A House Divided by Nicole Ciacchella (the giving tree read aloud txt) 📕

was more to her brother's death than she was told, Aderyn Silverin left their mercenary company and has spent years wandering aimlessly, trying to erase her past.

A chance meeting in the city leads Xaran to hire Aderyn to help him get his research into secure hands. But her help comes with a price: information about her brother's mission for Xaran's House, the mission that got him killed.

As Xaran and Aderyn work to untangle the web and reveal the truth, they start to realize that their only hope may rest in one another.

 

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Books by Nicole Ciacchella

 

Astoran Asunder, a Fantasy Series

 

A House Divided, book 1

Catalyst, book 2

Court of Illusion, book 3

Web of Deceit, book 4

Reckoning, book 5

 

Contributor, a Dystopian Trilogy

 

Creators, a prequel novella

Contributor, book 1

Infiltrator, book 2

Instigator, book 3

 

Fairytale Collection

 

The Eye of the Beholder (Beauty and the Beast retold)

Asleep (Sleeping Beauty reimagined)

From the Ashes (Cinderella reimagined)

Chaotic Beauty (Beauty and the Beast reimagined)

 

Romantic Comedies

 

Phoning It In

Committed (an 8-episode serial)

Derailed

Starstruck

Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sensibility

 

Romance

 

Overcome

 

Wasteland, an Apocalyptic Trilogy

 

Cast Aside, book 1

About the Author

 

 

Nicole has progressed from scribbling in notebooks to banging on keyboards, but she's never managed to stop daydreaming at inappropriate moments.

When not answering the demands of her characters, Nicole can often be found curled up with a good book or spending far too many hours acting the hero in whatever video game is her obsession of the moment.

One of Nicole's other great passions is travel. She loves being married to a native Belgian, both because she likes the idea of being "The American" and because it gives her plenty of excuses to visit Europe—that wondrous land of coffee, chocolate, pastry—as often as possible.

Michigan born and raised, Nicole lives there with her honorary Michigander/Belgian husband and her two children. A Michigan State University alum, Nicole bleeds green and is a Spartan for life.

Book Description

 

 

Cianne Wyland leads a double life. No one in House Staerleigh would suspect that the meek woman on whom they heap their disdain is a gatherer of secrets. Determined to uncover whether the House's upper echelon—including her own father—are engaging in illicit activities in a grasp for control of the House, Cianne has made an art of slipping into their homes to rifle through their private lives.

 

Kila an Movis is an Enforcer. Gods-gifted with an extraordinary ability to piece together physical clues, he's entrusted with protecting the vulnerable from crime. But his habit of expressing his opinions a little too freely earned him a nine-year banishment to the wilds, and he's determined to be more circumspect upon his return to the trade city.

 

When someone close to Cianne dies and Kila is called out to investigate the scene, her world and his collide once more. His long absence hasn't driven the memory of him from her heart, but the woman he encounters isn't the child he remembers.

 

Unwilling to trust anyone else, Cianne enlists Kila's help. The deeper they dig, the more secrets they unearth about her father, the other House members, and her entire life—until Cianne discovers that House Staerleigh is built on a foundation of lies.

 

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information and storage retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author.

 

 

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, business establishments or locales is entirely coincidental.

 

Copyright © 2015 Nicole P. Ciacchella

 

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