Crystal Web: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Moonshadow Bay Book 7) by Yasmine Galenorn

Author:Yasmine Galenorn [Galenorn, Yasmine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Nightqueen Enterprises LLC
Published: 2022-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

Back at the house, Killian offered to go get takeout while I read some more of my great-grandmother’s journal. He grabbed up his keys and phone and headed out the door.

I opened the journal to the bookmark and began reading, starting where I had left off.

July 14, 1915: Prue and Esmara went out hunting mushrooms and berries today. I swear, those two will be the death of me. I almost lost them, and it would not be a good end. I sent them over to Clive’s Thicket, and I warned them not to cross the road to the Mystic Wood.

I expected Esmara to behave and to keep Prue in line. After all, Esmara is eight years old, fully old enough to pay attention to what we tell her to do. I told them we would come pick them up in a couple of hours. What I didn’t count on is the allure of wild rabbits. When we arrived to pick them up, they were nowhere to be seen. The raspberry bushes are close to the front of the thicket, and there are plenty of mushrooms around the area. Esmara knows which ones to pick. And they both know not to eat any mushrooms until they get home. With the amount of raspberries available, I didn’t figure either girl would chance eating a mushroom. Unfortunately, I didn’t count on the fact that the rabbits are thick, and both girls love wild animals.

We got there, and found them nowhere to be seen. Brian was worried that some stranger may have carried them off, but that doesn’t happen often here, and everybody knows to look out for everybody else’s children. We began calling for them, and looking around, trying to find the footprints. But we’ve had a heat wave, which is unusual for the area, and there were no prints to be found in the dirt.

I figured they couldn’t have gone far, given how hot it is, but as I stood there at the edge of the thicket, something made me turn around and stare at the Mystic Wood. I could feel something beckoning to me and I knew immediately that my girls were in trouble. Brian and I hurried over to the other side of the road. As we entered the edge of the wood, a sudden hush descended around us, and I felt like we were being watched.

That’s not uncommon with the Mystic Wood, for there are creatures and beings within the boundaries of the woodlands that most humans have never heard of. And then, I saw it—a basket of berries on the ground. I ran over to it, desperately hoping to find my girls nearby. Instead, all we found were the other baskets that they had been carrying. Berries and mushrooms aren’t that heavy, and we had sent them with several baskets each so they could just set them by the side of the road after they picked them, so we could pick them up in the wagon when we arrived.

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