Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Teaser-- First Pages/ Modern paranormal

My course with mentor extraordinaire Sarah Aaronson has been productive. Here is the beginning of CASH LUCKY.
Synopsis: Anya, Queen of the Faeries watches a human who has intruded her mind. As his story unfolds, she sees how he is the key to a civil war in Faery.
CASH FLAHERTY leaves his Texas town for summer studies in Ireland, and space from his dad. He gets paired with a roommate who's a ten on the strange-o-meter, and later stops a mugging. The pretty girl he helps claims the Faeries are chasing her for a Fae relic. He's thrown into an alternate world where mobsters with sado-magical toys and rogue Fae chase him for a treasure called the Mirror of Memory.
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The Queen of the Faeries and all the realms of the Sidhe Otherworld could not stop the dreams. Arising from her bed, the queen frowned. Wretched teenager. Why does this human invade my thoughts?

Every night for the past two weeks, she’d seen the handsome mystery boy cavort with friends and behave badly. He seemed unworthy of note–especially not worthy of hers. Known to her people as a vixen, a saint, a sage, she was called Anya, Queen of the Fae–the ruler of the Seelie Court. No human should be of concern to her unless she wanted to use it for entertainment or sport. Who is this scoundrel, and why does he come unbidden to the Queen of the Fae?

She went over to an alcove and brought out the Farcasting crystal and sat on the bed. As soon as she touched it, it glowed with soft lavender light. Anya spoke the unlocking spell, and it rose, suspended above her lap. I will watch him and learn his story. Then I can purge the boy from my mind’s eye.

An image formed of a young man with curly hair and an easy smile. His words came out in a drawl as he spoke sharply to his father. A typical fight among teens and parents, she observed. He made his resolve clear. So, he comes to Ireland, land of his forebears. Her eyebrows rose. His destination is the Rift site. The Flaherty boy might concern her kingdom after all.

Anya watched into the early morning hours. What she saw made her very uneasy.

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