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The Traitor Within
Two girls are missing, given up for dead. A year later, one returns with a story no-one will believe.
Rose Watts knows where she is, but not when. She stepped into history and now she’s alone.
To save her mum’s life, she needs to get home, but this is far away and a long time before.
Can Rose find her way back in time?
The Traitor Within is the third magical instalment in the real-world fantasy Changeling Tree series. If you like Faerie games, time-travel and family sagas, you’ll love Frances Evelyn’s intriguing story.
Buy The Traitor Within from all major online booksellers.
Rose Watts knows where she is, but not when. She stepped into history and now she’s alone.
To save her mum’s life, she needs to get home, but this is far away and a long time before.
Can Rose find her way back in time?
The Traitor Within is the third magical instalment in the real-world fantasy Changeling Tree series. If you like Faerie games, time-travel and family sagas, you’ll love Frances Evelyn’s intriguing story.
Buy The Traitor Within from all major online booksellers.
346 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2022
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About the author
Frances Evelyn
10 books29 followersFrances Evelyn was born in Coventry and now lives in Rutland with her husband, two sons, who are - for the moment - too old for stories and magic, and a cockerpoo who protects them from shadows.
After twenty rewarding years of teaching English and an interesting few in management, Frances writes for readers who love real-world fantasy that makes them feel and think.
Her latest book, Bibliomancer, is her favourite thing -- a book about books. Emily, the main character, volunteers to read to patients in a hospice until she's arrested in connection with a series of suspicious deaths.
Across the five books (four out so far) of The Changeling Tree series, Frances combines tangled time-lines, family saga and Faerie. How do you tell a secret no-one will believe?
Visit Frances's website or follow her on social media for competitions and goodies and to find out more about her books and work in progress. Sign up for her mailing list (use the website link) for an exclusive free book, Sarah Ward and the Lyddington Djinn.
(Frances Evelyn is a pen-name)
After twenty rewarding years of teaching English and an interesting few in management, Frances writes for readers who love real-world fantasy that makes them feel and think.
Her latest book, Bibliomancer, is her favourite thing -- a book about books. Emily, the main character, volunteers to read to patients in a hospice until she's arrested in connection with a series of suspicious deaths.
Across the five books (four out so far) of The Changeling Tree series, Frances combines tangled time-lines, family saga and Faerie. How do you tell a secret no-one will believe?
Visit Frances's website or follow her on social media for competitions and goodies and to find out more about her books and work in progress. Sign up for her mailing list (use the website link) for an exclusive free book, Sarah Ward and the Lyddington Djinn.
(Frances Evelyn is a pen-name)
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July 31, 2022
The Traitor Within is an excellent continuation of The Changeling Tree series. I really liked how the author kept up momentum in this book. Sometimes, books in the middle of a series sag in terms of pace, but I didn’t find that here. I also loved the complexity of the world in this series. I wish that George R.R. Martin managed the various threads in The Song of Ice and Fire in a similar fashion.
As with other novels by Frances Evelyn, The Traitor Within is witty, descriptive, and a delight for lovers of deep fantasy novels.
As with other novels by Frances Evelyn, The Traitor Within is witty, descriptive, and a delight for lovers of deep fantasy novels.
April 21, 2021
Fantasy is the hardest genre of them all. It takes great skill to imbue such outlandish concepts as Faeries and time travel with gravitas and plausibility. Anyone with half an ounce of talent can write about a day in their house, but to create other worlds and to tell coherent tales which span multiple times takes ability of the highest order.
Fortunately, Frances Evelyn has that ability. And more to spare.
“The Traitor Within” takes up the story of time-travelling Rose, her grandmother Peggy, the Faerie Palace, the odious Carrick from where we left them in “The Time Before.” And, if anything, it's even more compelling than before – the introduction of a new character, George, gives Rose a wonderful focus, allowing her to become compassionate and motherly – as well as the funny and sassy heroine we've come to love. Darting between the 1780s, the 1940s and the Faerie Palace, the reader is never confused, always engrossed, and is left almost literally dangling with suspense at the ending.
Stop reading this review. Read “The Traitor Within” instead. You will thank me. With money.
Fortunately, Frances Evelyn has that ability. And more to spare.
“The Traitor Within” takes up the story of time-travelling Rose, her grandmother Peggy, the Faerie Palace, the odious Carrick from where we left them in “The Time Before.” And, if anything, it's even more compelling than before – the introduction of a new character, George, gives Rose a wonderful focus, allowing her to become compassionate and motherly – as well as the funny and sassy heroine we've come to love. Darting between the 1780s, the 1940s and the Faerie Palace, the reader is never confused, always engrossed, and is left almost literally dangling with suspense at the ending.
Stop reading this review. Read “The Traitor Within” instead. You will thank me. With money.
December 18, 2020
As with the first two in the series, this proved completely absorbing. By now, the characters, settings - although new are added here - and interwoven storylines are well-established so becoming immersed in all is even easier and every bit as rewarding. Not only have I loved reading all three novels in the series so far but I cannot think of any other writing, even within the genres that they embrace, that are like them. If you haven't tried them yet but enjoy inventive fantasy, word-play, ironic humour, clever plotting, time-travel without its least plausible features and/or following characters through narratives that are sustained in ways that are constantly inventive and evolving consistently, give this series the chance to draw you in.
January 27, 2021
The end really snuck up on me, well done. As the 3rd in the series all the ends are coming together but not predictable. The word play is wonderful . This series is unlike any other fantasy book I have read. The world created is new and written in such a way that even those familiar with the time periods and country will find it seen quite differently by the characters. The series is unique and well worth the read!
July 20, 2021
This whole series so far has been fantastic. I have enjoyed every minute of it and this book did not disappoint. I'm already half way through the fourth book and loving every moment of that one too! Highly recommended.
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