First Line Friday – Cursed Bones
Isobel isn’t so good with the social interactions. As you’ll soon see…
The welcome sound of flint striking nearly brought him to his knees. She knelt in front of a huge fireplace, her hands busy coaxing a flame from the spark she’d struck. As he got closer, he saw something he’d missed in their earlier interaction: her wrists had the same dark lines inked over them. They swirled along the back of her neck, as well, eddying up to disappear in the wealth of tangled hair piled messily on her head.
He couldn’t fathom why someone would decorate themselves in such a manner, but nearly everything he’d seen since entering this odd house had left him scratching his head.
She made quick work of the fire and soon it blazed merrily in its stone home. When she turned to him, she kept her face averted, one marked hand waving vaguely at the neatly stacked wood beside the fireplace.
“You’ll have enough until morning. Don’t let it go out or you’ll get cold.” She didn’t wait for his response, but turned on her heel and disappeared deeper into the room. “And stay out of my tower.”
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Cursed BonesAmazon | Barnes and Noble | iTunes | 24 Symbols | KoboRelease Date: September 21, 2016
Pages: 143
Genre: Paranormal Romance, Twisted Fairytale
Once upon a time, Isobel Grimm had been the favored daughter of one of the oldest families in Grimwood. Prideful, arrogant, and vain, she found out the hard way that not all those she saw as beneath her are weak. Fleeing to her family manor hidden in the depths of the great forest seemed her only option when a powerful curse stole her looks and made her a monster in the eyes of most.
When an intruder invades her sanctuary, Isobel is forced to face some painful truths—she’s lived in solitude far longer than she realized and her problems are only the precursor for something far more deadly. For the trees in the forest are dying, stricken by a mysterious disease rotting them slowly from the inside.
In the manor hidden away from prying eyes, a pact has fallen and the entire forest is paying the price. As a Grimm, it’s Isobel’s duty to right this wrong and reverse the curse spreading across the land.
If she can’t, all of Grimwood may fall.
Until next week!
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