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TOURMENTIN
(A Gothic Love Story)
Novelette
By
Michelle Cornwell-Jordan
The
cover was created by the amazing NextArtist Media Service www.nextartist.com
Blurb
Emil and Serafine loved at first sight; after
marrying they believed in their fairytale ending. But fate and darkness from
Emil’s past separate the lovers, with Emil being trapped in an alternate time,
imprisoned in the 1800’s by his former lover the sultry Isadora. Isadora is
convinced that she and Emile belong together and also as the old saying goes…
believes if she cannot have Emil, then no one can.
Time moves forward and Emil’s beloved Serafine
dies, but she promises to find her true love again. Love’s promise is realized,
when Serafine is reborn into the modern age and has returned to the French
Quarter and to the very hotel where her Emile still remains frozen in time. The
lovers reunite, only to face an evil which vows to destroy them once and for
all.
New Adult 18+
Set
to release March 09th 2013!
Tourmentin
Excerpt
Emile
He
was awake, he couldn’t believe it. He hadn’t been conscious it seemed for days,
years, maybe hundreds of years. He stretched. He appeared to be in his study,
his library, this time. He never knew when the black sleep taking away his
consciousness would come.
When
it leaves, he never knew where he will be— in the bedroom, in the stables, in
the kitchen, now in his study, but always in the house. He had been trapped
here, neither alive nor dead, for years since that fateful night he found
Isadora Sepion in his room. He remembered the grief he felt after pulling his
parents charred bodies from the ashes of a fire that no one really knew how it
began, although he had his suspicions slithering in his mind at the time.
His
doubt became stronger when he entered his bedroom, fresh from his shower, ready
to take to bed and allow the blackness of sleep to over take him and wipe out
the stench of death and the memories of soulless eyes. He had wanted his dear
Serafine here, to hold close and feel her comforting embrace. The need for
comfort was so strong within him, he could have wept. His desire warred with
black suspicions and despair.
So
when he saw her, Isadora, the one who had taught him the pleasures of the
flesh, he wanted her, but only for a moment. Where Serafine was sweetness and
honey, Isadora was bittersweet, overwhelming spice. His mind was mixed up and
confused, but he quickly dismissed that dark thought. He had not learned the art of giving,
tenderness until Serafine.
Serafine…
the thought of her, like bright and glorious sunshine, had wiped the haze from
his eyes. Emile realized that Isadora must have known this, because as soon as
he said the words— “Get out”— she had risen off the bed where she sat. Standing
straight, she watched him with dark eyes…instead of looking vulnerable; she
appeared like some pagan goddess and simply said,
“You
are mine for eternity.” Her words had
thrown him long enough for him not to see the knife she held arched above her
head. She brought it down cleanly, slicing his arm. Screaming from the pain,
shards of what felt like knives pierced his skull and caused Emile’s knees to
buckle, sending him to the floor. The last thing he saw was Isadora’s black
eyes peering at him. The last conscious thought he had was of Serafine… his
beloved Serafine… He then saw her face, and felt the words, “Emile, I will find you” and then the
blackness took him. That was the original night.
Author Michelle
Cornwell-Jordan is a Young Adult/ New Adult Paranormal author. Her titles
include a co-written work with Danny Jones called Reahket and her solo young
adult novella series Night School Vampire Hunter Trilogy.
She is also the producer/host of the online
radio segment, IndieReview Behind the Scenes, where she and her co-host Jamie B
Musings interview Indie authors and musicians.
Michelle has been married for seventeen years
and has a fourteen-year-old daughter. A book lover, her favorite genre has
always been paranormal adventures.
Follow her on twitter at @mcjordan37
Fan her on FaceBook at IndieWritersreview YA
blog http://www.facebook.com/pages/Indiewritersreview-YA-blog/243295842393117
Thanks so much for hosting Tourmentin! You are fantabulous Marilyn:)
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