Cloth of Grace
by Rachel J Bonner
Synopsis:
Cloth of Grace - Choices and Consequences Book 4
When the fate of the world rests on your shoulders, how do you choose between what you ought to do and the only thing you really want?
Leonie finally knows who she is. But now she needs to decide who she is going to be. Her choice will affect not just her family, not just those she knows, but tens, hundreds of thousands, millions of people that she doesnât. And every path thatâs open to her will put Perry under the pressures that caused his breakdown before. How can she do what she must and still protect Perry?
Perry desperately wants to make things easier for Leonie. Somehow he has to find the strength to face the things that all but destroyed him in the past. But every way he turns, some aspect of his past lies waiting to pounce â even during his happiest moments. And he can never forget that Leonieâs life is in danger from someone, somewhere.
Gabriel has managed to negotiate peace, at least in theory. Now he must put that into practice and reunite Leonie with the family she never knew she had. Then disaster strikes right in the middle of his own sanctuary. Can he still protect those he loves, or has he been harbouring a villain the whole time?
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Weave of Love - Choices and Consequences Book 3
What if the choice you have to make has devastating consequences for others?
How can anyone know the right thing to do?
Leonie chose to sacrifice everything to save other people. Now those around her have to face the consequences â and those consequences are not what they expected.
Prospero must deal with his own guilt. He was the one who gave Leonie the tools she needed â her life was in his hands. To make the most of what she did, he will have to face up to all the family issues he has avoided for so long. Whatever he chooses to do, someone he loves will be hurt. For Leonieâs sake, is he now strong enough to make the choice he couldnât make before?
The crisis predicted by Lord Gabriel has come and gone. But his task isnât over. Leonieâs very existence may be out in the open but Gabriel discovers that the past is never what it seems â and nor is the present. How can he use what he now knows to bring together those who have been enemies for as long as anyone can remember? If he fails in this, everything heâs had to do so far will be in vain.
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Thread of Hope - Choices and Consequences Book 2
What if your secrets are so dangerous they could destroy the one you love?
Is honesty always the best policy?
Leonie may have run away but Prospero will find her. He loves her and he wants a future with her by his side whatever the consequences. Only when he does find her, he ought to tell her who he really is, outside the monastery. Thatâll make her run again. Dare he risk it? But if he doesnât tell her, someone else may...
Marriage to Prospero is what Leonie wants most and the one thing she knows she canât have. If he found out what she was really like, what sheâd been, what sheâd done, heâd despise her and she couldnât bear that. Better to leave now than live a lie â but itâs harder than she expected. If onlyâŠ
Gabriel is starting to discover the secrets inherent in Leonie, secrets that not even she knows, secrets that will tear the world apart. And the secrets he is keeping are tearing him apart. How can sacrificing those he loves possibly achieve peace when everything he discovers risks the death of millions?
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Strand of Faith - Choices and Consequences Book 1
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A girl. A monk. An unthinkable sacrifice.
When the choice is between love and life, how can anyone decide?
In a post-apocalyptic future, a girl and a monk, both with extraordinary mental powers, have compelling reasons not to fall in love. But their choices will have consequences for the rest of the world.
After the troubles of his youth, Brother Prospero has found comfort and fulfilment in the monastery. Then he discovers something that forces him to reconsider his whole vocation. How can it possibly be right to leave a life of worship and service for human desire? And if he does leave, will the pressures from his past destroy him?
Orphaned and mistreated, Leonie has found sanctuary and safety at the Abbey. When she comes into contact with Prospero everything spirals out of her control. Everyone sheâs ever loved has died. She canât do that to him. But how can she walk away from the first place sheâs truly belonged?
Abbot Gabriel is faced with an impossible choice. He can do nothing and watch the world descend into war. Or he can manipulate events and ensure peace â at the cost of two lives that he is responsible for. Is he strong enough to sacrifice those he loves?
