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ASHES AND PROMISES

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The smell of wet ash and burnt plastic hung heavy in the cold afternoon air long after the last red fire engine pulled away. Black water trickled down the concrete steps of the Dr. Arthur Sterling Memorial Clinic, pooling in the gutters along West End Avenue. The bright blue sign bearing her father’s name was now warped, scorched, and covered in thick soot.

Amelia sat on the back bumper of an ambulance parked across the street, an orange blanket wrapped tight around her trembling shoulders. Her
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  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   Bloodlines in the Sand

    The heavy crunch of steel boots on wet beach pebbles sounded like breaking bone. Three hundred royal southern knights surged out of the pine forest, their golden banners snapping wildly in the damp ocean breeze.Amelia stood frozen on the sand, her arms locked around baby Arthur. Her mind struggled to process the face revealed beneath the silver visor–the broad jaw, the fierce dark eyes, the small crescent scar above the eyebrow that matched a faded drawing her father had kept hidden inside a wooden bible."Julian...?" Victoria whispered, her voice barely audible over the roaring surf. She took a hesitant step forward, dropping her broadsword into the wet sand. "You... you died in the winter fever. Father buried you in the village chapel!"The silver knight didn't lower his sword, but his dark eyes softened as he looked at Victoria and Amelia. "Father buried an empty pine box, Victoria," he said, his voice thick with years of quiet, buried pain. "Mother took me in the middle of the ni

  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   The Shadow of the Crown

    The air in the courtyard turned to ice as the deep, low boom of the black fleet’s horn echoed off the basalt cliffs.Amelia stood frozen on the wet stone floor, her arms locked around baby Arthur, her eyes darting between the dark horizon and her twin sister. Victoria was still backed up against the cold fortress wall, her hand trembling on her sword hilt, her face drained of all color."Eleanor?" Amelia whispered, the name feeling foreign and heavy on her tongue. "Our mother... She's alive?""She can't be," Victoria gasped out, her voice barely carrying over the sound of the crashing waves below. "I saw her tomb in the Royal Crypts! I saw father place her crown on her coffin when we were six years old!""Well, whoever is on those ships just brought fifty black-sailed warships into firing range!" High Chieftain Bryn roared, sprinting toward the stone parapet overlooking the sea. "They're loading the catapults! We have five minutes before this courtyard becomes a pile of burning gravel

  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   The Edge of the Pit

    The sound of crashing waves echoed up from the dark stone opening like the roar of a hungry monster. Cold salt spray blew through the iron courtyard, mixing with the sharp smell of sea kelp and wet leather.Amelia’s heart slammed against her ribs so hard it felt like a hammer striking iron. Her knees trembled, but she locked her joints, keeping her boots planted firm on the wet stone floor. Ten feet in front of her, Duke Cassian stood on the slippery edge of the sea pit, his gold armor gleaming under the dark gray sky. His left arm held baby Arthur suspended over the drop, the child’s tiny wool blanket flapping wildly in the ocean wind.Arthur was screaming, his small fists flailing against the freezing air, his face turning bright red with terror."Cassian, please!" Amelia cried out, extending her trembling hands, her voice breaking into a desperate, sobbing plea. "Please, he’s just a baby! He hasn't done anything to you! Take me! Take my life, but put my son down!"Duke Cassian let

  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   The Poisoned Circle

    Lady Clara’s hand went limp in Amelia’s grip, falling heavily to the cold flagstones. Her dark eyes remained wide open, staring sightlessly up at the rafters as blood pooled beneath her pale head."Clara! No! No, Clara!" Amelia shrieked, pressing her hands against her foster mother's neck in a frantic, hopeless effort to stop the bleeding.Alexander acted instantly. Ignoring the blinding agony in his re-opened chest, he spun around with his broadsword raised, throwing his body in front of Amelia! "Down! Everyone get down!"High Chieftain Bryn and Princess Victoria ducked behind a heavy oak table, their weapons drawn, eyes scanning the shadows of the high stone gallery above the great hall. Lord Marcus dropped to one knee, raising his iron shield to cover the doorway."Where did the bolt come from?!" Victoria demanded, her voice tight with panic as she adjusted her grip on her broadsword."The high eastern arches!" Bryn growled, pointing her battleaxe toward the dark balcony where the

  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   The Blood on the Cradle

    The wooden water bowl shattered against the dirt floor of the barn as Amelia’s hands went completely numb. The room seemed to spin in a terrifying circle of dust and shadows. The scout’s horrific words echoed in her mind like a ringing brass bell–They took baby Arthur."No... no, no, no!" Amelia screamed, her voice tearing from her throat in a ragged, heart-wrenching sob.She sprinted out of the barn into the mud of the courtyard, her vision blurred with hot, blinding tears. High Chieftain Bryn and Princess Victoria rushed after her, catching her by the shoulders before she could throw herself onto a horse."Amelia, stop!" Victoria begged, holding her twin sister tightly as Amelia thrashed frantically against her grip. "You can't ride back to the fortress alone in the dark! You don't know how many southern riders are still in those mountain passes!""They have my baby!" Amelia shrieked, her fists beating wildly against Victoria's silver breastplate. "They have Arthur! They have Clara!

  • She Refused to Love Her Husband   The Line in the Mud

    The iron air grew thick with smoke as the morning wind whipped across the river. Four hundred northern soldiers stood shoulder-to-shoulder on the narrow stone bridge, their iron shields locked tight, facing an ocean of ten thousand southern pikemen.Amelia stood right behind Alexander at the bridgehead, her small iron dagger drawn, her boots caked in cold mud. Her eyes were fixed on the center war elephant across the water, where Duke Cassian raised his lit brass torch over the barrel of black pitch."Alexander, we can't fight ten thousand men on an open field," Amelia whispered, her voice tight with fear. "If those elephants push across the bridge, our shield wall will snap like dry twigs."Alexander didn't turn his head, but his hand reached back, squeezing her fingers tightly. "We don't need to defeat his whole army, Amelia. We just need to hold this narrow choke point until Bryn arrives with the mountain archers." He looked down at her, his gray eyes burning with quiet, fierce dev

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