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Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague
Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague








Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague

With the help of a motorcycle-riding dryad who packs a pair of oak cudgels, Isaac finds himself hunting the unknown dark power that has been manipulating humans and vampires alike. To his horror he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Together, they face attacks and decide that their destiny is worth pursuing. Pinned in place and not wanting to hurt the locals, he waits for a rescue and is shocked to find it in the purple-haired woman with the twinkling eyes. Mercury is a Guardian mistaken for a robot on a planet that fears technology. With her weapons all in the biological range and her body the pinnacle of genetic manipulation, she is ready for anything. Garden has been called in on a rescue and she carries it out without any second thoughts.

Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague

My lists are never in any particular order. However, for the purpose of this list, I am counting heroes and heroines who are botanically based or have botanical powers. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.A dryad is a tree nymph or tree spirit who are often tied to the very tree they spring from thus if the tree dies the dryad does as well. But when the Green Man casts a magical Web of Protection to shield the garden, a firestorm of media attention rages out of control, and Alice must risk losing everything she holds dear to save the one man she can’t keep. While Alice’s teenage sons take opposite sides in the conflict, her ex-husband schemes to put an end to her garden and her new romance in the hope of winning her back. As Alice and Fergus work together to prevent the destruction of the garden, the developer pushes ahead with his agenda. She is skeptical of the Green Man's claims, but unable to ignore the way her body and soul respond to his. Fergus, one of the legendary immortal Green Men whose job it is to nurture and protect all green and growing things of Earth, offers to help Alice protect the garden. But when a developer threatens to pave over her paradise, Alice has no way to stop the corporate bulldozer until a mysterious Green Man steps out of a tree and into her life. A Quirky Fairytale for the Green at Heart Betrayed, angry, and newly divorced, Alice Owens found solace in a beautiful garden she planted on the abandoned lot next to her tiny house in Falls Church, Virginia.










Alice and the Green Man by Constance Sprague