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The Black Act [MultiFormat]
eBook by L Bohmer
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eBook Category: Fantasy/Horror
eBook Description: The history of a curse is fraught with bloody battles, bitter hatred, and dark secrets. Through five generations, ghosts of war haunt the Wise Women. When the Rebellion of Glenna ends, their curse sleeps bound in the Tunnels of the Dead, waiting for its chance to re-awaken the battle between the Wood People and Dalthwein Clans. Claire, a distraught young Wise Woman born in the sacred valley of the fae, unwittingly helps it escape imprisonment. While her twin sister, Anna, receives psychic glimpses of ancient secrets she must unravel. With her scribe teacher, Rosalind, she also struggles to uncover the reasons behind Claire's strange behavior, ever escalating since the death of their Guild Mother, Grianne. The Age of the Wise Women will cease, if the curse does not end with Anna and Claire. Perhaps inheriting the mistakes of their ancestors, and learning the truths of their identities, will bring great suffering for these witch twins?
eBook Publisher: Lachesis Publishing/Lachesis
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2009
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [376 KB]
, ePub (EPUB) [666 KB]
, Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [271 KB]
, Portable Document Format (PDF) [1.1 MB]
, Palm Doc (PDB) [274 KB]
, Microsoft Reader (LIT) [650 KB]
, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [274 KB]
, hiebook (KML) [1.0 MB]
, Sony Reader (LRF) [748 KB]
, iSilo (PDB) [241 KB]
, Mobipocket (PRC) [429 KB]
, Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [493 KB]
, OEBFF Format (IMP) [426 KB]
Words: 85305
Reading time: 243-341 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Portable Document Format (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
ISBN: 1897370172
 
"The Black Act blew me away. I don't know what I was expecting, but I have to tell you, this far exceeded anything that was nestling in the cobwebbed recesses of my cranial dungeon. It was so magically charged, lyrical, and filled with such stark imagery. There were times when my breath was literally taken away. You've built a rich and beautiful world filled with wonder, excitement, and a darkness that is as visceral as darkness can be. Your depiction of the Fae was nothing short of brilliant, culminating in a dark and terrible feeling of loss and hopelessness that feeds the story so well. This is, in a very real sense, your coming out party."--Bob Freeman ~ Shadows Over Somerset, Keepers of the Dead The Black Act is a beautiful tale, beautifully written. Louise Bohmer places her pot squarely on the fire and begins cooking immediately. The aromas in her kitchen are familiar--a hint of J. R. R. Tolkien, a trace of George R. R. Martin, and a whiff of Ursula K. Le Guin--ah, but when you taste this delicious stew, you'll find it's a fresh recipe with plenty of meat and potatoes. There's new Chef in town, and I'll be the first in line for seconds!--Michael Knost, editor of Writers Workshop of Horror
Ella's Final Journal Entry
A fae never dies, nor is one truly born. Each is a seed of Dala. Our planet is alive, and its sentience rests in its core.
Our histories tell us the Wood People were the first beings to inhabit these lands, in the Dalthwein Region, near the entrance to Dala's heart core. Its spirit threaded up through the ground, like the roots of our trees, creating Dala's guardians. The planet manifested slivers of itself into physicality. Bits of root and bark blended with tough, furred pelts, bones, eyes, and teeth. Dala molded legs from mud and moss, skullcaps from mushrooms, and fingers from the strongest twigs.
Some say the planet was lonely, others believe it wanted to experience itself, existence, from a new perspective. The truth goes back so many millennia, none of us truly knows anymore. If the fae remember these ancient secrets, they aren't telling, and I don't blame them.
Others came from the dirt. It is said we all come from the dirt--wolf, human, crow--and back to the dirt our bodies will go. Dala recycles the spirit as she sees fit. Summerland is a way station for the souls. This is what our people are told.
Fae are sacred, elusive creatures. Most Dalthwein pay great respect to the Wood People, for their benevolent guidance, the teachings, gifts, and knowledge they've bestowed on us since we came to the Dalthwein Region. But my ancestors have spat on their kindness since Corrigan McCleod first led them here.
He took their tribal names away from them, and he led my people away from their coastal homes, after King Collidor perished in the great floods. Where Collidor was a loyal and just leader, Corrigan was an oppressive tyrant. He infected my ancestors, my family, with a hatred, a curse, that refused to die. But, with me it ends.
Ella McCleod-96th day of the Autumn Quarter
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