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Frank Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761013289184301934.post-21670378880711467982023-07-16T11:33:00.006-07:002023-07-16T11:44:17.170-07:00<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Don't fall for the heartbreaker</span></h1><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufglfNmoRRdGMbRiP-PbvHlN3kUQlwR64R8DIPQ-SG6zkDITeaj5j7QNsIbUhKGeFk1Dt0O51U1RFhDEQfdE4zX_Zs61JWCUFQLumpIacV59ZPzH1WTj1M-jR9ZgNfcRlwYxaO_R0tUXjgNax_h_jYXazWryICHrGaMDOeopuZ7REsmSEoeGAbCtH_T4/s1080/hooked%20instagram%20february%202023%20(1080%20%C3%97%201080%20px)%20(4).png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhufglfNmoRRdGMbRiP-PbvHlN3kUQlwR64R8DIPQ-SG6zkDITeaj5j7QNsIbUhKGeFk1Dt0O51U1RFhDEQfdE4zX_Zs61JWCUFQLumpIacV59ZPzH1WTj1M-jR9ZgNfcRlwYxaO_R0tUXjgNax_h_jYXazWryICHrGaMDOeopuZ7REsmSEoeGAbCtH_T4/s16000/hooked%20instagram%20february%202023%20(1080%20%C3%97%201080%20px)%20(4).png" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">coming September 8th</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" styles="styles"><div class="text-display" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="lp-font_0 lp-style-h1 so-global-title" ng-bind-html="soComposerTextDisplay.sanitizeText()" ng-class="extraClass" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #030303; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 42px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><p style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stella DeWinter, that's who.</span></p><p style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: x-large; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: none; 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box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" styles="styles"><div class="text-display" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="lp-font_1 lp-style-p1 so-global-p1 so-global-text" ng-bind-html="soComposerTextDisplay.sanitizeText()" ng-class="extraClass" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #030303; font-family: helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><p style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">She has a heart of stone. He is the notorious pirate every lady swoons for.<br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" />They have vowed never to meet again.<br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" />Captain Timothée Vaughn<br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Heart: Broken</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Face: Gorgeous</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Tone: Acidic</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Pirate: Yes, he is</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Marital Status: Forced into an engagement</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Willing to: Break his own arm to escape his wedding tomorrow.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" />Lady Stella DeWinter<span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">:</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Heart: Frosted</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Face: Angelic but sad</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Tone: Silent</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Secrets: Many, but one in particular. A very dark one indeed.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Marital Status: Jilted Captain Vaughn right before their wedding, five years ago.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Willing to: Do anything to meet Timothée one last time.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Question: Why? (on earth)</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Meeting place: The Frosted Ball.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">What follows: Chaos. Noisy ballrooms. Starry skies. White flurries. Hungry kisses. Haughty stares. Frozen lakes. Shaking breaths. The truth. Finally.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><span style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">Frosted is a heart-wrenching romance about a pirate and an ice-cold lady who seem to have hated each other for years, inspired by winter-themed fairytales like The Snow Queen and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. It is set in a witty, glittering Regency world made up of a little bit of Jane Austen, a little bit of Georgette Heyer, and a lot of a modern heart yearning for romance, passion and a tall gentleman with a smoldering gaze. This is a broken tale of beauty, dark secrets and love lost.</span><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" /><br style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;" />If you decide to read this book, be warned: your heart won’t escape unscathed.</p></div></div></so-composer-text-display></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></composer-region></div><div class="region-container so-animate ui-sortable-handle" draggable="" ng-repeat="item in regions" style="background-color: white; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HelveticaNeueW01-55Roma, HelveticaNeueW02-55Roma, HelveticaNeueW10-55Roma, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0.05px 0px;"><composer-region style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="region view-mode presentation-state region-type-button so-global-region-button so-global-region so-react-sidebar" data-region-id="24082d79-bdd7-4195-3f32-d8ae62bf6c17" ng-class="regionCssClasses()" ng-click="safeSetEditMode($event)" ng-mousedown="mouseDown($event)" ng-mouseleave="restoreRemoveButton()" ng-style="regionStyles()" off-click-filter=".off-click-filter,.pac-container,.cke_reset_all,[data-hook="tooltip-content"],[data-hook="popover-content"],#modal-children-container" off-click-if="offClickIf" off-click="offClick()" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; min-height: 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 30px; position: relative;"><div so-scroll-here="isRegionFocused" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div ng-switch="" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div ng-switch-when="button" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div ng-include="'views/lpcomposer/button/button.html'" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="button-region" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="view-container" ng-if="regionState !== 'edit'" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><so-composer-button-display data="item.data" extra-class="mix ? 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What they don’t know is that for the first time in my twenty-two years, I am trying to create something by myself.
I am shooting my first ever indie movie, written and produced by me. I will also be starring in it.
And I will need a stunt actor. A good one. Preferably, a girl.
And right now, said stunt actor, a girl, has walked into the auditorium where I am holding auditions.
Except.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">
I know her.
She is the girl who shattered me.
Because, another thing most people don’t know about me? I am destroyed.
And she is the one who destroyed me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87)" face="Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.5px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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It is no secret: the Hell Club is notorious all over Europe. Peers and millionaires travel from Vienna and Paris to enjoy the Turkish baths or play cards with the great political leaders of other countries.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Money and power exchange hands nightly underneath the sparkling ballrooms and gentlemen’s clubs, and no one knows.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Until Hades discovers a boy sent to spy on him. But the boy is not a boy.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; text-align: left;">And</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; text-align: left;"> </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; text-align: left;">she</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; text-align: left;">will pay.</span> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Read it for free now!</b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span></b></p><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Start reading Seduced, a <b>dark Hades and Persephone retelling</b>,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">for FREE here</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">(Free sample):</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDAuJ4LfTXl1NZ1CFaUzIE2WMQY4xiYpuw4CTyDDgy-1YPghWmvA7lmv9X0TVHiOeainLbiGm7WNxDPXPpEFGpwGjn-EMFvy4BFHF2HN2C9gpOOChOesskwzetRVFXC2JXHhUGCDAGnG_oEt12yNaOTOGcz9AOm2eW-gyRPhcVlE0TIQP66DvV0J-I=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDAuJ4LfTXl1NZ1CFaUzIE2WMQY4xiYpuw4CTyDDgy-1YPghWmvA7lmv9X0TVHiOeainLbiGm7WNxDPXPpEFGpwGjn-EMFvy4BFHF2HN2C9gpOOChOesskwzetRVFXC2JXHhUGCDAGnG_oEt12yNaOTOGcz9AOm2eW-gyRPhcVlE0TIQP66DvV0J-I=s1500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEG0n5wQMlM8YR187Td0MY_Tjeg-lqf-EMoNIudW7Q-LSg8N93lAP1v61CYJUilxlqDu0FqMFApzw9xfbHtUe1s9wojqyIO01LXhk5PndVAc1D0gDgyLfo6RYVUAQ8E1-efgfMDjDKbWl2872NPcS7-qrRTXxwfy5tU6gpWVn5-zLwbZhiiMxvN29k" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="849" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhEG0n5wQMlM8YR187Td0MY_Tjeg-lqf-EMoNIudW7Q-LSg8N93lAP1v61CYJUilxlqDu0FqMFApzw9xfbHtUe1s9wojqyIO01LXhk5PndVAc1D0gDgyLfo6RYVUAQ8E1-efgfMDjDKbWl2872NPcS7-qrRTXxwfy5tU6gpWVn5-zLwbZhiiMxvN29k=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3vAB1Kg" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #a64d79; color: black; font-size: x-large;">READ Seduced for free</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">. . .🌺 . . .🌺 OR .🌺 . . .🌺. . .</span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Preorder <b>Retold</b> to read the full story</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRAPO1sOLR5dXGD73jXWVUUQjK06IQTcVXqzTYmnPmVYpBxpwb6Qnt2a6oBJj-IPzZ9p_4I-XMfXedfIRkn2CNmMRHnc8bUKbMOPzszyIjwGPSh2l1SLshes0ntlOtf0tyr6f3qnihQswTQoAeMr6rWZNy3NZdC4QJD-QnrIWf0stDQI-3Xn1S9OCS=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjRAPO1sOLR5dXGD73jXWVUUQjK06IQTcVXqzTYmnPmVYpBxpwb6Qnt2a6oBJj-IPzZ9p_4I-XMfXedfIRkn2CNmMRHnc8bUKbMOPzszyIjwGPSh2l1SLshes0ntlOtf0tyr6f3qnihQswTQoAeMr6rWZNy3NZdC4QJD-QnrIWf0stDQI-3Xn1S9OCS=s16000" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Unwanted</span>. Three boys grew up in an orphanage, abandoned and despised by those who should have taken care of them. They were starved, hit, and abandoned for years.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">But they are men now. Gentlemen, so to speak. A little broken, a little damaged and a little destroyed by life, but they hide it behind toughness, money, amazingly folded cravats and, in some cases, illegal activities. Their main strength is each other: they are best friends, partners in crime, a found family.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">And then comes the one battle that every gentleman, no matter how brooding, haughty or handsome, must face alone</span>. These are the stories of how they each fight, and lose, the battle against love.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Hooked</span>: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wendy and Lord Darlington</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">When Wendy Hooke was a little girl, she saved a boy from starvation. The boy, Peter, taught her how to fly. Now the boy is a man, a gorgeous man, and he has forgotten all about her. She watches him take London’s ballrooms by storm, pursued by every designing mama, but Peter doesn’t even glance at her. Because it’s not ‘Peter’ now, it’s Lord Darlington.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Peter hasn’t forgotten the girl who saved his life, but his secrets hold him back. The webs of his secret gang that fights crime on the streets of London are closing in on the greatest criminal of all time, the Viscount Hooke. And Wendy…well, she is his daughter.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Caged</span>: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Zella and Pirate Charmont</i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Zella isn’t crazy. She knows that, but no one else does. And, she has to admit, maybe she does look crazy, locked up here in the madhouse, with hair so long and wild it can practically become a rope.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And it does. One day, she lets her hair down from the tiny window, and someone rudely grabs it like a rope. Like a rope thrown to a drowning man.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“I’m not crazy, you know,” she tells the rugged-looking young man who climbs up, panting as if he is running for his life.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Sweetheart,” he replies, “I don’t care. If they catch me, I’ll get hanged.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Oh. Why?”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">“Because, m’ dear. I’m a pirate.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Seduced</span>: <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Poppy and Lord Hade</i>s</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Lord Hades owns a gaming hell that sprawls underneath the city of London like the underworld. It is no secret: the Hell Club is notorious all over Europe. Peers and millionaires travel from Vienna and Paris to enjoy the Turkish baths or play cards with the great political leaders of other countries.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Money and power exchange hands nightly underneath the sparkling ballrooms and gentlemen’s clubs, and no one knows. Until Hades discovers a boy sent to spy on him. But the boy is not a boy.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">And <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">she</i> will pay.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 14px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Retold includes three dark and sparkling romantic stories inspired by myths, folklore and fairytales, as well as by the glittering world and the roguish gentlemen of Regency London.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; margin: -4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">They might look like quick, fun reads, but don’t be fooled: these stories are going to break your heart into a million pieces.</span></p></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="k31gt" style="border: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Favorit, "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 15px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: var(--post-padding); padding-right: var(--post-padding); padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-line; width: 540px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="border: none; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQVK88B" style="background-color: #a64d79;">Preorder Retold</a></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div><p> </p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761013289184301934.post-3304418969440945142021-11-01T04:26:00.009-07:002022-09-26T12:32:40.150-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzrGxqB5S9GVNq2TT-mFfvetfK4WT1Yv0SWOFWJRB40rZJC7QiGc737GPBOWIIIIEOHBF0u5MqhVGdvHWgU5XLa6bEV0znVBQ8qmrpPpkr_xofBFkb_PdajSBrH_cejpJUHmSjRgIC4Q/s1440/Copy+of+Book+Covers+for+Regency+Royals+Broken+Idols+and+Salt+for+Air+series+%25284%2529.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJzrGxqB5S9GVNq2TT-mFfvetfK4WT1Yv0SWOFWJRB40rZJC7QiGc737GPBOWIIIIEOHBF0u5MqhVGdvHWgU5XLa6bEV0znVBQ8qmrpPpkr_xofBFkb_PdajSBrH_cejpJUHmSjRgIC4Q/s16000/Copy+of+Book+Covers+for+Regency+Royals+Broken+Idols+and+Salt+for+Air+series+%25284%2529.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: 14.2pt;">May
