title: Of Blood And Light
author: Monk, C.
description: A girl with a secret . . .In the back of an ambulance, River Greer is counting each breath her little sister takes, until the final one: Sage’s body is giving up, ravaged by a mysterious illness.As River braces herself for the worst, the late-night rush to the ER takes a turn for the surreal when she's abducted and ferried across the universe, to the fabled Thule: a world beyond worlds, where Victorian mores collide with Arthurian legend.. . . meets a duke on a mission to save his land.There, his grace Hadrian Landevale of Caid is fighting his own losing battle: to recover Isolde, his runaway wife, and against the blight that threatens the ichor, the source of all life on Thule. To add insult to injury, the captured fugitive Thule pathfinders just brought back from Earth is not his duchess, but an eerie doppelgänger.When it becomes clear that someone on Thule will go to any length to capture River, Hadrian offers his protection to this enchanting, infuriating girl . . . whose secrets might be the key to save Thule’s most precious treasure: the light in its blood.