At Death's Door (Deadman's Cross Book 3) by Kenyon Sherrilyn

Author:Kenyon, Sherrilyn [Kenyon, Sherrilyn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780349412252
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Published: 2019-09-09T16:00:00+00:00

Valynda floated above the planks as if she were in a dream. She hadn’t felt so disconnected from her body since the night she’d been murdered.

Bitter memories burned as she recalled that day so vividly. When she’d felt her will bend not to her own desires, but to those of another. One who’d held no love or care for her whatsoever. No regard. He’d only cared about himself and his selfish wants. It’d been the sickest kind of cruelty. To have another person seek to take away her free will and to force his desires on her. He’d been determined to make her his poppet.

Fury rose up inside her as she remembered trying to fight against it but having no ability to do so. No words could describe the helpless, hapless feeling of it. To know something was wrong and to have no one believe her, not even her own parents. No way to let others know what was going on.

She’d felt voiceless. Powerless.

Dehumanized. Even more so then than she did now as a straw doll. No one had seen her, even though she’d been right in front of them. Her soul had screamed out into the abyss and no one had heard or bothered to listen. To this day, she still didn’t know how it was that no one had noticed. How such pain could go unobserved by everyone around her when it was so blatantly obvious.

Yet it did.

Was the world really that self-absorbed?

That uncaring?

The truth was as scary as it was scarring.

And she wished to God she was as ignorant to the answer now as she’d been as an innocent, oblivious child, because the truth was that it was so much easier to pretend that the world and that people were what they should be. Fair, kind, and decent. That evil was always punished for the wrongs it did, and that good would win. She liked to pretend that that was how the universe worked. That the light would always prevail over the dark. Order would forever be restored.

Perhaps that more than anything was what marked the end of everyone’s childhood. The day when you realized that might was what made right.

That evil more often than not triumphed over good and that it never got what it should, and that karma didn’t go after the people it was supposed to. More often than not, life chose its personal whipping boys and girls for no reason and they were beat down at random, over and over again, without any justification whatsoever.

There really was no sense in the world. It was all chaos.

Because God knew that she’d done nothing to deserve her fate. Nothing more than fall in love with a man she shouldn’t have and believed in him, even while he lied to her. That she’d been a good friend to women who’d been bad ones to her.

Now …

She found herself standing on board this enchanted ship full of forsaken and damned women like her. Dressed in everything from gowns to breeches, they came from all walks of life and from every culture, it seemed.

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