is just a normal girl trying to figure out her first year of college.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB">She is not expecting</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span>Orfeas,<span lang="EN-GB"> the hot, British head of a
secret Greek Society, to be interested in her. Let alone to abduct her and
bring her to his secret lair that looks like an old, dust-covered library, but
on closer inspection is filled with monsters and rivers of lethal lava.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Now May must find a way to survive,
escape, and not lose her heart to her kidnapper, who may or may not be Death
incarnate. But he has those dimples...And why does he keep saving her life?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><b>Crown of Ashes</b>, a fantasy <b>Hades and
Persephone</b> retelling,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">is the luscious dark academia romance
you didn’t know you needed.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read the first chapter (free)<span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><br /><p></p><h1 align="center" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOQ_BpgBAOPcvYehY55HOTNhVH3z_0ra4975ZsfqPwQnt_MevtDbNE97Uk5_U-PyNyYpFf_VmXOR1zTSADSDJ-_AznKiNGQZexsh30WKTmFk_mKOicWwqAN1B1coMfhuya1HJ89LOea8hrurO29m5EoK-4xeNg5mFS8TndDEpnjaiwtZVZ8A0-HSlE=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1440" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOQ_BpgBAOPcvYehY55HOTNhVH3z_0ra4975ZsfqPwQnt_MevtDbNE97Uk5_U-PyNyYpFf_VmXOR1zTSADSDJ-_AznKiNGQZexsh30WKTmFk_mKOicWwqAN1B1coMfhuya1HJ89LOea8hrurO29m5EoK-4xeNg5mFS8TndDEpnjaiwtZVZ8A0-HSlE=w640-h350" width="640" /></a></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Crown of Ashes</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1><h2 align="center" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><div class="WordSection1">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b style="text-indent: 14.2pt;">one</b></p></div></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Salt for Air series</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>M.C. Frank</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Copyright @2021</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This book is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons living or dead, is entirely coincidental.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the author.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><b>one</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"> </span>The note drops out of my locker
on Tuesday, as I get out of the communal showers. There are only three words on
it:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">“You are
invited.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">It has a
huge, obnoxious flourish on the ‘Y’ and an unmistakable insignia on the bottom,
stamped in burgundy ink (also obnoxious): TGS.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">The Greek Society.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I gasp in
disgust (and fear, let’s be real) and the note almost flutters to the floor
before I make a clumsy attempt to salvage it, and manage to wrinkle it in my
fist. I also get it a little damp, but my hair is dripping all over the place
and I have nothing but a towel around me. My hands are shaking and my breath
comes short. I hope an asthma attack isn’t close.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Although a
panic one is definitely happening.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I came to
Marble Halls two months ago to study art history. I am mostly interested (obsessed)
in the history of Greek and Roman art, but I have been longing for academic
studies for so long, that any period in history will do. I somehow managed to
get into one of the most prestigious colleges in Europe from America. Even my
two aunts, although they were optimistic because of my nerd-perfect grades, had
few hopes I would be accepted. But I did, and what’s more I somehow found the
courage to brave a plane ride over the Atlantic and to travel all the way from
my home in New York to the English countryside and the sprawling academy. Me,
who had never even left my own state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">The first
time I stepped onto the campus, it was like stepping into a different world.
Gray buildings drowning in ivy, spiked gothic towers crowding against cloudy
skies, long stretches of damp lawn, and marble-white buildings with Greek
columns housing walls and walls of ancient books. An art historian’s dream.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">The cultural
shock nearly froze me into inaction for the first few days, but after that I
came out of my shell. I have never been the most popular girl in school (being
a bit too short, a bit too thin, a bit too black, and a bit too obsessed with
academics), but I never had problems with making friends. If someone is kind, I
don’t care about anything else. I am open to approaching them and striking up a
conversation about literally nothing in particular. Even though I personally
study for hours every day and am pretty well-versed in the subjects that
interest me, I am not a snob, and I hope that college won’t change that. So I
met people, I made friends and acquaintances (but I didn’t meet my Best Friend™
or my True Love™, rather disappointingly), and I started my classes with every
intention of falling in love with both the syllabus and my professors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Of course,
things are never as glamorous as we imagine them to be, are they?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">As the first
month of uni wore on, I quickly fell into the mundane routine of running around
campus trying to find my classes, navigating the enormous grounds to and from
my college and continually losing the way from that to my dorm, to the dining
hall and other activities, and studying my ass off. Whoever said that if you
are a good student at school you’ll succeed in life, was a liar. College, at
least in the Halls, is a whole other level of hard.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">At first, I
thought the professors weren’t speaking English. Their vocabulary and
terminology was like a different language to me. But I have started getting
used to it. Started being the key word here. At any rate, the fairytale-esque
Greek-style aesthetic of the academy faded fast, as I applied myself to the
work, and to keeping my head above water and not drowning in the ocean of
textbooks, long nights and looming exams.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Ever so
slowly, as my British friends say, I got to know the school.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Its history,
its past glory, its scandals, its dirty secrets.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">And there is
no secret dirtier than The Greek Society.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say that the dude who runs
The Greek Society is a member of the Royal Family. Or of <i>a</i> royal family.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say he
is unhinged.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say he
is a member of a mafia family.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say he
is filthy rich.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say he
has murdered someone.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">They say lots
of things. I don’t know if any of it is true (it probably isn’t), but the
amount of whispers following this guy’s name around the entire county is scary.
How famous and powerful can one nineteen-year-old English boy be for such myth
and folklore to already have been spun around him?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I mean, I
will be the first to admit that I am an anxious, overly-worried person who is
scared of her own shadow (figuratively, and only once or twice literally).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">But a guy who
is barely twenty years old and has already been elebated to the status of local
god is universally terrifying. No one should have that sort of power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">No one.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">People do
terrible things with that much power.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Because here
is the truth, among all the rumors: He—and his Society—run the school. I have
seen this with my own eyes. I have no doubt that they rule Great Britain, and
possibly the rest of the world, as well, judging by the off-handed manner they
do everything around here. But as a history art major, I should go off facts
and not rumors or conclusions. So here’s ‘them facts’, as my friend Didion, an
architect major himself and a genius as well, would say:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I thought
these invitations were a college myth. An elite secret society that hides
somewhere in the bowels of the campus. No one is even sure who exactly its
members are. Mysterious, exclusive and extremely rare invitations are being
slipped in random students’ desks—once or twice a month. And, rumor has it,
these students’ lives are forever changed. The invitations don’t only change
their college experience, but their entire future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">If you are
invited to the Greek Club, you are done.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Your future
is taken care of. Nothing but billionaires and presidents have come from The
Greek Club from Marble Halls, and there are stories dating back two centuries
that prove that. Allegedly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I mean, it
does sound like folklore at best, right? At worst, it sounds like like a
fairytale born out of the feverish dreams of exhausted students who couldn’t
figure out where the <i>pneumata</i>
(accents) go on ancient Greek words.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Anyway, it is
what it is. Everything is ruled by something, and The Greek Society rules the
school. No matter which college you are in, they rule it. How? I have no idea.
But I got a tiny glimpse of their modus operandi on my very first day in the
dorms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I had arrived alone, and was
glancing longingly at the groups of families and friends of ‘freshers’ (Brit
language again, don’t ask me), who were chattering and giggling as they settled
in, while I was trying to wrangle three suitcases all on my own. My aunts had
just dropped me off, and had had to rush back to the airport to catch a plane
to New York, and it was just beginning to hit me that I was going to live here
now, all the way across the pond, by myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I am ashamed
to remember it now, but my eyes were beginning to burn and I had started to
hyperventilate. Gosh, what a baby.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I hate how
weak I am. Hate it. I do everything in my power to fight it, to be strong, or
at least to pretend I am until I can finally really be strong someday, but so
far it isn’t working. I despise my weakness, and I despised it intensely that
day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">“If you’re
going to cry about it,” a voice suddenly said behind me, and someone was lifting
my suitcases easily, with one arm, the weight suddenly disappearing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I turned
around and stood gaping at a model-like creature, who was dressed in a cream
sweater and slim, dark pants. He had black, glossy hair that looked as if it
had been attacked by team of professional stylists. His face would have been
perfectly handsome, except it was a bit too long, a bit too chiseled, and a bit
too sour. He gave me a <i>look</i>, that
thing people do to intimidate you where they let their cool gaze travel up and
down your body, and expect you to feel small and insignificant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I did.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">“Lead the
way,” he said, and there was a softness in his voice that contrasted with the
disgust in his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I had lost
the ability to speak. I mean, I have a few guy friends, and good-looking ones
too, even though I have met so many more cool dudes here in college since. I am
generally a social person, rarely tongue-tied (when I have conquered my
anxiety). But this man-boy didn’t leave space for anything more to be said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">I led him to
my dorm, where he proceeded to unceremoniously dump my bags on the floor, turn
around on his heel and disappear into the crowds without a single word. Any
desire to cry had left me, and been replaced with the desire to hit
someone—him, preferably.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">“Thanks!” I
hissed at his retreating back.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">“Oh em gee!
