Emma, who people call 'The Unknown', was walking, alone, in the pouring rain. Why, you may ask, was she walking in the pouring rain? Well, she was depressed, because the unwanted curse had gotten in the way of her life again. She was cursed as a pre-teen, 12, by a young wizard. The young wizard was, in fact, a young man. He had cursed her for insulting him, bullying him and his sister. Emma remembered the exact words of the curse, "You shall have no one, because you will be forever the way you treated me and my sister, EVIL. The curse can only be broken if you find someone willing to love you through the hate, and envy."
"It's a fairy tale curse Casey," he told me. "A fairy tale curse. A fairy tale cure."
"I still don't understand," I whined like a child. He gave me that beautiful half smile of his.
"It's very simple," he teased. The sun was fading...
"Just spit it out then," I shot back. It was almost gone... so close to gone... he leaned close, so close I could feel his breath on my ear... It tickled a bit.
"Just one kiss to break the spell."
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Casey Williams has always sort of believed in magic, but not for the childish reasons most people do. At 13 her brother and father were murdered by someone she was half sure she imagined... a monster. The whites of his eyes were black and the pupils snow white. The color was a hypnotizing golden, almost impossible to run from... but she did.
Now three years later she faces the same monster... only it isn't exactly how she planned their reunion. And she NEVER intended on falling in love with him.
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Book 1