Taking Flight: The Unforgiven 1

By Elena Snowfield

TICK-TOCK-TICK-TOCK...
DO NOT BREAK THE CHAIN

Time for Melinda is fast running out. Time for her to make her escape. And time to make a daring rescue.

The only thing fifteen-year-old Melinda has been thinking about ever since she found out that she was betrothed to a man twice her age was how to escape the madness of the cult she had been trapped in. But escape seems easier said than done, especially since Melinda is being kept under the watchful eyes of her Uncle, an Aunt who never seems to sleep, and the Elders.

Melinda has the unique ability to see things no one can, like Angels and, once one Halloween, a demon. Her power also allows her to see a boy named Caleb, who isn't really a boy but has the fading aura of an Angel, get captured by the Elders. Kept in chains and tortured, Caleb’s agonizing cries are a constant reminder of why she must get as far away from the cult as she can. She must escape, and soon, but not without trying to rescue Caleb.

Does Melinda have the power to not only save herself, but to save Caleb? And if she can save him, has she saved an angel... or a demon?

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EXCERPT
“What’s with the angel, anyway?” Gabe asks, watching her as she smooths the jagged fringe of her hair.

“You can see them, too?” That’s the other reason she likes him so much. When she told him that she could see them, he didn’t automatically say that she was crazy, like so many other people did. He merely nodded, and listened. He didn’t believe her, not then. But he does now.

“No, but I kinda assumed, after what happened last night,” he says, leaving the sentence unfinished. He leaves the bathroom . She keeps snipping, concentrating on keeping her hand steady.

“Um, Melinda?”

“Yeah?”

“Where is he?”

She feels a lump form in her throat, and fights back a wave of nausea as she goes to confirm what she’s inexplicably terrified about: the bed where Caleb was curled up on is empty. The silvery aura, the wall of flames—she doesn’t exactly believe in being able to see the future, but right now, she has a very bad feeling that something terrible is going to happen.

Other Books in the Series:

2 - The Darkling

3 - Chains of Darkness

4 - The Child of Light

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: Oct 18, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311914026

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Taking Flight

By Elena Snowfield

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Chapter One

TICK TOCK.

The grandfather clock downstairs ticked off the seconds that had passed since Aunt Frances and Uncle Josiah went to bed. Melinda listened for their creaking bed -- one body, then the second. In fifteen minutes, Uncle Josiah would begin to snore. But even after three years of living with her aunt and uncle, she still had no idea if her aunt ever sleeps.

Tick tock.

She suspected that at least, she had not been sleeping deeply. Although she knew that her aunt could not read her thoughts, Melinda also knew that she suspected something.

It was the night before her fifteenth birthday -- and her wedding. Melinda had been planning her escape for three months now ever since her aunt and uncle arranged for her to become Old Man Herman's third wife. She tried not to think about the consequences if she were to get caught. The last girl to protest a marriage had been forcibly raped by her betrothed in front of the elders.

Rumor had it that she lived, still bound in chains in the basement of the man she never married, every year giving birth to a child whom she would never see. And she had merely protested. What Melinda was doing probably warranted death if she were caught.

So she had better damn well not get caught.

Tick tock.

She reached over her head to push the curtain aside so that the light of the moon could shine on the alarm clock on the dresser. Ten o'clock. She had two more hours to wait. Melinda felt the exhaustion from the day's labor creep up on her, but she had poured some of her uncle's morning coffee into a thermos earlier that morning and drank it before she went to bed.

Now, it was all she could do to keep her body under the covers. Luckily, her cousin Lucy was nine years old and a sound sleeper, so she didn't wake when Melinda slowly eased out of the warm bed and tiptoed out the door.

Until then, though...

Tick tock.

Three years ago, her mother got ran off the road on the way to Melinda's recital. In any other state, it would have meant a hospital stay... maybe a few stitches and a cast. But in Boulder, Colorado, it was a death sentence. It wasn't until she saw her Aunt Frances at the