Lights. Camera… Twins?
The minute I saw her, I knew I would have her.
It was as simple as that.
The junior photographer had my greatest “asset” intrigued.
That long cascade of rich-brown hair…
That set of sky-blue eyes…
Those curves in all the right places…
My game of seduction had begun.
Frannie lit a fire within me.
And our night wrapped in silk sheets…
Exploring each other’s most intimate places…
Her camera clicking away…
Hmm, she was my final American pleasure.
I had no intention of seeing her again.
I had other responsibilities.
Back home in Beian.
But then our paths crossed again.
And this time, those sexy curves were different.
Rounder.
Fuller.
Frannie was pregnant.
And the math added up.
I was the father.
Now, Frannie doesn’t trust me.
I don’t blame her.
But, in my world, I have all the power.
I get what I want.
And what I want is her.
Her destiny, our twin girls’ destinies, lies with me.
And me alone.
No matter the cost, Frannie will be my wife. Views: 37
Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters — and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea.On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that music into gold. Making shimmer, Mother Nine calls it. But Delphernia can't make shimmer. She would rather sing than stay silent. When a Master who doesn't act like a Master comes to the skydoor, it's a chance for Delphernia to leave the cloister. Outside the stone dome, the sea breathes like a wild beast, the sky watches with stars like eyes, and even the gardens have claws. Outside, secrets fall silent in halls without sound. And outside, Delphernia is caught — between the island’s sinister Custodian and its mysterious Childer-Queen. Between a poem-speaking prince and a girl who feels like freedom.
And in a debut that glimmers with hope and beauty, freedom — to sing, to change, to live — is precisely what’s at stake. Views: 37
