The Last Balfour

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Author
Cait Duggan
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Young Adult Fiction
Released
22 July, 2019
ISBN
9781460757017

The Last Balfour

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Synopsis

Iona Balfour's life is turned upside down when her beloved aunt Grizel is executed for the crime of witchcraft. Before she dies, Grizel appoints Iona as guardian of a precious family bloodstone and tells her she must flee their village and deliver the stone to the mysterious Guild of the Green Lion.Accompanied by a new friend, Cal, Iona soon realises that she's awakened the powers of the bloodstone. But it promises to be a perilous journey. The wolf month is no time to be on the road. And there's a witch hunter on Iona's trail, who has a strange obsession with the stone.When a devastating betrayal throws her into the hands of her enemies, Iona soon finds herself in the fight of her life. Will she suffer the same fate as her aunt, or will she escape the witch hunter and fulfil her destiny?

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A Compelling Debut: Extract from The Last Balfour

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23 July 2019

Suspenseful and Highly Engaging: Review of The Last Balfour

Cait Duggan
About the author

Cait Duggan

A lawyer by profession, Cait Duggan is interested in history and all things esoteric. She has completed a number of writing courses at The Writers' Studio in Sydney and is a graduate of Faber Writing Academy's ‘Writing a Novel' course.

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