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Genre: Fantasy
About JaeynLocation: Ellijay, Georgia Home Region: Age:24 Website: http://andeverafter.livejournal.com Favorite novels: The Curse of Chalion, Dry, The Lord of the Rings, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Jurassic Park, State of Fear, Timeline, Sellevision, The Quickening Trilogy, The Inheritance Cycle, The Twilight Saga, Harry Potter Favorite writers: Lois McMaster Bujold, Augusten Burroughs, Michael Crichton, Douglas Adams, David Sedaris, JK Rowling, Dan Brown, Christopher Paolini, Fiona McIntosh, J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephanie Meyer Favorite music: new age, symphonic metal, hard rock, instrumental, acoustic...depends on my mood, really! Non-noveling interests: music, concerts, photography, cooking, blogging, singing, hiking, movies |
Joined: October 2, 2007 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 13 NaNoWriMo buddies: 16
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Brief Author Bio: Hello there, I'm Jenna. |
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Synopsis: Soulwalker
The kingdom of Atheani is caught in a brutal war with their former ally Erantis. The King of Atheani is desperate to end the seven year war that has plagued his land. He soon discovers that he's had a powerful weapon all along, in the form of four women that reside in the kingdom. These women, a Mother and her three daughters, are direct descendants of Valkyries. They have the power to see into the future, to know what is coming and the power to stop it. The King imprisons them, using them for his own will and denying them their freedom.
Helena, the youngest of the daughters, is especially valuable to the kingdom. With the strange and otherwordly power to see the souls of others and to take souls from men and transfer them to others, Helena is the most gifted of them all. She is sworn to protect Prince Bowyn, to be his constant companion and to keep him safe from harm.
But all that Helena wants is freedom, for herself and for her family. She is devastated that she will not have the opportunity to leave the kingdom, to roam the world, to fall in love. But Helena is forever changed when she meets Finn of Arrysi, a young solider in the King's brigade. Able to see into his soul, Helena can see that he is the love of her life. But very soon after meeting him, she has a vision of his death. Devastated that she will lose him, Helena decides to go against the King and use her gift for her own desires.
In the next battle, in which Helena has forseen that Finn will die, she takes Bowyn's soul and replaces it with Finn's, leaving the Prince in Finn's dying body. When Finn awakens, Helena attempts to explain her actions. In the flesh of Bowyn, Prince of Atheani, Finn is forced to play his part to survive. When he and Helena discover the King's intentions to conquer all the known lands of the world, they know that they must stop him.
Excerpt: Soulwalker
Finn stepped closer to her and Helena breathed in sharply.
“Why did you save me?” he asked softly. “Why me and not the others?”
Helena could not bring herself to face him. His presence was almost too much to bear.
“Because,” she said, her voice cracking. She cleared her throat and fumbled with her hands, feeling her skin flush red. “Because I could not destroy such a beautiful soul.”
She closed her eyes. She couldn't believe that she had said it and yet she did not want to take it back.
“You saw into my soul?” Finn asked, his voice sounding nearly as weak as she felt.
“Yes,” Helena said. “I saw everything that is inside of you. And I am quite sure that...I love you.”
Helena silently cursed herself. She felt such a fool for saying it. But she could not deny what she felt for him. It was all consuming.
“How can you love me?” Finn asked. “You do not even know me, my lady.”
“But I do,” she argued. “I have seen into your soul, I have seen the depth of your heart. You are the purest soul that I have yet seen, and the most beautiful.”
Helena bit her tongue to stop herself from gushing. She could have gone on; there was no limit to what she could say about the beauty of Finn's soul.
Finn fell silent and Helena willed him to say something—anything.
“You saved my life,” he said very softly after a moment. He was so close to her that Helena stopped breathing. “I believe that means I belong to you.”
Helena looked up to finally face him, and in his eyes she saw that her love was returned. Her head felt dizzy as he cradled it in his hands. She remembered to breathe as he traced his fingers across her lips. She closed her eyes and gave into him, trembling as his lips met hers in frenzied passion. His arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her closer into his embrace. The rest of the world disappeared around her; there was only him, only the heat and intensity of the kiss. Then it was gone, and Helena found herself face to face with Finn, both of them breathing heavily and staring at each other in complete fascination.
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