Rowan Blaize and the Hand of Djin Rummy by Jonathan Kieran (free novel 24 .txt) 📖

a long way towards getting down from that high horse your folks raised you on, but sometimes I fear you’ll never lose that arrogant streak that runs through you like a vein, pumping hoity-toity impulses from that aching head of yours all the way down to your crooked toes. You’re a grand witch, Letty, but you ain’t no better than me, and you certainly ain’t no Baba Yaga. If the occasional spit ball or loogie was good enough for her, well, then, it’s sure as heck good enough for the likes of you.”

Gert set her jaw like stone and regarded the gobsmacked Leticia with an even stonier, yet somehow girlish and mischievously encouraging, gaze.

“So what do you want me to do, Gokey? I can’t listen to another word of this jabber.”

“Just spit in the wok like I told you, Letty,” said Gert, nodding up at her friend’s braids. “Because judging from those little drops of blood starting to trickle down your forehead, we may not have a whole lot of time.”

Jonathan Kieran is an author and illustrator with a passion for world travel and ancient history ... and an occasionally bewildered grasp of the present. Officially launching January 2013, the 'Rowan Blaize' books are the first offerings in Jonathan's Enchanted Heritage Chronicles series, with a multitude of additional works on the way.

Learn more at www.rowanblaize.com.

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Publication Date: 04-16-2013

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