She reached beneath her loose braid and rubbed vigorously, but still the sensation did not entirely subside. On Fyne Mountain the other Fyne witches, Juliet and Isadora, await news of their sister, unaware that Sebestyen has decided to harness their power for himself.ġ Fyne Mountain JULIET SQUIRMED IN her bed, awake long past the hour when she normally fell asleep. She carried their second child within her-a daughter who magnified her powers a hundredfold-as they escaped from the Imperial Palace and joined the rebel army intent on displacing Sebestyen from the throne. In the autumn of the 366th Year of the Reign of the Beckyts, Sophie and her rebel married. With her newly found powers, Sophie called the sun into the Imperial Palace. Seventeen years earlier, the wizard Thayne foretold that the touch of the sun on Sebestyen’s face would signal the end of his rule and his life. In facing the emperor, she brought his most feared prophesy down upon him. She opposed not only the curse, but the command of Emperor Sebestyen, the ruler of Columbyana who wished to use Sophie for revenge. In the 366th Year of the Reign of the Beckyts, Sophie Fyne defied the curse, falling in love with the rebel soldier Kane Varden and giving him a daughter. Still the line survived, as the women of the Fyne House either braved the curse or settled for a loveless match, in order that the bloodline might endure. Death or desertion always followed love, for those descendants of the Fyne witch who’d rejected the affections of a powerful wizard. The men they dared to love either died before the age of thirty, or else woke one morning to see something repulsive in the woman they had come to call their own. They have nothing in common, except for the seven Shorter sisters, orphaned girls who need a home, a mother and a father.The Fyne Curse FOR MORE THAN three hundred years, the Fyne witches lived under the cloud of the curse that robbed them of any chance at true love. She's a citified New Yorker who ran away from home on the day of her arranged marriage to look for adventure in Texas. What better cover than a wife and family? What better way to make sure the girls can stay together? Sarah and seven little girls are not in his plans, but as he heals from being shot by a couple of no-good bushwhackers, he comes up with a way they can help one another. Joe White is a US Marshal searching for two nefarious criminals. So what if she was momentarily temped to kiss his sleeping lips? What seems to be a disaster turns into a blessing, when Joe White offers to help her gain custody of the seven Shorter sisters, the young girls she's been caring for since their mother's death. When schoolmarm Sarah Prince comes home to find a wounded man in her bed, she's both shocked and dismayed.
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