HEART’S COMPASS BY ALIYAH BURKE – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Aliyah Burke
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The intense weather fell harsh and unforgiving, offering the inhabitants a
preview of what was to come in the frigid months that loomed ahead.
Thunder rumbled as lightning flashed through the mountains. A winter
storm. The winds howled as if they were straight from the bowels of hell,
intent on ripping everything in their path to pieces. No living person, sane
person, would be caught out in this.
Twenty-four-year-old Ciara Malika McKay swore to herself as she fought
and strained against the winds that whipped through the mountains. Every
single step she struggled to take, their strength knocked her back five. What
am I doing out on a night like this?
In her defense, she’d needed more herbs and when she had left her cabin
this morning the weather hadn’t been like this at all. Of course, she could
have returned earlier when she had experienced the air change with the
impending storm. But when had she ever done anything the easy way?
The life she led was hard, but she wouldn’t change it for anything. For all
intents and purposes, she was alone on this mountain with only animals to
befriend her. She did not often venture down into the town that was at the
base of a neighboring mountain because she disliked the crowds. Especially
after that one incident.
Ciara preferred to keep her interaction with people confined to the elderly
women who lived at the outskirts of the town. Even then she kept her visits
short. She visited them only because they were the final link to her parents
she had left.
* * * *
Paradise Cove was nestled at the foot of a mountain. It was a town
composed of outcasts. All were welcome there, regardless of race or
religion or any other determining factor in most places. The numerous
occupants comprised escaped slaves, Indians and whites who had ventured
in and chosen to stay. The residents had a close network. Despite their
differences, they protected, defended and supported each other. It was a
prosperous spot.
Regardless of the good they presented, Ciara chose to live high up in the
mountains, keeping to herself. All the townspeople knew of her and yet few
could call her friend.
She was legend, a myth. A young woman who lived by herself up there.
Those who sought her out never found her. Not a trace of her or her cabin.
She was like the mist.
How she came and went depended on her mood. There were those few
adventurous men who declared they would be the one to find this elusive
wood sprite. But when they made it back to civilization all they had were
faint memories of a hooded figure who had stood over them and carried
them to the base of the mountain.
* * * *
She cursed again as the wind ripped her hood off her head. Ciara jerked it
back up as she squinted through the pelting rain. Her herbs were safe at her
waist and, as she sank into some mud, she growled to herself. A shape
materialized out from the rain itself before her and she smiled despite her
current situation as she laid her eyes on her friend, Faolan.
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