Scarlet Dawn: A Scarlet Night Novel (Behind the Vail) by Parker Megan J. & Squiers Nathan

Author:Parker, Megan J. & Squiers, Nathan [Parker, Megan J.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Tiger Dynasty Publishing
Published: 2014-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

Nicc’oule couldn’t see past the burning haze of her tear filled eyes. She hadn’t been able to stop crying since the moment she’d seen Raith captured. That wretched thing had been cursed; it had been evil. Wherever it had come from—whatever its purposes—it had poisoned her entire tribe and turned them into ravenous lunatics.

It had driven them to use the one spell their people had sworn never to unleash.

A spell that should have never been allowed to be brought into existence.

A spell every bit as horrible as the relic that had driven it into being.

A spell called Maledictus…

She’d wanted only to free her people of the thing that she saw as a cancer to the goodness of her people, and her efforts had gotten the man she loved killed.

And now his friend—this vampire; this… Zane—was forced to carry the literal weight of his death beside his heart; was forced to see the world through the shared gaze of a beloved friend.

This Zane would have to carry their failure through every terrible act that the enchanted ink they’d laced beneath his flesh condemned him to commit.

And when word got out to the mythos Council that a taroe tribe had committed this unspeakable act on one of their own, there would be hell to pay.

Still unable to see past the burning haze of her tear filled eyes, she blindly navigated the chasm to her and Raith’s secret cave; a cave that she’d never again get to share with him.

Soon enough her village would be wiped out—made an example of by the non-human government who had made it clear to their people long ago that the Maledictus curse was never to be anything but a rumor. And while there seemed to be a poetic justice in letting Raith’s people see an end to her life for getting him mixed up in her tribe’s troubles, she couldn’t bring herself to stand upon the ground as one of the monsters that her people had allowed themselves to become…

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