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Love is not counted in years
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Love is not bound by distance
Love is bound by blood
In the Ancient World
In the New World
Love will prevail
Some will kill for love — Some will die for love
Some will love until it hurts.
And some will make the greatest sacrifice of all.
Evil has a name… Grigori
Blood thirsty Fallen Angels, the true Demons behind the legendary Vampire stories.
From an Ancient World they came…
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Paradox – Bound By Blood. Characters
Book 3, Paradox – Bound By Blood – BBB – is due for release 28th October 2012
“Shh,” Damon said in a hushed whisper, his face so close she could feel his warm breath on her cheek. “Do you believe in destiny, Grace? That the unimaginable power that creates time and space can be altered for a purpose?”
Some of the faces behind the names.
Excerpt – Bound By Blood – - -
Pandora swallowed, choked, spluttered for breath. Her chest heaved, drawing gasps of fiery air that her lungs could not extinguish. “It hurts,” she said, grabbing her throat. “You never told me it would hurt.”
“Sit up,” he said, his tone indifferent. He handed her a goblet. “Drink, it will help the transition.”
Pandora raised the goblet to her mouth and drank, hesitantly at first, but when the fire in her chest subsided with each mouth full, she drank hungrily. “I will not fail you, my Lord,” she said, placing the empty goblet on the table.
“Welcome to the family,” Lord Grig said. “Now, I think you should run along. Go find yourself a prince to sweep you off your feet.”
“Will I have abilities?” Pandora asked.
“Limited. You will no doubt have the power of coercion which will allow you to survive in our world.”
“And Abaddon?”
Lord Grig rested back in his seat. “Don’t worry your pretty little head about Abaddon. Abaddon has a very short memory when it comes to pretty little things like you.”
Lord Grig drank from the second goblet on the table. “A toast,” he said, raising his goblet, “to the future Lady of House Grigori.”
Pandora stood, straightened her gown, and smiled, euphoric with the life that lay ahead of her. A privileged life, where she would never grow old again. A life where no man, mortal or otherwise, would ever hurt her again.
Pandora would soon discover, however, that in life, there is always an exception to every rule, and that exception was Theria.
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Excerpt:
“The Human Brain Book,” he said, reading the title. “Hmm, pretty heavy topic for lunch time reading, don’t you think? You look more like a Fifty Shades girl.”
“Oh please, give me some credit. I’d rather shoot myself in the foot than read that dribble.”
“So what’s with this then?” he said, holding up the book. “You thinking about becoming a brain surgeon?”
“I thought it might help me understand the human brain. See what makes the entire male species of the human race so stupid.”
The boy smiled. “Not all of them, surely? I, for example, am most certainly not stupid.”
“Then you aren’t human,” Emily said smugly.
He slapped his forehead playfully and grinned. “Oh, you’ve found me out, and so quickly. Now I will have no choice but to kill you.
“Oh, little flower, I see you have met my brother, Chace,” Caleb said, materializing in front of them.
Lyssa skulked up behind him, and smirked. “So, Chace, this is the kind of girl you fancy these days,” she said, raking a black fingernail down Emily’s arm.
Emily shoved Lyssa’s hand away, looking from Caleb to Chace. “You’ve got to be frigging kidding me. You’re brothers?”
Chace shrugged. “What?” he asked innocently.
Emily, shook her head, shoving the book in her bag. “You can all go to hell,” she said, turning her back and walking away.
“Let her go, Chace,” Lyssa said dryly, studying her fingernails, then the look on Chace’s face. Lyssa slid a hand through the crook of his arm and wiped his lower lip with her finger. “You’re drooling, my dear sweet, Chace.”
Chace pulled away, forcing Lyssa to tighten her grip on his arm. “Let her go. You can do a lot better than that if you ask me.”
“Nobody’s asking you, Lyssa,” Chace said, peeling her fingers from his arm. “Now, if you’ll excuse me.”
Lyssa scoffed. “Are you just plain stupid, or high?”
“Neither,” Chace replied, tilting his head. “You just don’t do it for me anymore, Lyssa.”
“Really? Then you’re very stupid and high.”
“Brother,” Caleb said, putting a hand on Chace’s shoulder to study him. “I nearly didn’t recognize you with the new Justin Bieber hair cut. Looks good on you, shorter hair suits you, but what are you doing here? I though you preferred Europe this time of the year? Souls, snowflakes and roaring fireplaces… All very romantic. Far more desirable than a school library, don’t you think?”
