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What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find. So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters--known as cockatrices--invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky band of survivors dubbed the Cockatrice Corps--including youngsters Dakin and Sauna--decide to fight back. But how? A rollicking adventure filled with breathtaking twists and turns, The Cockatrice Boys is Joan Aiken at her comic best. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
This one's technically DNF because I stopped with 70pgs to go & just read the last paragraph. Not a romance but the characters are still TSTL. The quote above sums up their problem without providing any insight into their reasoning.