Snippet Sunday: Magic of the Loch (The Legend #13) #SPeekSunday #8sunday #snippetsunday
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Now for Snippet Sunday and this is another snippet from Magic of the Loch. This is the legend and how it all began... Snippet #13.
The Wild Rose Press
Kindle
NOOK
Blurb:
Michaela Grant travels to Scotland for a holiday, knowing this vacation is her last. A medical condition threatens her life and any chance of a future—until she meets Alan MacLachlin, a man forced to exist between two worlds.
Alan is the legendary Loch Ness Monster. Once every fifty years he returns to human form in search of his soul mate, the one woman who can break his curse. He believes he has found forever with Michaela, but to claim it he must figure out how to save her life.
Michaela and Alan vow to take what time has to offer, but another threat looms. A sinister shape shifter with a vendetta against Alan is making Loch Ness his personal hunting ground. Now he’s threatening Michaela. Alan must discover who the shifter is and stop him before it’s too late.
Update: This scene takes place a few paragraphs later from snippet 12 and has been tweaked a wee bit to fit the sentence limit.
Alan demands that he and his brother should have a chance for redemption. The Druid agrees to this, but he is not going to make it easy. The brothers will live within the loch for a half a century, then they will be allowed to come ashore to find their soul mate to break the curse.
Now for the snippet:
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“We will be human and no’ the beast,” Alan asked, wanting the terms clarified. “We will be able to search as far as needed for our soul mate, aye?”
“Ye will still be chained to the loch, and will no’ be able to resist its pull. Only during those fifteen years will ye be able to shift from beast to human and back again. If ye doonae find yer soul mate, ye will return to the loch as the beastie for another half a century.” His shoulders lifted in a shrugged. “Ye’ll have to bide yer time for another chance and so on through the years.”
“An endless cycle,” Alan murmured with grim acceptance. He looked to his brother. “Ye need no’ share my fate. I will do this myself.”
“I shall go where ye go, brother.” He clasped Alan’s shoulder.
“So be it.” Druid Daly raised his staff and commanded the magic.
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There were a few extra sentences, but this concludes the Legend portion of Magic of the Loch!
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