Canticle: A Novel Children's Country Life Books she’s an Executive Protection Agent

she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard")

passionate love

holds Helena captive

“Full of big laughs

They have enslaved our cities

Canticle: A Novel Children's Country Life Books she’s an Executive Protection AgentA masterful debut novel following a spirited young womans explorations of faith, agency, and love in thirteenth century Bruges. Aleys is sixteen years old and unusual: stubborn, bright, and prone to religious visions. She and her only friend, Finn, a young scholar, have been learning Latin together in secretbut just as she thinks their connection might become something more, everything unravels. When her father promises her in marriage to a merchant