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    Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3)
    Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3)
    Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3)
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    Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3)

    By J.M. Parry

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    Kait Selias remembers nothing about her past or the events that turned her and six others into immortal beings known as the Gospels. But a dark history connects the immortals, binding them together in an eternal war between Chaos and Order. When Kait receives the journal of Katrina Selias, she begins to piece together the shards of her broken past.

    In 1803, Katrina arrives in the Siberian town of Kurgan to investigate a series of bizarre murders gripping its icy streets. A masked killer stalks the marketplace, kidnapping his victims and forcing them to take their own lives. While searching for the perpetrator of the ghastly events of Kurgan, Katrina forms a relationship with a mysterious stranger named Marius Laurent: the glassmaker's apprentice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.M. Parry
    Release dateAug 28, 2013
    ISBN9781301442706
    Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3)

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      Glassmaker's Apprentice (Hearts of Amaranth #3) - J.M. Parry

      Glassmaker's Apprentice

      Hearts of Amaranth #3

      by J. M. Parry

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013

      Cover Design by Jenny Gibbons: http://storykween.deviantart.com

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      Chapter One

      ~2016~

      Kait Selias stared at the book sitting on the table in front of her. Her eyes lingered on the letters printed in neat Cyrillic script on the front cover. She tried to wrap her mind around what they said, but she could hardly believe it. These letters spelled her name, Katrina Rolanova Selias and enumerated a year, 1803.

      What are you waiting for? Paul Gordon asked. Isn't this what you've been looking for? This is your journal. Don't you want to know who you are? For the first time in what felt like an eternity, Kait looked away from the book. She turned her attention to Paul.

      Paul Gordon was a disarmingly handsome man and Kait found it difficult to ignore him, even with a key to her lost past sitting in front of her. He had a deep, bronze tan and dark hair, which made his blazing green eyes even more striking by contrast. When he fixed her with his gaze, it felt like there was nothing else in the room but the two of them.

      Kait felt she hardly deserved the attention he gave her. She had pasty, pale skin with mousy brown hair that she still didn't know how to tame. Her eyes were the color of slate, and her body was neither as skinny nor as curvy as she would have liked. If she caught herself at the right angle, she thought she might be cute. But she wasn't beautiful. He was beautiful.

      Several days ago, Paul had rescued Kait from the hospital, where she was being sedated. She'd attempted suicide and only managed to lose her memory—even the reason she tried to kill herself.

      I don't know, Kait replied. What if I don't like what I find out? This was over two hundred years ago. Who knows what I was like back then?

      Kait was an immortal. She could not die, and she healed quickly from any injury, including her own suicide attempt. Unfortunately, Kait wasn't alone. St. Louis was ruled by six other immortals. They called themselves the Gospels, and they each preached a philosophy they believed they were chosen by God to spread among the people. Discipline, Suffering, Peace, Freedom, Desire, and Pandemonium.

      Kait didn't know how she fit in to the Gospels. Like them, she was immortal and her senses were heightened, but she was also something more. The day she awoke, she saved Paul from certain death by stopping a hail of bullets with her mind. Later, she halted the detonation of a bomb. That power, however, came with a cost. Destruction followed in the wake of her power, and Kait had no clue how to control it. She hoped the journal in front of her might change that, as much as it terrified her.

      Just this morning, the journal had arrived via courier from the office of Daniel Levin, Mayor of Unified St. Louis and the Gospel of Discipline. Levin had kept Kait prisoner at the hospital until Paul saved her. But after he realized Kait's power, Levin begged her forgiveness and offered a truce. He told her what he knew of her past, and gave her the journal.

      If you don't open it, I will, Paul finally said. I'll read it to you.

      Can you read Russian? Kait replied.

      Paul looked sheepishly at the ground. No. No, I can't. He hadn't put much thought into his plan. Kait was fluent in both English and Russian, and was sure she could read the journal if she could bring herself to open it. But why couldn't she take that step?

      This was too easy, Kait said. Just a few days after I wake up, Mayor Levin just gives me this journal? I barely had to work for it.

      That can't be what is bothering you, Paul answered. He fixed her with his eyes again. She wished that she had the luxury of getting lost in them. But no matter what she felt for Paul, she could not let herself act on it. That was a lesson she learned early on.

      You know that Mayor Levin wants me on his side. What if he wrote this journal to trick me?

      In spending some time with Mayor Levin, Kait had learned that a war was raging in St. Louis. It was a war that had been fought in many cities over the decades. Levin led three of the Gospels in the pursuit of Order. Christa Xander led the other three, sowing Chaos throughout the city. Both Levin and Christa believed that Kait could tip the scales in their favor.

      So you're not even going to open the journal? Paul asked. You're killing me.

      Kait shook her head. No, she replied. I'm going to read it. I just need to know it's true. Mayor Levin said that Kurgan was plagued by a series of murders and that I was the detective who nearly caught the killer. Doesn't that sound like he's trying to convert me to his cause? Like he wants me to believe that I'm a Gospel of Order?

      Paul was quiet as he considered this. You're right, he answered. The whole thing is strange. Why didn't he mention this the first time he met you? Maybe he needed the time to forge this journal.

      Exactly.

      So how do we prove it's real?

      Kait didn't want to reply. She knew that Paul wouldn't like her answer. There was only one way to keep Mayor Levin honest. She needed to cross-check the facts in the journal with someone else who was in Kurgan at the time of the events depicted within. We need another Gospel, Kait replied. One of the Chaos Gospels. Someone who can say if this rings true or is a fabrication.

      You're joking, Paul said. They will just lie to you. You can't trust them. Any of them.

      Paul had plenty of reason to hate the Gospels. On the day Kait awoke, they had used his life to leverage an alliance with her. Since then, he'd learned that they were secretly in control of the entire city. It was a sobering realization, and he would have preferred Kait to avoid the six immortals all together.

      Only a Gospel can tell us if this journal is authentic, Kait said.

      But you wrote it. Won't you know if it's true?

      Kait shook her head. If Mayor Levin forged this journal, it may end up putting memories in my head that never happened. I don't know anything about my past. Reading something like this could suggest false memories and... Her voice trailed off. She didn’t want to explain what was truly worrying her.

      Mayor Levin, just like

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