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This week's excerpt is from my medieval fantasy romance – A Voice in the Air
Scene Set –Going back to the book I started on just before Dec. This is my sweet medieval fantasy romance - Cadi is a barmaid in a small village. Her love interest has gone off with the knights to fight the trolls.
Ended with this line - last November.
She had privately wept when he’d left to fight the – dare she even think the word? When he’d left to fight the trolls.
Excerpt –
She had heard the word whispered in the pub. The local men had gone to fight not a human enemy, but creatures too big and vicious to be imagined.
The Father Abbot sternly preached that there were no trolls, no dragons, nor no faeries. No magickal creatures walked the earth, only humans. Angels and demons were beings of God and Satan. She’d learned to silence her tongue after witnessing the brutality of the punishment for doubting the Father Abbot’s word.
A gasp from the crowd brought Cadi out of her thoughts.
Six more horses entered the village square. Six more wives or mothers screeched with gladness.
Then no more.
The crowd waited.
Hopes dwindled.
Fear consumed souls.
Thirty-three men had answered the call to fight. Seven broken men returned.
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Squire Ewen followed his liege into battle with a head full of romantic notions of knights, heroics, and damsels in distress. Being captured by a troll, thrown into a cave, and awaiting a hideous death was not how he had foreseen his adventure to play out.
Can Ewen stay out of trouble long enough for Cadi to rescue him? Will Cadi overcome her doubts and fears and bring her beloved Ewen home to Plucks Ridge?
Or will the petty evilness of The Scorned One defeat all and destroy the magickal realm?
If you love action, humour, quirky characters, and romance, then Daryl Devoré’s latest medieval fantasy romance – A Voice in the Air – is a must read.
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That last line! What a gut puncher.
ReplyDelete:-) Exactly what I wanted it to be.
DeleteThat moment--when hope is finally gone for any more to return--is heartwrenching. Beautifully done, Daryl. Congrats! Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteWow - thank you Jenna.
DeleteThe last line was a shock. I'll bet the scene of those broken men must have been awful.
ReplyDeleteLast line really shocking and now the intriguing begins
ReplyDeletethe beginning of this story is so raw. Tweeted.
ReplyDeleteThirty-three men had answered the call to fight. Seven broken men returned." Not what I expected. Intriguing. Well done. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYou're so versatile, Daryl.
ReplyDeleteI particularly liked your portrayal of the Church's close-your-eyes-and-pretend attitude.
An impactful scene. I can imagine the sorrows for the families whose loved ones didn't return. Tweeted.
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