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Blog â Phrases
One of the things I found when I became a mother was that I said âBe careful,â a whole lot more. My kids teased me about it, naturally (still do, in fact, as does my husband). One of my own motherâs phrases was, âLife is made up of choicesâ which was sometimes followed by âand choices have consequencesâ. Actually, itâs still one of her phrases and, to be fair, my brothers and I still tease her about it.
You can probably see where the series title for my books came from!
ClichĂ©s and phrases may also take on different meanings depending on our own circumstances. The phrase âI donât know them from Adamâ will have a very personal feel if youâre close to someone called Adam. âYou canât judge a book by its coverâ strikes home if youâre a published author â because of course we judge books by their covers, thatâs the first thing that attracts us to them. And the cover can tell us something about the book including its genre and tone.
As a writer youâre told not to use clichĂ©s, but in everyday life and speech we use them all the time. They are short cuts in speech to help us convey an idea or make ourselves understood. Every clichĂ© or known phrase has its roots in some past or common experience, even if we donât always know what that experience is or it isnât a common experience today. For example, if I say âhold your horsesâ youâll understand that means slow down, donât race into some activity without thinking. It comes from a time when transport was by horse drawn vehicle and âholding your horsesâ meant keeping excited horses still while something else happened. Few of us would have that experience today.
ClichĂ©s donât often translate well, either. What works in one language doesnât work in another due to different cultural experiences and history. If youâre writing fantasy and building a different world you have to be particularly careful about clichĂ©s. You canât have a character say âavoid it like the plagueâ if your world has never experienced a widespread plague. Itâll jar on readers because your characters wonât have the personal, cultural or historical experience for that to have meaning. You canât âlet sleeping dogs lieâ if your world doesnât have dogs, or be âpoor as a church mouseâ if it doesnât have churches.
In Thread of Hope, the second book in my Choices and Consequences series, Andrew uses a clichĂ© when talking to Prospero. He says ââŠthis is the one that has knocked you for six?â That clichĂ© comes from cricket, where hitting a ball over the boundary scores a six. Cricket isnât mentioned anywhere else in the series, but it does exist in that worldâs past, and, in my mind at least, in that worldâs present, because the series is set in our worldâs future. So I hope Iâve got away with that.
In Cloth of Grace weâre introduced to a phrase that is specific to the world Iâve created, in the quote below:
He just shook his head and Lady Eleanor answered, âMany years ago, something happened and as a result, Gabriel took a vow not to leave the campus. âUntil the four seasons meet,â he said. That was the condition.â
I recognised that phrase. It was a Trader one, meaning something that will never happen because the four seasons go in a cycle, never meeting together.
But each season has a colour assigned to it â although there is some dispute as to which colour means which season.
âWhite for the winter snow, green for the spring growth, blue for the summer sky, red for the autumn leaves,â he said. I knew that as red for the summer heat, blue for the autumn rainâŠ
Only each colour also belongs to one of the four biggest ruling Great Houses â and two of them are arch enemies so theyâll never meet eitherâŠwill they? Youâll have to read Cloth of Grace to find out.
Author Bio
Rachel J Bonner is the author of the compelling and enthralling four book Choices and Consequences series. The first book in the series, Strand of Faith, was published in November 2018. Book 2, Thread of Hope, released on 2nd May 2019, followed by Weave of Love on 24th October. The story concludes with Cloth of Grace, released on 29th February 2020.
Rachel has a degree in engineering, which she followed with a career in accountancy which is probably not a conventional path to becoming an author, particularly in fantasy or romance. Rachel says that, although accountancy isnât anything like as boring as everyone thinks, writing is a lot more fun. When not writing, she can be found walking in the beautiful countryside near where she lives, which has influenced much of the scenery in her books, or shooting things with her local archery club. Shooting targets only, honest. Nothing to worry about. (Okay, sometimes we shoot Polo mints. Or cabbages. Still nothing to worry about.)
She also enjoys swimming, eating chocolate chip cookies and growing aromatic herbs, especially thyme and rosemary. Itâs no coincidence that her heroine likes the same things.
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