Haunted Echoes

By Ophelia Kee

Haunted Echoes

A Mystic Dark Tale

 

Forbidden Love in the Depths of Darkness

 

Danika Klein shouldn't exist, but that isn't her fault. When a mistake leads to her abduction, a cursed human escapes her kidnappers to be rescued by a man who's more ghostly warrior than his appearance first seems.

 

Rorik Skog Vættr is an exile, a draugr, sworn to a man doomed to remain part of the godless dark. After battling the torture of a tragic past, he claims a forest preserve as a sanctuary, and facilitates meetings between immortals of the Spirit Realm and those of the Leaindeail. 

 

When Danika falls into Rorik's life, the dream tilts, and he needs to help her. His own feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness block the romantic feelings between the two until her abductors come looking for her. 

 

Haunted Echoes is the first novella in a prequel trilogy in the dark urban fantasy miniseries, Mystic Dark. Set in the dream, this spinoff story from the Draoithe Saga tells the tale of a draugr and how he chooses the damned for his mate. If you love powerful magic wielding ghosts and sexy cursed damsels in distress, read Haunted Echoes. 

 

It's not simply a story; it's an experience. Welcome to the dream…

 

Dark Urban Fantasy with Steamy Paranormal Romance 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: Jan 31, 2024
• ISBN: 9798223777564

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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Haunted Echoes

Ophelia Kee

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The haunted echoes of the past must remain in the past.

Remembering to relive gives them a life they shouldn’t possess.

Stand in the present.

Breathe deeply.

Note where you are and who is with you.

Leave the pain, the fear, and the loss behind.

Do not embrace it.

Let it go.

For those who suffer from the burdens of the past,

I have felt your pain.

Introduction

The Draoithe Saga by Ophelia Kee

Draoithe Saga

Draoithe Saga

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 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 relates alternate perspectives as the story unfolds.

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Story Description

Haunted Echoes

Haunted Echoes

Haunted Echoes

A Mystic Dark Tale

Danika Klein shouldn’t exist, but that isn’t her fault. When a mistake leads to her abduction, a cursed human escapes her kidnappers to be rescued by a man who’s more ghostly warrior than his appearance first seems.

Rorik Skog Vættr is an exile, a draugr, sworn to a man doomed to remain part of the godless dark. After battling the torture of a tragic past, he claims a forest preserve as a sanctuary, and facilitates meetings between immortals of the Spirit Realm and those of the Leaindeail.

When Danika falls into Rorik’s life, the dream tilts, and he needs to help her. His own feelings of inadequacy and worthlessness block the romantic feelings between the two until her abductors come looking for her.

Haunted Echoes is the first novella in a prequel trilogy in the dark urban fantasy miniseries, Mystic Dark. Set in the dream, this spinoff story from the Draoithe Saga tells the tale of a draugr and how he chooses the damned for his mate. If you love powerful magic wielding ghosts and sexy cursed damsels in distress, read Haunted Echoes.

It’s not simply a story; it’s an experience. Welcome to the dream…

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

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

Character Introduction

Danika Klein

Danika Klein

Danika Klein

Danika Klein was a human woman supernaturally cursed with the ability to draw the path of infinity into the dream. It wasn’t always a pleasant experience, and although she doesn’t completely understand how it works, it didn’t stop others from hoping to exploit her talent. Her life or death mattered little to them.

With a bit of cold, dark luck, she escaped the clutches of men who would enslave her and abuse her abilities, but that luck seemed short-lived as the weather turned nasty on an early spring night in a dark forest west of Chicago, Illinois.

Just as she believed she chose death on her own terms and escaped the shattered soul fortune derived from drawing the infinite path, Danika found herself trapped in a secluded cabin with an unstable man who despises her existence, yet refuses to allow her to leave, claiming she needs to heal.

He might be unbalanced, but everything about Rorik Skog Vættr ignites her soul. If the haunted echoes of his past interfere, will Danika have to leave her ruined heart behind when she flees the wilderness? Or will the fates conspire to keep them locked in the forest as shattered souls?

Rorik Skog Vættr

Rorik Skog Vættr

Rorik Skog Vættr

Rorik Skog Vættr was an outcast immortal forest spirit. The Vættir Council sentenced him to exile when they found him guilty of failing to protect his small forest home after a fire burned several thousand acres of land in the Leaindeail.

A human started the blaze, but he had no way to prove it. It didn’t matter; Rorik was responsible, just as the council decided.

After wandering aimlessly as a homeless draugr, he swore an oath to a Forest Lord and took a new residence in Elburn Forest, a nature preserve in the Domhain between Chicago and DeKalb, Illinois.

Humans entered his domain to hike the trails, but his solitary nature meant he rarely saw them. At the end of March 2016, the weather was still too unpredictable, and his abode, far from any trail, ensured his isolation. Preferring solitude, Rorik kept a watchful eye on the land to ensure what happened once didn’t repeat.

No preparation was enough to defend his heart from Danika Klein. When the half frozen woman fell in his front door, the dream tilted, leaving Rorik unsure of his place in it and wondering if it would ever balance again.

His bitter hatred for humans wasn’t enough to keep him from feeling pity for the broken young woman. The longer she stayed, the stranger his life became, and the deeper his attraction to her grew.

Rorik resented the loss of his solitude. He should have sent her back to her own kind, but her near death and extreme anxiety had him needing answers and desiring something more.

Would the fools chasing her bring the haunted echo of his tragic past to destroy his new home in their quest to enslave her? Or would the price he swore to pay to save her ruin his heart and shatter his soul?

Contents

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Excerpt from Unlikely Kings

1.Reimt Bergmál - Haunted Echoes

2.His Destiny

3.Drug Induced Haze

4.A Worthy Man

5.Catch Her

6.Out Of His Control

7.Despicable Human

8.Polite And Agreeable

9.Pneumonia

10.Kind Attention

11.Bleak Outlook

12.Wrestling With The Implications

13.Entwined Mysteries

14.The Past, The Present, Or The Future

15.A Harbinger

16.Hopeless Doom

17.Haunted Echoes - Reimt Bergmál

18.Sneak Peek at Ruined Hearts Eyðilögð Hjörtu - Ruined Hearts

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