Alice At Heart (The Water Lilies Series)

Start by marking “Alice at Heart (Waterlilies, #1)” as Want to Read: This special collector's edition of bestselling author Deborah Smith's first romantic fantasy novel has been called "Magical" by Romantic Times Magazine, which awarded the novel its top rating.
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    They fit smoothly, allowing him maximum dexterity. Sometimes when she cannot sleep -- this occurs most frequently on nights when the sun goes down in a ball of red and orange -- she creeps into her closet, knee-walks under the hanging dresses all the way to the back, and there she writes beware the goat with a thousand young over and over with a soft pencil.

    She had voluntarily returned to the place where i had marooned her, where time slowed to a crawl, and all the decades that had passed for me had been only weeks or months.

    The final victory was all that mattered, all that would be remembered.