Mercy: The Mercy Series, #0

By C. C. Marks

Charlie's identity is a secret, but her very presence places everyone around her in danger. With no other choice but to remain where she is, she stays with a community that might not be as benevolent as it appears. In this riveting excerpt from a post-apocalyptic romance where a friend might be an enemy and an enemy might be a friend, eighteen-year-old Charlie must protect her baby sister and herself from grotesque monsters outside the community as well as human ones inside. Will the truth she discovers about her protectors save her or ultimately doom her to a fate worse than death?

• Language: English
• Publisher: C. C. Marks
• Release date: Oct 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223115489

C. C. Marks

It all started with an old-fashioned typewriter. When my family brought it home, for the first time, I knew what I wanted to do. All those stories rolling around in my head could finally get out. The press and click of the keys were satisfying in their own right, but when I pulled out a finished page, I knew this was for me. Since then, I've graduated to a laptop, but the stories still find a way out.  I'm a breast cancer survivor, a teacher, a wife, a mother, and a writer. I continue to strive for less procrastination and more tact. The battle wages on. Connect Online: Twitter: twitter.com/ccmarkswrites Facebook: facebook.com/ccmarkswrites   

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Charlie’s true identity is a secret, but her very presence places everyone around her in danger. With no other choice but to remain where she is, she stays with a community that might not be as benevolent as it appears. In this riveting scene from a post-apocalyptic romance where a friend might be an enemy and an enemy might be a friend, eighteen-year-old Charlie must protect her baby sister and herself from grotesque monsters outside the community as well as human ones inside. Will the truth she discovers about her protectors save her or ultimately doom her to a fate worse than death?

Mercy

By

C. C. Marks

This is a work of fiction. names, characters, places,

and incidents are either the product of the author’s

imagination or are used fictitiously, and any

resemblance to actual persons living or dead,

business establishments, events, or locales, is

entirely coincidental.

Mercy

COPYRIGHT 2012 by C. C. Marks

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Table of Contents

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

About the Author

Chapter 1

Isnapped my head up hard. I’d heard a sharp break of a twig just inside the trees. There was nothing living left in the forest, so my mind automatically thought of the only other possibility—Draghoul. Why would they be out in sunlight though?

A quick glance at the sky and I was reassured that the heat I felt on my skin was a bright, hot sun that the Draghoul wouldn’t dare venture into. Not when the sun was detrimental to their survival.

A Draghoul was already dead, at least in the mind. Though his or her body continued to function, they weren’t the same as when they’d lived. You had to kill them again by removing their head or in some way destroying the brain. It was called re-killing them, and they were described as re-dead or re-killed.

I’d seen re-dead ones lying in the sunlight after their heads had been chopped off. In the sun, their skin melted from their bones like wax from a candle, seeming to speed