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The Winning of Olwen

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THREE STORIES OF LOVE
  
  An Arthurian romance set in a modern city...a lover who finds solace in the legend of an ancient ash tree...a woman much loved by her husband and children who hears voices and is afraid she is going mad.
  
  Legend claimed King Arthur himself helped the hero Culhwch meet the demands of the giant Ysbadadden so as to win the hand of his beloved Olwen. Was history repeating itself? Cully Logan wondered, when he met the ethereal Olwen in small city graveyard, only to see her slip away from him into the crowded streets. "Perhaps we were destined to meet, like our namesakes" she tells him, and laughs. Perhaps we were, Cully thinks, as he searches for her. They meet again in a place he never dreamed she could be.
  
  "Yggdrasil was a very ancient ash tree and according to legend it was the tree of the Universe. It is said that all ash trees are its children and a source of rebirth and healing." So George Symons learns from Juliana when he comes to her home to help her father puzzle out a bad investment in Belize. The house is a sprawling, somewhat isolated place near the sea. Juliana is enchanting, and he feels he has gone under her spell. She takes him to a massive ash tree and bids him sit under it with her, and tells him of its legend. She becomes his reason for living, and when she is taken from him, he is sure that he has nothing to live for.
  
  For Jen Wakefield each day is an unknown. Her husband promises her they are safe, and her love for him and her children, Maggie and Sam, sustains her. For a little while she has been free of the voices in her head. Now they have come again. What was in her control now, she wondered? The slow hours of keeping house and the planting of seeds and the walks on the dunes were what she loved. Would she lose it all?All Rights Reserved

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The Scryer ✔️

"What are you doing babe," Jim's disembodied voice asked her. "I want to talk to you." "You are," his voice said, almost laughing at her. "Yes, but I want to hear you with my ears, not just in my head. I want to see your face again." "Okay. Well, you still have the little scrying mirror coin-thingy, right?" "It's not enough. I want to hold your hand in mine. I want to kiss your lips...I need to feel you again." "I know. You will one day. Soon." Hannah Stolzfus AKA Gabrielle Winston walked between two realms and lost herJim because of it...murdered by the Demon King by way of her unconditional love for her husband. Six months had passed after Jim's death when Chris, a friend from her ghost-hunting days, first approached her with his new "memorial bot," a brand new program that could communicate utilizing various algorithms; that could text and talk via phone and computer. But there were unexplained glitches; ghosts in the machine, he called them. He wanted her professional opinion as a psychic...Were they really ghosts? Knowing that Chris's dream was robotics, she wondered if he could take it a step further into a realm known only to science fiction? What if he could successfully create an android? What if he could create it so that it looked like Jim? What if he could make it sound like him...move like him...behave like him...Be like him? In every way possible...The perfect lure to attract the greedy Demon King. An original story about a love lost and a love reinvented...Like an amazing dream we sometimes wish to continue once we awaken, perhaps best left up to chance? Or not at all... Hannah is a young woman born of Amish ancestry with a secret. A secret so volatile that her entire family would be ousted or worse and to top it off, the souls of all of humanity hang in the balance. Free will's a bitch.