Was this random girl just talking to Orfeas?” Someone said as they passed
outside my door.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Well, that
was the one and only time I talked to him. But I learned three important things
about him that day:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">One, even his
name is obnoxious—who names their kid after an obscure Greek hero slash deity
that happens to be inspired straight from the Underworld? That alone should
have given me an idea of the kind of person he is.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;">Two, by
evening the whole entire campus was on fire with rumors of how I had caught the
attention of the ‘demigod’, and I became cool by association. Again, an
indication of this guy’s ridiculous fame and hold on this school. I found out
later that he comes from one of the founding families of the Halls and is part
of a type of genius billionaire family. And he talked to little old <i>me</i>. Just think. Cue the squeals. Not.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-indent: 13.5pt;">And three. If I never saw or spoke to him again, it would
be too soon for me.</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Did you enjoy chapter one?</span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/2i06u42mat">Read the whole book for FREE (limited time)</a></span></b></span></p><span lang="EN-GB"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASu3p7RI_VSXM6yk_hlslcXffHxEPvzTXUY2pCWgB62URKpyT2Zv9lPLZaDkj7ps5ub2v8qpR3xqkur6veeeH4jVFlt9_bt_PYcxYGIakDCgMHCK60x0kPc93-I2jblKhU9GLVU9HAyo/s1188/crown+of+ashes+%25281%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="940" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASu3p7RI_VSXM6yk_hlslcXffHxEPvzTXUY2pCWgB62URKpyT2Zv9lPLZaDkj7ps5ub2v8qpR3xqkur6veeeH4jVFlt9_bt_PYcxYGIakDCgMHCK60x0kPc93-I2jblKhU9GLVU9HAyo/w506-h640/crown+of+ashes+%25281%2529.jpg" width="506" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-align: center; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://dl.bookfunnel.com/2i06u42mat" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">CLICK HERE TO CLAIM YOUR FREE BOOK!</span></a></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">{the link will open on November 1st}</span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Otherwise, Crown of Ashes is coming out in paperback in the spring 2022 (hopefully).</b></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Stay tuned...</b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3n4YlQTz_sTNT80xx1qEEKHxJ3uhatGYhNzNIUvzuNgapXipDBiAxv9NzwLFm9vc4_cHJYxHHg7EcNb0uenbH_FkBFc3Ur-5FSjD8jtF2ZIS4TPmK955MuooJt-s-foa8kEVdlqwXYQ94s64JMS6756PgFwxbjok-KqmXXM-Af1jsDoYYQr4s8CC1=s540" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3n4YlQTz_sTNT80xx1qEEKHxJ3uhatGYhNzNIUvzuNgapXipDBiAxv9NzwLFm9vc4_cHJYxHHg7EcNb0uenbH_FkBFc3Ur-5FSjD8jtF2ZIS4TPmK955MuooJt-s-foa8kEVdlqwXYQ94s64JMS6756PgFwxbjok-KqmXXM-Af1jsDoYYQr4s8CC1=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-size: large; text-indent: 22.5pt;">Can't wait?</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 18.9333px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-indent: 22.5pt;">Don’t miss the books out already in
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-indent: 22.5pt;">Each book is a standalone, but they
are interconnected and set in the same world.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5761013289184301934.post-41878140603085407632020-12-22T11:38:00.009-08:002021-03-12T17:09:08.050-08:00<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Can two people hate each other more than these two?</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg372Ilm-V11EBZR1NlVX1lFPHtJ8N3-JswfmmXDZL8U7py9iYsJ5ITuGpLZb_L3AqxHqkKf8J8xQSMp_HYjYEMXjSkzX1BhkhT3-gguY_3x8uPIFkhEMtFx-mIQcWqH8neLtl52BLyNc/s1200/BookBrushImage3D-03Flat.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1134" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg372Ilm-V11EBZR1NlVX1lFPHtJ8N3-JswfmmXDZL8U7py9iYsJ5ITuGpLZb_L3AqxHqkKf8J8xQSMp_HYjYEMXjSkzX1BhkhT3-gguY_3x8uPIFkhEMtFx-mIQcWqH8neLtl52BLyNc/w380-h402/BookBrushImage3D-03Flat.png" width="380" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L5PMRMY" target="_blank"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L5PMRMY" target="_blank">read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited</a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">She has a heart of stone. He is the notorious pirate every lady swoons for.</span></div><div><div dir="auto"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_aa" style="padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They have vowed never to meet again.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Captain Timothée Vaughn</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heart: Broken</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Face: Gorgeous</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tone: Acidic</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pirate: Yes, he is</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marital Status: Forced into an engagement</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Willing to: Break his own arm to escape his wedding tomorrow.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lady Stella DeWinter:</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Heart: Frosted</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Face: Angelic but sad</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tone: Silent</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Secrets: Many, but one in particular. A very dark one indeed.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marital Status: Jilted Captain Vaughn right before their wedding, five years ago.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Willing to: Do anything to meet Timothée one last time.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Question: Why? (on earth)</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meeting place: The Frosted Ball.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What follows: Chaos. Noisy ballrooms. Starry skies. White flurries. Hungry kisses. Haughty stares. Frozen lakes. Shaking breaths. The truth. Finally.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Frosted is a heart-wrenching romance about a pirate and an ice-cold lady who seem to have hated each other for years, inspired by winter-themed fairytales like The Snow Queen and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. It is set in a witty, glittering Regency world made up of a little bit of Jane Austen, a little bit of Georgette Heyer, and a lot of a modern heart yearning for romance, passion and a tall gentleman with a smoldering gaze. 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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Felix Titling"; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 3pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Felix Titling"; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 3pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Felix Titling"; font-variant-caps: small-caps; letter-spacing: 3pt;">for all</span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Felix Titling"; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; letter-spacing: 3pt;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 3pt;">the survivors like me</span></div><o:p></o:p></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Prologue<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Wedding day<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The bride was an orphan, which in itself was shocking.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But this fact, well known to the ton, was the least bit
of scandal that surrounded the impending nuptials. There were greater and worse
rumors to be passed around among the congregation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Firstly, the bride was the ward of his grace, the duke
of Ashton, and thus one of the most popular young ladies in town. Or at least
her wedding was a popular event of the season—she had arranged it so, after
all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The bridegroom, standing at the altar in full uniform,
wondered if she had snared him into marriage for that specific reason: she had
wanted her wedding to be not simply an event of the season, but <i>the</i> event of the season. He had once
overheard her say to the gaggle of screeching geese she called ‘her entourage’
that she wanted her wedding to eclipse the Frosted Ball. Incidentally, he had
happened to overhear that before there was any wedding on the horizon. Days
before his engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Unbeknownst to the bridegroom, the bride had picked
him out as her target long before his arrival to town. And he, fool that he
was, had fallen into her trap.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And thus we arrive at the second reason why this
wedding had a real, juicy scandal at its center: The bridegroom, even though he
was a captain, was actually a pirate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Captain Timothée Vaugh was what was called ‘a privateer’,
which was nothing less and nothing more than a pirate with none of the glamour
and all of the danger. And yet, Captain Vaughn, otherwise known as <i>L’ Ange Noir</i>, notorious pirate, well
known Corinthian, rumored croesus and desired bachelor by every mama in
society’s ballrooms, had finally been ensnared into marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The ton had flocked to the church to see him finally
wed to a lady wearing the hugest smile and an even bigger gown—a gown that
could only be surmised had been stolen from the window of a confectionary shop
at Rotten Row. Heaven only knew how many members of the ton would await the
unhappy couple afterwards, at the morning breakfast and subsequent ball.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ashton’s townhouse in Mayfair, even though it was one
of the largest buildings in town, would burst at the seams from all the
illustrious guests.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But Captain Vaughn, the bridegroom, gazed at his
overly decorated bride, and thought that the crowds were the least of his
worries. The bride had trapped him into a compromising situation, and had made
sure they were discovered, thus forcing him to propose marriage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cruel and vulgar as it may sound, this was the truth
of it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And now, mere months later, here he was, waiting for
her in a church filled with peers and guests and what few friends he had left
in the world, waiting for her at the end of a long carpeted aisle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wanting his freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wanting to die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He could no longer stop the memories from piercing
him. He had resisted them for so long, but it was useless to try to do so now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thoughts of her consumed him. No, not of the bride.
The bride was nothing more than a spoilt, ruthless girl, with no morals or
character and of little birth. But <i>she</i>…
How different it would all be if it were <i>she</i>,
the woman of his heart, the love of his life, the one who was standing now by
his side.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cold sweat drenched him at the thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had once planned a wedding, much different to this
one, with <i>her</i>. God, he couldn’t even
think of her name; it was too painful. The planning had given him joy back
then, years and years ago, a veritable lifetime. He had shared it with her,
every single detail. He hadn’t planned to attend that wedding almost drunk, in
order to be able to bear it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had counted the minutes until <i>she</i> could be his. The days ahead had seemed like a desert before he
could enter a church and wait for her at the end of a long aisle, and then take
her hand and lead her to their home. The only true home he had ever dared to
dream of having.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had wanted nothing more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He had been left at the altar. Or very near it—just a
few weeks before his supposed wedding, actually. And that had been a wedding he
had been looking forward to with every fiber of his being. Unlike this one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Are you sweating, Vaughn?” a voice whispered in his
ear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">One of his closest Eton friends, lord Paxton, was
beside him, acting as his best man, damn him. Vaughn was not sweating. But he
was close to tears.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“No,” Vaughn answered in a sharp, annoyed whisper.
“Now kindly shut up.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I will,” Paxton whispered through tight, smiling lips.
“However, it behooves me to point out that, although I did not fully realize
what was happening to you at the time…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Behooves?”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I am aware that you had some…tragic, so to speak,
experience at the altar some six years ago.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Five. And I was jilted,” Vaughn supplied helpfully.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Just so,” Paxton continued, oblivious to his friend’s
acidic tone. “And on that note, I wish to point out, as I said…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“You said it behooves you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“That now is not the time to remember past wrongs or
indeed…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Past loves,” Vaughn mused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Next to him, Paxton was so taxed by his efforts to
console his friend as well as remain as discreet as possible, that he was
turning purple—the same color as the puce silk of Vaughn’s waistcoat. Paxton
was a good, honorable man, handsome and eligible to boot, but bless him, he was
as discreet as an ox.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Never you worry,” Vaughn turned around to place a
hand on his friend’s shoulder. “I shall take care not to appear shattered, even
though I entirely am.” <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Paxton began nodding happily, and then Vaughn’s
meaning began to sink in. Paxton stopped smiling and talking, and gaped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">It seemed as if hours had gone by, but it was mere
moments later when the bride, the Honorable miss Adelina Tallant, stood next to
Vaughn in a cloud of white. Beyond her, the priest was droning on and on about
the divine gift of love, and Vaughn still wanted to die.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Or at the very least escape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“On a scale of Byron to Dionysus, how drunk are you?”
