Contents
Part One Excursions.................................................1
Part Two Disillusionments.........................................109
Part Three Weddings...............................................219
Chapter One
The summer I was fourteen, my uncle Jaxon took me with him
on an expedition to hunt for aliora. I had only seen the fey,
delicate creatures in captivity, and then only when I was visiting
Castle Auburn. I was as excited about the trip to the Faelyn River
as I had been about anything in my life.
I had been surly at first when Greta insisted that I could not go
alone with my uncle such a far distance from the castle. "People
will say things," she pronounced in her hateful voice. "A young girl
and an older man gone off together for three nights or more. It will
cause talk."
"He's my uncle," I pointed out, but Greta was not appeased. She
did not like me, and I assumed her ambition was more to thwart
my glorious adventure than to protect my reputation.
However, when I learned who my traveling companions were to
be, I stopped complaining and b ... read full excerpt from Summers at Castle Auburn ebook