This is so cool. Someone just pointed out my amazon ranking. #7 in action&adventure and # 16 in swords and sorcery. And #2457 in the kindle store. That’s kind of a cool accomplishment. So excited.
Chapter 5 “One of these days they will be forced to let me go!” Claire mumbled as she stared at the small photo on her night stand. She understood they wanted to protect her and that they were so overbearingly protective because their parents had died when she was a baby, but that was beside the point. No, that was exactly the point. She had asked her brothers what had happened the day their parents died many times, but both would immediately become somber and refuse to tell her, stating she was too young to know the heartbreaking details. Instead they had made up childish fairy tales. In them her father was always a great hero fighting against a villain worse than any book could describe. Her mother, innocent and pure, a princess of such grace and beauty the villain would have taken her as his own, had her husband not protected her so fervently. In every tale they painted a marvelous picture of her parents fighting again...
Chapter 2 Arianna woke to the soothing sounds of flowing water. She blinked several times. “Arianna? My love?” A cool wet cloth gently wiped her brow and dabbed at her throat. She looked around, dazed and confused by the thick fog surrounding her. It only took seconds for her head to clear and the memories of what she had seen assaulted her. “Was the woman? Is she…” She sat up and threw her arms around Clad’s neck, holding him tight as she sobbed. “She lives, but my parents, my brother and sist…” He could not continue and Arianna knew they were all lost to him. Clad gathered her close, holding her fiercely for a long time, both closing their eyes on the pain, but unable to close their hearts to it. When Arianna opened hers sometime later, the air seemed to burn them. Smoke swirled around her. She looked at Clad with understanding. They were burning the bodies. “Who could...
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