The Iron Witch
By (Author) Karen Mahoney
Random House Australia
Random House Australia Children's Books
1st February 2011
Australia
Young Adult
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
304
Width 135mm, Height 208mm, Spine 20mm
270g
FREAK. That's what her classmates call seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood. When she was seven, a horrific fey attack killed her father and drove her mother mad. Donna's own nearly fatal injuries from the assault were fixed by magic - the iron tattoos branding her hands and arms. The child of alchemists, Donna feels cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her parents and any chance she had for a normal life. The only thing that keeps her sane and grounded is her relationship with her best friend, Navin Sharma. When the darkest outcasts of Faerie - the vicious wood elves - abduct Navin, Donna finally has to accept her role in the centuries-old war between the humans and the fey. Assisted by Xan, a gorgeous half-fey dropout with secrets of his own, Donna races to save her friend - even if it means betraying everything her parents fought to the death to protect.
Karen Mahoney has been a professional Tarot reader, a college counsellor, a dating agency consultant, and bookseller and a webmistress. She is now a full-time writer and her first novel, The Iron Witch, was published in 2011. She has a highly trafficked blog where she talks about everything from writing books to her lifelong love of Wonder Woman.