The Tearsmith

<p><b>A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH </b><br><br><b>Legend speaks of the Maker of Tears: a man with eyes like glass who crafts all the fears that dwell in people's hearts . . . What will it take for star-crossed orphans Nica and Rigel to face him and his creations?</b><br><br>----<br><br>Growing up within the walls of Grave's Orphanage Nica's imagination burned with fantastical stories. Including that of The Tearsmith a mysterious craftsman guilty of having forged all the fears and anxieties in the world.<br><br>When at seventeen she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan Nica <i>thinks</i> she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her.<br><br>But the Mulligans also adopt Rigel an orphan who is as mesmerising and handsome as he is troubled. They share a past filled with grief and isolation and the ever-gentle Nica starts to fall for her forbidden love.<br><br>However it isn’t long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future.<br><br><b>Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future?<br><br></b><br><b>Forget her past?<br><br></b><br><b>And fall for her secret love?</b><br></p>