Icebound - Chapter 5
**Cormanthor Forest, 1372 DR. 29th day of Highsun.** Aiden awoke to an incessant ache in his arm and a sunbeam in his eyes. Squinting, he looked around. He was still in the forest. Alive. He almost wished he weren't. He lay curled up on his...
Icebound - Chapter 4
**Cormanthor Forest, 1372 DR. 26th day of Highsun.** Three weeks after the bandit raid, Aiden was out in the Cormanthor wood once again, hunting. He wanted to be alone this time and bid Scruff stay home. He went out much further this time than...
Icebound - Chapter 3
**Shadowdale, 1372 DR. 7th day of Highsun.** Aiden awoke with a splitting headache and an aching chest. As he lay there, eyes closed, it all came back to him in a flash, and he turned to his side. A shooting pain in his chest made him stop...
Icebound - Chapter 1
**Shadowdale, 1372 DR. 6th day of Highsun.** "Hold the line! Don't let them get through!" bellowed Bran, Aiden's father. The townsfolk were running out of their houses, rapidly throwing on bits of armor and hastily grabbing weaponry. The brigands...
Icebound - Chapter 2
**Shadowdale, 1372 DR. 6th day of Highsun.** Aiden jerked his head up to see the flying wizard raise his staff, causing another lightning bolt to strike the ground below. Aiden had no idea how long he had been sitting there with Norin, but it was...
Icebound - Prologue
**Shadowdale, 1372 DR. 3rd day of Highsun.** Aiden shook his head, trying to get his hair out of his eyes as finished balancing the tin bucket on the edge of the door. It had been just their luck that the smith, Bronn Selgard, had left the door to...
Revelations - Chapter 11: Binding Secrets, Continued
**Thursday, May 28th, 2015** It didn't take Lizzy very long to tear open the box of condoms that were sitting on the nightstand while Alex watched, still smiling. The vicodin tablet that she'd taken earlier for her aching leg was already taking...
Revelations - Chapter 10: Binding Secrets
**Thursday, May 28th, 2015** A small calico cat darted into the bushes, scared out of it's evening nap by the white SUV pulling into the driveway. The black-tinted driver's side window rolled up, and the Nissan Rogue's engine shut off. Moments later,...
Revelations - Chapter 9: Sharing Secrets, Continued
**Thursday, May 28th, 2015** "Oh jeez, that was good. I can't believe your tongue is that long! I'm still feeling tingles in my tummy from that," Elizabeth said, laying against the pile of pillows at the head of the bed. The tiger-cub next to her...
Revelations - Chapter 8: Sharing Secrets
**Thursday, May 28th, 2015** The raven at the front of the board room clicked the button on the remote, moving on to the next slide in his presentation. He turned around, feathers rustling under his white lab coat and used the laser pointer in his...
Revelations - Chapter 7: Broken Secrets
**Thursday, May 28th, 2015** Alex lay in her bed, cast propped up on one pile of pillows while she lay against another pile. The obnoxious laughter of the little red birds she was slinging across the screen of her phone was getting annoying. She...
Revelations - Chapter 6: Family Secrets, Continued
**Saturday, May 23rd, 2015** Elizabeth looked back up at her father's face, biting her lower lip. She spoke for the first time that evening. "Father? Please? I...I need you..." Terrence smiled at Elizabeth. "I know, Princess. You don't need to...