Excerpt:
That was when he saw it. That was when he knew this wasn’t a dream. Or if it was it was, it was his worst
nightmare: The whole right side of her face and body were covered by red, ugly
burn-scars.
He gasped and dropped to his knees, his legs unable to hold him up a
moment longer.
Daedalus came to his side and rested a hand on his shoulder. ‘It’s a bit
of a shock the first time you see it. But after a while you don’t notice it.’
He stared up at the man who had been like a father to him; the man he
blamed for being right about Marcie and him. How could he say this was a bit of
a shock?
But before he had a chance to snap out a retort, Marcie’s body began
jerking as the healing commenced. Though he couldn’t see anything happening, he
could sense it. And so it seemed could Daedalus.
‘It’s her… By all the gods, it’s her,’ Daedalus whispered in awe as he
watched Sabrina’s face, transformed by the Urge that had taken control of her.
He didn’t know what Daedalus meant. He didn’t care what he meant. This
man had had his Marcie all this time. She’d been alive, all this time, and no
one had told him. They’d let him leave the Estate thinking she was dead. And
he’d died that day because of it.
‘You bastard. Why didn’t you tell me?’ he sobbed out, his voice breaking
on the last word.
‘Tell you?’ Daedalus looked at him as if he’d grown a second head.
‘That she lived. They told me she was dead. Her sister told me she was
dead.’
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
BLURB:
Crippled by shyness,
shunned for being not-right-in-the-head, gifted artist and Roman noblewoman,
Marcia Mica, has only two people in the world who truly love her – her teacher,
Daedalus, and her childhood friend, Asterion, both slaves in her father’s
household. But when forbidden love blooms between the unlikely friends, only
disaster can come of it. That disaster leaves Marcia horribly scarred and
Asterion sold into the arena as a gladiator.
Years later, Daedalus
brings a broken Marcia to Britannia, and Sabrina, the healer who saved his life
when he was a boy, works miracles on the scarred girl. However, not all scars
are physical and those Sabrina has no ability to heal.
When Sabrina and Marcia
are kidnapped by a Celtic leader bent on revenge, Asterion must depend on the
dreams of a Celtic Seer to find the love of his life and help foil a revolt
that threatens the fragile peace in Roman Britannia. But even if he and his
friends succeed, can scars that are more than just physical ever really be
healed and can those whose lives are owned by others ever truly be free to
follow their hearts?
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
After a lifetime of teaching
others to appreciate the written word, Aussie author Nhys Glover finally
decided to make the most of the Indie Book Revolution to get her own written
word out to the world. Now, with almost 100,000 of her ebooks downloaded
internationally and a winner of 2013 SFR Galaxy Award for 'The Titan Drowns',
Nhys finds her words, too, are being appreciated.
At home in the beautiful
Yorkshire Dales of England, Nhys these days spends most of her time
"living the dream" by looking out over the moors as she writes the
kind of novels she loves to read: The ones that are a little bit steamy, a
little bit different and wholly romantic.
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