Her gaze took in her surroundings. Ivy print walls, a four-poster bed and desk near the window waited expectantly in the shadowed room for its occupant to return.
The dark-haired woman hurried past her to the desk and placed the candle down on top before she yanked opened the drawer and retrieved a leather-bound book. Taking a seat, she grabbed the fountain pen with a gold-colored tip opened the book.
It must be a journal, Briar thought with curiosity. Normally she would never intrude and read someone's private thoughts, but this was only a dream and curiosity tugged until she couldn’t resist. What could the woman be writing with such frantic strokes?
Briar peered over the woman's shoulder.
"Oh Garrett, what are you doing?" the woman spoke, her voice a low whisper as she wrote.
Monday, April 6, 1891- I'm feeling much better today and ventured downstairs into the study.
(A little more...)
Garrett and Da conversed in hushed whispers. When they noticed me, they separated, each moving to another part of the room. When I asked what they were talking about, they told me it was business and I should not worry. I know they were not talking about business. Why do men treat women as if they are dimwitted? Da sent me to the finest schools, yet I'm not to know what is happening beyond these walls.
She paused then and turned toward the door. In the next moment, Briar heard a baby fussing. The woman returned to the Diary and scribbled hastily. I'll write later. I hear Mrs. Flynn in the other room. Patrick must be awake.
Briar took a step to follow the woman but a sound immobilized her until the Buzzzz Buzzzz Buzzzz took over. "No, she breathed, but it was too late. The dawning of a new day pulled her out of her dream and into the land of the living as if being catapulted from one reality to another.
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Yo Ho Ho and Buttered Rum Shortbread, a delectable summer short story, where the recipe for mayhem will stir up all kinds of trouble for Jack and Sirena in Grimm Nitch.
Sirena's mother returns home after abandoning her family fifteen years prior, with a Merrow Prince, expecting Sirena to leave her home to live with him beneath the sea.
Meeting another Merrow is surreal but swimming away to live happily ever after in an ocean world is not as sweetly tempting as Sirena once dreamed. Where the mer-prince goes, Jack cannot follow. Giving up the life she has with Jack is like giving up sweets—forever.
At the Buccaneer Bash, the prince will reveal what he's cooked up for Sirena, but he's about to underestimate Jack's skills, who has no trouble preparing a plan of his own.
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Darrien Andros, a gryphon sworn to protect humans is cursed to live forever, safeguarding the items in the Museum of Cursed Antiquities. His mundane life between the world of the living and turning to stone as the sun rises is disrupted when a thief attempts to steal Hecate's Stone. He cannot eliminate her for her thieving ways. Not when she resembles his dead wife.
Cali Angelis, a thief for hire, needs Hecate's stone for her client. Only Darrien makes her question her client's motives. She'd like to think Darrien delusional, but she's seen the unbelievable.
Will they unravel the mysteries behind the stone before history repeats itself?
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Mermaid Cove and Seaside Sundaes
Short story FROM THE WILD ROSE PRESS' ONE SCOOP OR TWO SERIES!
One selfless act as a teen unfairly caused Sirena Seafair to forfeit her ability to shift into a mermaid.
Fifteen years later, her mundane life is about to change when Jack O'Casey arrives in the Irish town of Grimm Nitch and opens his restaurant, Mermaid Cove. The man is bound and determined to make Sirena his no matter what. But if by chance, Sirena can find a way to reclaim her life as a mermaid, will she leave Jack and her human life behind in exchange for a life beneath the sea? Or will surrendering her heart to love be the magic she's been waiting for all along?
Available in eBook, Print, and audio format.
Available in eBook, Print, and soon in audio format.
so much information. will she be able to go back to this dream next time?
A tantalizing scene. Will she have to wait until the next night to see more?
Nicely compelling and eerie. Why indeed do men treat women as if we are brainless and helpless? Sadly, this phenomenon has not disappeared as much as it should have given the passage of some 130 years.