his accursed friend leaned over to whisper in his ear.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Behind him stood the duke of Ashton, his eyes, cold
and inscrutable, fixed on his ward, the bride. Vaughn stole a glance at the
woman standing next to him. Adelina was dressed in a white gown with a touch
more lace than was pleasing to the eye, and she had a permanent smile plastered
on her face, a bit too wide and a bit too forced. To Vaugh, she rather
resembled the cat that got the cream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Go to hell, Paxton,” Vaughn murmured through clenched
teeth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Not nearly drunk enough then,” his friend said in a
mournful tone.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“If anyone knows of a reason for which these two
persons should not be joined in…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vaughn closed his eyes tightly and clenched his teeth
so that not one single word would escape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“…holy matrimony, let them speak now…”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He was going to faint. He had never felt like this in
his life, as if his entire soul was dripping blood, emptying completely.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“…or forever hold their—”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Stop!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A cry broke the air.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Someone in the audience gasped.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vaughn’s eyes flew open.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Everyone turned around to look, with much whispering
and ruffling of taffeta and silk. Adelina had insisted on a big wedding, against
his wishes, and so there now were more than fifty people present to crane their
necks towards the slim figure who stood at the open doors of the church,
silhouetted by the morning light.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The silhouette swayed, but steadied itself. Then the
cry was heard once more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Stop!”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vaughn had started running before he realized that he
was moving.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p>
</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A few hours before the wedding<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">one<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Stella<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Break my arm, do it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The words, absurd as they were, were spoken by a man,
and not just any man. He was Captain Timothée Vaughn, also known as <i>L’ Ange Noir</i>, the’ black angel’, because
of his famous good looks and his ruthlessness in destroying evil. All of London
had been abuzz with the news of his arrival for months, and even though she
didn’t move in any social circles, she hadn’t been able to avoid hearing all
about him.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The captain had made his fortune in the Navy, where he
had been decorated for bravery and ruined his leg. And after that, once he had
been released from his service with a title and a lapel full of medals, he had
made another, even bigger fortune as a privateer. No one cared that he was
lame, as long as he was rumored to be richer than Midas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">They also said that his one arm wasn’t as agile as it
should be, and that he was never seen to hold a drink in his right hand, or
lead a lady in a dance by it. However, it was <i>not</i> said that he was not seen dancing, often and with alacrity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And why should all enjoyment stop just because he had
been wounded in battle? If he could walk, he could dance, couldn’t he? He was
an extremely wealthy man, prodigiously young, only six and twenty, and quite
unfairly good-looking. And even more important than all of that, he was somehow,
inexplicably, single. Or he had been when he had arrived in town.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">All of this society knew and whispered to each other
over and over like folklore. But no one had ever said anything about him being
stark, raving mad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Which he must be, given what she had just heard him
say.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Your good arm?” another man’s voice, incredulous,
asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella did not know the speaker; she had only
recognized Vaughn’s voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I quite literally do not care,” Vaughn’s voice
replied. “What use is either arm to me if I’m in prison?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“That’s a bit too dramatic, Tim,” the second voice
said. “Marriage is not the exact same thing as prison.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Isn’t it?” Vaughn’s voice dripped bitterness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, please,” the other voice replied. “These words
coming from the lips of a pirate are droll, to say the least. If anyone knows
what a real prison is, it’s you, Tim. And calling this a prison…is coming it
much too brown, my friend.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Except that it’s the truth.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The second voice laughed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vaughn had called him ‘his friend’, and he did sound
like a real one. A very close one, too, seeing as <i>L’ Ange Noir</i> was prone to murder anyone who even attempted to use
his Christian name, let alone a shortened version of it. It was French, like
his mother, and the source of endless teasing during his childhood years. That
was why he had abandoned it growing up, and had reserved its use only for his
very close personal friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella herself had been asked, begged, ordered to call
him by it once.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘If I cannot
be Timothée on your lips,’ </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">he had told
her<i>, ‘then I don’t know what I should
be.’<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">‘You should
be yourself, silly,’ </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">she had
replied, but he had not been able to let it go until she called him by his
name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">That had happened a lifetime ago.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But now that she thought about it, his friend was
right. Vaughn did have a tendency for dramatics. Then again, one didn’t simply
become a millionaire pirate within five short years unless he quite an original
type of man. And if anything else, Captain Vaughn was an original type of man.
To say the least.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not to mention the only man she had ever loved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“It is the truth,” Vaughn’s voice insisted, becoming
more impassioned by the minute. Stella shrank further back into the shadows.
There would be no way to interrupt this very intelligent dialogue now. When Vaughn
became impassioned, there was just no turning back. “Marriage to the…to <i>this</i> would be pure hell and you know it,
Paxton.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Oh, so that was his friend. The notorious Lord Paxton,
he of the heartbreaker fame and Greek-godlike beauty. That was the gossip,
anyway. He was also said to have a tongue sharper than his wit. She had once known
Lord Paxton, and he had been none of these things, but people changed. She had
changed. Vaughn had—he had become a madman, apparently. Anyway, she doubted
that he would remember her now, except as the girl who had destroyed his
friend’s life. And she had chanced upon
them together. <i>That is going to make this
even harder. Why oh why did I ever venture out of the safety of my home?</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But that building wasn’t home; it was a prison.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And she was here exactly because of that. She knew
what it meant to be a slave, with no hope of ever earning one’s freedom. If she
couldn’t find it for herself, she would fight for others to get it. She gritted
her teeth. <i>I can do this.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“She is a pretty-looking girl, your fiancée,” Lord
Paxton was trying to convince the captain, but his voice sounded unsure of
itself. “Can’t be that bad.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, but it can.” Vaughn’s voice cracked. “She forced
this on me, did you know that? I have no desire to spend five minutes in her
company, never mind my whole life. But I’m being held hostage. She designed it
all, and I fell into her trap like an imbecile.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I had guessed something suspicious was afoot,” Lord
Paxton’s voice replied. “I had no idea that you felt so strongly and yet still
went on with it.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I am forced to,” Vaugh sounded as if he was having
trouble breathing. “There is no way to extricate myself from this situation
without ruining her reputation as well. And she knew that I would not allow
that to happen to a lady, any lady, no matter how…distasteful her actions, and
has therefore secured her match.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella inhaled sharply.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She had known that the captain was getting married soon;
she didn’t know exactly when, but that was part of the reason why she was here,
after all.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">But she hadn’t known that this marriage was against
his will. It tore her heart apart to think of him being forced to marry a girl
he wouldn’t even call by name, but instead referred to as ‘that’. Something
inside her screamed that this wasn’t the Vaughn she knew, he would never have
allowed himself to be thus duped. Something inside her screamed that a man had
to have been quite broken indeed in order to find himself in such a situation,
unable to fight back. Passive. Defeated.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She would do well to stomp that something inside her
dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She thought she had; but she hadn’t. In her head, he
was still the slender, tall young man he had been four years ago, brown-blond head
full of dreams, full lips stretching in a dimpled smile full, and that stubborn
shining light in his green eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">If she were honest with herself, Stella would prefer
to keep his image this way inside her head. But then again, she hadn’t had any
choice in the matter: She hadn’t seen him after the day she had broken their
engagement, and her own heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not for five years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">And now here she was, overhearing him ask his friend
to break his arm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I should
make my presence known before this takes a turn for the even more bizarre.
Although how that would be possible, I’m sure I don’t know.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">She tried to clear her throat, but it had gone dry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Fine,” Vaughn was saying, his voice thin,
exasperated. “I’ll challenge you to a duel then.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I won’t bite,” his friend’s voice replied.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I shall hit you with my glove.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I shall forgive you.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Silence for a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“What if I happen to have hidden a horseshoe in the
glove with which I hit you?” Vaughn asked sweetly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“And killing one of the few men who can tolerate you
in England would help you how exactly?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella decided that she liked this Paxton fellow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I have excellent aim,” the captain replied, the sound
of his voice moving briefly away, as if he were pacing in agitation. “I shall
simply make you furious enough to break my nose in retaliation. Or to fight me.
Hopefully you’ll break a bone or two of mine, or at least stab me in the
stomach.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">His friend gave an unearthly cry, as if he wanted to
tear out his own hair. Stella shared the sentiment entirely.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“For God’s sake, Vaughn,” the gentleman said, “is
there no way out of this wedding that doesn’t involve broken bones or bleeding intestines?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Sure there is,” the captain replied. “Throw me in the
Thames.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“That in no way guarantees that you will catch a
chill, you know,” the other gentleman replied with a touch of a sneer. “You
could always jilt the chit, Vaughn, if the idea of marriage to her is so
repugnant to you that you would maim yourself to avoid it. Be a man, don’t you
know?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Something in the matter-of-fact way lord Paxton spoke
to the captain pierced Stella’s heart. Was Vaughn really trapped by the woman?
Or was he so hardened by life that he didn’t even want to commit to marriage to
his own fiancée?<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“No,” the captain answered quickly. “It will ruin her.
It’s already gotten about that she was the one who made advances…” Just when it
was beginning to get interesting, Vaughn stopped himself abruptly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Well, then.” His companion’s voice sounded sad. “Any
other intelligent ideas?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella couldn’t imagine what <i>L’ Ange Noir</i> would reply to that, but unfortunately, she never had
a chance to find out. A dead branch crunched underneath her shoe, making what
seemed like a deafening ‘crack’ in the silence of hushed voices and chilly
night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">At once, she could feel both men freeze on the other
side of the bushes. She couldn’t see them, hidden as they were from her by the
thick shrubbery of one of Vauxhall Gardens’ endless mazes and the cloak of
night, but this was the kind of silence that one could <i>hear</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Who’s there?” Vaughn cried out in a hard, unfamiliar
voice, and suddenly she could very well imagine him as the black angel everyone
talked about, brandishing a knife at his enemies, blood dripping from his
clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
</span><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 21.3pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stella cowered in her corner, but she did not dare
move, because the maze was so vast and complicated, one false move and she
would get lost in it forever.<o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Every Wrong Right by M.C. Frank</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">read on for a brand new Outlaws aesthetic</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The memories flooded again.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘Here is your food for the next fortnight,’ a voice said, faceless in the
dungeon’s darkness. </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘Make it last.’</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">A piece of bread so hard that it made a clanging noise as it hit the ground
by his feet, landing in the shallow end of a puddle. Robin had expected the
guard to laugh, but he heard no snicker as his only piece of nourishment was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The guards knew that this stale bread they brought every few days was all
that separated the prisoners from starvation, yet they took pleasure in making
it as uneatable as possible. As if it was their job to torture the prisoners,
and not just Gisborne’s.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘Next time,’ Robin had sneered at the guard.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The guard had stopped short, his chain mail clanging with the sudden
movement.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘What did you say?’ The guard’s voice was low and gravelly, as if he hadn’t
used it in a while.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘I said next time,’ Robin had coughed, ‘maybe next time you’ll have better
