The Forever Heart
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The hearthealer is adept at mending broken hearts. But can she ever heal her own?
In the magical Kingdom of Hartfall, Valentina Peacock is a hearthealer guilder, and her lover, Flavio, is an automated man with a ruby heart. Valentina’s past, however, is lost to her, but her craft of mending broken hearts and having Flavio at her side are all she needs or wants.
Suddenly Valentina’s calm, well-ordered world is shattered when Flavio brings her a summons from the heart-king—it is a royal command to attend his court. Will the journey to see the king bring back Valentina’s memories of a forgotten love? Or will it shatter her finally and forever?
Adrianna Dane
Adrianna Dane has been putting pen to paper since the age of ten. She currently resides in the state of Washington. She has a great fondness for using a fountain pen when writing her first drafts. Hobby interests are varied, including photography and traveling. The first defining love story Adrianna read back in junior high school was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and that set her on the road to her long-standing love affair with books of all genres. Her inspiration in writing often can be found by listening to song lyrics, from hard rock to classical, and reading poetry by such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ranier Maria Rilke. But finding inspiration for her stories truly has no boundaries for Adrianna. In 2006, her dark fantasy GLBT story, Body Parts, won its category in the Dream Realm Awards. Adrianna has written more than 100 stories, short, novella, and novel length, delving into many facets of the human condition - contemporary, futuristic, and fantasy, and all the flavors therein and in between. In other words, wherever the story and the characters, as well as their intricate stories, take her imagination, then her pen and/or computer keyboard, are sure to follow.
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The Forever Heart - Adrianna Dane
The hearthealer is adept at mending broken hearts. But can she ever heal her own?
In the magical Kingdom of Hartfall, Valentina Peacock is a hearthealer guilder, and her lover, Flavio, is an automated man with a ruby heart. Valentina’s past, however, is lost to her, but her craft of mending broken hearts and having Flavio at her side are all she needs or wants.
Suddenly Valentina’s calm, well-ordered world is shattered when Flavio brings her a summons from the heart-king—it is a royal command to attend his court. Will the journey to see the king bring back Valentina’s memories of a forgotten love? Or will it shatter her finally and forever?
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This story is a work of original fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the author.
This book remains the copyrighted property of the author.
Copyright 2016 by Adrianna Dane
Cover Art Designs by T. A. Gallup
This story was originally released in February, 2010, by Amber Quill Press/Amber Allure
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CAUTION: This story contains explicit sexual situations and strong language. You must be over the age of 18 years of age to read this story.
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The Forever Heart
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By Adrianna Dane
Dream Romantic Unlimited, LLC
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In the magical kingdom of Hartfall lived a kind and beautiful woman whose special talent was that of repairing broken hearts. Her name was Valentina Peacock and she possessed a heart of gold—literally. Her own human heart had been broken and, somehow, in a past she did not remember, she had been brought back to life by the gold heart now encased in her chest. It was a comfort to her as she listened with her acute hearing to the flawless synchronization of the clockwork of her now immortal heart. It never seemed to require realignment or adjustment.
Not like the one she worked on now. A heart was a delicate instrument, requiring the closest attention to detail. But the one she worked on now was different from the many that hung in her workshop. All colors and shapes and sizes. Some old, some new, some tarnished, others pristine. Some priceless, others merely serviceable. But this was a special one belonging to someone very important to Valentina—and because of that it was a heart with value beyond compare.
Flavio was an automaton man, infused with magic—her best friend, her lover. She couldn’t remember how or when they had first met, but it seemed as though he’d been a part of her life forever. He never asked for more than she could give and always knew when she needed him.
A slight skip and a shudder in the movement of his heart had required her immediate attention. A hearthealer guilder, a precise and intimate craft to be sure—she would allow no one else to administer to the heart of the man whom she could not bear the thought of losing.
Even though she couldn’t remember the exact circumstances under which her own human heart had been broken, she remembered the undeniable devastation of loss. It was a feeling she did