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    The Catswold Portal

    By Shirley Rousseau Murphy

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    About this ebook

    A striking new reissue of an epic fantasy by popular Harper author Shirley Rousseau Murphy, featuring a princess's dangerous quest to reclaim her throne...and, of course, cats!

    There is a door in an artist's garden: an elaborate carved passageway into a realm ruled by a dark sorceress queen. There entities strange and wondrous roam the Netherworld––yet none as astonishing as the shape–shifting Catswold...

    Raised by the oldwitch Mag, Melissa discovers a perilous secret. She has more than one form––human girl and magical cat––and once inhabited two worlds. And it is her destiny to return to a mystic realm of wonder and terror, to do battle for her people's liberation and the crown that is rightfully hers.

    A man beset by tragedy, painter Braden West is intrigued by the calico cat who has charmed her way into his studio. But his "guest" is more than she seems, and Braden's very existence will be radically altered as he follows Melissa from the Hell Pit into the dread perils of an evil ruling court, thrust into the heart of a magical conflict with more at stake than he could possibly have imagined.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061740282
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    The Catswold Portal
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    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy is the author of twenty mysteries in the Joe Grey series, for which she has won the Cat Writers’ Association Muse Medallion nine years running, and has received ten national Cat Writers’ Association Awards for best novel of the year. She is also a noted children’s book author, and has received five Council of Authors and Journalists Awards. She lives in Carmel, California, where she serves as full-time household help to two demanding feline ladies.

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    • 5/5
      A young woman with the ability to turn herself into a cat finds away to go between her world and ours, while trying to recover her memory to find who she is, and why she is so important to the war being fought in her world.
    • 5/5
      This one starts out a bit weak, but once it picks up enough momentum it's quite good, especially if you like cats, fantasy adventures, and books about overthrowing an evil tyrant.
    • 5/5
      A young woman with the ability to turn herself into a cat finds away to go between her world and ours, while trying to recover her memory to find who she is, and why she is so important to the war being fought in her world.
    • 3/5
      A different cat story. A great quest.
    • 4/5
      Really interesting bit of speculative fiction. Melissa is very believable as both cat and woman. I thought the upper world folk were better drawn than the netherworld ones. Who was Meg, really? What motivated the harpy? Etc. But really enjoyable
    • 4/5
      One star off for the Sausalito gaffe.
    • 5/5
      A young woman with the ability to turn herself into a cat finds away to go between her world and ours, while trying to recover her memory to find who she is, and why she is so important to the war being fought in her world.