Feeding Malachi: Eve and Malachi, #1

By Abigail Hilton

Eve is an inquisitive baby rat who regularly escapes from her cage. One night she meets a strange creature in a glass tank across the room--a boa constrictor named Malachi. The snake is amused by Eve's questions, and he awes her with stories of the wilds where he was caught. What will happen to their fragile friendship when Eve discovers what Malachi eats?

Feeding Malachi is a chapter book, illustrated with beautiful ink drawings. The story has a few scary moments, but also a happy ending. This is the first book in the Eve and Malachi 6-book series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pavonine Books
• Release date: Aug 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9781386938040

Abigail Hilton

Abigail Hilton is a traveling nurse anesthetist, based in Florida. She has spent time in veterinary school and done graduate work in literature. You can connect with Abbie and find all her social media links at www.abigailhilton.com. Abbie also writes steamy fantasy romance under the pen name A. H. Lee. If that sounds interesting to you, check out Incubus Caged. Warning: those books are edgier than her epic fantasy series.

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Feeding Malachi

Eve and Malachi, Book 1

By: Abigail Hilton

Published by: Pavonine Books

Cover art and illustrations by: Sarah Cloutier

Cover Design by: Jeff McDowall

© 2010 Abigail Hilton. All rights reserved. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This material may not be reproduced, modified, or distributed without the express prior permission of the copyright holder. Artwork is displayed by agreement with the artists.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. In Which Eve Makes a Strange Discovery

Chapter 2. Meet Malachi

Chapter 3. A tail with a head that sees with his nose and smells with his tongue

Chapter 4. What the Cat Said

Chapter 5. The Best Food in the House

Chapter 6. Hatching a Plot

Chapter 7. In Which Everything Goes Wrong

Chapter 8. In Which Malachi Talks About Dragons

Chapter 9. The Solution

Chapter 10. Wings

Chapter 1. In Which Eve Makes a Strange Discovery

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Eve, if you go out again, I’ll shut the cage! said Phineas to his little cousin. Phineas was a black hooded rat, and he stood bristling beneath the water bottle.

Eve looked down at him from the top of the bottle. You’re just jealous because you’re too big to go out, and you never thought of it when you were smaller.

This was true. No rat had considered going out of the glass tank until Eve decided to try. They all thought her rather strange.

Be sure to bring back a good story! called Athena, her sister.

Yes, but mind the cat, said Moses, her father.

Do be careful, said Maribel, her mother, and her aunt and cousins and brothers and sisters said the same.

Eve turned to look at them and nearly lost her balance on top of