The Box
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His face was so close, the scent of wood smoke and apples wrapped me in an embrace all its own, stunning me. Gods, I thought desperately, would it really be so wrong to give in just this one time, to kiss him, touch him, for just a little while? Why not? A sultry voice whispered in my head. My lips trembled with the effort of not kissing him. Why not give yourself this gift; you deserve it, who would know? Who’s going to be hurt by it?
Ignatius would, I told the voice firmly. He would be hurt by it because he deserves better. He deserves more than I can give him because, “I’m married,” I whispered out loud, opening my eyes in time to watch him close his.
Tension built in his body as he fought to control his reaction. When he opened his eyes, they were fevered. “Pan,” his voice was thick; “You don’t always HAVE to do the right thing.”
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It’s not that Pan Blair, stay-at-home mother of three, has anything against humanity per se. It’s just that she finds interacting with its members to be draining to the point of exhaustion. Her husband, however, can neither understand nor live with her introversion. When a scheme of his creation lands them on the brink of homelessness, Pan decides it’s time to get the hell out of the passenger seat. It’s time to take an active role in her own life.
Even though she knows she’s not remotely qualified for it, she accepts a management position at a bookstore. There’s something eerily familiar about her new boss, the enigmatic Ignatius Pyre, but Pan has more than a few new revelations coming. As soon as she accepts the job, she faces a Herculean gamut of physical, emotional, and ethical trials. Every day, she learns a little bit more about herself, but nothing could possibly prepare her for the biggest shock of her life.
Pan, it turns out, is short for Pandora, of Greek legend; what’s more, Ignatius has been her soul mate throughout time. Together, they are about to turn the world upside down. But rather than unleashing the plague, pestilence, and misery of the legendary Pandora’s Box on humanity, they instead liberated the gifts of the gods—and Zeus is not exactly pleased.
Now, Zeus’ relentless pursuit through history has come to a head, and he has just the leverage he needs to force Pan into an impossible choice.
About the Author
Invariably shortest and last in every class, Laura Ryan Fedelia developed a healthy inferiority complex early on. Though picked on by teachers, peers, and passing waterfowl, Laura learned that she could always be the hero in her own imagination. The Box is the physical representation of that discovery.