Still Waters: Shadowed Dreams, #0

By Ophelia Kee

Still Waters

 A Draoithe Saga Tale

 

In this spellbinding tale, a Fin knight's quest for his lost love takes an unexpected turn. When he discovers his betrothed has perished tragically among other immortal victims, his honorable instincts compel him to rescue the remaining captives. Bound by his unyielding code of chivalry, he sets out on a new mission.

 

Amidst the chaos, when he returns with aid, he stumbles upon a remarkable revelation: his true lifemate, transformed into a captivating canine shifter. As she navigates the bewildering world of immortality, he must help her as she grapples with her newly gained magic and immortality, struggling to reconcile her former humanity with her present existence.

 

Torn between duty and desire, the knight must confront his own conflicting conscience and a profound moral dilemma. Will he find solace and redemption amidst the relentless currents of vengeance?

 

In this emotionally charged tale of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit, the knight must confront his own conflict of conscience and aid the woman he knows as still waters. He discovers profound truths about himself, the true meaning of sacrifice, and the enduring power of love.

 

Prepare to be enthralled by Still Waters, a captivating story set in the dream, a world crafted by the urban fantasy and paranormal romance author Ophelia Kee. Explore the tangled web of destiny and magic as the inexorable pull of love unites one Fin knight and his coastal wolf mate. It's more than a story; it's an experience. Welcome to the dream...

 

Urban Fantasy and Steamy Paranormal Romance with Fated Mates 18+ HEA! NC!

***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

 

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ophelia Kee
• Release date: Jul 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201780487

Ophelia Kee

Not who everyone thinks she is.  The product of someone’s imagination.  The end result of a lifetime wishing to get out. Do not buy the lie. If you live in fear, you give up freedom. Taking the risk and making the leap. Too much of anything is a bad thing. Innuendo floating on the mist that rises above the water. Walk away and leave it all behind. Telling the story that haunts a fantasy. Catching a dream. She does not exist. -Ophelia Kee

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Still Waters

A Draoithe Saga Tale

Ophelia Kee

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Ophelia Kee

Copyright © 2020 by Ophelia Kee

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For Valentine’s Day and lovers everywhere!

Introduction to the Draoithe Saga

The Draoithe Saga by Ophelia Kee

Steamy hot, wickedly delicious paranormal romance, magical realism, and urban fantasy stories set in a dream to live for!

Those who come to Draoithe aid in the fight to restore the magical balance of the dream, one couple at a time.

Grab a good drink, curl up in a good seat, choose a book from the Saga, and escape into the dream while you meet the men and women who call it home.

Draoithe is a world in which myths, legends, and fairytales walk unmolested among the strange and wonderful.

They often find balance in a lifemate, and the magic from the past lives again!

Welcome to the dream...

Steamy Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance Stories with Fated Mates 18+ HEA! NC!

***Warning: Adult Themes, Fantasy Violence, and/or Explicit Sexual Situations. Intended for a Mature Audience.

Note to the Reader: A saga is defined as a long story of heroic achievement, especially a medieval prose narrative often found in Old Norse or Old Icelandic. It’s a form of the novel in which the members of a social group chronicle a long story detailing a dramatic history.

Compartmentalized in several miniseries for easier reading, the Draoithe Saga tells the story of the founding of an immortal kingdom in the Leaindeail to combat those responsible for unbalancing the magic of the dream. It’s told through the eyes of those connected with its creation and the readers see the story through tales of couples who find hope through their connection to Draoithe.

The central time frame is the year 2016, although pertinent information from the past reveals itself as the characters understand it. The central place is an eerily familiar yet magical realist, Tyler, Texas. As the tale draws out, other kingdoms set in other locations interact with the Druid pack to bring about the end of Peter Elliot and restore the balance of magic, so those tales, too, became a part of the Draoithe Saga as well. Cameo appearances of characters from other tales are common. Overlapping scenes from the events often relate an alternate perspective as the story unfolds.

