Not Magic Enough and Setting Boundaries Boxed Set (The Coming Storm)
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Authors: Valerie Douglas
Not Magic Enough
(The Coming Storm series)
By
Valerie Douglas
Published by the author as a member of the
Alexandria Publishing Group
Not Magic Enough Copyright © 2010 Valerie Douglas
Cover art by Melissa C. Krauss, Made by Mel http://www.thedvdream.com/
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Contents
The pounding on the heavy wood of the doors of the homestead sounded loudly above the shriek and howl of the storm raging outside. Pulling on her threadbare robe - only half-awake - Delae ran across the cold stone floors in her bare feet to answer it, rubbing her eyes wearily. Doubtless, her aged cook and houseman had been roused, too, by the pounding, and were on their way from their quarters at the back of the homestead - but she was the closer of them. She hated to ask Petra or Hallis to sit by the door of a night, as many landowners did - any more than she set a guard by the gates as many others did. They weren’t so far from the seat of the lesser Kingdom of Riverford that they had much to fear behind stout walls.
Who would be mad enough to be out in such a storm as this?
She wondered. It was early in the night, true, but it was still insanity to be caught so far from shelter.
Lifting the bar, she set it aside and released the latch.
The door opened on a blast of wet snow and wind that struck her like a blow - to reveal a stranger standing there, looking windblown, frozen, battered and desperate. She caught him as he almost fell in the door - a young, plain-looking man - a farmer or tradesman, a traveler of some sort not used to the vagaries of the weather at the edges of the Kingdoms. His ragged brown hair was drenched, his clothing soaked, his skin white and his lips nearly blue from the cold.