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Hens Lay Eggs

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Cost of a new life? #MFRWHooks

2/6/2018

 
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The Dragon Wore a Kilt 
By Holly Bargo  
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"Will the magic that brought Connor and Lila together destroy them?"


Loch Ness wasn't Scotland's only body of water to boast a water monster; it was just the famous one.

Excerpt:

While rolling beneath the overhang, the engine groaned again. It sputtered. It wheezed. It died with a sickly cough of black exhaust. Maggie muttered a curse beneath her breath and tried to open the driver's side door. Of course the road was narrow and the car's proximity to the rocky face of the cliff was far too close to allow her to open the door more than a couple of inches. With another oath, she unbuckled the seatbelt and twisted her body to crawl over the stick shift and out the passenger side of the car. The car shuddered. She dismissed it as the engine's death rattle and continued moving. She barked her shin against something hard. Her wrist threatened to give under her weight and she regretted the extra forty pounds she carried on her frame. The car shuddered again and that time she noticed that rocks and pebbles bounced off the car.


"Dear Lord, it's an earthquake," she muttered as the entire car shook again as though the mountain were trying to shrug the vehicle off its shoulder.


Then the earth gave way and the car plunged down. Maggie screamed. Like every silly heroine in every adventure movie, she screamed in terror even though she knew that screaming would help nothing. She slammed into cloth-covered metal when the car hit the cold, murky water.


From across Loch Saorach in the far northeast of Scotland, Connor Matasan watched in horror as the hillside crumbled beneath the car.


"Come help" he bellowed as he shot out of his chair to run, run as though his own life depended upon it.



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Kryssie Fortune link
2/7/2018 03:59:46 am

This pulled me straight in. Love the excerpt and love Connor

Holly Bargo
2/7/2018 11:11:47 am

The introduction to Connor shows him in a good light. Of course, he doesn't always behave in noble fashion. After all, who does?

Kayelle Allen link
2/7/2018 07:26:56 am

What! What a place to leave us! Hook indeed...

Holly Bargo
2/7/2018 11:10:32 am

...line and sinker, too, I hope.

Lisabet Sarai link
2/7/2018 08:59:45 am

I'm trying so hard not to call this a cliff-hanger...! Very dramatic, Holly.

Holly Bargo
2/7/2018 11:10:01 am

Of course, it's a cliffhanger. You're supposed to want to read the book now. :-)

Kris Bock Author link
2/7/2018 12:33:05 pm

Wow! Nothing is so bad that it can't get worse, I guess.

Holly Bargo
2/7/2018 03:02:06 pm

There's joke about the difference between a pessimist and an optimist. A pessimist will say, "Things just can't get any worse." An optimist will reply, "Sure, they can!"

Janet Lane Walters link
2/7/2018 01:34:33 pm

Sure hope someone cn help and seen. What an ending

Holly Bargo
2/7/2018 03:01:17 pm

Not an ending, a beginning.

Ed Hoornaert link
2/8/2018 12:26:21 am

I wonder what they can do to help from the other side of the lake?

Holly Bargo
2/8/2018 09:23:57 am

You'll just have to read the book and find out.


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