The Follower of Flowers by Natalia Hernandez EPUB& PDF – eBook Details Online
- Status: Available for Free Download
- Author: Natalia Hernandez
- Language: English
- Genre: Romance
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Price: Free
Jesadirany
Jesadirany hadn’t even been born yet when a bruja, and a prophecy,
ruined her life.
Her mother was no one of any real importance, just a dark-eyed beauty
whose husband, like so many others, had been lost to the war. She had
grown up in the city of Miramar, at the Andalan coast near the Borders, and
the battles.
At the time of her mother’s marriage, Miramar was led by Alonzo
Guerro, the thirty-year-old lord of Miramar Keep, who kept his subjects in
line more from fear than out of respect.
When word came that Jesadirany’s father had been killed in battle, Lord
Guerro wasted no time before asking the young widow to wed him instead,
despite the fact that she was already far along with the girl in her belly.
There was no way that her mother could have refused had she wanted to,
not if she intended on having any sort of life in Miramar that was free from
poverty or harassment. The lord was a powerful man and could have made
life very difficult for her had she thought to deny him.
So she agreed.
She would marry Lord Guerro, and her daughter would be raised in the
keep. It might have proved to be a difficult life for her mother, forced to
marry a man who she did not care for, let alone love. But such was the fate
of so many women in their realm, and her mother was strong. She might
have been able to bear it.
But as fate would have it, she would never get the chance. Before her
child’s birth, the keep’s bruja, an old crone-looking woman who resembled
the old brujas of storybooks—static white hair in a puffed cloud around her
head, hands gnarled and bony with fingernails long and curved like talons
—had a prophecy about the unborn child.
“Any babe born of this child will have the blessing of the dioses, and
wield the most powerful affinity the realm has ever known.”
Lord Guerro, upon hearing the prophecy, was no longer set on marrying
the beautiful young widow, but decided to wait for her daughter to come of
age, when he would marry her instead. He reasoned that, if he were to bear
a child with an impressive affinity, he too would possess the power that he
so coveted.
And so her mother was left to bear Jesadirany alone, and raised her in the
village with a monthly stipend from the Miramar lord. When the girl was
old enough, he also employed tutors to ensure she received proper
schooling, and with those came monthly visits from the lord’s steward to
check on her progress.
For More Read Download This Book
EPUB