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Black Blood (Time Spirit Trilogy, #2)

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by Melissa Pearl


  Other Books by Melissa Pearl

  Golden Blood (Book 1 of Time Spirit Trilogy)

  Pure Blood (Book 3 of Time Spirit Trilogy)

  EXCERPT FROM PURE BLOOD

  Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida - 2011 AD

  The house was quiet when she arrived. It was more than tempting to head straight to her room and pretend she lived alone, but she wanted to be in her parents' good books for the rest of the week, so decided to seek them out.

  The kitchen, dining room and lounge all sat silent. Rather than hollering through the house like she used to, she began a systematic search. It wasn’t until she reached her father’s office that she picked up on the murmur of conversation.

  Resting her ear against the wood, she ignored the discourtesies of eavesdropping and listened in.

  “I’m telling you it’s changed. When I looked at my notes this morning I had a plan fully mapped out. We could have gone tomorrow, but now my pages are blank.”

  “Which means someone’s gone back and changed something.”

  “It also means all the research I’ve been doing for the last few months has been a waste of time!”

  Gemma flinched at the anger in her father’s voice.

  “We’re running out of time.”

  “Don’t you think I know that?”

  “How could it have changed, Alistair? History doesn’t do that unless we say so.”

  “We’re not the only ones out there who can travel, Pen.”

  “Do you think it was one of the patronus?”

  “Could be, although I thought they were pretty scarce these days.”

  “Maybe one has resurfaced.”

  Alistair sighed. Gemma could picture him behind the wood, rubbing his temple as if the weight of the world was resting on his shoulders.

  “We’re going to need to do some investigating… and I’m going to need to start my search again.”

  She heard pages being balled up and thrown across the room.

  “Well, if anyone’s going to find it, it’s you.”

  Gemma imagined her mother standing behind her father’s chair and kneading his shoulders.

  “How are we going with the...?”

  “Fine.”

  “Suitable?”

  “Pretty perfect, I think. I guess we’ll find out soon.”

  “I better get on with it then. I’d like to make the trip beforehand.”

  Gemma’s brow creased. What were they talking about? What was soon? And what did they need to find before then?

  A huge part of her wanted to creep away from the door and process everything she had just heard, but the wiser part rapped on the wood and burst into the room with a breezy smile.

  “Hey Mom. Hi Dad. I’m home.”

  “Oh hello, sweetie. How was school?”

  She kept her expression bored and shrugged. “Same as always.”

  “Well, I suppose you better get on with your homework then.”

  “Yep,” Gemma nodded with a smile, managing to hide the shock at being dismissed without the usual interrogation. Maybe they were saving it up for later. “I’ll see you at dinner.”

  Shutting the door quietly, she ran to her room and locked herself inside. The conversation she had just swallowed tasted bitter and she couldn’t quite figure out why until a revelation hit her. The shocking arrow of reason pierced her middle and she crumpled to the floor like a rag doll.

  Someone changed history today and her father had noticed. Someone had wiped his research pages blank and it was most likely that that someone was her.

  Table of Contents

  Dedication & Prologue

  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

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Acknowledgements

  About Melissa Pearl

  Connect with Melissa Pearl

  Other Books by Melissa Pearl

  Excerpt from Pure Blood

 

 

 


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