Excerpt: Shapes in the Blood

Summer Reading Trail 2010

Shapes in the Blood

Blurb

Aila Parry is a disaster waiting to happen.

Bad luck dogs her, has followed her all her life, ever since her grandmother's heated warning when she was only three years old.  Food spoils, metal stresses and breaks, equipment fails…and people are wary of her, forming strange hatreds, or worse shunning her completely.  Men run scared.  Which is why her colleague, Nathan Ahern's, interest stuns—and delights—her.  But Nathan is not all that he...