Excerpt:
In the West, a grey mist rose slowly from the ground. Akimi walked her white stallion in the forest, something she had taken to doing every morning since her pregnancy. The stallion, a gift from her husband, the emperor, nudged Akimi’s hand, making her giggle. She pet the animals nose, put her hand in her pocket and presented the stallion with a wedge of apple.
Fallen leaves, crisp with age, crackled beneath foot and hoof as they ambled along the well-worn path.
“Ouch,” Akimi moaned, frowned, then clutched her pregnant belly, barely noticeable under the soft layers of her flowing white gown. Beads of perspiration dotted her brow. Her cheeks flushed with the excruciating pain in her belly. “No, no, no, no,” she groaned, bending over to ease the pain. “It’s too soon,” she whispered to herself.
Another set of footfalls on the fallen leaves made Akimi turn her head. A Mongol girl, the same age as Akimi, stepped from the shadows cast by the tall trees. “Help me,” Akimi begged, dropping to her knees on the bed of damp leaves, still damp with morning dew. “Fetch the doctor. My baby is coming. Hurry!”
“I have a message for you,” the girl said, putting an arm around Akimi’s shoulders. “Rest against me,” she encouraged tenderly.
“You have a message from my husband, Ye Wen?” Akimi asked, squeezing her eyes shut with each new wave of pain. “Please, I need a doctor,” she panted.
“Your husband has cast Judgment. Now it is you who must pay for his sins.”
Akimi looked at the girl through her tears. “What? I don’t know anything about judgment. I just need a doctor, please. I beg of you. My baby, it’s coming!” The stallion nudged Akimi’s cheek with his damp nose.
The girl, holding Akimi firmly against her, slid a dagger from the folds of her brown robes and slid it effortlessly across Akimi’s throat.
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Bound By Blood – Bits and Pieces of Inspiration – pics and music
Pieces that inspired me while writing book 3 in the Paradox Series.
The Ancient World – Akimi – The Khitan Princess from the Khitan Empire. The youngest wife of Yu Wen, the Emperor.
Flashback to the Bombing of Darwin during the second World War – More bombs were dropped on Darwin than during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Character Phoebe Preble/Juliette was inspired by and dedicated to Iris Bald.
Fact: Arrangements had been made that Iris would shelter in the trenches near her employment with her fellow workmates. However, as she was in the Post Office complex when the air raid siren sounded, it was natural for her to join her parents in the Post Office trench.
When the air raid siren sounded the post office staff took shelter in the trenches that had been dug around the complex. Unfortunately a bomb landed on the one sheltering Hurtle, Alice and Iris Bald, among others, killing them all instantly.
Iris Bald was buried in a temporary grave at Kahlin Beach; she was then re-buried at the Berrimah War Cemetery, and her final resting place is the Adelaide War Cemetery.
Iris received a Civil Service Medal 1939–1945 posthumously on 9 January 1998. This medal is for civilians who served in arduous circumstances in support of the war effort as part of organizations with military-like arrangements and conditions of service.
Iris, Alice and Hurtle Bald each have a street named after them in the Darwin suburb of Alawa. Nearby there is also a Bald Park and Bald Circuit named in their honor.
R.I.P
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Music – Especially, Two Steps From Hell
Epic Fantasy Worlds
Battle Scares
Love Scars Us All
The Ancient World
Grace and Riley – Halo & As long as you love me.
Cleona and Cerberus – Fireflies
Wade and Kate – A drop in the ocean.
Wade and Kate
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Love is not counted in years
Love is counted in heartbeats
Love is not bound by distance
Love is bound by blood
In the Ancient World
In the New World
Love will prevail
Some will kill for love — Some will die for love
Some will love until it hurts
Some will make the greatest sacrifice of all.
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Excerpt: Bound By Blood. And The Boy Becomes The Monster
Excerpt:
Cerberus tosses in his sleep, dreaming. He dreams about the past, the present, dark creatures from the future, circling, preparing to posses him.
He dreams about Cleona. Holding her hands in his, dancing barefoot, flowers in her hair, her long gown brushing the grass under her feet as she twirls. Her head thrown back, laughing, arms out stretched. Fireflies dance above her head, as though they, too, are in awe of her joy, her beauty, her innocence.
Darkness falls; a cool breeze chokes the golden leaves from twisted tree branches. Fingers like knotted twigs reach down and pull Cleona into the misty shadows. Cerberus reaches for her, calling her name as he runs into the darkness after her, his arms searching. Cleona sees Cerberus’s face, his teeth bared, his chin damp with blood, and she screams, horrified by the monster standing in front of her.
In that moment, Cerberus knows that he has lost Cleona, his reason, forever.
