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The Burning Road
The Burning Road | Ann Benson
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From the bestselling author of The Plague Tales comes a spellbinding new novel that sweeps from medieval France to America in the year 2007interweaving two gripping stories and two extraordinary eras.... In fourteenth-century France, pockets of plague still bring death to peasants and noblemen alike. Amid the fury and the chaos, Dr. Alejandro Canches searches for a safe haven, accompanied by his foster child, Katethe illegitimate daughter of Edward Plantagenet. But both disease and human enemies pursue them, and their only hope for survival is a rebel leader... and medical secrets that lie hidden in an ancient manuscript. Seven hundred years later, Dr. Janie Crowe is searching for the cure for a crippling disease in a world where genetic engineering has gone mad. A repressive government wants to stop her, unnamed benefactors want to help her, and time is running out to find answers linking two dark eras, two dedicated doctors, and one miraculous book.... From the Paperback edition.
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JenniferEgnor
The Burning Road | Ann Benson
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“Were it only mine to choose, I would never leave your side. But one cannot slay dragons while languishing in the arms of the lady one wishes to protect.”
“The dragons will wait.”
“But they must still be slain.”
“They will wait.”

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JenniferEgnor
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Such work always brought to the surface some ancient wrathful Goddess that lurked deep inside her psyche, waiting after millennia of suppression for the moment when her creative fury could be unleashed in pursuit of some evasive truth.

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JenniferEgnor
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I was looking out the window last fall, watching the leaves come down and it hit me like a ton of bricks: I‘ve probably spent six months of my life raking leaves. And it was in that exact moment that I realized that I couldn‘t rake another one. Ever. And I, the human schmuck, was spending a lot of time trying to make nature behave.
•My step mom used to say the neighbors would think leaves were tacky. Wtf?! You can‘t fight nature, why try? 🙄•