Vengelys Book 1
Aedan Byrnes
Historical Paranormal Romance
Drake Valley Press
November 21, 2013
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In the blackest night, with the moon and stars to guide him, she would always be there waiting… Cyrenna thought she died the day she watched Tynan and his brothers jump through the banishment portal in an act of solidarity with Rigor. Little did she know, it would be the first of many deaths she would experience in her quest to claim his heart. She would surrender not only her immortal soul, but a mortal one repeatedly. Through a deal with the great Oracle, she has multiple mortal lifetimes to change the direction of her future and have a chance with Tynan. Her journey spans the ages from the GenPei War in Japan and the Silk Road west, to Cromwell, the Three Kingdoms and modern times, bringing her one step closer to forever until she makes a misstep. Then, the burden falls to Tynan. The only thing that is absolute is her fervent hope that he will come, but there’s one big problem. Through it all, he doesn’t so much as know her name.
Excerpt
How many times can a man be
broken? How many times can a man die and never have it be final? How many lost
loves or lost chances at love will it take to undo any chance of ever becoming
whole? In the purest sense…only one. Nothing I could imagine or ever endure
would compete for the absolute punishing agony of her folding me into her arms
to comfort me and hearing her whisper…
“I know.”
Two words. Who knew that two
words would be all that it would take to loose the storm? Hardly two words
really, only five letters. Five little letters with extreme power. Five little
letters to rob Zeus of his most lethal bolt, focus the strike, and rend me in
pieces. The surge had pushed past my pride and leaves me sobbing for the loss I
had yet to experience. A loss I knew would take my breath, but I cannot die.
How cruelly ironic that death has become my sole wish now?
My internal emotional
upheaval is a flash storm out of place beneath the cloudless sky. The cacophony
of my noisy tears and transition scatter the small creatures for miles. I have
no control and shift without grace. Rage and pain coalesce to an explosion,
angst roaring as the internal battle is waged and the war lost before the call
to arms is done sounding. My thunderous eruption screaming against the fading
light, with a rising silvery moon and shimmering stars to bear witness to my destruction.
The metamorphosis from man to beast is abrupt. I shift, not with the flexing of
bone and the stretching of skin, but with the crack of a gun blast and a single
pull to form. It is razor wire across my senses and I am bloodied raw without a
trace to be found.
A testament to her, she
stands still. Not frozen, but placated to let me render the fury that must come
out as I cannot hold it in. The beast from within is enormous, but not big
enough to hold so much. I warned her. I told her. I had made her aware almost
cruelly that first time I let my inner wild out that this day might come…could
come…would come and that it would be ushered in on an unseen tide that would
sweep our perfect world away. I had wanted her to be afraid. She wasn’t. She
had believed, but had also naively assured me that the day would be long into
the future and we would enjoy the time until then.
She had been wrong. There was
nothing to say now. ‘I’m sorry’ would be a hollow sentiment and ‘I was wrong’
would do nothing as the last thing I would want to hear and know about this was
that I had been right.
About the Author
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There is no simple description for Aedan Byrnes. Obsessive,
dreamer, reclusive, compulsive, outdoorsman and wordsmith would be among the
list if one were started. The displaced Gael lives in the upper Midwest with
family between jaunts wherever the road takes him. A frequent traveler, he is
as likely to be found rock climbing or spelunking as sitting fireside dreaming
or aimlessly floating away.
A lifelong lover of words and writing, he claims a diverse
reading appetite and his writing reflects the myriad influences. A
self-proclaimed 'reader's writer', he looks for the emotional and the sensory
in word combinations, not just the visceral comprehension of phrases in the
stories he crafts and his love of all things literary shines through.
Links-
Twitter- https://twitter.com/AedanByrnes
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/AedanByrnes
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