The Blood Guard

Roy, Carter

ISBN 10: 1477847251 / ISBN 13: 9781477847251

Published by Two Lions (edition ), 2014

About this Item

With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 1477847251-7-1-13_29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Blood Guard
• Publisher: Two Lions (edition )
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1477847251
• ISBN 13: 9781477847251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

When thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove’s seemingly ordinary mom snatches him from school, then sets off on a high speed car chase, Ronan is shocked. His quiet, nerdy dad has been kidnapped? And the kidnappers are after him, too?

His mom, he quickly learns, is anything but ordinary. In fact, she’s a member of an ancient order of knights, the Blood Guard, a sword-wielding secret society sworn to protect the Pure―thirty-six noble souls whose safety is crucial if the world as we know it is to survive.

Now all those after-school activities―gymnastics, judo, survival training―she made him take, make sense. For suddenly Ronan is swept up in a sometimes funny, sometimes scary, but always thrilling adventure―dashing from one danger to the next, using his wits to escape the Bend Sinister, a posse of evil doers with strange powers. Falling in with two unlikely companions, Greta, a scrappy, strong-willed girl he’s never much liked and Jack, a devil-may-care teenage pickpocket, Ronan is left with only his wits and his mom’s last words of advice: Trust no one.

That’s a lot for an ordinary kid to deal with. But then again, maybe Ronan’s not ordinary at all.

About the Author

Carter Roy has worked some three dozen jobs ranging from movie theater projectionist to delivery truck driver before finally ending up as an editor for a major publisher, where he edited hundreds of books before leaving to write his own. An award-winning short story writer, this is his first novel. He lives in New York City.