Audrey’s Novels

Circus of the Queens: The Fortune-Teller’s Fate
Circus of the Queens: The Shadow of Lillya

SOME FAVORITE SENTENCES

Then suddenly a big wind howled as if the man in the moon had blown out all the breath he held in his cheeks and he wasn’t the same man I had known him to be.

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At the end of the drive was a mansion draped in what Mrs. Butler had described as Spanish Moss. It was flanked by weeping willow trees so lovely I could barely speak.

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It was the kind of June day that made you feel like August had come early, a day when even the most Yankee-hating southerner would welcome a cool northern breeze.

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She looked down at the baby at her side, who was gazing at me with eyes like coals, so dark they almost looked black, so sharp and warm they melted my soul.

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Showing off their tricks, they flew backwards as only hummingbirds can. Then, as if the song of their wings transformed me into a bird, I flew home as fast as I could. I knew exactly what I was meant to do.