by Mia Pride
As if her mind was instinctively fighting against her captor, a bolt of logic shot through her brain, giving her a strong burst of hope. He also had no light, she realized. If she could not see into the darkness, neither could he. Although he seemed to be deeply familiar with this terrain, she had to try and evade him. In one last desperate attempt to escape him, Gwynneth drummed up all of her courage, gathered her dress a little higher, and made to run.
The rocks were too slippery and, as she shifted her body to flee, her foot slid sideways and she crashed down upon both outstretched hands with a jolt of pain that seared her wrists with the impact. The rest of her weight came crashing down onto her right knee as it collided with the rocks below. She grunted in pain, but with determination, she rolled her body away as she crouched low to the ground.
“Gwynneth! Where are you?!” His angry voice reverberated, as if bouncing off of a wall. Her mind quickly processed an image of a cliff, and she suddenly realized where he had taken her. She had been here before, though she could not remember why. He had brought her to the Cliffs of Moher, and he meant to throw her into the sea.
As he took a frantic step forward and swiped his dagger wildly into the air, hoping to make contact with any part of her body, he stumbled on a teetering rock, cursing under his breath. Trying to regain his balance, he sharply stepped forward and tripped on what felt like a fallen branch. His iron dagger clattered loudly onto the rocks as he groaned in pain. “I will find you Gwynneth. And when I do…” He was clenching his jaw with pent up rage as he felt around for his dagger amongst the mossy rocks.
Gwynneth had inadvertently tripped him with her sprawled out legs as she was trying to scramble away, giving her an opportunity to flee. Following the sound of the fallen dagger, she frantically felt around on the ground and came in contact with its cold handle before he did. She grabbed it and scrambled away, crawling forward on hands and knees as she followed the sound of the crashing waves, muffled only by the grunts from this fallen man and the violent whipping of her cloak in the wind. With the dagger secured in her left hand, she felt around the mossy rocks with her right, groping for anything to use as leverage to drag her body forward, toward the cliff’s edge.
Suddenly, her hand grasped nothing but air; there was nothing in front of her anymore. She had reached the edge of the cliff. His cursing voice and struggling grunts grew closer to her with every breath. She had two choices: Allow him to reach her and propel her over the edge, or take matters into her own hands.
Adrenaline ran through her veins as her heart beat loudly in her ears, like a drum guiding her body to the instinctive melody of survival. And, on a deep breath…she jumped.
“Gwynn?” Her name spoken in his rasping voice, riddled with exhaustion and fury, was the last thing she heard as she was enveloped in a blanket of freezing wetness. Everything went black.
I hope you enjoyed the Prologue of Forbidden Fate, Book one of the Sisters of Danu series! You can follow this link to purchase the copy and read the rest of the story! http://amzn.to/2iD8mQ8
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Cheers,
Mia
Acknowledgments
First, I would like to thank my husband, who as always, is my biggest supporter. He is always so patient as I spend hours creating my stories, editing them, and sometimes serving him a frozen pizza (though I do at least warm it up). I love you!
To my mom, you have been, without a doubt, my biggest fan, always shouting from the roof tops for me. I love you very much and appreciate your love and support so much.
And to my readers, thank you for your continued support of my work. I wouldn’t be able to do this without you and I hope you all know how grateful I truly am!
About the Author
Mia is a full-time wife and mother of two rowdy boys, residing in the SF Bay Area. As a child, she often wrote stories about fantastic places or magical things, always preferring to live in a world where the line between reality and fantasy didn’t exist.
In High school, she entered writing contests and had some stories published in small newspapers or school magazines. As life continued, so did her love of writing. So one day, she decided to end her cake decorating business, pull out her laptop and fulfill her dream of writing and publishing novels. And she did.
When Mia isn’t writing books or chasing her sweaty children around a park, she loves to drink coffee by the gallon, get lost in a good book, hike with her family, practice yoga, and drink really big margaritas with her friends!
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