5/30/2023 0 Comments Pansies by Alexis Hall![]() ![]() It is Zach, the most cautious of the farmworkers, who takes it upon himself to help Lark through her night terrors, shaking her awake, or soothing her with his voice and with his touch when the nightmares return. But while her conscious brain knows she's safe on her best friend's rural family farm, at night, the "dragons in my heart," shake their chains and roar-in the form of scream-inducing nightmares, nightmares that jerk the male farmhands from their own dreams in the bunkhouse they all share. Lark smiles and acts "normal," determined to defeat her jumpiness, her illogical fear. Lark grieves not only for her lost sense of invincibility ("Back then I'd thought that bad experiences only made for good stories" ), but for one of her kidnappers, a young boy who was killed during her rescue. In Sarina Bowen's Keepsake, the third book of her Truth North series, the grieving protagonist is Lark, a once fearless risktaker who is spending time on a Vermont farm recovering from being kidnapped while on a twelve-month assignment for her job with a NGO in Guatemala. ![]()
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