Cerberus’s eyes flashed open, and for the first time in his life, they burn a fierce angry yellow, the eyes of a monster.
Ron Pope – Fireflies. The piece that help to inspire Cerberus’s Dream, and his love for Cleona.
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The Story:
Long ago, in an almost forgotten Realm, a race of fallen Angles called the Grigori clash with a ruling house of Angels Called the Bulguardi. Their battle changed events in the Ancient World and the New World forever. A Realm where a year can last centuries and an Ancient magical people still rule, even the immortals face danger. Rising up from their imprisonment underground on Altair, evil has returned and the Grigori are on a destructive path of revenge. When their preferred food source becomes scarce, Earth, a world teaming with humans, becomes their target.
Trapped in the middle between the old world and the new, a little girl is cursed with horrific visions from the past. From an Ancient world to the new world on Earth, this is a tale of myth and legend, mayhem and magic, birth and death. A tale of families torn apart, souls searching for lost loves, and evil is walking out of the shadows. You can run, but you cannot run forever.
Over the centuries, from the time before time, the Grigori were called many things. In Greece, they called them, Vrykolakas. In Romania, Strigoi. In earlier times, there were others. Other blood-sucking demons, that preyed on the innocent. In ancient Babylonia, it was Lilitu and her sistren, who instilled fear among the Babylonians. In the new world, they would go by another name. Vampire.
A world that defies logic and reason. A world that may very well be true: Paradox – The Angels Are Here.
I have loved and lost in so many different ways. And I have died endless deaths… So when I ask myself the question today, who am I? My answer is…I do not know. My name is Juliette. Nine hundred years ago, I died. Today, I am alive… this is my story.
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Excerpt from book 3 – Bound By Blood
Chapter 1 – I Will Remember
New World – Darwin 2009
You will fly and you will crawl; God knows even angels fall. No such thing as you lost it all. God knows even angels fall. It’s a secret no one tells; One day it’s heaven, one day it’s hell.
Even Angels Fall – Lyrics by Jessica Riddle
“Run!” A girl’s voice screamed into the night, breaking the spell of Damon’s kiss, and tearing me away from his embrace.
However, it wasn’t the warning from the blond-haired girl standing rigid with bow in hand preparing to shoot that alerted Damon to the pending danger, but the guttural sound resonating from the throat of the advancing black beast from the shadows. He swung around, pushing me behind him and then crouched, preparing for the attacking animal. The menacing growl from Damon’s lips made me shudder. In the eyes of any mortal, boy and beast were both adept instruments of death in their own lethal way.
“Run!” the girl shouts again over the crashing waves far below as she swiftly pulled an arrow taunt in her bow until her fingers rested gently against her cheek. Then she took aim, released her fingers, and let the arrow fly toward the predator leaping high into the air. The arrow, true to its target, pierced the skull of the animal dead center between its yellow eyes, felling the rancid smelling beast with a heavy thud at Damon’s feet. Immediately, as if on cue, with lips pulled back over a row of razor-sharp fangs, another beastly hound leapt forward to take the downed beast’s place.
The blonde girl released another arrow, sending it soaring through the air, and impaling the beast solidly in its hindquarters. The beast howled in agony, whipped its massive head around, seized the projectile between its fangs, and yanked the arrow, coated with its own blood and sinew, from its flesh with one quick flick of its head.
The animal, although wounded, stayed true to its task.
Its enormous paws drummed the earth as the beast powered forward at an alarming pace. Then suddenly it leapt into the air, long claws protruding from its paws, ready for its lethal impact.
The girl shot another arrow, bringing the beast down at our feet. “Get her out of here, now!” She yelled at Damon as a bolt of lightening crackled through the black sky, charging it with an electric humming sound, inaudible to the human ear. “I can take care of this. Go!” she yelled, as she aimed and released another arrow. She shot another, then another as further beasts, fangs drooling with threads of saliva, leapt out of the long shadows cast by the walls of the two-story school building.
Damon nodded and called back, “Holly, are you sure you can do this?”
“Yes, go!” she shouted again as she worked another arrow taunt in her bow. “I’ve got this. Go!”
Damon grabbed my hand and swiftly spun me around – and we ran… The storm escalated with each footfall, whipping the beautiful long gown around my legs – Grace’s legs. I started to fall, but Damon gripped my hand tighter and pulled me back onto my feet. Muddy puddles of water, from the earlier storm, splashed up my legs as I ran, soiling the skirt of the long gown. I reached down with my free hand and gathered up the layers of fabric in my arm.
