The Walled Garden
By Michele Lang
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A young woman with a turbulent past discovers a secret world under New York City in the 1980s. Here there be magic, and monsters...
After surviving a brutal attack, Mireya Rodriguez must start living again. A seemingly chance encounter with a man named Jonathan Mellon leads to magic, romance, and danger in a secret world hidden under the streets of NYC. "Gorgeous story. Mireya's a champ." ~Tez
Michele Lang
MICHELE LANG is the author of the historical urban fantasy Lady Lazarus trilogy. Like her protagonist Magda, Lang is of Hungarian-Jewish ancestry. She and her family lives on Long Island.
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The Walled Garden - Michele Lang
THE WALLED GARDEN
By Michele Lang
About the Author:
Michele Lang writes supernatural tales: the stories of witches, lawyers, goddesses, bankers, demons, and other magical creatures hidden in plain sight.
Michele is the author of the historical fantasy LADY LAZARUS, coming out September 2010. LADY LAZARUS tells the story of Magda Lazarus, a witch with the power to summon souls and a sister who can foretell the future. Set on the eve of World War II in a magical Budapest, Magda must do battle with SS Werewolves, wizards, and demons, including the one that has possessed a willing Adolf Hitler…
Praise for LADY LAZARUS:
"An absolutely unique protagonist in an engaging tale set against the backdrop of the greatest clash of good and evil in human history. What’s not to love about LADY LAZARUS?"
-JIM BUTCHER, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of THE DRESDEN FILES series
"With lyrical prose, a fascinating heroine, and a darkly powerful, emotional narrative, LADY LAZARUS is simply magic. Intriguing, beautiful, and impossible to put down."
-MELJEAN BROOK, New York Times-bestselling author of THE GUARDIAN series
To find out more about Michele, please visit her on the web at www.michelelang.com
THE WALLED GARDEN
By Michele Lang
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Copyright 2009 Michele Lang
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Cover Image: Trump 21 (World), Viscounti-Sforzi Tarot Card Deck (1455). Image is in the public domain, found at www.fromoldbooks.org and reproduced with permission
Cover Design: Michele Lang
THE WALLED GARDEN
Spring 1988
Columbia College
New York City
He had left me for dead.
I think this is what bothered people the most. That, and the fact he had attacked me in broad daylight as I had wandered through Riverside Park in September, daydreaming.
The doctors had established that he had only tried to choke me to death and only ripped my clothes, not gotten them off. When I returned to school my freshman year, with a bruised trachea and a battered soul, the other girls couldn’t kid themselves that I was somehow at fault. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What a downer, I know. But in the end I was just another statistic in a gritty, crime-ridden city. Plenty of my ex-friends tried to rationalize me away, leave me for dead, too. I don’t blame them, at least not anymore.
But at the time, I survived by staying angry,