Writer By Night

“Five stars is not enough.” -Sarah E. Diemer, author of The Dark Wife

“…atmospheric and wonderful and so, so well done… Franklin’s writing is beautiful.” -The Bookworm Shelf

The Poppet and the Lune

An original fairy tale about a patchwork girl and a boy who cried wolf… and became one.

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Available in print from createspace.com, amazon.com, OR by request at most book retailers.

Also available as an ebook for

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• and most e-reader devices at Smashwords.com.

Description: The witch who made the patchwork girl died before she could give her creation a name. Stitched together from the remains of the villagers’ dead children—whose memories still live in her flesh—and held together by a ring made of moonbeams, the patchwork girl is a spell as yet unfinished. She can never be what her parents wanted her to be: a replacement for the children they’ve lost. So when the poppet grows up, and grows tired of being a disappointment, she decides to embark upon a journey through the Everwood Forest in search of her real name.

In the forest she meets Faolin, a newly made wereman (a man trapped as a wolf except during the full moon) running from the beasts who killed his father, and stole his throne as Wolf King. He joins the patchwork girl on her journey, and she promises to help him become human again and return to his fiancée. Together, they face the dangers of the forest as their paths wind together: Faolin running from his destiny, the patchwork girl in search of her own, and both of them bound by moonlight.

But Faolin, afraid of the beast he has become, has known all along what he must do in order to lift the curse and return to his fiancée. In fact, it is the very reason he sought out the patchwork girl to begin with—and now the only reason he is willing to leave her side: to save her from himself.

Read the prologue and the first six chapters of The Poppet and the Lune