The Black Bird Oracle (ALL SOULS #5) by Deborah Harkness EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Deborah Harkness
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
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In every soul, there is a place reserved for Shadow.
Mine was safely hidden, tucked in a blind spot at the corners of my
memory, under a hollow bruise that I thought had healed long ago.
Then the ravens came to New Haven, carrying an invitation that neither
Shadow nor I could refuse.
—
It was a Friday in late May when the invitation arrived.
“Hey, Professor Bishop! I just put your last mail delivery through the
slot!”
I’d been woolgathering on the familiar route home from my office at
Yale, listening with half of my attention to Becca’s excited chatter while the
rest of my mind drifted. I hadn’t noticed that we’d arrived at the ornate iron
gate that guarded our house on Orange Street, or that our regular mail
carrier, Brenda, was just leaving the property.
“Thanks, Brenda,” I said, giving her a limp smile. The heat was
withering. It was always like this in New Haven around graduation time,
which led to frazzled tempers, damp academic regalia, and long lines for
iced lattes at the city’s many coffee shops.
“You must be excited about getting back to England, Becca,” Brenda
said. She was already wearing her USPS bucket hat and shorts, prepared for
New Haven’s warmer temperatures and sky-high humidity.
“I am.” Becca hopped from one foot to the next to prove it. “It’s Tamsy’s
first trip and I get to show her everything.”
Tamsy was a recent addition to the family: one of the historical dolls that
were all the rage among the thirteen-and-under set. Marcus and his mate,
Phoebe, had chosen the colonial era doll for Becca because of her fondness
for Marcus’s house in Hadley, and her delight in the stories he told about
growing up there in the 1760s and 1770s. Though she had been given a
different name by the manufacturer, Becca had rebaptized her the moment
she had seen the doll’s green eyes and red hair peeking out from the box’s
clear, round window.
Since receiving the doll, Becca’s active imagination had been fully
engaged with Tamsy and her world. She came with a variety of outfits and
accessories that helped Becca bring her to life, including a horse named
Penny.
Tamsy was well supplied with home furnishings, too. Matthew
added to them with a small replica of the Windsor chair at Marcus’s house
that had once belonged to Grand-père Philippe and a Tamsy-sized version
of a painted Hadley chest like the one Phoebe used to store household
linens.
It was fitted with a tiny lock, and Becca had already packed Tamsy’s
clothes, her schoolbooks, her quill pen and ink pot, and her collection of
hats for the journey to England.
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