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    Magic and Nightmares
    Magic and Nightmares
    Magic and Nightmares
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    Magic and Nightmares

    By Lisa Williamson

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    There is magic out there. Creatures who might or might not be your friend. This collection contains tales of magic of a darker sort. Are you brave enough to read them?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLisa Williamson
    Release dateMay 2, 2016
    ISBN9781533767493
    Magic and Nightmares
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    Lisa Williamson

    Lisa Williamson is the author of The Art of Being Normal and All About Mia. She also collaborated with other bestselling and award-winning young adult authors in Floored.

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      Magic and Nightmares - Lisa Williamson

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold, rented or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to author and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      The author holds all reproduction, reprint or re-sell rights to this book in digital, audio or print versions.

      And Darkness claims it all ©2014

      After binge watching vampire films and binge reading vampire books I found myself thinking, what if a woman is made a vampire unwilling. Would she give in and become what her maker wanted her to, or would she find a way to control her fate? This story evolved from there.

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      Dark and dank. That was what the world seemed like to her. The skies were leaden with rain that would not fall. You could feel the moisture in the air, but it would not drop, would not release and give relief. It was as if the world was holding its breath, afraid, but all she knew was that she was alone. In a city filled with many souls she was the only one of her kind. The last was what she believed, what she prayed for because if she was not the last then everything she did, everyone she had lost would have been for not.

      A month ago she had lived like everyone else. Walked the morning streets, laughed and loved and did what an ordinary woman would do, but it all changed in one moment. One terrible, awful moment in time that she wished she could take back.

      The summer had been a sweet one. New love and warm temperatures had made her so happy. Long nights wrapped in his arms, loving each other and talking about things they would do once the summer was over. Michael had been so sweet and so young. She had convinced him to go to the party. Emily had told her all about the amazing party, begged her to go and introduced her to Mathias. One night and one mistake was all it took. Well it was over now and he was gone. Taken and she only had herself to blame.

      Looking at her face in the mirror she cataloged the changes. Eyes, once bright blue and filled with laughter, now dark and haunted. Skin, once tan and smooth, now pale white and glowing eerily in the darkness and her hair, oh her hair.

      She had been so proud of her thick, long and wavy locks. The color of the rich loam that they had spread out in her garden and falling down her back to her hips. She had joked more than once about cutting it off to get it out of her way. Now she wished she had for now it was gone. She was bald like an egg and she smashed the mirror before her into a hundred sharp shards of glittering silver.

      Why? Why did this happen? Why me? She slowly sank down to curl up on the floor and wrap her arms about her pulled up knees. It was there he found her, rocking back and forth as silent tears slipped down her cheeks.

      Mathias smiled as he watched her rocking. The day loving child was right where he wanted her to be. Making a daughter was easier than he had expected. His own father had told him not to even think he could make a child so young. Course his father had thought that he was too young to defeat him. Lot that corpse knew now. No one told Mathias what to do or how to behave.

      He ran a long tongue around his fangs and rolled his head about his shoulders. The sound of his neck muscles cracking was loud in the darkened basement and he purred as the pathetic form on the floor stopped rocking for a moment. He glared when she started rocking again with no words passing her lips.

      "Come now, child. No greeting for your loving

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