Nineteen-year-old Sean Kendrick runs for the right to buy the water-horse stallion Corr 16-year-old Katherine, called Puck, pits her land mare against the water horses in an attempt to save her home. Every first of November, the water horses are raced on the beach of Thisby winning the Scorpio Races brings fame and fortune, but losing often brings death. Predatory meat-eaters, they endanger the islanders-but they are also fast, far faster than land horses, and if captured and very carefully handled, with iron and magic, they can be trained. The bestselling author of Shiver (2009) and Linger (2010) turns the legend of the water horse into a taut, chilling, romantic adventure.Įach October on the island of Thisby, the capaill uisce, or water horses, emerge from the sea.
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