Book extract...

So excited to share with you a small extract from my book. Since the book isn't technically finished yet any extracts i post on here may be subject to change but my story will persevere so any changes will most likely be the wording i've used.

I wanted to share the books prologue; this a is a new piece i've only recently added in to the story to introduce my male lead character, Ariel, because although the story is based on a young adult female called, Evelyn, because Ariel is her guardian angel i suppose you could say that the story is as much about him as it is about her in some ways.

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Ariel

 I waited patiently for her to return home, sitting unmoving in the white wicker chair in the corner of her room whilst my heart pounded erratically, the way it always did until she returned home safe and sound.

It had become almost a nightly ritual for me to be there, waiting, just to make sure she was okay. How things had changed since I started this mission over seventeen years ago.

I hadn’t particularly cared about the missions I was given back then; the only reason I’d joined the brotherhood was with the intent to kill demons; and as a result I’d resented any missions involving humans. Not because I didn’t like humans, I thought they were an enviable race is some ways, but all I’d ever wanted was to help waste the demon scum who walked the earth and being a humans body guard wasn’t exactly fulfilling in the same way as sending a demon back to hell.

Being an angel, or a seraph to be more precise, you didn’t get many career choices. It was compulsory within our race to do one of two things when you came of age. The first choice wasn’t one to be taken lightly, joining the high council; which I’d never wanted to do. The elders on the council made decisions for all of mankind; and that seemed like too big a burden to bear. The second career option was one many, lesser angels shied away from, joining the brotherhood; a fellowship of heavens’ almightiest angels, an army trained to protect and serve for the greater good. And that was me, my calling; I was one of the strongest of my kind, so it seemed like a given that I should join, using my abilities to ensure the survival of mankind and my own race.

Technically there was a third option but it wasn’t one I had ever contemplated. Some angels chose to live like lemmings, as I liked to call them; who just wanted to live peacefully, no excitement, no action, and no life at all. That choice was the one I feared the most, having no purpose, leading an altogether boring existence; eternity was a long time to just exist without actually living.

Compulsory career choices aside, there was one other less revered choice which I may have considered for the smallest moment. The rebels of our kind, fallen angels who were outcast for breaking our laws or those who chose to leave of their own free will, if you can call it that; they left our world, abandoning their race and forsaking their purpose. Despite the fact that the fallen were exiled from heaven, they were the ones I envied the most. They had their freedom.

I couldn’t deny that for most of Evelyn Grey’s life I’d been absent; I couldn’t feign interest in watching over a child playing with her dolls when I’d wanted to be out hunting all the things that go bump in the night! At times I suppose you could say I’d been resentful about it; human missions had always seemed so stagnant to me and a waste of my abilities. My friend and second in command, Temperance, tried over the years to get me to take an interest in the mission but what did I care about some human girl who as far as I could tell was just that, human?

But things changed unexpectedly when Temperance told me that the reapers, death angels, where coming for Evelyn’s parents; I couldn’t deny my intrigue. Although I was a lieutenant in the brotherhood, I was still too low in rank to be told anything of importance and that meant I had no idea why we’d been sent to earth to watch over her. Part of me wondered if reapers taking her parents had anything to do with who she really was, so I stuck around more, hoping to find out.  

Ever since then I’d watched her closely. What once was a genuine vague interest in finding out what she was, had turned into a startling fascination, an unwanted attachment to her which I struggled to control. Since her parents’ death Evelyn had demonstrated such strong will; something most humans don’t have. She carried on with life even through the pain of loss I knew she felt; she went to school; she went to work; and she even continued to date that all too perfect kid she’d known since childhood; like any other normal girl her age. And even though she fell, broken beyond words, at the end of every day, she still got up each morning and carried on. She was one of the strongest humans I had ever known.

I sensed something within Evelyn, something I couldn’t quite put my finger on about who she really was and why I’d been sent to protect her and so I suppose part of me wanted to be there for the sole purpose of finding that out but deep down I knew the other part of me wanted to stick around just to see her every day; her captivating looks were almost unearthly and I could see those green eyes vividly whenever I closed my eyes. Her presence both soothed and calmed me and I was drawn to her in ways I couldn’t explain. But I couldn’t go there, she was human and such things were forbidden to our kind; I was her protector, her guardian angel and that’s all it could ever be. 

I hope you're all intrigued into reading more of the story now! I might post another chapter later on this week....but for now i must get back to it, enjoy the rest of your Sunday whatever you're doing. 

Lindsay