Wind’s Aria
by Tessa
Stockton
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BLURB:
Elected
as the Songstress, Aria takes her place on the sacred platform to sing before
every dawn. As long as she does so, peace and abundant life belong to her
people. One morning, amidst a strange wind that brings with it a curse in its
eerie howl, Aria loses her ability to make music. But the encroaching death
that transpires isn’t her biggest tragedy. It’s that she adores the cause of
her blunder, for he’s a magnificent winged creature who’s stolen more than her
voice.
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EXCERPT:
Fog continued to dance around them covering most of his
body, to her dismay. Just curious, she convinced herself. She closed her eyes
and squeezed the bridge of her nose to concentrate . . . something that seemed
hard to do at that moment.
“Feeling better?” The smooth notes of his words swam through
her ears.
“Mmm.” She nodded. “I guess.”
He continued to stare.
Aria cleared her throat. “Um . . . can I ask you a
question?”
“You may ask . . .”
“But will you answer?”
“That depends.”
“Oh. Well. How did you get to be so huge when all the
Meleyans are rather small? And why haven’t I seen you before?”
“That’s two questions.”
“S-sorry.”
He exhaled a steady stream of air, adding to the mist, as if
deliberating.
Aria felt the strength of his breath, blowing strands of her
hair across her face.
Slow, yet with precision, he lifted a lock from the curve of
her mouth and rubbed the strands between his fingers. He murmured, “Soft and
orange, like the petals of prairie-tails.” Then he bent and smelled her hair,
closing his eyes. “And sweet like the honey of bees.” Again he held her gaze.
The corner of his mouth twitched upward. “Do you have a sting?”
“I asked you a question first—”
“Two,” he corrected. Then he smiled.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
A veteran of
the performing arts and worldwide missions, Tessa Stockton also contributed as
a writer/editor for ministry publications, ghostwriter for political content,
and she headed a column on the topic of forgiveness. Today she writes romance
and intrigue novels in a variety of genres. In addition to her fantasy romance,
WIND’S ARIA, she’s the author of suspense/thriller, THE UNSPEAKABLE, political
intrigue/romance, THE UNFORGIVABLE, and a literary short story, LOVE AND LULL,
with more in the works.
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