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By Kristopher Dukes

Dukes's gripping ancient novel tells the story of a determined Albanian girl who will do no matter what it takes to maintain her independence and grab keep watch over of her future...even if it capability swearing to stay a virgin for her complete life.

When eighteen-year-old Eleanora’s father is shot useless at the cobblestone streets of 1910 Albania, Eleanora needs to abandon her dream of learning paintings in Italy as she struggles to outlive in a distant mountain village along with her stepmother Meria.

Nearing hunger, Meria secretly sells Eleanora into marriage with the tough inheritor of a strong extended family. reason on maintaining her freedom, Eleanora takes an oath to stay a virgin for the remainder of her life—a culture that provides her the appropriate to dwell as a guy: she is now head of her family and will paintings for a residing in addition to hold a gun. Eleanora may also perform the vengeful blood feuds that eat the mountain tribes, yet she will not be killed—unless she forsakes her vow, which she has no purpose of ever doing.

But while an injured stranger stumbles into her lifestyles, Eleanora nurses him again to wellbeing and fitness, saving his life—yet risking her personal as she falls in love with him...

“It’s tough to think that the tradition Dukes describes used to be ever actual, however the quantity of study she positioned into this e-book certainly shines via. the tale is still attention-grabbing all through; readers will certainly locate it tough to place this novel down.”—San Francisco booklet Review

 

 

 

 

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