The Chosen: Lilium

By Ben D

Dacio Thalassa travels to Spain to attend the annual Navarre Grape Harvest Festival. However, instead of enjoying the music, dancing and food she finds herself investigating the kidnapping of a local woman. Can Dacio stop the monster that hunts the woman without awakening the monster that travels with her?
Find out in the third book of the Endless Waltz series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ben D
• Release date: Nov 18, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463027837

Ben D

Author that has a very long urban fantasy series in my head and pushes it out on a bi-monthly basis. With enough support from my fans I can afford to push it to a monthly series.

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Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 1

Her evening had started so well. A twilight jaunt through the Wisp Forest should have been an excellent start to her vacation. But the pouring rain that her mud-soaked shoes slosh through as she traverses the dark and twisting forest has been anything but relaxing.

A pair of muscular hounds approach from opposite directions. They come to a stop in front of her and transform into a pair of twins.

Jayden, formerly the black furred hound with a brown underside, places a pair of thick-rimmed eyeglasses on. Sorry Dacio. Didn’t catch any scents to the east for a good quarter mile.

Clarice, the former brown furred hound with black underside, rubs her arms through her checkerboard arm warmers. Nothin’ to the west either. Maybe we just heard things?

Another bolt of lightning streaks through the sky. As the evening turned into night the brief illumination has served as a substitute for the wisps. The eerie, dancing orbs of light that have given the forest its namesake have been notably absent tonight. Was it because of the storm or something else? The something else is what has her the most intrigued but she can’t say the same for her companions.

From deeper in the forest another scream is heard and both of the twins look as pale as ghosts. She recalls their faces painted in the same look of apprehension on the day they swore their oaths of protection. Not that she needed protection but she was not going to argue the point with her father, may he rest in peace.

But that was then and this is now. She would never put herself or her own safety before either sibling. But in this moment someone, somewhere in this confusing forest needed help. In order to find them she needed the twin’s tracking skills. So she summons up as much leadership that she can muster, hoping that it is enough to be contagious. Let’s go.

It’s enough. Jayden’s eye glint and change from a forest green to sapphire blue. Clarice’s eyes do the same but from sapphire blue to forest green. In near-perfect unison both change back into hounds and take off southwest towards the scream. At least she thinks they are travelling southwest. Without the use of a compass she was not exactly sure where true north is. So she has been using the direction she was facing when they first heard the