aim. You missed the deepest part of the puddle. You must be new here.’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Complete silence followed. Robin held his breath, certain that he would be
beaten. But he hadn’t. After a few moments, the guard had smiled widely,
showing glowing white teeth in the darkness.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">‘Maybe,’ he’d agreed in that hard voice, but there had been laughter in it.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Robin reached out and, concealing his hand under his cloak, he grasped the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“My heartfelt thanks,” Robin whispered to him. “That was close.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“Wrong,” the guard said, removing his hand. His face was serious, his
expression unbroken by even the hint of a smile. “What we have here is a
stupid, thoughtless thief, walking straight into the wolf’s mouth,
unaccompanied. He also seems to have left his brain behind, along with his
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Robin smiled wider, showing his teeth cheekily. “You’ve got it, exactly,”
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“Waiting to catch a glimpse of the festivities, of course, same as you,”
Robin winked.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“Ah, I see. Being stupid as always,” the guard hissed. “Confound it, I
should come with you. Look, whatever notion you’ve taken into your big head,
it’s not worth it. Things are volatile in there. You shouldn’t be alone.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“I won’t do anything,” Robin replied, turning serious. “I’ll
just be in and out, promise.” He started to leave, but turned back. “I thank
you again. You are as much a part of us as you were from the beginning,
Gilbert, you know that. I would be lost without you, as you just saw. Stay
safe, my friend, until we meet again.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The guard who wasn’t a guard, but an outlaw in disguise, was silent for a
few seconds, his Adam’s apple bobbing up and down. He moved his lips a few
times before words came actually out.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“Robin,” the guard murmured and for the first time, signs of some strong
emotion crossed his stony expression. “Robin, for God’s sake, keep yourself
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">“You too, Gilbert.”</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">With a nod, Robin grasped his shoulder briefly and walked on towards the
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">So many years had passed since that first time when Gilbert had thrown him
food in the sheriff’s dungeon. Robin trusted him with his life. Yet, the cold,
hard truth was that he couldn’t offer him the one thing he truly wanted: he
couldn’t take Gilbert with him into the forest and away from the castle and the
thought pained Robin immensely, but he needed one of his own men down here. For
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A girl disguised as a boy.</div>
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A medieval reimagining of the legend of Robin Hood packed with adventure, sacrifice and romance.</div>
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Robin Hood, hidden deep in the Sherwood Forest, is fighting to restore the crown to its rightful king, surrounded by faithful friends, green leaves and clear skies. Burdened with secrets, betrayal and an incredible responsibility, he struggles to stay alive and keep the starving people fed. One day, a boy saves him from the Sheriff’s poisoned arrows. Robin, impressed by the slender youth’s courage and skill, takes the boy with him to the forest.</div>
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In the castle of Nottingham, a maiden who used to be a princess is forced to obey the wishes of a tyrannical Sheriff. She dons on male clothes and trains to become a fierce assassin, vowing to catch the greatest criminal in the kingdom. But when she saves Robin Hood’s life nearly losing her own, she is rescued by the outlaws.</div>
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When Robin and the “boy” meet, two worlds collide, resulting in unimaginable danger and intense romance. Who will survive when they learn each other’s secrets? What happens when the assassin falls in love with her victim?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082DDQXJ3">Every Wrong Right</a></span></div>
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“We are probably going to die today,” said John.</div>
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“I’m aware,” Robin replied. “But then again, we’re constantly going to die.”</div>
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“So what you’re saying is,” Alis hissed behind them, “that you’re used to being about to die.”</div>
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“More or less,” Will Scarlet replied, rare laughter in his voice. “The excitement is gone.</div>
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origin story</div>
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prequel novella</div>
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group of boys who keep almost dying</div>
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girl disguised as boy (and sick of aforementioned boys)</div>
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underdogs to heroes</div>
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slowburn/angsty romance</div>
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cat</div>
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Christmas</div>
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fairytale retelling</div>
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torutred protagonist</div>
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blood</div>
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Robin Hood (before the “Hood”)</div>
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Kpop</div>
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Anne with an E</div>
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Christmas in medieval Germany aesthetic (=fruit+huddling by the fire+everything is black, brown or red+songs in tenor)</div>
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Robin & Ru thirst (sorry)</div>
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A Little Life by Hanya Yaganihara</div>
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Here are the characters we’ll see shine get tortured in this second installment in the Outlaws series (the series will span about 6 books!)</div>
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*Disclaimer: The character reference images below have been cropped out of artwork to which I do not own the rights. All of their creators are credited <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fmcfrank_author%2Frobin-hood-outlaws%2F&t=NGU4N2IyNjc1ZWJmMjhmMGQyYjNhMjIzYjA5YmQ4OWUwODg2MDc4NixWbDJTZE5kQg%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F186317406071%2Fthe-robin-hood-diaries-25-book-2&m=0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 68, 68, 0) 50%, rgba(68, 68, 68, 0.25) 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1em 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.15em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>.</div>
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<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Book Robin Hoods Newsletter</span>, featuring about 10 books that are free or bargains. Sign up <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Ftherobinhoods.wixsite.com%2Fthebookrobinhoods%2Fsubscribe&t=YmMzYWU0MjhmNWI0YzUxOTEzYzgyYjg1YmE1ODZmNTFkNzU4Y2ViOSxWbDJTZE5kQg%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F186317406071%2Fthe-robin-hood-diaries-25-book-2&m=0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 68, 68, 0) 50%, rgba(68, 68, 68, 0.25) 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1em 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.15em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here if you’re a reader</a> and <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2FD7Nr2ck4tRtXxiaU8&t=MGMxZGM0YTY1ZTEyODhmMmEwOGUzMTk2NGNmMjMxYzI2NjFiMDc0MixWbDJTZE5kQg%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F186317406071%2Fthe-robin-hood-diaries-25-book-2&m=0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 68, 68, 0) 50%, rgba(68, 68, 68, 0.25) 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1em 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.15em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here if you’re an author</a>. It’s a steal either way.</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Requesting reviewers on instagram and tumblr (of course of course).</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Rep search (my first one!) coming in August. Readers will receive all my books for free in exchange for reviews, yummy pictures and general exposure.</li>
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<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Mostly ok, but having a few really bad days in-between that drain me of energy. Trying to manage my diet better, because that really helps. Also going to the pool twice a week (sometimes three times a week) which helps so much.</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-destructive thoughts and tendencies are soaring. Must do something about that, though. Getting in touch with friends is the only thing that helps.</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Have been dealing with bullies a lot for some reason, mainly online, but once in my place of employment too. (I quit shortly after, because there was physical violence involved). Therefore, I have been a little bit blocked with writing, not for ideas or anything, but feeling so hated that I couldn’t write. Writing sprints and the dude helped me with that, and I’m in a good place right now.</li>
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<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Will and Grace (always)</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Good Omens</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">EVERYTHING on Kissasian</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Wild Romance</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">The Marvelous Mrs Maisel</li>
<li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">Russian Doll</li>
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Ha! We’d be here for centuries if I told you (2 to 3 books a day). But you can see what I read every single day <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Fmcfrank_author%2F&t=MzRlMGU4MzE2ZmZhMTI4NTRkYjAzNjI2MzhlNWJmYzdmYmRmY2QwZCxWbDJTZE5kQg%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=https%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F186317406071%2Fthe-robin-hood-diaries-25-book-2&m=0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 68, 68, 0) 50%, rgba(68, 68, 68, 0.25) 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1em 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.15em; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</a>.</div>
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<b>Title</b>: Everythind I Do </div>
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<b>Author</b>: M.C. Frank</div>
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<b>Release Date</b>: April 17th, 2019</div>
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<b>Series</b>: Outlaws, Book 1</div>
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Everything I Do</b><span style="font-size: large;"> has been described as </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">Six of Crows</i><span style="font-size: large;"> meets A</span><i style="font-size: x-large;"> Court of Thorns and Roses</i><span style="font-size: large;"> and it's </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">perfect for fans of</b><span style="font-size: large;">:</span><br />
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Girl pretending to be a boy</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Childhood friends turning mortal enemies</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Being extra heroic and then tripping over a branch and falling on your face</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Ok, this is getting too descriptive, I should stop</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, sibling love</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Also, Kpop (BTS and other groups were a huge inspiration for Robin and his company okay)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">And kisses. Did I mention kisses? Cause kisses.</li>
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disoriented.He was lying down on what appeared to be a torture device,
made of needles and sharp knives, the sun was in his eyes, his whole body on
fire.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Oh, you’re awake, then!” a voice cried happily next
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">“I’ll murder you,” the boy-not-boy tried to say, with
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">“Easy now,” the happy voice chirped infuriatingly. A
cool hand cupped the boy-not-boy’s neck, sending a hellish shower of
pain. “You’ve been ill, boy." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Well, you don’t say, the boy-not-boy wanted to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">He felt his eyelids drooping, and
sleep begin to pull him under. Maybe it would be better to sleep some
more. Before his skin exploded into a million ashes from pain. Before he did
something stupid, like murder the owner of the happy voice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Or say something even more stupid.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-family: "inherit" , "serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">I’m not a boy. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">When next the boy who was a girl woke up, there were
stars blinking above her head. H<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>er body felt heavy,
her mind lethargic, her limbs numb, but not painful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">There were more stars above her head than was
possible. Maybe she’d finally died and gone to heaven. Maybe she’d suffered
enough. They’d told her she’d be hit, probably by an arrow, but she not that
she’d descend into hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">But this wasn’t hell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">A soft breeze cooled her sweating brow, and her aching
head was lying on the softest pillow of grass. That was much better than the
needles she lay on before. Or had she? Maybe that had been a dream. Up above, a
sliver of the moon was filtered through a cloud of leaves, framing the night
sky. Such nights existed only in dreams, it was true, yet the smells of fresh
grass, the mild dew on her skin, it all felt real.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">Or maybe she was dead, for there was no rational
explanation for this paradise she found herself in. One part of her screamed,
no, this wasn’t supposed to end in death. At least not my death. But another
part of her… Felt relieved. It was finally over. The pain, the dread, the
injustice. Over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;">At last, peace. She closed her eyes again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The amazingly talented <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;">@morgana0anagrom</a> has created the most accurate, swoonworthy, amazing portrait of my tortured hero.</div>
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<b>First Name</b>: Robert </div>
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<b>Nickname</b>: Robin Hood</div>
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<b>Title</b>: Earl of Loxley</div>
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<b>Job</b>: Thief</div>
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<b>Financial Situation</b>: He is one of the richest men in England (in lands, mostly). But there’s a teeny tiny little problem: he’s been declared an outlaw and everything he possessed has been claimed by the Sheriff. So, he’s kind of dirt poor and filthy rich at the same time. But mostly dirt poor.</div>
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<b>Appearance</b>: Tall, thin, but muscled. Robin eats every few days, so as to leave more food for his friends, but he has the endurance of an ox. He has grey eyes and black hair, an amazing smile which he rarely uses anymore, and… you can see the rest of his features in the portrait.</div>
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<b>Part of</b>: He is leader of Robin Hood’s <b>band of Merrie Outlaws</b>.</div>
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<b>Skills</b>: He is the best archer in England. Probably France, too.</div>
