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The resistance around her eased and she was turned, a tender grip around each of her arms. When Brinna opened her eyes, Lucian Uraiahs, was holding her. His head was bent with its dark, honey hair, obscuring what she knew to be a breathtaking face. He seemed to be looking for something on her person, which didn’t make sense.
But a dream? Yes. That made sense. He’d never be holding her like this in reality. He was an arrogant snob, even if he was beautiful. Tall and sinewy, wide shouldered with a tapered waist, skin tanned by the sun. Brinna loved meeting him in her dreams, which happened quite frequently, even if it was all she had.
When he looked up, his eyes met hers. Such beautiful eyes, their golden intensity streaked with amber striations. “Are you bit?” he asked, dimples hinting in his cheeks even as he frowned. His wide hands slid up her bare arms until he was standing before her, inspecting her shoulders, her neck, her face.
Bit?
Dazed and unsettled, Brinna took a step away from the golden god and wrapped her arms around herself under her cloak. She shook her head. “I’m dreaming.”
It was the only explanation.
First, it was daytime. Golden light gilded Lucian’s beautiful features. Hadn’t it just been nighttime? Second, this version of Lucian looked concerned, interested. In her limited experience with him, that wasn’t Lucian Uraiahs. Aloof, condescending, even. In reality, she’d only ever seemed an obligation, to him.
Stars, he was beautiful, and her breath struggled against that awareness as he tilted his head to the side, studying her. She smiled. “I am really good at this. This is going to be fun.”
With the promise of finally learning her mother’s secrets, Brinna Fareview and her family gather together. Only somewhere between the truth and lies, Brinna wakes to find she’s trapped in a space in between the world awake and the nightmares of her family. All of them are asleep. Learning she has the ability to move from dream to dream, Brinna tries to find a way out of the dream world, but she’s stuck, unable to fix what’s ailing her family. But then an unexpected thing happens, Lucian Uraiahs, god of day and light, walks into her dream.
While Lucian decided a long time ago that Brinna Fareview was a blight on his peace, he can’t seem to avoid her. She pops up at every turn, all because his brother is god-yoked to her sister. All Lucian wants is to disappear into the oblivion of the cosmos amidst his shame and guilt, but the unbidden feelings he has for Brinna can’t be contained. When Lucian is stripped of his powers for refusing to bend to his father’s will, he is imprisoned with only his guilt to keep him company. Except when he falls asleep, he dreams of Brinna and somehow becomes the only link to saving her, her family, and his brother from a spell that could destroy them all.
Brinna and Lucian must work together to uncover the secrets they need to break the sleeping spell, but the longer they share their dreams, the more they realize time is against them.
Join the Fareviews in book three of the Fareview Fairytales series, In the Shadow of a Dream, to discover the truth that has them trapped behind the hedge.
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Maci Aurora has been writing stories since she was a child. When she was eleven, she fell in love with reading Sunfire Historical Romances about girls who made a difference in their lives and still fell in love. In high school, a friend introduced her to Lavyrle Spencer and Judith McNaught, and from there, her writing journey was cemented in telling stories about love. Having already published many novels (all of which are threaded with romance as upper YA and New Adult titles) under the pen name, CL Walters, Maci Aurora wanted to write stories that offered the same attention to story and characters but with additional steam.
Maci writes in Hawaiʻi where she lives with her husband, their children, and their fur-babies.
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