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Today, I am showcasing a snippet from my sweet
medieval romance – A Voice in the Air.
Scene
Set – Cadi is in trouble. She crossed a line.
Excerpt
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Sunday morning the church bell called everyone to mass. Cadi
lay on her cot, staring at the ceiling. It was not her room. It was a cell; three
stone walls and a thick wooden door with a small window. In the far corner, her
chamber pot. In the other, a small table on which lay a candle and a bowl.
Inside it, the remains of her once-a-day meal. The abbot had confined her to
this room for three days for her sin. He instructed her to think about what she
had done and how she needed to beg forgiveness, not from him but from God.
Forgiveness for singing.
By the fourth day of funerals and working at The White Goat,
she was physically and emotionally tired. The monks sang their funeral dirge
for the final time. She had not meant to sing. But the release was
overwhelming. Days of heartache, cries, and the sad faces of bewildered children
had pushed her to an edge. She was unable to stop her voice. It rose above the
monks’, singing the same words which she believed were asking God to save the
souls of those lost.
The sheriff had grabbed her by the hair and dragged her from
the chapel, yelling, “Be quiet, ye blasphemous wench. How dare ye violate such
a sacred moment.”
She tried to reason with an angry abbot that she was just
singing to help their voices reach God’s ears. He berated her for the impudence
of her thinking she should sing such holy words or that God would listen to…
her; an unmarried, childless woman. The scorn on his face as he looked down his
long nose was like a giant rock crushing her soul.
She had sinned.
The church bell hushed.
She felt alone —
abandoned.
As she had been so many years ago. Small, scared, and alone.
The cold of winter biting through her cloak. Near death, she sang out to the
heavens for a release from the pain of her hunger, the cold, and her discarded
soul.
Warm arms rescued her. She embraced a childhood with loving
parents and a warm home. Then the sickness came. Many died.
Again, she was alone.
There was a scratching at her door. She peered out. Enfys, the
old woman, hunched over from her ancient years, peered up. “Out ye come, girl.
Ye has places to be, and this be not one of them.”
Blurb and Links -
Leading an army of faeries and pixies into battle against
mountain trolls was not what Cadi expected when she accepted the task of
rescuing Ewen - the son of the Overseer of the Faeries.
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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