed promise is made that Rhordyn, who is not Orlaith's father, will raise the child as his ward. But some promises are easier made than kept, and the years ahead are not easy for Orlaith, who grows up to be a recluse, or Rhordyn, a cool and morally grey character who requires a drop of Orlaith's blood each day for a mysterious ritual. It soon becomes clear there are many strange and mysterious things going on in the castle. But what will happen when Orlaith uncovers the truth about herself ... If...