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With so little to see, I focused on my other senses. Sounds of our footsteps shifting through the snow. The howl of a wolf far in the distance. The bite of icy cold on my nose and tips of my ears. The deep tenor of Jagg’s voice just ahead as he spoke quietly to Elijah. Why had my heartbeat suddenly sped at the sound of his stupid voice?
I shook my head and did my best to force the thoughts from my head. Why on earth was I still attracted to the man? Maybe because on a very few occasions, he could be a decent person, and I had to admit, he’d handled Sienna well. It could’ve been easy for him to intimidate her to make her stay inside, but he’d chosen to use kindness instead. I had to respect him for that.
But it didn’t matter, anyway. Finding Gael and reuniting him with his family were my top priorities. My own personal romantic feelings for a certain brutish, uncivilized gazillionaire didn’t matter.
I shone my flashlight over the ground and on the bushes, looking for any stray footprints or broken branches, but saw nothing. As I searched, I ran straight into Jagg as he stopped abruptly in front of me. He reached out and grabbed my arm, helping to steady me. The scent of his leather jacket surrounded me and filled me with a sense of unanticipated calmness.
“Careful there,” he said in a deep whisper, his lips close to my ear, which did nothing to abate the onslaught of butterflies flitting through my stomach.
My flashlight’s beam wavered, so I had to hold it with both hands.
“I haven’t found any trace of them.” I spoke quietly, feeling that if I spoke any louder, I would wake whatever spirits haunted this place.
“I haven’t either,” he said. “But it’s impossible to see anything out here.”
The sound of the wolf’s howl grew louder, until it didn’t sound like a wolf at all, but more humanlike.
“You hear that?” Jagg asked.
“Yeah,” I answered. “Wolf?”
“Let’s hope so,” he answered.
Author bio:
Tamara Grantham is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books and novellas, including the Olive Kennedy: Fairy World MD series, the Shine novellas, and the Twisted Ever After trilogy. Dreamthief, the first book of her Fairy World MD series, won first place for fantasy in INDIEFAB’S Book of the Year Awards, a RONE award for best New Adult Romance, and is a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 200 five-star reviews.
Tamara holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Lamar University. She has been a featured speaker at multiple writing conferences, and she has been a panelist at Comic Con Wizard World speaking on the topic of female leads. For her first published project, she collaborated with New York-Times bestselling author, William Bernhardt, in writing the Shine series.
Born and raised in Texas, Tamara now lives with her husband and five children in Wichita, Kansas. She rar
ely has any free time, but when the stars align and she gets a moment to relax, she enjoys reading fantasy novels, taking nature walks--which fuel her inspiration for creating fantastical worlds--and watching every Star Wars or Star Trek movie ever made. You can find her online at www.TamaraGrantham.com.
Finding lost artifacts is my specialty, but when an Inuit artifact is hidden in the wilds of Alaska, finding it could be more difficult than I’ve bargained for.
My name is Harleigh Sinclair. I’ve been using my abilities as a Neotact to find ancient relics with special powers. After teaming up with a man named Jagg Ransom—a Crimson Knight with a mysterious past—we’re on the search for five lost artifacts with immense powers.
Our current quest takes us to a remote village in the Alaskan wilderness. But when we arrive, we’re greeted by angry villagers who blame us for the disappearance of one of their trackers. He’s been kidnapped by my former coworker, and the two are on the path to find the relic before us.
If we can’t find the relic first, the object will fall into the hands of an evil organization called the Blood Raiders. Worse, we’re not alone. The Inuit artifact is guarded by a giant beast of lore—one that would rather see us dead than accomplish our mission.
But failure isn’t an option. If the Blood Raiders succeed in obtaining the relic, they’ll use it in a plot to destroy the world as we know it.
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Author bio:
Tamara Grantham is the award-winning author of more than a dozen books and novellas, including the Olive Kennedy: Fairy World MD series, the Shine novellas, and the Twisted Ever After trilogy. Dreamthief, the first book of her Fairy World MD series, won first place for fantasy in INDIEFAB’S Book of the Year Awards, a RONE award for best New Adult Romance, and is a #1 bestseller on Amazon with over 200 five-star reviews.
Tamara holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from Lamar University. She has been a featured speaker at multiple writing conferences, and she has been a panelist at Comic Con Wizard World speaking on the topic of female leads. For her first published project, she collaborated with New York-Times bestselling author, William Bernhardt, in writing the Shine series.
Born and raised in Texas, Tamara now lives with her husband and five children in Wichita, Kansas. She rar
ely has any free time, but when the stars align and she gets a moment to relax, she enjoys reading fantasy novels, taking nature walks--which fuel her inspiration for creating fantastical worlds--and watching every Star Wars or Star Trek movie ever made. You can find her online at www.TamaraGrantham.com.
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