你愿孤注一掷,改变自己的命运吗?
父母在一场车祸中不幸丧生的孤儿卡西,高中毕业后,为了筹措上大学的经费,到了当地的马戏团打工,她的工作包括照顾马戏团里的明星,一头来自印度、全身散发出檀香的白虎帝岚。
白虎是非常特殊的老虎,他必然会受到自省能力极强的女子所吸引,这名女子拥有极高的韧性、洞悉善恶的能力,及克服各种危难的力量。
卡西做梦也没想到,她视为朋友、昵称「阿岚」的白虎竟有着神奇的身分与力量,而她更没想到的是,平凡无奇的她竟是美丽女神杜尔迦所选中的女孩,这个暑假她将跟着这头神秘的白虎,绕过半个地球,去破解一道三百年的印度魔咒。
面对黑暗势力、咒语的魔力和虚幻的神秘世界,卡西豁出一切,只为解开一则能永远化解恶咒的古老预言。她没想到的是,这趟冒险旅程所需要的不仅仅是勇气、力量与胆识,她还得打开她那封锁已久的心,去感受、去相信……
Would you risk it all to change your destiny? The last thing
Kelsey Hayes thought she''d be doing this summer was trying to break
a 300-year-old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named
Ren. Halfway around the world. But that''s exactly what happened.
Face-to-face with dark forces, spellbinding magic, and mystical
worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to
piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse
forever.
年畅销排行上雄踞榜首达七周,并进入2010年新一代独立图书奖(Next Generation
Indie Book Award)青少年小说决选名单。柯琳现与先生及一只白虎娃娃居住于奥瑞冈州塞伦市。
Formerly a student at the University of Arizona Colleen Houck
has worked as a nationally certified American Sign Language
interpreter for seventeen years. Tiger''s Curse is her first book,
which has already received literary praise and digital success. Her
self-published eBook claimed the no.1 spot on Kindle''s children''s
best-seller list for seven weeks. She lives in Salem, Oregon, with
her husband and a white stuffed tiger.