MATED TO THE SWAMP MONSTER (MATED TO THE MONSTER) BY HONEY PHILLIPS – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Authors: Honey Phillips
- Language: English
- Genre: Paranormal / Sci-Fi
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2.2 MB
- Price: Free
Rorie’s legs burned as she waded across another knee deep stretch of
water, the underlying mud oozing into her ragged sneakers and
threatening to pull them off her feet. The weight of her saturated
clothes dragged her down with every step but she ignored them. She
couldn’t stop. She couldn’t go back.
Just as she reached a slightly raised hummock, tangled with roots and
branches, her foot caught on a root half-buried in the muck and she
stumbled forward, grasping desperately at the rough bark of the nearest tree
to keep herself from falling headfirst into the murky water. Somehow she
managed to pull herself up onto the small patch of solid ground, her body
trembling from exertion and fear.
She sagged against the tree as she tried to catch her breath and quiet her
pounding heart. As desperate as she’d been to escape her stepfather’s
cruelty, she’d never envisioned fleeing through the swamp at night with
nothing but the clothes on her back. At least I have my money, she reminded
herself, once again checking the small wad of bills jammed into the front
pocket of her jeans. It was a pitifully small wad – all she’d been able to
squirrel away over the past few years – but fortunately she kept it hidden in
an old coffee can in the hollow of a half dead tree behind their house. She’d
managed to grab it as she ran. If she could only make it out of the swamp
and away from Cypress Landing, it might be enough to help her start a new
life.
But first she had to find her way out of the swamp.
Squinting up at the sky, she tried to pick out stars through the canopy of
trees above her head, but the moon was playing hide and seek among the
clouds. Even if it had been a cloudless night, she wasn’t sure she could use
the stars to guide her way. She’d lived on the edge of the swamp for most of
her life but she’d never ventured into it. No one who lived in Cypress
Landing went very far into the swamp, although a few brave souls
occasionally fished or hunted along the edges – but only in daylight and
always with a partner.
She shifted uneasily, trying to peer into the surrounding darkness as the
warnings about the monster who lived in the swamp whispered in her head.
In other parts of the world the Others, beings of myth and legend, lived in
harmony with humans. Not in Cypress Landing. They didn’t trust strange
humans, let alone mysterious beings.
The creature who supposedly lived in the swamp was hated – and feared.
She didn’t really believe that an evil monster lived there, or that the tales
she’d heard about him hunting small children were true. Yet there were
enough rumors about people going into the swamp and never returning to
give her pause.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB