Title: Daughter of Fate
Series: The Children of Fate book 1
Author: Jessica Albee
Publisher: Satalyte Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Expected Release: April 2014
Age Range: 18+
Cover: Joseph Goodwin
Blurb:
It started with Death and Creation. It ended with death.
A young woman's fate entangled with the fate of the most unlikely of men.
Recent college grad Mackenzie Blake finds herself in a unique predicament when
her grandfather tells her that she bears the power of a fate. Anything she
writes will come to pass. Learning about her family and her past, she soon
finds herself on the run from all sorts of creatures and people including a
handsome, charming man by the name of Father Gabriel Vella.
What happens when a priest who fails to kill a heretic meets a young woman
desperate to survive? What happens when the supernatural collides with the real
and the two pair up? Can the two of them survive when the rest of the world is
against them?
Excerpt:
“Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned,
it's been a few months since my last confession.” Gabriel sat down next to
Jean-Luc in the pews and made the sign of the cross. Usually this was done in a
confessional but Gabriel hated being in those small confined places.
“No need to be so formal Gabriel, it's just
us.” Jean-Luc looked at Gabriel, who shook his head.
“It's still a confession,” Gabriel sighed
deeply pulling his rosary out of his pocket and lowered his head as if he was
praying.
“Whenever you're ready.” Jean-Luc leaned
back in the pew waiting. He knew confession was hard for Gabriel and that he
was the only one he trusted with it.
Gabriel kept silent as his mind tried to
wrap around why he was here. The woman, that was his reason, he couldn't get
her out of his head and his body had started to make demands from him. Demands
he had tried so desperately to get rid of when he first became a priest. He was
obviously frustrated as he stood up in what could have appeared to be
annoyance.
“God Damn it, Jean-Luc!” Gabriel leaned
against a pew and clenched his jaw. He made the sign of the cross over his
chest after realizing he had just used to the Lord's name in vain, something
he's never done before. His irritation had to do with his lack of sleep in
which his mind was constantly working to grasp at his own failure. It should
have been a simple task given to him by God, kill the woman, and fulfill God's
work. Now he was living with a sense of dread constantly looming over him. “I
failed, He asked me to kill her and I failed.”
“You're not a killer, Gabriel.” Though
there was shock apparent in Jean-Luc's voice, he recovered and he placed his
hand on his friend's shoulder. Gabriel leaned forward on his hands and let out
a deep breath. Maybe Jean-Luc was right, maybe Gabriel wasn't a killer, but
that didn't stop him from feeling the weight of his failure. He looked up to
the cross that hung above the alter and sighed deeply. He turned to face his
friend and Jean-Luc's hand slide off his shoulder “There's more?”
“I had the knife in my hand, and it was
pressed to her throat.” Gabriel looked down at his hands; he could still feel
the knife in his hand, and he could still feel the weight of her shoulder under
his palm. “All I had to do was push the blade into her neck and she would have
been gone, but I couldn't do it.... I looked down at her and I just... I couldn't.”
“Why?” It was a simple question. A question
any priest would ask if they were in Jean-Luc's position, but it was a question
Gabriel didn't know if he had the answer too. He sat down on in the pew and
folded his hands in his lap and closed his eyes as he bowed his head.
“I...” Gabriel bit down on his bottom lip
as he thought about how to put it. “I think I care about her.”
“What do you mean?”
“I told you about my dream and what
happened in my room?” Gabriel looked at Jean-Luc, who nodded and sat next to
him. Gabriel sighed deeply before speaking again. “I wanted to kiss her again,
I wanted to press her to my bed and feel her underneath me. I wanted to feel
her bare skin under my fingers, I've never... Jean-Luc, in all of my life, even
before I joined the priesthood, I have never felt like this.”
“Do you love her?” Jean-Luc asked as he
glanced at him.
“Love?” Gabriel shook his head, “no, I
think it's lust, but I … I won't break my vows just to find out. So,” he paused
as he looked down at his hands. “What do I do?”
“That, my friend, is between you and God.”
Jean-Luc clapped his hand on Gabriel's back, then they sat in silence.
Author Bio:
Jess Albee grew up and still lives in
Massachusetts in United States with her husband, children and cats. She is
married with two kids and she currently working as a certified nursing
assistant.
When she finds a spare moment, she lives
her passion as an author.
"I have been writing for about ten
years and this is my first book published. I do not think it will be my
last."
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