The Rising Tide Novels & Stories

Then suddenly, he scooped me up and held me so tightly it felt like I might melt into him. "Yes. Yes, we are," he said in my ear, the laughter he couldn't hide bubbling through his voice. Outside, the city lights stretched out like a glittering galaxy. I used to think my life would just be surviving in this concrete jungle, struggling like a weed and quietly fading away. I never expected that with ten thousand dollars, I could buy a piece of the sea from a dark basement. From then on, my world had tides.

I could feel the power that brought us, and the little seed of hope for our future rooted and bloomed. Introductions went around. Alex’s mate Iris and Eric’s mate Tabitha were bombarded with questions from Kayla and Seren, while Alexis just sat back and watched with a smile on her face. Alex and Eric were both clearly besotted, and I doubted it would be long before they took their mates to their rooms to bond fully. I met Gideon’s eyes and saw the same hope I felt – he recognized the work of the Goddess here, too, giving us this last piece of strength before we moved into the final battle.

She willed her mind to go forward and immediately her vision slid along the length of the coil, gaining speed as it went. She moved so quickly along the glowing coil that everything around her flew by in flashes and streaks of color. The flowing colors came to an abrupt halt as she reached the end of the coil. The sky was a deep navy blue as if the sun had not yet risen above the horizon. Cole stood on a ladder at the roof of his house. Several tools were scattered across the roof and he held a hammer in his left hand while he sucked on his right thumb with his eyes closed and his face contorted in pain.

A faint star, beyond the wastes, in the sea cliffs. Lyra’s shard flickered, her voice, my voice, soft but certain. The remnants mentioned it, she said, her eyes distant, like she saw the city’s spires instead of sand. The Tide, they called it, a node not forged but found, where the Veil touches the world’s edge, not chaos but… something else, older, wilder. The shades there aren’t chaos, they’re tides, bound to the trinity, to us. Killian groaned, rubbing his bruised shoulder, his face grim. "Tides, shades, echoes," he muttered, "can’t we just deal with a storm or a bandit crew? I’m done with magical nonsense trying to kill us."

They can't keep their hands off eachother. As his band gets recognition and everything starts to turn around for them, Faris finds himself caught in a controversy one that could ruin his career and his dream. The band faces backlashes and is on the edge of breaking and on the other hand everything turns upside down in his fairytale love story.

No words were needed for understanding each other. As the sun was setting on the west, and the last sunrays of the day bathed the deck of the sailboat, Luke and Sarah embarked on another journey that would take them to unimaginable heights, heights that only two of them together could reach . Nothing else but them existed in this world now. Nothing was important, nothing held enough significance… not even the distant sound of the roaring engine Luke’s ears picked up but never paid enough attention to.

And I was washed away in a wave of Cazz so deep and pure, it threatened to steal my soul. ***** Soundtrack for the next chapter is “Rise Above it All” by UNSECRET and Mike Mains.

I eye it as it approaches Teddy. "Teddy! Behind yo-" I start to warn him when something about the wave catches my eyes. The wave seems to froth and stand in one spot. And the saltwater falls away, but something underneath pushes up. It stands higher than the height of the wave itself. Almost as if...

I said laughing and Nikolay chuckled kissing my cheek. “No, your body is going to adjust and the tide is just coming up” Nikolay teased and I laughed, I knew that the tide was rising but that meant waves and I was not planning on being thrown out of the water to go back inside and get kicked out by some huge wave. That seemed to be Nikolay’s plan at the moment and it was something that I loved doing if we were speaking on normal, DAY LIGHT states. But it was night and I wouldn’t be able to see the rising wave. Okay, I would but it wouldn’t be as clear as it is during the day, I’d need to rely on HEARING the wave’s sound to hear and predict the impact.

I said laughing and Nikolay chuckled kissing my cheek. “No, your body is going to adjust and the tide is just coming up” Nikolay teased and I laughed, I knew that the tide was rising but that meant waves and I was not planning on being thrown out of the water to go back inside and get kicked out by some huge wave. That seemed to be Nikolay’s plan at the moment and it was something that I loved doing if we were speaking on normal, DAY LIGHT states. But it was night and I wouldn’t be able to see the rising wave. Okay, I would but it wouldn’t be as clear as it is during the day, I’d need to rely on HEARING the wave’s sound to hear and predict the impact.