I rushed to Keegan at the wheel. “Turn!” I ordered him, pointing at the beach. “You have to go back and pick them up!”
Brann came up behind me, gently putting his arms around me. “Keira, stop. You know we would, but... it’s impossible.”
“NO!” I screamed, punching him until he grabbed my wrists and shook me.
“It’s too late. Look.”
The beach was dissolving, the forest, the hills, all of it growing more and more transparent as the sun broke free over the horizon, completely visible. I looked back to my Orin. My Weylyn. They were fading away. And as they did, I saw the transition hit them. Just as they shifted their shapes, returning to a human for one final glimpse...
Then the island vanished. They were gone.
Suddenly, instead of being in a few feet of shallow water just off the shore, we were bobbing on the waves, in the middle of the ocean deeps. And this fucking boat still had a hole in the side the size of a pizza. We were already so low in the water, waves were swamping over the sides. We were sinking.
Nothing in sight, no land, no ships. Nothing.
I looked over at the Donn, calmly seated on a locker, his face placid. I remembered what he said, remembering the message the Morrigan’s messenger brought us in the Spirit Temple.
...Death was coming...
* * * * END of BOOK ONE * * * *
About the Authors
Polly Amori dropped out of Yale after founding her successful online business Besotted.com, inventing and selling adult toys and sexual paraphernalia, including her marquee bondage device, the Wheel of Foreplay. But inventing (and testing) erotic devices could not satisfy Polly’s insatiable creative talents, and she turned to writing steamy romance novels. Her early work, (such as “The Amish Pimp Wars”), was critically acclaimed, but not commercially successful. Career lightning struck, though, when Polly hooked up with her current writing partner A. Carr. In addition to the Keira Morrigan Trilogy “Love Among The Runes”, together they have authored such best-sellers as “Batteries Included”,“The Viagra Diaries”, and the highly successful Danish Regency Romance, “Hamlet”. They are currently working on “Pheromones – Scent of Passion”. Polly lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where she raises sled dogs with her lifelong companion, Rex Balto.
A. Carr’s road to literary success began like any other story. It was a dark and rainy night, with a tub of mint chocolate chip ice cream and a bottle of Jack Daniels. A. Carr always had a vivid imagination, and after too many reality shows, and way too many hours daydreaming about being on one, she decided the next best thing would be to purge all her erotic imagination by writing romance novels. At first, it was only a dream, until that fateful day in Atlanta, when she bumped into Polly at the food court. They shared a quick laugh when Polly noticed that, in addition to sipping a Frappuccino, A. was enjoying some not so discreet erotica on her phone. Which A claimed was “research” for her first ever Romance Novel. The two quickly became friends, and before they knew it, they were pounding out steamy books together. Polly’s practical skills at erotica, coupled with A’s wildly vivid imagination, were a perfect match made in Romance Heaven. A. Carr lives in Florida, the sunshine state, where she seldom leaves the house because she hates the sunlight, but needs the D to survive — Vitamin D that is.
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