The Thorn and the Blossom A Two-Sided Love Story

When Evelyn Morgan walks into Thorne & Son, a bookstore in the Cornishvillage of Clews, she doesn't know that she's going to meet the love of her life.When Brendan Thorne sells her a medieval poem called The Book of the GreenKnight, he doesn't know that it will shape his future. After that first meeting, theydon't see one another for years -- and yet they never stop thinking about oneanother. It's as if they're the haunted lovers in the old book itself...

Theodora Goss won the World Fantasy Award in 2008 for her short story “Singing of Mount Abora.” Her publications include the 2006 short-story collection In the Forest of Forgetting; Interfictions, a 2008 short-story anthology coedited with Delia Sherman; and Voices from Fairyland, a 2008 poetry anthology featuring critical essays and a selection of her own poems. She has been a finalist for the Nebula, Crawford, Locus, and Mythopoeic awards and has appeared on the Tiptree Award Honor List. Her work has repeatedly been showcased in “Year’s Best” anthologies. She lives in Boston, where she teaches literature and writing at Boston University.