A GRIPPING TALE OF IMPOSSIBLE LOVE DISCOVER THE HOTLY ANTICIPATED NO.1 ITALIAN BESTSELLER NOW
AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLISH 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? ---- 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. When at seventeen she's adopted by Mr and Mrs Mulligan Nica thinks
she's leaving her world of dark fairy tales behind her. 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. However
it isn't long until the fears and the darkness of her childhood threaten to unravel her future.
Can Nica find the courage to embrace the future? Forget her past? And fall for her secret
love? No. 1 Italian bestseller Il Librario December 2022
