Mankind’s day of reckoning is coming; A young Wicca must
learn to harness the elements and reconcile old friendships if she is to save
mankind from Mother Nature’s wrath.
Kindred Spirit
by Julia Firlotte
Genre
SciFi Dystopian Romance
A plague for a plague, to make the human race pay
For the destruction of a planet which was not theirs to slay
Mankind’s day of reckoning is coming and all hopes lie on the shoulders of one
young Wicca. Only Cady Leigh can harness the elements and reconcile old
friendships if she is to save mankind from Mother Nature’s wrath.
Set three hundred years in the future, the impact of global warming has divided
the nation into two opposing societies. Cady Leigh’s family are Wiccans and the
healers of their underground traditionalist community, so when a craft from the
opposing technologist’s society crashes near her home, Cady saves a wounded
technologist teenager Drew Kemp and brings him to live with her family.
Like all technologists, Drew has a nanochip implant and uses it to spy on the
traditionalist villagers to root out the terrorists who attack the metropolis
he calls home. However, he falls in love with the independent and spirited
young Wicca, Cady. When he reveals the truth to her, she feels betrayed and
rejects him, so he returns to his city alone.
Some years later, due to the damage inflicted on the Earth by humans, mother
nature unleashes her displeasure on mankind in the form of a dangerous virus.
Passionate about healing, Cady travels to the technologist’s city in search for
a cure. But in a world of science and fact, Cady’s Wiccan roots start to reveal
themselves at the worst time and her paranormal abilities to harness the
elements evokes fear and oppression in the technologists around her.
When Cady discovers her abilities are more significant, that she is in fact the
final hope to redeem mankind, she must turn to Drew to help her navigate this
new world and find a cure.
‘I don’t need to ask for their permission, Cady. I am Elder in charge at this council, and you belong to me. My answer is clear. It will always be no. You may not leave. And tomorrow, you’ll answer only to me and become my wife. So, go home, prepare your gown and your apology. You are dismissed.’
My mouth drops open, but they don’t get to see my indignation as the door clicks shut in my face, leaving me alone in the dark tunnel without my candle. With the thick door closed completely shut, I can no longer hear any of the conversations from inside, so I turn and drag my feet in the direction of home, stumbling a little in the pitch blackness.
I don’t understand what they were talking about. When I first arrived, someone mentioned hurting women and children, but I don’t think they meant the villagers. That sits very wrongly with me.
I feel like the tunnel walls are moving, closing in on me from all sides, and I almost trip on an uneven part of the ground, so I stop, taking lungful after lungful of musky air and resting my back against the wall.
‘I’m done,’ I whisper to myself, alone in the dark, ‘I will never be used as a pawn in the games of men.’ I close my eyes and exhale, fighting the swimming sensation as pressure builds up inside my head. It takes a minute or two, but when I reopen my eyes, with my resolution now set and my plan forming rapidly in my head, my way seems clearer, not just my path in the darkness, but my route to the dim light of the communal corridors I can now see up ahead. A tension in my chest is growing, like a strength inside and fighting to be freed.
I just know now what I have to do. My journey is set.
I raise my wooden plate in front of me, hovering my hand over the extinguished candle in the middle.
I close my eyes and pull the energy from the earth surrounding me, and when I open them, the warmth I feel in the centre of my palm is real, emanating from the glow of light now burning in the centre of the plate.
I’ve never done that before, light a candle with just my thoughts, but I somehow just knew that at this moment, when I needed it, I would be able to.
After a lifetime of reading romance novels, Julia Firlotte
started writing her own novels in 2018. As soon as she started, she knew she'd
found her passion.
Julia is inspired by the world around her, often coming up
with the opening scenes of a novel and the characters in them and then later
developing a plot line. Julia's stories always have a focus on the role trust
plays in a relationship and the twists and turns love takes when this is
brought into question.
Julia is also a romance blogger and reviews books on her
website.
Her favourite authors are Jaine Diamond, Sylvia Day,
Chrystal Kaswell, EL James and Kendall Ryan.
Please do subscribe to her mailing list on her website and
be so kind as to leave reviews. As a self funded / self published author, the
role readers play in supporting new authors is crucial to allowing them to
write more books and reader support is valued above all else.
When she's not writing, reading, blogging or editing, Julia
works at her day job in Logistics, shipping other people's books all over the
world. Julia is married with two children and five fur babies and lives in West
Sussex, Southern England.
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