The Riddle of Prague
by Laura
DeBruce
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BLURB:
When
18-year-old Hana Silna travels to Prague to reclaim her family’s home, she
discovers a riddle that may lead to a long-last flask.
The
contents of that flask could change the fate of the world. When a ruthless
enemy kidnaps her family Hana has to find the flask to rescue them. On her
quest she meets a mysterious man with a penchant for poetry, a Gypsy girl with
a haunting past, and Alex, an all-American boy who’s trying to save his sister
from a crippling disease. It’s hard to
trust anyone when the stakes are this high — especially when surrounded by
experts in deception.
There’s
only one flask, and Hana desperately needs to find it.
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Excerpt
Four:
The Nomad
The American girl arrives in Prague today. Finally! Finally
things will happen. Everything will change.
I possess secrets—old and valuable secrets. Never mind, for
now, who I am or what my name is. Those things have never mattered much. I am
history’s silent witness and its victim. And I confess, here in the dark, that
I am also a perpetrator of crimes. Ruthless, bloody crimes.
Straw into gold, water into wine, blood into life! I have
long witnessed Prague’s obsession with alchemy. Now it is my turn! I shall
become like quicksilver. I shall transform secrets into power and power into
money.
The American girl arrives today, and soon terrible things
will happen. At the end of it all, I will be free.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Laura DeBruce
is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She grew up traveling all over the world
thanks to her father’s work with the U.S. Embassy. She and her husband spent
twelve years living in Europe including Prague, Paris, Amsterdam and London
where she found inspiration to write The Quicksilver Legacy Series. In Prague
she worked as a lawyer for the first private nationwide television station in
the former Communist bloc. It was there
that she fell in love with the ancient city of Prague and its legends.
She lives in
the Washington, DC area with her husband and son and an unruly Golden
Retriever.
Website with
blog and trailer:
http://theriddleofprague.com/
Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/Riddle-Prague-QuickSilver-Legacy-ebook/dp/B00FFBNUVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386523998&sr=8-1&keywords=riddle+prague
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheRiddleofPrague
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LauraDeBruce
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