
Fabulous author Leanna Renee Hieber reading an excerpt from her new novel, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, at Lady Jane's Salon, September 7th, 2009 in New York City. Unfortunately, this is a very short excerpt, as I didn't have enough memory to get the entire reading. (Of course, I own nothing, and I DO have permission from the author to post:) What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Considering how few of Queen Victorias Londoners knew of it, the great Romanesque fortress was dreadfully imposing, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met the powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadow, the Ripper and other supernatural terrors against which his coterie stood guard. She knew simply that she was different, haunted, with her snow-white hair, pearlescent skin and uncanny gifts. But this arched stone doorway offered a portal to a new life, an education far from the convent—and an invitation to an intimate yet dangerous dance at the threshold of life and death.
Leanna Renee Hieber
Lady Jane's Salon
Dorcester Publishing
Dark Nest