Command The Tides

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I’ll help Sarah take Darren. Taya, take my sword and cover us.”</i></div><div class="normal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">    </span>“The girl? She’s like to cut off her own feet as an enemy!” Liam hissed.</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Taya felt her face grow hot. As always when she felt embarrassment closing in, she covered it with anger. She grabbed Jeremy’s sword by the hilt, drawing it out with one smooth motion and swinging it down so the point touched the</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ground just an inch in front of Liam’s foot. She felt Jeremy take a staggering</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">step backward, startled.</i></div><div class="normal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I will not only cut our enemy, I will cut the feet off of our enemy and</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">leave them to bleed in the dirt. I haven’t let us down yet, and I certainly don’t</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">intend to start now. And if you ever call me ‘the girl’ again, I will show you</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">exactly what I am expert at cutting off,” she snarled, and then she hoisted the</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sword and spun on her heel, storming away before he could react.</i></div><div class="normal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She stood at the edge of their sad, sodden company, the hilt of the sword</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">resting snugly in the palm of her hand, her back straight and her head held high,</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and the only thing going through her mind was the fact she had absolutely,</i></div><div class="normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">completely, no idea how to use a sword.</i></div><div align="center" class="normal" style="text-align: center;">♢♢♢♢♢♢</div><div align="center" class="normal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="normal"><br /></div><div class="normal">Book Title: Command The Tides (The Chronicles of Midvalen, Book One)</div><div class="normal">Author: Wren Handman</div><div class="normal">ISBN: 9781623421809</div><div class="normal">Genre: Romantic Fantasy</div><div class="normal">Available in Paperback and Ebook March 17, 2015</div><div class="normal"><br />Amazon: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Command-Tides-W... class="normal"><br />BN.com: <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/comma... class="normal"><br />Goodreads Link: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... style="color: #1155cc;">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... class="normal"><br />Simon and Schuster Link: <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.com/Com... style="color: #1155cc;">http://books.simonandschuster.com/Com... class="normal"><br /></div><div class="normal">Author Bio:</div><div class="normal"><br /></div><div class="normal"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-fareast-font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Wren Handman is a novelist, fiction writer, and playwright. Her first novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Last Cut</i>, was published by James Lorimer Publishing Ltd (Sept 2012) and is aimed at teenagers with reading difficulties. She has published short stories both in print and online, including in the anthology <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voice From the Planet</i> (Harvard Square Editions) and the online magazine <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Crow Toes Quarterly</i>, an award-winning Canadian children’s publication. For regular updates check out her short fiction project, Lucid Dreaming (</span><a href="http://www.wrenhandman.com/lucid-drea... style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-fareast-font-family: "trebuchet ms";">www.wrenhandman.com/lucid-dreaming<... style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-fareast-font-family: "trebuchet ms";">), which responds to original art pieces with flash fiction stories.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "trebuchet ms"; mso-fareast-font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Author Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/wrenhandman" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/wrenhandman </a></span></div><div class="normal"><br /></div><div class="normal"><br /></div><div class="normal"><br /></div>