title: The Curse of Aggie Muldoon
author:  Nadia Kehoe 
description: Nadia was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, of Armenian parents. Her grandparents had moved from the Armenian Highlands to Ethiopia in the late 1920s. She had a blessed childhood growing up in the Horn of Africa. In 1973, the family migrated to Australia as civil unrest became imminent. They settled into a new life in Adelaide, South Australia. <br /><br /> From a young age, Nadia loved reading, especially the Classics. Her late father was her mentor; he was an avid reader with an extensive library. He taught her that books are mans most precious possession. During her teenage years she started reading genre fiction, particularly thrillers, murder mysteries and romance novels. <br /><br /> In 1996, her husbands work took the family to Sydney where she joined the NSW Writers Centre and began her life-long ambition of writing fiction. She writes mainly romantic suspense, combining her favourite fiction genres. Nadia lives in Sydney with her husband, mother, daughter, cat and cute guinea pigs. <br /><br />
zlib_text: Yurth Burden b Andre Norton 1\. The Raski girl made Demon Horns with two
  fingers of her left hand and spat b etween them. That droplet of moisture
  landed, dust covered, on the rutted cl ay of the road just missing the edge of
  Elossa's stained travel cloak. She d id not look at the girl but kept her eyes
  turned to those distant mountain r ises, her goal. In the town hate was a foul
  cloud to stifle her. She should have avoided th e village. None of Yurth blood
  ever went into one of the native holdings if they could help it. Broadcast
  hate so deep gnawed at one's Upper Sense, cl ouded reception, muddied the
  thoughts. But she had had to have food. A tumb le on a stream's stepping
  stones in the past evening dusk had turned the su pplies she carried in her
  belt pouch into a sticky mess she had jettisoned that morning. The merchant
  whose stall she had visited had been surly and sullen. However , he had not
  had the courage to refuse her when she made a quick choice. Al l those eyes,
  and the wa