Bertrice Smalll, Patricia McCallister and Dean Koontz

I was re-reading The Silk Merchants Daughter, vol. 3 and realized at the end that I should look up the fourth daughter Serena's book.   It was not listed on Amazon.  So I googled Bertrice Small and discovered to my dismay that she had died in 2015.  Well shoot.  Amazon feed suggested Patricia McCallister's book Snow Raven.  So I purchased that one and discovered that this particular book fits nicely in Small's Historical Novel niche.  Snow Raven is the tale of a spirited woman who has decided to meet her fiancé for a meet and greet.  She is captured by the younger brother of the Wolf of Badan sumpin sumpin and she is taken hither there and who happens to be mortal enemies to her fiancé.   This action upsets the various monarchies involved in both Scotland and England who demand they marry.  There are subplots and spirited this and that.  Gorgeous descriptions of clothing, meals, landscapes quite poetic.  Eventually the villains meet their comeuppance, evil plots are foiled etc.  I enjoyed the book thoroughly.

Also quite coincidentally I watched the last five damn minutes of Odd Thomas and based on that alone, decided to download the first two chapters of the book.  My brother gifted me with many Odd Thomas books a decade ago but with time and shrinking font size of books, neglected to read this one by Dean Koontz.  Thank you Dean, this was a perfect book.  I am in mourning and haven't quite decided if I can navigate the remaining Odd Thomas books.  Maybe in a month or two I will brave a sample of two chapters worth of the next book in the series.  I shall have to watch the entire movie now just to see if casting is worthy of the 400 lb Ozzie and the other magnificent characters who know, love and fear  the Odd one.  Sniff.