Windstorm of Bliss by Nikki Riker EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author Name: Nikki Riker
- Book Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Fiction
- Edition Language: English
- Date of Publication: December 2, 2022
- File Format: PDF / EPUB
- PDF File Size: 2.2 MB
- EPUB File Size: 1.4 MB
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Alma felt the changes in her body for months by the time the phone
call from her grandmother came, inviting her to visit. The twinges,
the shifts in her perception, weren’t as alarming as they might have
been had she not expected them.
They mirrored the changes she’d gone through at various points in her
youth. Once she’d begun showing promising abilities at six, her
grandmother kept her every summer from that point on. Alma’s bond with
her grandmother was strong.
Receiving training from the older woman and pushing her way through
adolescence while maintaining as level a mind as she could, became more
difficult as the manifestations of her abilities became more prominent.
The phone call and the invitation weren’t a friendly request for a visit.
Alma knew why her grandmother was inviting her to spend a few weeks at
the family home.
She wasn’t crazy about the interruption of her routine, but
she knew she had to obey. An invitation from the family matriarch meant a
great deal—particularly in light of Alma’s approaching birthday. If she tried
to make an excuse, she would be on the receiving end of increasing
pressure from her aunts, uncles, cousins—even her own mother. It wouldn’t
stop until she agreed. It was easier to give in right away. So Alma put her
life on hold and made the seven-hour trek to the small, middle-of-nowhere
town, where her grandmother lived. Whatever her grandmother had to talk
to her about, it would be important and likely concern her coming of age.
Even at twenty-two, Alma was still considered by certain members of
her family to be a child. Not because they were older than her exactly, but
because of her still-undeveloped abilities. She had been three when her
grandmother first explained to her mother that Alma inherited the traits of
the elemental, and with that came certain responsibilities and requirements.
Alma’s mother had initially been in denial. None of Alma’s older siblings
had shown signs and her mother had been hopeful the trait would skip the
entire generation. By age five, however, her mother couldn’t ignore that
Alma wasn’t simply intelligent. When Alma’s ability with language first
emerged, it was a spectacle her mother would never forget.
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