Despite the setting sun, long shadows, and crisp autumn wind, the woods seemed warmer and brighter.
Almost so warm Eva wanted to take off her jacket.
Something was wrong.
Micro Fiction: The Path 05
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Micro Fiction: The Path 04
Eva didn’t remember there being such a clear and easy path through the woods.
Perhaps the kids weren’t afraid of it anymore.
Still, strange that she seemed to be the only one on the path.
Micro Fiction: The Path 03
Eva paused as she approached the edge of Norman’s Woods.
They’d avoided it as kids, whispering it was haunted or worse.
Cutting through it would shave an hour off her walk home, and she didn’t believe in that stuff anyway.
And if she walked quickly enough, she’d make it home before sunset.
Micro Fiction: The Path 02
Eva would have to ask her dad for a loan.
Again.
He’d lecture her that she should have gone into engineering instead of teaching.
Again.
But he’d help her fix her car.
Micro Fiction: The Path 01
Eva flipped the collar of her jacket up against the wind.
Her car wouldn’t start.
Again.
Repairing it would cost more than she made in a month. But without it, she couldn’t get to work.
So much for that college degree her parents insisted she get.
Release Day: The Earl’s Shadowguard
What do you do when the one thing you most want is the one thing you can’t have?
Ten summers ago, Jade made a mistake and fell in love with the wrong man. An earl’s son so less. But she atoned for her sin and even earned a position in the king’s elite bodyguard. Well, almost earned it. Her last task before entering and giving up her identity forever is to solve the murder of a wealthy and influential countess… who just so happened to marry the man Jade still loves.
Logan Warrington, Seventh Earl of Farron, has always done what he’s supposed to do, including marry the “right” woman from the “right” family, which hadn’t included the carriage driver’s daughter he’d been infatuated with as a boy. But when he’s framed for the murder of his wife, Logan gets a second chance with that carriage driver’s daughter, and Jade might be the only one that can prove his innocence.
But second chances aren’t free, and those who killed the countess will stop at nothing to keep their secrets. As the killers close in, it will take all of Jade’s skill as a bodyguard to keep Logan alive, and even if she does, nothing can close the gap between earl and servant. Nothing, except maybe love.