Category: Fantasy Publisher: Donald Wardle
Type: Fiction
Pages: 337
Copyright: Feb 2013
Price: $3.49 (eBook)
This New Adult fantasy will take you on an emotional adventure.
Living a sequestered life in magical village named, Albion Falls.
Sophia's only friend, a fairy named Rosalba, provides a welcome source of comfort and support.
It is a lie. Rosalba is not what she appears to be.
Rosalba's sinister intention to devour Sophia's soul becomes the focus of her parents. Sophia's family and the local villagers try to protect this young woman.
Unknown to Sophia, destiny calls for her to become the Princess of the skin-walkers. A way of life shared secretly by all who surround her.
The announcement of Sophia's plan to leave Albion Falls brings the crisis to a head, as Sophia must fight for her life against the evil witch who deceived all for many years.
Excerpt
CHAPTER ONE: WHY?
Why would anyone in twenty-twelve want to write a memoir they could never publish? It would seem almost vain in comparison to Facebook, Twitter or any popular social network, also known as online diaries.
However, my life is not like most. If I’d known . . . I know, right? How many of us go through life wondering about those “what ifs,” or what would have happened if we had said or thought of a snappier comeback?
Regrets? Sure, we all have them. Some are made from honest mistakes, and others, such as the “what ifs”—there is no avoiding them. Such is life, my life.
Mom used to say, “Sophia, you can’t change the past, so stop looking back.”
I have often wondered who she was trying to kid?
I mean, even when I try not to think about the past, it still haunts me.
All I have to do is close my eyes and fall asleep. In little to no time, it is back. Of course, it is under a different name. Some people call them nightmares, and others call them bad dreams, but me, I call them reality.
Therefore, instead of writing a memoir filled with dates and quick points of boring ‘Dear Diary’ crap, I decided to share the whole story with you from the very beginning. It is something I wish my mother had done for me.
This story will explain the reason for my death, well, if I die that is. There is a slim chance I will finish telling you this story before I—well, only one in three of our kind survive giving birth.
Maybe an online diary would have been a better way to share my story, but if I have learned anything in my little time on earth, it is that secrets are secrets for a reason.
So little ones, if you are reading this and I am no longer around to read it to you, I want you to know that my nightmare was also my dream come true.
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Reviews for "The Secrets of Albion Falls - The Secrets Series - Vol 1"
Reviewed by DS Sault
8/15/2013
The Secrets of Albion Falls caught my interest in the very first page a never let up. Sophia, the main character, pulls the reader into the world of a sensitive young girl living in an abusive and emotionally distant family. As she retreats into a self-imposed isolation, she falls prey to false friendship of an evil fairy who waits for the right moment to steal her soul. Before Alba, the evil one, can accomplish her intentions, Sophia discovers an unexpected truth, one of the many secrets of Albion Falls. A battle rages between forces of good and evil with Sophia as the prize. The ending is truly a stunner that combines a book's worth of rooting for Sophia with justice the reader has come to crave. Don't miss a this read!
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