Even for the powerful djinn, freedom comes at a price.
Harmonia Shae, a time traveler, faces a revengeful fallen sidhe queen set on enslaving humankind. A Sihir magician traps Harmonia’s freewill inside a talisman forcing her to submit to three summonses.
On the brink of death, she finds an unwanted champion in Tristan Avery. Upon awakening, she is in his house. Frightened, she scrambles to escape his overbearing need to protect her. Time is short, she must find the ambassador of the gates and return to her cousin’s house to formulate a plan of action to undo the cataclysmic effects she is compelled to inflict on an unsuspecting city once she completes the queen’s commands.
The wild cowboy sidhe, Tristan Avery finds the dark haired beauty unconscious and poisoned with copper. Determined, to find out why she is here, he follows her every move. When a calamitous earthquake hits Sedona, he is sure she is connected to the mystifying vibrational energy storming through the ley lines of magick. As minder of the Kingdom of Sidhe, he becomes entangled in a battle to safeguard Sedona and defend the women he’s vowed to protect.
Harmonia and Tristan can’t stop the tempestuous hot relationship developing between them as they each hide their own secrets. Will these two overcome the obstacles and find love?
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“What do you want with me?” Harmonia asked, her heartbeat racing, nearly exploding with the effects of the drug.
“Revenge.”
Another jolt of excruciating pain surged through her brain. Her arms remained immobile, unable to move against the repressing force of the woman’s energy.
A fire djinn, of the Infrit tribe, came through the tunnel to her left. Harmonia recognized the sister of her father’s enemy, Vera.
“You recognize me,” she said, circling around Harmonia with a satisfied grin.
In the recess of the cave, Harmonia sensed a Sumerian Sahir. A sour taste of panic formed in her mouth. Her eyes darted around the room searching for the magician. As a child she had learned to avoid the Sahir, known for their deceit and evil deeds.
Vera materialized a dark magick stone of solomon, giving the flaming talisman to the sidhe woman. The stone crackled with electrical energy before turning an ashy black. “It’s time to initiate the plan,” Vera declared.
Harmonia trembled, realizing they meant to bind her to the talisman. Fingering the pendant around her neck, she concentrated on Oaf and her grandfather. Releasing the water assimilation shield protecting her body, she attempted to slip through the quantum particles of the time ribbon and into safety. For a split second, she thought she might succeed. The wind encircled the vibrating molecules of her body, forcing her to materialize and retreat against the wall. The sidhe’s wind magick left Harmonia gasping for breath. Without her shield, she was vulnerable to the wind’s power.
The sidhe stroked Harmonia’s dark hair. “Silky and beautiful. So perfect,” she said, pulling a few strands from her scalp.
Harmonia heaved a heavy breath and cleared her mind of the shock. She pushed against the wind, determined to gain an upper hand before it was too late. The elements of wind thwarted and overpowered her water magick. Her body weakened. Unable to fight against the poison racing through her veins, she collapsed breathlessly.
“If I’m to be your servant, who is my master?” Harmonia asked, speaking through her teeth with forced restraint.
The female’s silver lips curved into a wicked grin. “Soon, you and all in the kingdom will remember the days of the unseelie reign.”
“Your clan.” With a resurgence of strength, Harmonia pulled the water particles from the wind and deflated its strength, giving her enough time to open the time ribbon.
“Stop her,” Vera hissed to the sahir. He shot an arrow into the ripple of energy causing her body to crumble to the ground, preventing her escape.
The sahir pulled his arrow from her shoulder. “Try it again and the next arrow will puncture your heart.”
Determined to keep her dignity, she stood. “How can I be of service to one so experienced in the world of sidhe magick as you? Your skills far superior to my own.”
“Aw, you desire a game of wits. The binding requires you have the opportunity.”
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Reviews for "Emerald's Ring, Sedona Series, Book 2"
Reviewed by Carrie Artrip-Sallie
12/14/2018
This is even better than the first one and I thought that would never happen! The writing is even better, the world building is wonderful and every is so perfectly clear that I feel I can see just what the author wanted me to see. The romance is just what I wanted and the characters are so nicely fleshed out that I could feel that they were real. Also, I just love that cover!
Harmonia is of the Marid clan, she doesn’t want to fall in love with a sidhe, whether he’s a faerie or not. Tristan, the fae, doesn’t want to fall in love with the willful Harmonia either, so the feelings are mutual, making for back and forth banter that antagonizes the other. Harmonia’s presence in Sedona is connected to the ancient Sinagua Indian tribe’s mysterious disappearance. Tristan knows that in order to save those in the universe from Ursula’s plan to destroy all through her vile manipulation of Harmonia, he should end Harmonia’s life to put an end to the danger. Can he do that? Will he do that? Whose magic will win out in the end? Will Harmonia’s ability to time travel help? So many are put in danger because of Ursula’s desire to control the human realm, and Harmonia’s life is at stake as well. This is a riveting story, holding the reader’s attention with lots of twists and turns to the plot.
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