Category: Bride of Alvar (Redemption Saga, Book 1)

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Drums pound in my ears and a droning hum of voices shivers the ground as I open my eyes to darkness. Something is tied over my eyes, it’s wet and slick like leather. My hands are tied behind my back. My feet are free, but I realize getting up with the blindfold on and hands tied behind my back would inevitably lead to falling or hitting […]

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From what I can see limited by the darkness in the pit of Goblia, this place is like a nightmarish fantasy. The gobli here are not the most comely of creatures either. In fact, I realize very shortly that Fletch is perhaps the most handsome of all gobli males I’ve met. Many of the males have humps on their backs and disturbing eyes the size of tennis balls popping from […]

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Emily rushes to me and grasps hold of my hand. “Lucy, I don’t want to be here. Send me back to Underlund. I don’t know why I agreed.” I don’t fight her and don’t blame her. She had some traumatizing experiences here and it’s understandable. “It’s okay, no one will hurt you here. I think Alvar already wants to make sure those who brought you here are punished.” “So, you […]

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Underland is beautiful. I can’t help thinking this as we travel together in our royal company. After exiting the city, we’re surrounded by jungle, mountains, lush plains, and rivers. The air, however, is humid and makes my clothes stick and hair curl. I realize there must be a sort of air conditioning in the palace, for I don’t feel such heat there. We follow a white brick path, which snakes […]

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Titan is provided to me in the courtyard when I join the others. Leeza saw to it that I wear a beautiful white dress made of spider silk and draped with strings of white crystals. I’m relieved to find Emily sitting astride a brown mytonir beside Titan, it’s nice to have someone familiar amid all the strange to accompany me. “You’re coming with?” I ask. “Yes,” Emily says, she pats […]

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I’m suffocating in the mist. Everything turns black. I grasp at the nothing around me as reality continues to evade. The sensation is similar to the dreams where you wake up because you’re falling. “Lucy!” Alvar’s voice whirrs in my head. I open my eyes and gasp for air. I’m in Alvar’s arms, he has his ear to my chest, the scar side of his face in my sightline. “Wha-what […]

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Fletch was a gobli who worked in the Ferardian mines as a slave. He was a little grunt of a gobli, scrawny, shorter than a collie, hairless, with long bat like ears, grey-green skin, and a pug-nosed face. There wasn’t any threat in Fletch and that’s why King Saul had chosen him specifically. Alvar spotted him under the dim lights of the mines pounding at a chunk of rock. “I […]

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Six days later I’m beginning to get into the swing of things at the palace: Breakfast in my room with my fortunately question-less mother, lunches to either be had with Emily or my mother or to join Alvar with a visiting human lord I never quite caught the name of. Dinners are always with Alvar. Besides his asking my welfare we don’t talk much. He is too busy with diplomatic […]

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“Saul was thrown into your world through the Bridge.” Alvar sighs and his brow furrows with pain, and he backs away from me. “It was the only means to defeat him. Without Arlite he was unable to return. But if he does return, this world and possibly yours will be lost to him.” “What do you mean? You killed the Cursed he owned, didn’t you?” “Lucy, I am the Cursed he used […]

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After eating, I press the caller for Leeza and take a deep breath. I wonder where Leeza spends her time when she’s not waiting on me. Put a brave face on. This is your new life whether you like it or not. And hiding from it isn’t going to help you or anyone else. “What do you need, my queen?” Leeza asks, with a bow. I clear my throat. “I […]

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