ONCE EVERY NEVER

Clarinet Reid is a pretty typical teenager.
On the surface.
 
She’s smart, but a bit of a slacker; outgoing, but just a little insecure; not exactly a mischief-maker, but trouble tends to find her wherever she goes. Also? She unwittingly carries a centuries-old Druid Blood Curse running through her veins. Now, with a single thoughtless act, what started off as the Summer Vacation in Dullsville suddenly spirals into a deadly race to find a stolen artifact, avert an explosive catastrophe, save a Celtic warrior princess, right a dreadful wrong that happened centuries before Clare was even born, and if there’s still time, literally, maybe even get a date.
 

This is the kind of adventure that happens to a girl once every… never.

The adventure continues when Clare’s best friend, Allie McAllister, makes an unexpected discovery at an archaeological dig site in Glastonbury — a skull — and the grisly artifact sends her spiralling back in time to a Roman encampment besieged by rampaging Celts. Caught between the Legions and the war band, Allie is rescued from certain death by Marcus, a young Roman soldier with a secret. As she struggles to survive in the past, Clare and Milo, Allie’s super-hottie genius cousin, race desperately against time in the present to bring Allie home… before she loses her head or her heart.

“Fantasy author Lesley Livingston is well-known for weaving magic into her narratives. With her new novel, the author of the Wondrous Strange trilogy has done something that goes beyond magical — in fact, it may just be miraculous. In Once Every Never, the first in a planned trilogy, Livingston has combined the worlds of chick lit and Druid blood curses. And it works.”
– Shannon Ozirny, for Quill and Quire (starred review)
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