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Blood and salt / Kim Liggett.
"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 0399166483
- ISBN: 9780399166488
- Physical Description: 341 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 23.99 |
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| Subject: | Immortality > Fiction. Cults > Fiction. Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Twins > Fiction. Alchemy > Fiction. Kansas > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Paranormal romance stories. Occult fiction. |
- Baker & Taylor
"Seventeen-year-old Ash Larkin finds out her family is involved in a centuries-old saga of love and murder, alchemy and immortality when she follows her mother to an isolated settlement in the cornfields of Kansas"-- - Baker & Taylor
Attempting to prevent her mother's return to a village cult hidden in the cornfields of Kansas, Ash reflects on haunting memories of an ancestor who succumbed to the village's traditions of violence, superstition, and secrets. - Baker & Taylor
Attempting to prevent her mother's return to a village cult hidden in the cornfields of Kansas, Ash Larkin reflects on haunting memories of an ancestor who succumbed to the village's traditions of violence, superstition and secrets. Simultaneous eBook. 20,000 first printing. - Penguin Putnam
The last words Ash hears her mother say are, &;When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in&;blood and salt.&;
 
Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time.
 
Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town&;s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own.
 
As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it&;s too late. Before she&;s all in&;blood and salt. - Random House, Inc.
The last words Ash hears her mother say are, “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.”
Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time.
Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own.
As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it’s too late. Before she’s all in—blood and salt.
