Ironminder
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Last published Sun, Feb 21, 2021
Evelyn --Lyn-- Nettle cleans up messes, usually the magical kind...or maybe the human kind depending on how you look at it. She's been doing it for ages, and except for a few close calls she's managed to stay relatively unscathed. So, when she's summoned by a night dark creature to clean up a rather ghastly issue, she 's not anticipating it to be anything more than 'normal'.
An engraved summons from a ruling king certainly isn't 'normal'. A trek across the faelands hunting down a poisonous magical item and its thief is about the farthest thing from normal Lyn ever anticipated, and as an Iron Minder, that's saying a lot.
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He gave me a feline smile as he stalked toward me. I backed away until my heels hit the stall wall and he took advantage of my surprise by stepping in to me, his body a mere whisper from mine. "That's good, Evelyn," he murmured and brushed a strand of hair behind my ear. My heart was pounding and I knew my face was betraying everything I was feeling. Damn him. I didn't want to feel this excited clench in my stomach. I didn't want to feel this longing for him. "What are you doing?" My voice was shakier than I would've hoped and far too breathy. "Something I've wanted to do for a very long time." *************************************************** Two hundred years after a powerful sorceress eliminated all modern technology and most of Earth's population, the people left behind live happily with no electricity, no motorized machinery - no advanced technology of any kind. However, many of them now possess magical gifts that were once considered myth. Evelyn Kentala, a talented horse trainer, is an empath and uses her gift to understand animals. Her abilities don't allow her to know the emotions of people - or so she thinks. When Broderick Ryan, the next leader of his and Evelyn's province, returns home after being gone for five years, Evelyn discovers she's much more than an empathic horse trainer. Frightening and rare abilities begin to manifest and she's left reeling when she discovers why. Evelyn and Broderick find themselves drawn to each other as they discover the secrets of her unknown past and fight to keep themselves, and their province, safe from those who wish them harm.
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