bloodshed, and the rescue of an important person.

Viva is next because readers really need to get a deeper look into the woman who wants to be the next leader of her country. She's sharp willed. She's searching for a lost magical well that her mother apparently knew about. She creates her own secretive group in order to help stock food enough to feed her people. She encounters men dragging their feet, and making her life more difficult than it should be. Viva's relationship with her father is an interesting one, and one that I dare say put the cherry on the top of me actually respecting and liking Viva. Viva is also a really kickass character, and when the chips are down, she proves she's worthy.

This book coversdo *not* have college educations, but who are some of the most intelligent and kind people I know.

Go ahead and insult us -- we just laugh about it, but we don't knock people from other states. What's the point? It's ridiculous and narrow-minded.

MG -- AS TO "WHAT'S UP WITH THE LONE STAR" ... look up the following histories (Google them if necessary).

A VERY brief history of Texas:

1) The history of the six flags which flew over Texas (and NO, I do NOT mean the theme park), were extremely significant in shaping the history of our state. The countries which "owned" Texas, over the centuries, which were Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the Confederate States of America and the United States.

2) Texas' fight for independence from Mexico,