Friend or Fae
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"I had come back to the place I started from, back to the memory of when things were bright and the future stretched before me like some great and glorious adventure. Back to when things made sense, when badness was just an idea, a nightmare dispelled with the coming dawn. Home had been for the longest time a vision in my head, one of simple goodness, proof against everything that went to bad and then worse. I could go on, no matter what as long as it was there waiting for me. My strength, my salvation.
As always I got it all so hopelessly wrong.
The house was still there, the rooms barely changed. The trees down the drive just a little bit taller, thicker. The house was still there all right, but not the home.
That had been the dream all along, dying at last with my mother.
Still it made no difference in the end though, either way. Some things you could not run away from, some troubles too deep. Lessons learnt the hard way, the bad way that never faded, images that stuck in your mind but it might as well have been your throat the way they rose up and choked you. Your world, my world it made no difference, the past was a story you could tell however you liked, but never change.
Some days were good days, when I could lie to myself that things would be okay. When I could almost feel normal, as if I had never left this grand old place and things had never had to change. What came to me later in those dark, dreaming hours put paid to that though and as always my mind led me treacherously back to the bleak and inescapable truth.
There was no cure for what one had seen or done."
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Francesca ‘Frankie’ Lee is just a small time country kid, a bit brighter than most but as green as the grass on the hills of her homeland. When she wins a scholarship to study in the big city it seems as if all her dreams have come true. But the city couldn’t be more different than the quiet empty fields and moors of West Country and Frankie soon discovers that monsters roam this urban paradise.
Frankie is sponsored by a powerful vampire family, but although she is thrilled at the power and wealth this position provides, in the city the old adage ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’ holds true. The city is a dangerous place where power over others is paramount and no matter how bright Frankie is her ignorance and vulnerabilities cannot make her anything but a target. Those that should have been protecting her seek her downfall and in a moment of violence and awakening Frankie finds herself thralled to another family and at their mercy.
Frankie is soon torn between strange powers and finds that she is not quite as normal as she first believed. In this land humans had no magic of their own, but Frankie finds her strength growing until she becomes a danger not just to herself but to others. She is sent to one of the city institutes used to tame rogue magics, but again she is betrayed. Her powers are used for dark purposes, bringing her into contact with some of the most feared creatures in the kingdom. She flees back to West Country, but the city has changed her for ever and this peaceful little backwater is no longer quite the safe haven she remembers it to be.
About the Author
Hannah Blatchford graduated with a B.A (hons) in English Literature & Language from Exeter University. She has been a freelance copywriter for several years and this allows her to indulge in her passion for the written word in all its forms.
Hannah has always been fascinated by faerie tales and their ongoing significance and relevance throughout modern life. She feels that the current trend for paranormal romance novels really taps into this genre and creates a very modern combination of both age old ideas and contemporary ethical and moral dilemmas.
Hannah was inspired to write her own story that would both explore the charming and sometimes dark world of folklore and fairy tales and also engage the modern romance reader.
‘Friend or Fae’ is Hannah’s first novel inspired by the rich history and folklore of the British Isles.