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by Heather Marie Adkins




  Relics and Runes

  An Urban Fantasy and Fantasy Anthology

  Carter & Bradley Publishing

  Contents

  Relics and Runes

  Shadow Touched

  Shadow Touched

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Epilogue

  About the Author

  Remnants of Ash

  Remnants of Ash

  1. Fall of Humanity

  2. The Beast Within

  3. Rise of the Fae

  4. Saying Goodbye

  5. Greeting the Locals

  6. Pike Place Witch Market

  7. A Royal Invitation

  8. Ships That Pass in the Night

  9. Accidental Revelation

  10. Dead Men Do Tell Tales

  About the Author

  Fatal Illusion

  Fatal Illusion

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  About the Author

  Saint Nicky, Demon Hunter

  Saint Nicky, Demon Hunter

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  About the Authors

  Dark Verité

  Dark Verité

  1. The Journey

  2. Vixen and Virgin

  3. In the Village

  4. Black Heart Shadows

  5. Peace in Sleep Only

  6. Verité…Verité Come to Me

  7. Then the Flames Came

  About the Author

  Shadows Wake

  Note

  Shadows Wake

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  About the Author

  Enter the Vale

  Enter the Vale

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  About the Author

  Dragonwar

  Dragonwar

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Epilogue

  About the Author

  Knight Submergent

  Knight Submergent

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  About the Author

  Wild Goose Chase

  WILD GOOSE CHASE

  1. Grace

  2. Remy

  3. Grace

  4. Remy

  5. Grace

  6. Remy

  7. Grace

  8. Remy

  9. Grace

  10. Remy

  11. Grace

  12. Remy

  13. Grace

  14. Remy

  15. Grace

  16. Grace

  17. Grace

  18. Grace

  19. Grace

  20. Grace

  About the Author

  Fey Spy

  Untitled

  Untitled

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  About the Author

  Into the Ether: Palingenesis

  Into the Ether: Palingenesis

  Prologue

  Part I

  1. September 5, 1997

  2. September 5, 1997

  3. September 7, 1997

  4. September 9, 1997

  Part II

  5. April 7, 2008

  6. April 16, 2008

  7. May 13, 2008

  8. May 14, 20
08

  9. May 15, 2008

  10. May 16, 2008

  11. May 16, 2008

  12. May 16, 2008

  13. May 17, 2008

  14. May 17, 2008

  15. May 19, 2008

  16. May 19, 2008

  17. May 19, 2008

  18. May 20, 2008

  19. May 20, 2008

  Part III

  20. April 28, 2008

  21. May 5, 2008

  22. May 5, 2008

  23. May 12, 2008

  24. May 14, 2008

  Part IV

  25. March 18, 2008

  26. May 20, 2008

  27. May 20, 2008

  28. May 20, 2008

  29. May 22, 2008

  30. May 23, 2008

  31. May 23, 2008

  32. May 23, 2008

  33. May 24, 2008

  34. May 24, 2008 afternoon

  35. May 26, 2008

  36. May 26, 2008

  37. May 27, 2008

  38. May 27, 2008

  39. May 27, 2008

  40. May 27, 2008 evening

  41. May 27, 2008 night

  Epilogue

  About the Author

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  Relics and Runes

  A Limited Edition Collection

  Join the quest to unearth magic in Relics and Runes!

  Strong heroines and stalwart heroes seek mythical treasures, wield powerful sorcery, and face down unstoppable forces. Will the survives?

  Delve into twelve brilliant stories of magic, mayhem and monsters to find out! But be forewarned - you won't want to put this collection down!

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  Shadow Touched

  Heather Marie Adkins

  Shadow Touched

  One by one, Senka Hollow residents are falling to the shadows.

  Agent Maurelle Nez was hand-picked by the Reina to track down the worst of the shadow touched and bring them in - dead or alive - and she's good at her job. So good the shadow touched call her "Reaper." Relle isn't afraid to get her hands dirty in the name of the Hollow and the sleeping princess she adores.

  But all is not well in Senka Hollow - Senka's power is fading. When someone close to Relle is murdered, an underground infection is exposed: the council is failing, and more than one person in charge has been shadow-touched.

  Then Senka rises and death comes to the Hollow.

  Seemingly unaffected by the darkness embodied in Senka, Relle must find a way to restore the princess before she destroys the entire population. Her journey will take her deep into her Navajo heritage and make her question everything she knows about being shadow touched.

  Fans of Kim Harrison and Divergent won't want to miss this harsh dystopian with faeries and magick that barrels into a breathless, beautiful conclusion.

  Journey through myth and legend with Relle by ordering your copy today!

  1

  Robert Frost once wrote something about two roads and taking the one less traveled. Pretty words and a pretty idea, but not a good choice for most people nowadays. In Senka Hollow, the road less traveled usually ended in death.

  On my Ducati, winding through the city with the engine alive between my legs, I traveled my own throughways. There were so many safe roads through the Hollow; roads beaten and worn by those who chose the easy route. The protected route. They stayed on the highways picked for them by the people in charge. Approved highways maintained the well-being of the Hollow, of course.

  Approved. Fuck the rules.

  I turned down Mackie and coasted south toward the old reservation, my long black hair a flowing mass behind me. I drifted beneath the overpass, and imagined the echoing thrum of cars overhead to be the heartbeat of the city. All those good people of Senka Hollow, traveling only the roads of which the Rein and Reina approved. The aged asphalt so lovingly maintained this close to city center fell into wreck and ruin the further one drifted from the Core.

  The interstate ramp passed like a ghost. I ignored it and whipped onto Old Reservation Road, kicking my speed up a notch with a heavy black boot as I headed away from ‘safe’ and into the wild.

  The road less traveled, I thought, but this road was well traveled.

  By me.

  I knew every pothole. I knew where the road cracked and buckled and faded into the weeds like a memory of itself. I maneuvered my bike around obstacles as if none existed. Other fae considered this road dangerous - a highway to the outskirts, where the darkest of humanity dwelled, planning to destroy us. Maybe I had a hard time correlating the Old Reservation with danger – it’s where I grew up, after all. And where my tribe still resided: a part of the Hollow, but barely, where my people attempted to maintain a lifestyle I’d given up on long ago.

  But I wasn’t headed to the Res. I said a silent hello as I flew past the turn-off; if I stopped, I’d lose even more daylight than I had already. Plus, my mother would spend fifteen minutes lecturing me on my choice of career, and I didn’t have time for her opinions. I’d promised my brother I’d bring home dinner.

  The further I traveled from the Hollow, the drier the air became. The asphalt crumbled to dust and my tires thumped onto cracked, dry dirt. We weren’t much for plants in the desert, but even the cacti died out here, this far from Rasha’s daughter and the protection she offered us.

 

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