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<b>Training</b>: He spent two years in the training camps in the Holy Lands, and then a few months fighting in the battlegrounds there.</div>
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<b>Seen</b>: It all.</div>
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<b>Hobbies</b>: Hunting, doing archery contests with his friends, playing with his cat, listening to his friends sing out of tune around the campfire, giving his food away.</div>
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<b>Mental Health</b>: He is suffering from intense <b>PTSD </b>because of spending about 2 years in the Sheriff’s dungeon. He also suffers from <b>survivor’s guilt</b> and is plagued by intense episodes of “blackness” in which his guilt and bad memories of all the things that happened to him when he was a kid overwhelm him. He sometimes has <b>panic attacks</b>.</div>
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<b>Friends</b>: Less than 10 really, really close friends, and more than a thousand all over the land. He has dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of others and keeping them alive, forgetting all about his own needs, and there are so many people who love and appreciate him. However, they are so poor and powerless that they can’t do anything to help him. Three of his best friends are dead. All of his friends adore him and would give their life for him in a second. But that would literally kill him.</div>
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<b>Enemies</b>: The rest of the entire sodding world (in his words).</div>
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<b>Hopes and dreams</b>: Only one: that the true King, his friend, would come back and reclaim his throne. But that’s not happening, as the King has been captured for the last six years, and is probably dead.</div>
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<b>Goal:</b> Stay alive. Find something worth living for, apart from Will, his best friend and cousin. Find the King and bring him back. Stop the Sheriff and his assassin, Guy of Gisborne from bleeding dry the entire country with their taxes. So much to do, so little time. So little<i> food</i>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Bane of his existence</b>: A boy that saved his life, and now is part of the outlaws’ band. He never stops talking. Also, there’s something strange about the boy. He’s brave and funny and loyal, but… he kind of looks like a girl.</span></div>
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<b>In this story</b>: He’s in for so much pain. But also, kisses. And killing things. So yay.</div>
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<b>Short description of <i>Everything I Do</i></b>:A boy saves Robin Hood’s life in combat, and gets wounded. Robin brings him to the forest and he and his friends nurse him back to life. Robin trusts the boy and makes him part of his band, his life, and eventually his heart. <b>Except</b>, the boy isn’t a boy. It’s someone from his past, a loyal friend who was betrayed. And <b>she</b> is here to destroy them all. </div>
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And then (of course) <b>feelings</b> have to enter and complicate everything. What follows is.. Death, laughter, archery contests, berries (@darquedreamerreads lol), robberies, forbidden love, swooning, drowning, raining, girls in boys’ clothes, men in women’s clothes, assassination atempts gone wrong and right, and most of all slow-burn and pining (so much pining). It’s a blast!</div>
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dystopian worlds where kissing is forbidden (among other things), or in green
forests ruled by evil Sheriffs. If they're in Jane Austen's England, they have
to be running away from a traumatic childhood, or if they are in our
contemporary world, they're scared they'll die before they have finished high
school. She’s evil like that. But don’t worry, she knows we all need a little
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modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in Corfu, was an overall amazon
bestseller the week of its release. Her debut series, a dystopian sci-fi saga,
No Ordinary Star, has been beloved by many readers, and also climbed the charts
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degree in physics and currently lives with her 'dude' in a home filled with
candles, laptops and notebooks. Her hobbies include rearranging her overflowing
bookshelves, fangirling over K-drama and swimming. She hopes to become a
mermaid someday—fingers crossed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The amazingly talented <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(68, 68, 68, 0) 50%, rgba(68, 68, 68, 0.25) 0px); background-position: 0px 1.15em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 1em 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.15em; vertical-align: baseline;">@morgana0anagrom</a> has created the most accurate, swoonworthy, amazing portrait of my tortured hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And it is a stunner.</span></div>
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Everything you needed and didn’t need to know about the real Robin Hood:</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First Name</span>: Robert </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nickname</span>: Robin Hood</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Title</span>: Earl of Loxley</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Job</span>: Thief</span></div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Financial Situation</span>: He is one of the richest men in England (in lands, mostly). But there’s a teeny tiny little problem: he’s been declared an outlaw and everything he possessed has been claimed by the Sheriff. So, he’s kind of dirt poor and filthy rich at the same time. But mostly dirt poor.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Appearance</span>: Tall, thin, but muscled. Robin eats every few days, so as to leave more food for his friends, but he has the endurance of an ox. He has grey eyes and black hair, an amazing smile which he rarely uses anymore, and… you can see the rest of his features in the portrait.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mental Health</span>: He is suffering from intense <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PTSD </span>because of spending about 2 years in the Sheriff’s dungeon. He also suffers from <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">survivor’s guilt</span> and is plagued by intense episodes of “blackness” in which his guilt and bad memories of all the things that happened to him when he was a kid overwhelm him. He sometimes has <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">panic attacks</span>.</div>
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<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Friends</span>: Less than 10 really, really close friends, and more than a thousand all over the land. He has dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of others and keeping them alive, forgetting all about his own needs, and there are so many people who love and appreciate him. However, they are so poor and powerless that they can’t do anything to help him. Three of his best friends are dead. All of his friends adore him and would give their life for him in a second. But that would literally kill him.</div>
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Eeeeek! My heart is bursting! </div>
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My favorite people loving my favorite book I’ve ever written and my favorite OTP characters that are complete and total endgame and have been in my head for YEARS I have literally no chill I am screaming</div>
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Seventeen-year-old Ellie dreams of mermen. She writes fanfiction about them and spends time in underwater kingdoms in her imagination, trying to escape the sad reality: she is an orphan. And not only that, but she’s bullied every day at school -she’s a nerd, she hates sports, she loves books and she used to be overweight. What’s not to bully?</div>
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One day, the bullies go too far. They try to drown her, but at the last minute an otherworldly creature shows up in the water. He keeps her breathing and tells her to live: “How will you be able to save anyone if you can’t even save yourself?”</div>
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She thinks it was a dream, but the emerald-eyed merman boy who rescued her appears in her school the next day. Is he really the exiled prince of an ancient kingdom that’s on the brink of utter destruction? And is he asking her to save him? Or is something far more sinister and deadly lurking in the water that surrounds her little Greek town?</div>
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<b>When myth and reality collide, can love save their lives?</b></div>
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<i>Loved it! I loved the author’s development of character, plotline, and conflict in each of her books. I read ALOT of YA, with similar genre appeal, and M.C. Frank writes with such a uniquevoice, making her novels more compelling and engaging than most others. Thankyou for sharing your gift!<br /><b><i>-Zuleyka Martinez</i></b><br /><br />I really liked the refreshing twist on mermaids and mermans.<br /><b><i>-Zahara Porter</i></b><br /><b><i></i></b><br />I LOVE IT TO DEATH!!!!!!! Like oh my, that was good, scratch that, amazing! The plot was absolutely fantastic and the characters are so wellwritten they felt real. I love the fangirling like yassss and the part abouther being bullied. It was so heart warming and realistic, I love it.</i><br />
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<i> <span style="font-weight: normal;">A story that makes your heart grow.</span></i><i><b><i>-M.B, a reader</i></b></i></h3>
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<br /><i style="font-weight: normal;">Loved it! I loved the author's development of character, plotline, and conflict in each of her books. I read ALOT of YA, with similar genre appeal, and M.C. Frank writes with such a uniquevoice, making her novels more compelling and engaging than most others. Thank you for sharing your gift!</i><i><i><b><i>-Zuleyka Martinez</i></b></i></i></h3>
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<br /><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I LOVE IT TO DEATH!!!!!!! Like oh my, that was good, scratch that, amazing! The plot was absolutely fantastic and the characters are so wellwritten they felt real. I love the fangirling like yassss and the part abouther being bullied. It was so heart warming and realistic, I love it. Please write more</span>!</i><i><b><i>-Brynn from Swoon Reads</i></b></i></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><i>Great story, witty main character and some steamy love. I couldn't waitto finish reading, and have now stayed up way past my bedtime trying to finishthis book!</i></span><i><b><i>-Tandrence</i></b></i></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">I so very love how the book promoted the strengths of a bullied person,bringing out the positive. Too often we see characters turning to self harm andeverything else negative once things start looking bad. Salt for Air, however,gave a strong message that things can be different, a message which I believemust have come from true experience. [...] I can't believe I read the whole story in just two days (some 70% of it in oneday!)</span>.</i><i><b><i>-Kristina Vallaste, author</i></b></i><br /><br /><i style="font-weight: normal;">OMG!!!!! DEAD!!!!! I LOVEDTHIS SO FREAKING MUCH!!!! SO CUTE!!!!</i><i><b><i>-Lucky Penny</i></b></i></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><i>This is excellent. M.C. Frank has a wonderful, strong voice. Ellie isincredibly drawn. Loved this story...more, please?</i></span><i><b><i>-Katie Kaleski, author of The Now or Never Moment</i></b></i></h3>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Greek mythology</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Kdrama - esp. The Legend of The Blue Sea</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Mermen/mermaids</b></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Action-adventure mature YA </b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>My Mad Fat Diary</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Books about readers or writers of fanfiction </b>(see Fangirl, Eliza and her Monsters, etc)</span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Impossible romance</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Cool siblings relationships</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>A hint of drama</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Epic battles with a tiny bit of bloodsplatter sprinkled</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Sea monsters</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Fairytale endings</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>The girl rescuing the boy for once</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Not super-slim girls dealing with their bullies and their self-image</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Girl friendship & Girl powers</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">· <b>Modern Greece - beaches - ruins - sunsets</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Anti-tropes</span></b></li>
<li style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Dragons</span></b></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did you know that when someone is bullied, they’re forced to become a different person than they would have if they hadn’t been bullied? Distrustful of people, clammed up in themselves, always doubting their own worth and strength… You’re basically robbing them of their true future self.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">“No! No. Don’t die, you idiot!”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The voice sounds impatient and mad. But mostly it sounds disgusted -as though it’s exasperating to whoever is speaking that I should be dying right now, when it’s clearly so inconvenient.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Don’t you die on me. Dammit. Look at me. Focus on breathing.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now, there are all sorts of things wrong with that sentence.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">One. I can’t breathe no matter how I focus, because my face is shoved inside a toilet and there’s a hand pushing my neck in so no matter how much I thrush and kick my legs and wave my arms around the porcelain bowl, water keeps filling my nostrils, choking me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Two. I shouldn’t be able to hear someone speaking to me through the freaking toilet water of the girls’ bathroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Three. There shouldn’t BE anyone in the freaking toilet of the girls’ bathroom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But there is.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Or at least I think there is. It is a strong possibility that I’m going mad. It finally happened. My dad used to jokingly say to me:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“All these fine-fictions you’re writing will get inside your head one day, pumpkin, mark my words, and you won’t be able to tell reality from imagination.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“That’s the point,” I’d murmur absently, my fingers tap-tapping on my laptop. “And it’s fanfiction.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“You need to spend more time in the real world,” he’d shake his head, full of dark wavy curls identical to mine, but his eyes would sparkle with secret laughter. Then he’d lean down to whisper in my ear. “That’s how people go crazy, you know.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I’d lift a hand to scratch the place where his breath had touched, because it tickled. He’d burst out laughing and do it again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Cut it out,” I’d yell, laughing. “You don’t get the point, daddy. I don’t want to spend more time in the real world.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He’d nothing to say to that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He knew what was going on at school, well, not everything, cause I didn’t tell him, but he could tell when I came home all red-eyed or with my shirt torn, or, once, my skirt doused in cooking oil. Today, if I was to get home at all, it would be my shirt and the top part of my pants that would be drenched by toilet water.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But my dad won’t be there.