Magicae Terra Episode One

By K. McKinley

Eavesdropping and saying exactly what she’s thinking are just a couple of flaws that get Amelia into trouble.
Who knew magic was real? That there is a whole world out there she’d never heard of, where magic is common?
Amelia’s life is about to take a dramatic change—will she be able to survive all the twists and turns to come? Or will she end up pissing off the wrong man?

• Language: English
• Publisher: K. McKinley
• Release date: Sep 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301882946

K. McKinley

Kristine McKinley is a neurotic introvert that lives in Raleigh, NC. She is currently not a member of any writing organizations, she is too new to this whole sharing what she’s written thing to actually try and join one. She has currently won no prizes for her writing, see previous sentence. She has been published in eBook form since September 2, 2012. She does not have a degree, but did attend college for two years until she realized she wasn’t sure what she wanted to major in and dropped out to figure that out, she still hasn’t decided. When she was 7 years old she won a blue ribbon for cornbread in the under 18 category at her local county fair.

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Magicae

Terra

Episode One

K. McKinley

Originally published as: The Ring, The Man

By K. McKinley

Smashwords Edition

Episode One in the Amelia Bennett Chronicles

Copyright 2012 K. McKinley

Republished as Magicae Terra: Episode One

Copyright 2015 K. McKinley

Table of Contents

Prologue

The Ring, The Man

Author’s Note

Prologue

She stood by the open window in the modest loft above the blacksmith’s and held her breath as a slight breeze wrapped around her body, providing some small comfort against the crushing heat. She closed her eyes and the sound of the hammer pounding on the anvil faded into the background. She tried to forget all that had happened to her, all the events that had brought her there. She tried to remember her life before magic had changed everything.

As the breeze drifted away and the heat came crashing back down, she sighed and moved back to the small bed that was the only furniture in the room. She couldn’t bring herself to get under the covers and instead lay on top of them, staring up at the exposed beam above her head. Sweat trickled down her brow and she brushed it away before it fell into her eyes.

Closing her eyes, she tried to figure out what had brought her there. It would have been easy to blame him, or even herself, but when she really thought about it, the reason was the magic. Magic she hadn’t even known she’d had.

The Ring, The Man

I received an invitation to help plan a wedding for a girl I barely knew in high school and because I accepted, everything changed. When I say everything, I mean my whole life, my place in the universe, what I knew about the world—all because I wanted to save some money on a vacation to New York City. Given the opportunity to do it all again, even knowing what I know now, I’m not sure if I would.

I don’t know what I was doing there. The invitation was from a girl I had barely spoken twenty words to the entire time we’d been in school. Instead of a bridal shower, she was