The Cursed

By Lisa Farrell

Magic cannot be used without consequences, that's why you need a license to use it. But if your child was suffering because of the backlash of someone else's spell, could you stand by and do nothing? Wouldn't you want to save them, no matter what the cost?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gypsy Shadow Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Mar 20, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452460819

Lisa Farrell

Lisa Farrell has been writing for as long as she can remember. Much of what she writes is speculative fiction, but she tries other things from time to time. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, and some of her stories are available in print and online She lives in the UK with her husband and two black cats, and is currently trying to edit a couple of novels simultaneously.

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Contents

Copyright Page

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

About the Author

The Cursed

by Lisa Farrell

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Copyright © February, 2010, Lisa Farrell

Cover Art and Illustrations Copyright © 2010, Charlotte Holley

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ISBN: 9781452460819

Published in the United States of America

First eBook Edition: March 10, 2010

Chapter One

She pretended not to notice the women watching her as she approached the bier. She kept her head up and eyes forward as she passed them, her baby held carefully in the crook of her arm. Her offering was precious perfume for the chaotic god; she had to bring the best she could afford. It wasn't her fault the other women could only spare a loaf of bread or a bunch of wild flowers. Their husbands toiled in the wheat fields because they hadn't the skills to do anything else. Her man could both write and count, and so served the lord personally, up in the great house on the hill.

That was where he was now, though the sun had almost set. The farmers were able to attend to the rites with their wives while she had to make