Black Moon: Faery Tales, #8

By Ronel Janse van Vuuren

Death is only the beginning…

Varsity student, Emma, makes the ultimate sacrifice to save her fellow students from rioters and is taken to Valhalla.

Instead of being welcomed as a hero, she is enlisted to the Valkyries to eternally battle the Furies over the souls of the fallen who will fight on their side during Ragnarok.

She is not well-liked by her sisters-in-arms and Valkyries are not allowed to be opinionated.

Can Emma learn to live with the sexist beliefs of her new society, or will she forge her own path?

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*This is the eighth book in the Faery Tales series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ronel Janse van Vuuren
• Release date: Jan 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781386902485

Book preview

Emma grimaced as her calves complained again about that morning’s exercise as she climbed the few steps to her usual desk. She knew that the new routine was a bit brutal, but the more she hated an exercise the better she performed. She was weird that way. It had taken her some time to realise what motivated her to exercise more. And she could really see the difference in her performance in her Mixed Martial Arts classes twice a week – now she could actually go toe-to-toe with guys twice her size. Life was great, even if her calves disagreed.

She felt a sudden chill deep in her soul. Emma closed her eyes. It was almost as if the Norns from Norse mythology were gossiping about her. A silly thought.

She opened her eyes only to find Siseko in her face.

‘You were thinking about homework you forgot to do,’ he said, grinning puckishly.

She was about to tell him that she never forgot anything, when commotion outside the lecture hall made the smile disappear from his handsome umber face.

Emma’s heart began to beat faster, sweat soaked her socks and her body reacted more and more as if she were in the middle of one of her MMA fights. The smell of burning rubber came from outside, the black smoke obscuring the sun through the high windows. She hoped that they’d leave the library next door alone. It was bad enough that they destroyed everything in sight to prove their point – destroying the library would be more than just counterproductive to their cause: it would take way the only place she had to study in peace.

‘Riots,’ Mandy whispered and shrunk back into her chair next to Emma.

‘Idiots fighting over language. They’ve come here too,’ Siseko muttered.

The chill of earlier became downright freezing. Emma watched the door. The lecture hall wasn’t full yet. She hoped that the others had been stopped, peacefully, before entering the building. She’d seen on Twitter what had happened at other universities... The fear that the images had caused her was a lot worse than what she felt about the library being destroyed: books could be replaced, lives couldn’t.

Emma looked at her fellow students in the lecture hall. There were almost twenty of them there. She knew that most of them would bear the brunt of the anger of the students outside. Especially Siseko and Mandy. She swallowed away her fear.

‘You have to leave now. Use the lector’s office and stay out of the way,’ she said to them.

‘But –’

‘You’ve read the news! Gavin and I will stay.’ She looked up at the auburn-haired guy she’d always reckoned as a friend. He nodded grimly.

‘Go!’ she urged them as the noise in