THE RISING
ANTICHRIST IS BORN BEFORE THEY WERE LEFT BEHIND
Chapter One
Marilena Titi's union with Sorin Carpathia was based
on anything but physical passion. Yes, they had had
what the vulgar in the West would call a fling. But as his
student and eventually his assistant at the University of
Romania at Bucharest, Marilena had been drawn to
Sorin's intellect.
The truth, she knew, was that there was little prepossessing
about either of them. He was short and thin and
wiry with a shock of curly red hair that, despite its thickness
and his aversion to haircuts, could not camouflage
the growing bald spot at his crown.
She was thick and plain and eschewed makeup, nail
polish, and styling her black hair. Colleagues, who she
was convinced had been wholly encult ... read full excerpt from The Rising ebook