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Prologue

1.In Search of Inari

2.Elusive Immortals

3.More Necessary

4.The Best Hope

5.The Weight Lifted

6.Aftermath

7.A Death Dealer

8.Magic was Pulling Him

9.Freeing the Captives

10.Death Could Wait

11.That Dazzling Smile

12.The Door Closed

13.Impossible

14.Leaving Her

15.Complicated

16.Sank Into The Waters

17.A Good Day

18.Strange Medical Experiment

19.The Only Question

20.Other Things

21.No Good Choice

22.A Burden

23.More than Enough

24.Learn to Love

25.Peace of the Garden

26.Petition to Join

27.Anxiety

28.Redemption

29.Negative Connotation

30.An Ally

31.What the Hell

32.In Search Of

33.The Rules

34.She Encouraged Him

35.Forever was serious

36.Walk Into Eternity

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Do you breathe it?

Dust flitting on the breeze from the lifted cover. 

Ink saturating a yellowing parchment. 

Glue holding a faint trace of long dried chemicals.

Do you see it?

Black plastic and smooth edges covered in glass.

Blue glowing light as the digital device powers on.

Images and links to an endless array of stories.

Do you feel it?

The weight of the tales awaiting consumption. 

The anticipation of insight into another world. 

The sheer roaring power in the written words.

Do you sense it?

A great escape. 

A grand adventure.

An exquisite love affair.

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Prologue

Sophia

Sophia stared at the water, but refused it as she refused the food. She wouldn’t eat from dishes on the floor. Trapped, naked in a cage, her captors did everything they could to erase her humanity, even somehow turning her into a werewolf or something like one.

Sophia never believed in magic, the occult, or witchcraft. She was a realist, a humanist, a modern woman who believed what she could see, what had scientific explanation. That was who she’d been once. She desired to preserve at least a portion of her dignity until the end.

The end would arrive soon. Her battered body couldn’t stand much more. She no longer desired to live. Whatever survival instinct she should cling to faded away. She welcomed her imminent demise. What they’d done to her, the magic and the monstrous, were too much to accept, too far outside the realm of possible.

Oblivion meant the memories couldn’t plague her anymore. She wouldn’t mourn the loss of her job, her life, her humanity. The horrific awe at being a wolf would no longer plague her.

If Death took her, the beatings wouldn’t matter, the pain would cease, and the strange, emaciated wolf she could become wouldn’t make any difference to her anymore. It would all cease to weigh on her. She would learn if Nirvana was possible.

Sophia ignored the water and the food. She turned away from it as much as she could inside the crate. She closed her eyes and attempted to find peace. Meditation had never failed her before, and although it shouldn’t aid someone the way she used it, Sophia needed something to ground her, a way to put distance between who she was and what happened to her. She wanted a connection to a past not long lost.

Watching the fight between four men and her jailors frightened her. The horror of seeing a woman and a bear shot to death wouldn’t leave her mind. The sounds of torture as the men responsible for the escape attempt were bound and beaten until they were unconscious were worse.

Later, when her captors tortured another man to death in front of everyone, Sophia couldn’t help but watch as his life drained from him in silence. She cheered for him in her heart. He kept his secrets, whatever they were, even if he also ate half of one tormentor’s hands.

Through it all, she remained imprisoned, unable to move, or affect any of it, trapped as part of a macabre nightmare. She was nothing more than a medical experiment. No one cared if she lived or died, and death was preferable to the torment.

Her life as a yoga instructor and a meditation coach in a holistic healing center seemed like a fairy tale from long ago. She’d only lost that life a week earlier. Her youthful exuberance for her work, her carefree existence, and joy in life faded instantly and irrevocably. Only the horror, pain, and misery remained.

Sophia refused that existence. She didn’t think about her matted dirty hair, her broken nails, cuts, bruises, and broken bones. She was