Wreck of Heaven, The
Chapter One
Copper House, Ballahara, Nuue, Oria
Molly McColl tightened the laces on the heavy silk bodice and shrugged into the brocade overgown. Alive, she thought. I'm alive. I'm alive! I was dead, and now I'm alive, and I'm back in Copper House. She tried on a smile, but it didn't seem to fit.
She remembered dying all too clearly -- remembered taking her sister's kid through the gate between the worlds, only too slowly, because she'd been unwilling to do what she had to do. And her hesitation had almost cost three-year-old Jake his life.
Saving him had cost her hers. The healing that would have been so effortless on Oria had, on Earth, required her to take every bit of Jake's pain and all of his injuries into her own body. To absorb them. On Earth, she'd been only human, stripped of downworld magic and Vodi power. And on Earth she had died.
But now she was alive again, brought back by the Vodi magic. Brought back to Oria -- and in her head, the voices of long-dead Vodian whispered remembrance of their own
deaths and rebirths and deaths again.
Molly had only been al ... read full excerpt from Wreck of Heaven, The ebook