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nor will I, apparently, because it seriously looks like I’m actually dying here. Drowning in three inches of water. My lungs constrict, heaving in a breath that’s full of acid water, and I splutter as it choked me. My eyelids drift shut, blurring the image of a pair of brilliant emerald slash aqua eyes that are staring at me frantically. My arms flop helplessly to the sides. What’s the use? The emerald eyes are a figment of my imagination -in fact, they look like they’re something I wrote up in my fanfic, Mer Force- so what does it matter? As for Marilia and her gang, well, its’ pretty obvious, isn’t it? They’ve won. After ten years of bullying and pranks and circulating false rumors and ruining my homework so that I’d get an F, they’ve finally killed me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Crap, you’re useless, you know that? If you can’t even keep yourself alive, then…?”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The water-voice, the one that belongs to the person with the emerald eyes, who shouldn’t be here in the toilet water, and who shouldn’t be able to speak through water either, yells at me so loud it wakes me up.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I force my eyes to open one last time.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The eyes come closer. Do all people see the boy they’ve been dreaming (insert writing) about in their final moments on this earth?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No, they don’t, don’t be stupid, Ellie.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That’s Lydia’s voice in my head. Lovely. Get out of here, I want to focus on fanfiction boy. Because it’s certainly him. In my muddled brain, he looks almost exactly like the actor who plays him on TV: the warrior from Mer Wars, the merman who wears a breastplate made from radioactive algae and rusty metal salvaged from shipwrecks on his one shoulder and an obnoxious smile on his gorgeous face.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Which said gorgeous face, is now wearing a disgusted expression as he leans upwards and presses his lips to mine.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“Breathe, dammit,” Emerald Eyes mutters, leaning back to take a deep </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">breath -of what? water? Toilet water? This fic is getting out of control, my tired brain thinks, feeling a bit better now that I’ve sort of been kissed by my own fanfic hero inside a toilet bowl. Yep. Definitely better. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">With a final effort I pull my face out of the water, trying to take a shuddering breath, but I’m pushed in again so violently my forehead cracks on the porcelain. My nostrils are burning as I inhale more water. The emerald eyes are fading in front of me. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“We all perish with you, if you die,” the boy’s voice says. “Not that you look like you could be any kind of a solution, but who can say what new idiocy has been ordained by the Elders? Stop looking at me like a cod, and fight!”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He fits his lips to mine, and this time I sputter and cough because air, actual air entered my lungs.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“What the hell?” I try to say, but all that comes out is bubbles.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The emerald eyes crinkle with laughter.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“My thoughts exactly,” he says as he gives me his breath once more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I want to say, upfront, that this isn’t going to be a romantic story. It is going to be a story of love, but not the kind of love you’re imagining, perhaps. There will be no shipping, no fangirling (except my own, and that’s kind of pathetic, you’ll see) and no mashing together of last names. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is a story of sadness.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of death, of loss and of going slightly mad because of them.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also, of girls’ bathrooms. There’s going to be a lot of that. So be prepared.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you need to picture me somewhere, don’t try any of your usual young adult novel tropes. No high school cafeterias, no gloomy North American suburb where it usually rains; not even one of those two-storey homes with large, white-panneled windows and an attic out of which teenage boys can climb after peeking in just to make sure their favorite girl is sleeping safely (and prettily).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My life couldn’t be further from my beloved ya novels.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You see, I live in a place you haven’t even heard of. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever heard of Greece? It’s that little country by the Mediterranean that’s been sinking in debt. It’s also the country of Homer and Athena and Plato. Some of our finest poets said that its every river is steeped in history, every mountain-top bathed in legend. I don’t know if that’s true; what I know is that in the last five years of his life, my dad had to work three jobs just to keep us both clothed and fed.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also, that it cost every single euro that he left me in the bank to pay for his health insurance. Yeah, in case you didn’t know, things are tough here. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our tiny two-storey house in Piraeus, right next to the harbor, with the lace curtains and the little yard at the back, had to be rented out, just so that I could pay our taxes and the doctors’ fees. I doesn’t matter. I wouldn’t have been able to stay there on my own, anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I moved in with Lydia and Jimmy, our neighbors whom I’ve known since I was two. They’re good people, but they’ve got their own lives. And it’s not like I’d want them to take the place of my dad. It’s not like we can be family. No one can. Not after my dad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went to a tiny Primary school in a small neighborhood near the sea, where we all woke up to the hog of the departing ships at five o’ clock in the morning, then fell back to sleep until eight. The bell rang at a quarter past. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There were few kids, and I the weirdest among them. I was oddly dressed and sad and my dad was single, plus he had a scandalous story concerning his former wife trailing rumors behind him wherever he went. I was bad at sports, I was chubby (from third grade to sixth) and I had my nose always buried in a book. I wasn’t an orphan, but I was abandoned. I was the result of a tragedy, but also the result of a crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I don’t know if you are aware of how those small, ‘close-knit’ communities work. The tiny neighborhoods where everyone knows everyone’s dirty laundry. They always need a victim, someone to pick on. And for want of someone more deserving, I got chosen. I was the easiest target. That was my only crime.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It’s followed me since pretty much day one, and it’s been getting worse every year. Being alone and lonely is part of who I am. Not that I’ve got time to be lonely any more -not since I discovered books. But you know how it is. Chances are, if you’re reading this, you’re a reader too. So no need to talk any more about how books rescued me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You know.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They probably rescued you too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They are rescuing me every day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We don’t study Shakespeare and the Brontes where I come from; its nothing like it is in all the young adult novels I read. We’re taught Greek mythology and the Odyssey. We study Achilles and Helen of Troy. No, I know what you’re thinking. It’s not exciting; it’s not cool. It kind of gets boring after the one hundredth and twenty-seventh test on how many columns there are on the Parthenon, you know what I mean?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Also, conjugating irregular verbs in ancient Greek. We do a lot of that, as well. I hate it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first thing I did after my dad died was to go look at my face in the mirror. Well, the second thing, technically.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The first was plan the funeral. I sat on the kitchen table, the lamp bathing the room in a painfully yellow glow -it was night by the time I got back from the hospital- and called the funeral parlor. I had to arrange everything, pay for the casket, book the church, that kind of stuff…. There was nobody else to do them, you see.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Then I got up and went to the bathroom. I stood in front of the mirror.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to see if anything had changed on me, maybe some mark appearing on my forehead, marking me as someone who has seen death. I was sure that half of my hair must have turned white or, at the very least, that there would be wrinkles around my lips and eyes, as though I’d aged overnight like the cursed maiden of an evil fairytale.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, there was nothing like that in my reflection.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Just plain old me, pale, nerdy cheeks, skinny shoulders, tousled brown hair, eyelids puffed up from crying and sleeplessness. My body a bit thinner, but neither big nor small: just mine. Familiar. It’s always been where I live, simply that, no matter what everyone says. My face looked bit sadder than usual, but nothing remarkable about me, nothing that said ‘look! She’s an orphan! She hasn’t got a dad!’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Which was weird.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If I looked closer, I’d see the empty look in my eyes, the bitter lines around my lips, the little hairs on my neck standing up as though I was cold, even though it was a warm May night. But I didn’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The second thing I did was to upload the fourth chapter of my Ever After Upon a Time (or EAUAT, for short) fanfic, “Mer Force”. It’s based upon the TV series, like all fanfiction is, but with a major twist. More on that later. I remember I wrote a brutal scene of a battle between the mer people who were led by Oceanus (who, as aforementioned looks freakishly like Emerald eyes, by the way, he has green eyes and floppy hair) and some weird shark-like creatures -the battle scene turned out awesome. It wasn’t canon, of course, but who cares? It was for me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There was blood spurting everywhere and mixing in with the sea water and monsters with tentacles and snakes for hair (Greek mythology-inspired) choking humans and all sorts of fun stuff. Oceanus and his mer-soldiers of course destroyed every human in sight. I don’t remember much of what I wrote, and I haven’t reread it since, but that was what started the popularity.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Suddenly every fanboy or fangirl who had a thing for gore eventually found their way to ‘Mer Force’. There were so many comments asking, no, begging for battle scenes, saying that EAUAT had never been one of their favorite shows because of all the fairytale characters and the drama and romance, but they devoured my fanfic like crazy. So, I gave it to them. I wasn’t much in the mood for family drama or true love’s kisses anyway.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, all the EAUAT fans just loved reading all the bare-chested Oceanus scenes anyway, so they were coming to my fanfic by the scores as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Which was why I ended up in the toilet in the first place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I should add at this point that it started with the fanfiction, but it certainly didn’t end there. It was youtube that destroyed my life, in the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It’s just my luck. And my ‘beautiful gift of creativity’, as dad used to call it. What I call it is, ‘I just had to go there, didn’t I?’</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">By ‘there’ I mean the videos. Nothing complicated, just a few shots of the sea that’s half a kilometer from my house, the sound of water lapping against the docks, along with my voice reading my fanfic aloud (kind of like a voiceover, I added the reading later). That’s it. Then I uploaded the first chapter on youtube. As I said, the vidds (there were two of them, all in all) were really simple. For the second one, I just recorded my voice along in my bathroom, with the bathtub filled with water, my hand just moving gingerly in it as I read to create water sounds. I couldn’t be bothered to go to the docks. When the idea had first coame to me, I thought it was so simple and easy, it was genius.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of course, without the videos they would never have thought to push my head inside a toilet. As I said, genius. Pure genius.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Good job, Ellie.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It took two months for someone in my class to discover my videos. Then the name-calling started ‘mer-girl’, ‘wet-girl’ and even ‘toilet girl’, right before the idea struck them that it would be fun to drown me in one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I’ve always been called a nerd and a geek and lame and stuff like that at school, because I was one of the lucky ones, born with pale skin and no muscles and no inclination for working out or being super social or fashionable. My family was working class forever and became borderline poor while my dad was having chemo and treatments, for two and a half years before he died -also, because of the crisis in Greece, but I won’t bother you with that.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But no one has ever called me crazy, which is what they should have, if they’d known what’s happening to me as I’m dying right now.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And it’s not just the vision of Oceanus or hearing his voice through the water.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It started yesterday, at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One day, just two weeks ago, I had just finished taking a shower, during which a creative wave had hit me, and I was preparing to fill the tub in order to record another chapter for my youtube channel, ignoring Lydia’s yells from downstairs to get dressed and run over to the deli, (most probably because Jimmy, her long-term boyfriend, was out of cigarettes or something else of equal importance) when I heard it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Something splashing in the water.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Now keep in mind, the bathtub wasn’t filled yet. I was just stepping out of the shower, and the showerhead was still dripping on my hair, the walls damp, shampoo-smelling steam rising towards the ceiling. And just as I was slipping my bare left foot into my fuzzy slipper, I heard that sound coming through the pipes: something splashing in water.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I didn’t think much of it until a few minutes later when, dressed in sweaters with my hair swaddled up in a long towel, towering above my head, I came back to turn the tap off, because by this time the bathtub would be half-way full, and that was enough for what I needed to record.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as I stepped inside the bathroom, I stopped short. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There weren’t any splashing sounds this time. Or if there were, I didn’t notice in my panic. Yes, panic.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Because the water was pink. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I stifled a scream and rushed to pull the plug off. I don’t know what I thought had happened, if the water had come dirty from the pipes or what, but the truth is I freaked out because only one thought popped in my head as soon as I saw the color of the water, was diluted blood.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That’s exactly what it looked like.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If you’re a girl, you know that. (You also know that if you’re a writer of gory sea battles.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I just sort of stood there, my eyes bulging out, and waited for the water to drain, certain I was seeing things.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Only I wasn’t.