EXCERPT
She is standing in my courtyard. Everything in nature surrounds
her—hugs her and is dazzled by her…including me.
Beautiful flowers of every hue and aroma are grown in
this majestic garden. My eyes are burning; I’m simultaneously overwhelmed and
awed by the colorful oasis. Never have I been so close to nature, to growing
things. Her alchemy drives me mad.
She’s gifted me with all the colors, but I painted her
with darkness.
As much as I crave feeling the sunlight and the
flowers against my skin, I want her touch too. I am cursed and doomed to never
experience the beauty of the natural world, for all eternity.
She watches me with extreme hatred in her eyes—her
gaze throwing fireballs at me. She doesn’t know I’m already burning, but since
she despises me so much, I can’t even dare to come close to her. I want to end
this tortuous distance between us—but I was the one who created this hatred in
her.
She was a beautiful tender rose—I stole her fragrance,
crushed her petals and burned her in hell. If I knew the fire with which I was
conflagrating her would come to engulf me—I swear I wouldn’t have done it. Her
spell is too strong for me not to fall; her curse is too mighty for me to run
away.
Her deadly yet magical existence haunts me, excites me
and has thrown me into a pit of deep lust. She is my prisoner, but she doesn’t
realize that I’m the one who’s already submitted to her slavery, when I first
touched her.
Despite being her captor, I am still her captive.
She walks toward me, enthralling me with her grace and
beauty, altering and accelerating my heartbeat. She has the power to throw me
into hell as well as show me heaven. I’ve never been able to understand her
witchcraft. I was warned to stay away from her sorcery—she was born and cursed
with it—yet my heart kept running after her.
Now…there’s nothing left for me to survive on. She has
my heart and my soul. Why is she here? What does she want from me now? Perhaps
she wants to cut my heart from my body…just to see if it’s beating for her or
not.
The distance between us closes and I lean my back
against the giant tree trunk—the same tree where I tried to write her fate. She
is holding my sword—my only weapon of protection—but it doesn’t matter now. She
wants my life for her eternal peace—I will give it to her.
Her steel-grey eyes are much stronger than any armor
or shield I’m wearing. She doesn’t need my sword to kill me…all she needs to do
is place her hand on my heart. I will be undone…forever.
ABOUT ONCE UPON A [STOLEN] TIME
2015…
All her life, Myra Farrow has been obsessed with
medieval castles—and the kings and princes who once inhabited them. Now,
wealthy videogame designer Steve Bernard wants her to model for a princess
character in his new game. Myra can’t resist his offer, especially when she
learns that Steve plans to film inside the mysterious Hue Castle—a cursed,
barren, colorless place forbidden to visitors for centuries. But unknown to
Myra, her soul is bound to Hue Castle by blood and sorcery. When she enters its
doors, she awakens dark powers that will reach through time—stealing her past,
torturing her present, and rewriting her future.
1415…
Edward Hue, the last of the Hue royal bloodline,
has never stood in the sunshine or held a living flower. Cursed from birth to
live in darkness and bring death to all he touches, he is at the mercy of his
cruel, tyrannical father, who will not rest until he shatters Edward’s soul and
makes his son into a diabolical copy of himself. Edward’s one hope is the
mysterious woman who haunts his dreams—who will either break his curse and
bring him out of the darkness, or destroy him utterly.
For Myra and Edward, past and
future collide in a tale of love, obsession, betrayal, and the hope for
redemption.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
History, art and literature are my passions. I love digging
out information about prophecies, divine miracles and paranormal events that
are mentioned in history and holy books, that don’t sound possible in today's
modern world.
Since childhood, I have been into reading and writing—and
yes, it can’t happen without imagination, which luckily has no boundaries.
Dance and music are also pastimes I enjoy, as well as reading romance fiction.
I love to travel and explore historical cities.
Judge of 2015 World's Best Story
"A Prayer Series"
is my first Multiple Award-Winning Series sabout paranormal events based on
Islamic concepts.
Website: http://www.samreenahsan.com
Twitter: @samauthorcanada
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