I could smell the foul breath of the beast as it thundered behind us along the dark cliff face, each second bringing it even closer. I could feel Grace’s heart pumping in my chest as she struggled against me to take back her body. Another wave crashed, spraying us with a mist of salty seawater. I hung on with all of my strength onto Grace’s body. I was stronger, faster. I could do this. I could save her.
“Are you okay, Juliette?” Damon’s shout, almost inaudible by the howling wind as it whips around us. I nod in response. Inside I sensed Grace shaking her head. Her eyes are wide and frantic, brimming with tears. I tried to subdue her, telling her that everything will be okay, if she would just let go, close her eyes, and pretend to sleep. Even if she didn’t know it, didn’t trust me, she needed me to take care of her…
“Just a bit further,” Damon shouted, indicating a spot just up ahead. “The rocks begin to fall away just beyond that tree. If we jump out far enough, we will miss the rocks and land on the beach. Can you do it?”
‘Nooo!’ I hear Grace’s panicked voice scream in my head, deafening me until all I can hear is her voice. ‘I can’t do it. The cliff’s too high. Please don’t do this… The fall will kill me!’ I can feel Grace’s fist beating against me from the inside in a vain attempt to escape this insanity. ‘It’s just a dream,’ I whisper to her silently. ‘Go back to sleep, Grace.’ For a moment, I feel her let go, giving me control of her body.
Damon squeezes my hand. “Juliette, are you ready?” he shouts as we neared the edge of the cliff face.
I spin my head around. The beast is only seconds behind us, leaving us no choice but to jump.
“Yes!” I reply, as I feel Grace gasp, hold her breath, and grip Damon’s hand even tighter. I hear her uttered a prayer, ‘God help me,’ and then, ‘I don’t want to die. Don’t let me die!‘ Then Grace did something that I was not expecting. She squeezed her eyes shut, leaving me blind…
I feel nothing but air beneath my feet as we jump, hand in hand, into the dark void. Had we jumped out far enough to miss the rocks? I can’t tell. I feel Grace’s body prepare for the fatal impact as every muscle tenses, leaving me with one thought – that I had failed this girl, too. I will Grace to open her eyes. ‘Please, Grace,’ I say, pleading with her. ‘I can’t see. You have to let me see. Please, open your eyes…’ I feel the quickening pulse of electricity crackle through her veins, and then her eyelids spring open, giving me sight once again. ‘Thank you,’ I say silently, praising her.
For a few precious moments, as though frozen in time, we stop falling and we appear to float, suspended by an invisible thread from the heavens. All at once, my hearing becomes amplified, allowing me to hear the most miniscule of sounds all around me – a twang, the flutter of a bird’s wing in flight, a sizzling disturbance in the air currents. Grace’s breathing. Then the unmistakable sound of death. A morbid pop followed by a sharp crack – the sound of tearing flesh and bones being broken. A garbled hissing sound, as air escaped from a punctured lung, as one of Holly’s arrows tore into the ribcage of a ravenous beast.
A gush of putrid smelling blood and saliva spews from between the animal’s fangs as it opens its mouth and exhaled one last breath. Then its lifeless body, contorted by death, crashed on the rocky outcrop far below.
A bolt of lightening streaks across the sky, severing the invisible thread that keeps us suspended, and we begin to fall. I am alarmed at how fast the earth below is rushing up to greet us… I turn to look at Damon, searching for answers, but he just smiles, unaffected by the foreseeable death on the rocks below.
For I see now, with absolute certainty, that we have not jumped far enough out from the cliff face. The white sandy beach, which would have cushioned our fall, is still too far away to offer us any refuge from our pending fate.
So this is how this life, Grace’s life is going to end. I will remember her, of course, just like I remember all the others. This beautiful girl, Grace, who misses her dead father everyday, I will remember. The girl who fears the loss of her mother, and being left alone in this world, I will remember. A girl who dreams about a boy, and falling in love, I will remember. The same boy who is going to let her die, so that I may live again, I will remember.
How could I have been so wrong to put my trust in Damon? Had I learned nothing? Was this his plan all along, to sacrifice Grace’s life in a bid to take me from this place?
Grace, sensing her looming predicament, inhaled a sharp breath and screamed, blocking out the sounds from the thunderous claps of thunder and the smashing waves that are crashing violently all around us – just Grace’s scream, exploding in my mind and the sensation of the salty damp air on my skin as we plummet earthward… toward Grace’s death. I see faces flash before my eyes. Kate, Brian, Wade, Angela, Joshua, Abe, Patrick and Zach. Grace is saying goodbye to all those she loves.
“I’m so sorry, Grace,” I whisper. “I’m so sorry.” Then I close my eyes, too, and wait for the end. I will remember.