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as the last rivulets were flowing towards the drain, I clearly saw on the bottom of the bathtub two bloodstains. They were small, but so thick that I had to point the showerhead on them with full-on hot water for five minutes until they dissolved. I wasn’t touching that thing. And when I picked up the little drain-thing to clean it, just as I do after taking a shower, there was something stuck to it. It looked like a piece of plastic and it was sticking out at an angle, but when I touched it it was razor-sharp, almost scratching my finger.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I picked it up and held it towards the mirror lights. Outside the night was quiet, the distant honking of cars mingling with the anchorman’s droning from the TV downstairs. And it slowly dawned on me that there was no other description for what I was holding in my hand than this:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was an iridescent, pink and purple and orange, fish-tail scale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Like I said, crazy.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I’m going mad, there’s no other way to explain this.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Or this:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">“You’re fine now,” the Emerald boy says to me in the toilet, as I try to hold on to the air he gave me. “You’ll live, that’s all that matters. Calm down, you’ll be out of here in a second.” His eyes fill my vision with green as he drifts closer. I notice wisps of dark hair float in the water around his forehead. “Try not to be an idiot, if you possibly can.” His eyes widen, trying to hammer the message home. “Only idiots are afraid.” </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">If I’m mad, and he a figment of my imagination, are these the best lines I can give him to say to me? I’m pathetic even in fiction.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Emerald Eyes leans in and I swear I feel his finger brush my chin. “Give them hell,” he whispers. “Give them hell, Elissavet.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Before I have time to freak out at his mentioning my name, suddenly the pressure on my neck slackens a bit and I shoot up from the toilet, gasping and coughing out water with so much force a piece of my lung must come up too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Water runs down my chest, all over my clothes. A tinny sound of laughter bounces off the doors as they swing closed behind Marilia and her friends’ retreating backs. Their steps echo in the hall as they run away.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I try to stand up and drop back to my knees, hacking up more water. My throat is burning and my hair is plastered to my forehead, dripping into my eyes, mingling with my tears.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I put myself together as best as I can and wait for the bell to ring for second period before running to the nurse’s office. I tell her I wasn’t feeling well and wanted to put water on my face, but I had an accident. She looks at me with pity and understanding in her kind eyes -this is definitely not the first time I’ve come to her in a similar situation.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I walk home absent-mindedly, shivering through my clinging shirt in the autumn chill -school started barely a month ago, there’s still months and months of it- turning the questions over in my mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Am I going crazy?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Did I hallucinate?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">What the hell happened to me in there?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I reach home unnoticed, with no better explanation than that my mind finally snapped and I’m imagining my fanfic is real. I take a hot shower, crying huge, silent sobs into the waterspray, all the while refusing to acknowledge the most important fact of the day: the minutes I spent pushed inside the toilet, unable to breathe were far too many to have survived on my own.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I should have died.</span><br />
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The Mermaid Diaries (1) - Announcing my new book!</h2>
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New book, new diary.</h2>
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You <strike style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">poor people </strike>lucky lot get to follow my <strike style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">mis</strike>adventures as I prepare my new baby to face the world! </div>
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My new book is <b>Salt for Air</b> and I will be announcing the publication date and final book cover soon. </h2>
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1. <b>Why</b> is this book only now getting to see the light of day, even though I have had the manuscript all done and ready to be beta-read for more than a year? Something bad happened. <b><a href="http://mcfrankauthor.tumblr.com/post/172341287091/the-robin-hood-wip-diaries-16-plagiarism-or-my" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Read what</a></b>.</div>
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2. <b>What</b> is it about?</div>
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Ellie dreams of mermen.</div>
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She writes fanfiction about them, spends time in underwater kingdoms in her imagination, and reads tons of books and blogs about them, trying fiercely to escape reality: she is an orphan.</div>
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And not only that, but she’s bullied every day at school -she’s a nerd, she hates sports, she loves books and TV shows and she used to be overweight. Also, her dad who died a few months ago was a math professor at her school. What’s not to bully, right?</div>
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One day, <b>the bullies go too far</b>.</div>
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They didn’t mean to actually kill her (isn’t that what they always say afterwards?) but they did push her head in the toilet until she started drowning. But before she actually gave up, someone showed up in front of her. In the water. (You know, the toilet water.) He told her to live.</div>
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<b>He also told her that she wouldn’t be able to save anyone if she couldn’t even save herself.</b></div>
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Which was weird. (Toilet-talking merman aside). Because she sees Emerald Eyes (that’s what she calls him in her head) again after that, so he wasn’t a figment of her imagination. Also, he told her she was going to save someone. Who? And also<b> lol</b> (she’s about to get evicted from her home, she can’t save even <i>that</i>, let alone saving an ancient civilization and the life of its exiled Prince). </div>
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3. <b>What</b> inspired it?</div>
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<b>The Odyssey</b>. Two line synopsis: Wealthy warrior has to face a long journey filled with magic, romance, danger and battle before he can reach his beloved home.</div>
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<b>Alcestis</b>: A much-beloved King learns that he will die in a few days, unless one of his subjects takes his place; when none comes forward, his wife, the Queen, takes his place.</div>
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<b>The water creatures of Greek mythology</b>: nereids, sirens, Poseidon, Triton, Medusa, Scylla, the amazons (spoiler alert - there is an army of those) and many more…</div>
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4. <b>Who</b> will like it?</div>
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Salt for Air is perfect for fans of:</div>
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5. <b>Where</b> is it now?</div>
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Why are you asking, do you think you’d maybe like to rea-?</div>
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Oh, ok. </div>
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<b>Right now</b> I’m editing it once more, since I haven’t read it in months and months, to get it ready for my lovely beta readers. (I will be picking them from <a href="https://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgroups%2Fmcfranksstreetteam%2F&t=NTA4ZWRhNGVlMmRlMzlkM2RjZjY5OGQ5NzA3YTY4ODAxMTk3NzM2YixkOWNhMTViZDk3N2UxZDAxZjM5NmRhZmFkNzgwYjRmZTMxNDQ3Nzcw" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.)</div>
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<b>Next up</b> I will be announcing the official release date, as soon as I find my reliable betas, and then it will be shipped off to the editor and right to your hands. </div>
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<b>When</b> I’m ready to share it with the world, you are all invited to join my team and get your own free ARC! I am beyong excited for this book because in it I share a very special part of myself: my cultural inheritance.</div>
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5. <b>How </b>can I start reading it RIGHT NOW?</div>
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If you’re as excited for my little mermaid story, leave me a comment, it would make my day.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ruined </span><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">by M.C. Frank</span><br />
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Anyone agree with me? I learned that’s the trick to a really powerful story by reading, of course. Would Jane Eyre’s story have stuck with us all these decades, if she hadn’t had to go through fire and tears, many times over, to get to her happy ending? Would we love Elizabeth Bennet so much if she hadn’t almost lost Mr Darcy and his love not once but twice? Things going wrong, and espexially breakups, are what makes us <b>care</b>.</div>
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That’s why I was really thrilled back when the beta readers for Lose Me. got angry during the 3rd part of the book. At the same time, I took time to talk to each and every single one of them. I wanted the reasons for the character’s actions to be clear to the reader, but not force-fed. I changed the wording, added paragraphs, took out little misleading words. I edited, edited again, sent it to the readers multiple times. </div>
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<b>A r i D e m o s </b><i>(stunt girl)</i><b>:</b></h2>
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In the end, I had something that matched the idea I had in my head really well, and, hoping for the best, I released my <strike style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">baby</strike> book to the world.</div>
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As soon as people started reading the book, the Wes-Ari feels started flowing. And then.</div>
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I was so excited when people said that the book DESTROYED them. Isn’t that what we all want out of a good book? I was so thrilled when email after email, message after message came, and people GOT IT. THey loved that the story wasn’t “pink”, it wasn’t unrealistic, but it made them feel. It reminded them of themselves, of situations they’d been in, and it gave them hope that they could find something like what Ari had with Wes themselves.</div>
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<i>Gorgeous <b>Lose Me. </b>aesthetic created by bestie <a class="tumblelog" href="https://tmblr.co/mdCRYCUnw-ZZdpyGNB2vHwg" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">@tea-books-lover</a></i></div>
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Of course, there were those who were furious that the characters had to go through any form of pain, and it was expected that not everyone will have the same opinion, but my books aren’t targeted towards these people. If you want a story that will make your brain stop working and fill your cells with sugar, then look away. This isn’t for you. </div>
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I recently received an email from a lovely reader, who made me tear up with how well she GOT IT. <b>And in the end, we write for ourselves, every author knows this, but oh, how amazing the feels when a reader actually gets us. </b>(I believe that, deep down inside, we write for this reason as well. We write for the hope that someone will get us. At least I know I do.) Here is part of her email:</div>
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<b><i>find this amazing reader and reviewer <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goodreads.com%2Freview%2Fshow%2F2098313832&t=MWVjZTk5YzIwYWI1MjEwYzI2NjEzMjc0YjU4YWY2MWEzNTc2NWVjZCxSS05pV3FuTA%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167082968286%2Fnanowrimo-day-3-on-breakups&m=0" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</i></b></div>
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And here is an excerpt from my email back:</div>
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I believe, from personal experience, that life isn’t all flowers and roses and that people don’t recover from trauma smoothly. I wrote this novel in the middle of losing my dad to cancer, and I wanted it to portray that strength that comes (sometimes) through grief, but also to contain a lot of dad-love and hope for the future. The story itself is based on my own experiences, and on those of the dude, [SPOILER omitted]. Such a [SPOILER] can change your entire personality, but most peopole don’t care about that because they’re used to the usual romance tropes. But I wanted to create a <b>realistic romance</b>, where things go bad, but you overcome them. So the fact that you understood and loved that meant the world to me. </h2>
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Anyone else with me? Anyone feel the importance of the path to happiness<b> not</b> being smooth? At least in our books, we can help our characters towards a happy ending, whether that means they don’t die in the end or that they end up together with their true love. </div>
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Maybe, after all’s been said and done, that’s the greatest thing art can aspire to: It feels real, even if it isn’t, and it depicts life while uplifting us, even when life itself does. </div>
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<b>Read more about Ari and Wes, as well as the first three chapters of the book for free <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.com%2F&t=MmVhYzZkOGI1MTNjNDJhZGViYTBkZTI1OTU1NGMxYmY0MjRjNmVjOCxSS05pV3FuTA%3D%3D&b=t%3AbrgO_6M8xrWcwp9cKUiSsg&p=http%3A%2F%2Fmcfrankauthor.tumblr.com%2Fpost%2F167082968286%2Fnanowrimo-day-3-on-breakups&m=0" style="border: 0px; color: #4ea3d0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>!</b></div>
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<i>Fast, Futuristic, Creative. -Yesha, Books Teacup and Reviews</i></div>
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<i>My new obsession and yours too! No Ordinary Star reads like a love letter to humanity. -S. E. Anderson, author of Starstruck</i></div>
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<i>This book is magic. -Alex Rowe, @captain.valour</i></div>
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<i>I fell head-over-heels in love! -D.C.</i></div>
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<i>Oh, how I’ve already fallen in love with our two main characters, tin solider and match girl. -Rebecca Raven</i></div>
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Current rating on goodreads 4.8 stars | Pages 230</div>
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<b>Main characters:</b></div>
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<b>A S T R A S T E A D F A S T - </b>the match girl</h2>
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Fiery red hair, tortured past, sass, courage, loves stories passionately. She is a warrior at heart, but has been deprived of love her entire life. That doesn’t mean she can’t give it, however. Abundantly. Even if it means sacrificing her own life.</div>
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<b>F E L I X H U N T E R - </b>the tin soldier</h2>
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High IQ, no emotions, strong, trained to kill. His world is tumbling to ashes around him, and it’s all he can do to hold on. He hates being vulnerable, but that’s exactly how he finds himself. One thing he’s never had? Someone worth dying for. He might have found her now. He might have found her too late.</div>
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<b>N O V A I N L O S S - </b>No Ordinary Star, <i>book 3</i></h2>
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