![]() ![]() Injured and ill, she bonds with her captor, although he won’t let her see his face and in spite of the fact that he may have murdered her father, she tells him ancient fairy tales to keep him from killing her. ![]() He resumes his quest, but disappears while on the hunt, and when Yeva gives chase she is soon captured in battle. ![]() Soon Yeva has worse problems to contend with than the stubborn Solmir, as her father becomes obsessed with hunting the ultimate quarry, a beastlike figure that he had been single-mindedly tracking before he gave up hunting to become a tradesman. Yeva is granted her wish in the worst way possible when her father’s financial ruin forces him to move Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town and his ramshackle hunting cabin. She is completely oblivious to the attentions of Solmir, the baron’s ward and potential heir and yearns for her old life, where she and her father spent days hunting in the wilderness together. Yeva feels stifled by the strictures imposed upon her by her social position and her gender, and is well aware of the pressure upon her to marry. Set in ancient Russia, our heroine is Yeva, daughter of a rich merchant, who is at court as a lady in waiting to a baronessa. In Hunted, Megan Spooner, author of the Skylark and Starbound trilogies of books, attempts to restyle the popular tale of Beauty and the Beast as an action romp, with, unfortunately, little success. ![]()
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