Krassi Zourkova

Wildalone Krassi Zourkova

Publisher Marketing: In this darkly imaginative debut novel full of myth, magic, romance, and mystery, a Princeton freshman is drawn into a love triangle with two brothers and discovers terrifying secrets about her family and herself a bewitching blend of "Twilight," " The Secret History," " Jane Eyre," ""and" A Discovery of Witches."Arriving at Princeton for her freshman year, Thea Slavin finds herself a stranger in a strange land. Away from her family and her Eastern European homeland for the first time, she struggles to adapt to unfamiliar American ways and the challenges of college life including an enigmatic young man whose brooding good looks and murky past intrigue her. Drawn to the elusive Rhys and his equally handsome and mysterious brother Jake, she ventures into a sensual mythic underworld as irresistible as it is dangerous. In this shadow world that seems to mimic Greek mythology and the Bulgarian legends of the wildalones forest witches who beguile and entrap men she will discover a family secret bound to transform her forever if she can accept that "dead" doesn t always mean "gone," and love doesn t always distinguish between the two. Mesmerizing and addictive, "Wildalone "is a thrilling blend of the modern and the fantastic. Krassi Zourkova creates an atmospheric world filled with rich characters as compelling as those of Diana Gabaldon, Deborah Harkness, and Stephenie Meyer." Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 24 (EAN 9780062328045, Other) Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/01/2014 pg. 66 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 11/03/2014 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Booklist 11/15/2014 pg. 24 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Romantic Times 01/01/2015 pg. 35 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2014 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Library Journal 12/01/2014 pg. 97 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Shelf Awareness 01/06/2015 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Bookpage 01/01/2015 (EAN 9780062328021, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Zourkova, Krassi Krassi Zourkova grew up in Bulgaria and came to the United States to study art history at Princeton. After college, she graduated from Harvard Law School, and she has practiced finance law in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, where she currently lives. Her poems have appeared in various literary journals. Wildalone is her first novel.