There are a few things I should probably clear up before we get started with this book. This entire book is based off the "Finding Sky" trilogy, written by Joss Stirling and uses the characters that she has created. None of the Benedict family were created or characterised by myself. The main character(s) of this book are an addition to this trilogy. If you don't know what I am on about, please read the "Finding Sky" trilogy, because I might not explain everything very well within this book as I'm going on the assumption people know what it is and don't explain it fully until quite a few chapters in.
"Capturing Ella" is written in an alternative universe before Misty Falls happen. Not for any reason other that I planned this before the release and have only just got around to writing it. So whilst the events of Finding Sky, Stealing Phoenix and Seeking Crystal have all happened, the events of Misty Falls and Angel Dares (when I write this pre-note, Angel Dares hasn't been released but it probably will be by the time you read this) haven't happen.
This is where it gets a bit hard to follow; Ella Benedict is adopted. Never heard of Ella Benedict? It's because she's my own character. If you want to skip this part and find out what happened in the story, then that's completely understandable and you can! However, if you want the background information here's what happens; When she was born, she was only the Benedict boy's cousin from England. But when she was four she was in a horrific car crash that killed her parents and her five older brothers and sisters. So Saul and Karla adopted Ella (who is genetically their niece – still following?) but when the forensic reports of the car crash come back they find out the car crash was actually an attempted murder attempt on the family and they have to cover the two remaining siblings of the family. They get Victor to alter the minds of everyone in the town to believe that Yves and Ella are non-identical twins despite the age different. Ella is quite a small girl, so even though she was six when Yves was four, everyone believed they were twins. Ella's mental state wasn't quite right and had a major relapse before the start of Kindergarten when she was only six, so they pulled her out of Kindergarten and let her start three years behind school with Zed. Whilst I explained this terribly, it will be explained better within chapters where relevant – but even though she's 20/21 in this, she had only just graduated High school. Also, the one brother that survived the crash with Ella is Michael, who is also in this book.
Also whilst I have done as much research as I can on the laws of England and America, I still don't know everything. But legal age in England is 18 to drink. On that note, I don't condemn people getting drunk illegally and in that one chapter where some characters do drink, it is completely legal. Please don't break the law.
Quite a few people have also messaged me asking how I am going to write from two different perspectives – and honestly I don't know yet. But from the few chapters at various points in the un-chronological order, it seems there is a distinct different. The chapters from Joe's POV when Ella is involved is quite speech-based, in comparison to Ella's POV when Joe is involved (especially when they first meet) it's very wordy and psychological based.
Talking of psychology, please note that mental illness is a theme in this book and can be mentioned. I understand that it can be quite triggering for some readers so I will put major triggering chapters in warnings at the beginnings. Primarily within this book, anxiety is a key thing for Ella and the way she reacts and it's based on my friends (and my own) anxiety and the way I react in certain situations.
This part is also an apology; some chapters can be short (like, 800 words? I mean, this is currently 600 words – seems odd) and some chapters will be long (i'm on about 8000. It's happened before – I binge write, I'm so sorry.) so I might split the longer chapters up into parts but put them up within the hour of the first part. Also to mention; the first few chapters are a bit scene setting, but it will get a bit better.
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Capturing Ella
FanfictionElla's life has been unorthodox to say the least. At the age of four, a horrendous car crash killed the majority of her immediate family apart from one brother a few years older than her. A year later, she was adopted but for years struggled through...
