In Ruins
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Guinevere felt somewhat rejuvenated, like the moon was giving her much needed energy. Even though her left arm still pained from where it was shot, she could at least pretend to ignore it. She meditated on her plans, perfecting them. The cricket’s song timed her thoughts, making them come at steady waves.
She heard a noise in the bushes. Her eyes opened slowly, annoyed by the extra noise, and she looked into the greenery. All was quiet. Guinevere returned her attention to meditating. There was a rustle again. This time she stood up and cautiously walked over to the bushes. Everything was still; the crickets had even stopped singing. Guinevere’s curiosity took the better of her. She parted the bushes.
A small dart flew from the bushes and punctured Guinevere’s neck. Sedative, she thought along with, why must I get shot so much? She spun around. Everything started to spin and her vision blurred. She looked back to the direction of her house and could see a massive shape running towards her.
“Alfon…” she tried to say her bodyguard’s name, but the rest melted away to a slur and she fell to the ground, unconscious.
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About the Book
Guinevere Rhoslyn is a genius, a thief, and only fourteen years old. With her bodyguard, Alfonse, she has planned and excecuted almost forty heists of various renaissance and romance period paintings. But when she discovers an ancient scroll written in a language that can only be described as magical, her world is turned upside- down. She is captured by the megalomaniac sprite Lievek in hopes that she would be the portal to unleashing the most feared beast in any world- the Gryph. Guinevere has less than a week to thwart Lievek's plan of destruction, and she is the one that needs to be saved.
About the Author
M.B. Hart was born in England, and has lived throughout the United States. Always creative, she began writing poetry at age eleven and since then has written notebooks full of poems and dozens of short stories. She loves reading, playing music, writing, and hopes to graduate college with a degree in writing.