Phobia (Interracial Paranormal Romance) (Wisteria)

Phobia

(A Wisteria Novel)

By

Bisi Leyton

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author
’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

By Bisi Leyton

Copyright© 2013
Bisi Leyton

Cover Art by Olivia Smith
http://aivilo0.deviantart.com/

No part of this book may be used or reproduced electronically or in print without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied for reviews.

Wisteria (Wisteria Series #1)

Myopia (Wisteria Series #2)

Paranoia (Wisteria Short Story #2
.1
)

Aporia (Wisteria Series #3)

Criteria (Wisteria Short Story #3
.1
)

Phobia
(Wisteria Series #4)

In your hono
r, I will do my best

I will be a great daughter, sister and wife

I will cherish your memory in all I do with my life

I will be the success you trained me to be

I will, I will, I will achieve my destiny

Because you have given me much more than I need

Daddy, my heart,

I will love you and miss you forever

Beadle pins:
An artifact
giving
that gives
humans the ability to generate a purple pulse that frees people who have been renewed. Humans can only use it a few times a year.

Biel Core:
A Black orb used by the Family, to generate power and heat.

Biter:
A human infected with Nero’s Disease. Biters are extremely violent and only eat the flesh of healthy humans
,
also called the infected, fleshers and flesh eaters
.

Bean Vine
: The wisteria plant, also called
Strangle Weed
by the Family.

Blue light
: See Pulse

Bridewell:
The prisons underneath Jarthan castle

Burnfruit:
A brown fruit indigenous to the Family’s realm.

Cantus:
Artifact that cause paralysis among members of the Family and humans.

Cohort:
Small unit of the Family, traveling together.

The Cure
: Euphemism for killing an infected biter.

D
’cara:
An insult in the dialect.

Dark Glass
: Substance of which thresholds are made.

Den:
Houses or accommodations used by the Family while on Earth

The Deep:
A shadow realm in which nothing solid exists.             

The Dialect:
The language spoken by the Family.

Dord
:
An artifact used to read and decipher different languages of the Family Realm.

Draug:
Famila who are seemingly infected with Nero and have become violent and cannibalistic.

Drones:
Members of the family who have been renewed by Dy’obeths.

Dy
’obeth:
A race of powerful supernatural beings believed to exist in the Family’s legends.

Elders: See Seven Elders.

Eminent
: Title given to the Famila by the Thayns.

Emissary:
Envoy or aide to a Sen

Empiric:
A Famila trained to conduct special investigations.

Famila:
A member of the Family’s race.

Far Eye:
Artifact use to communicate by the Family

Faycard:
Device used by the Family to renew humans. It looks like a playing card. The faycard was a powerful focal point of the energy used by a Famila, also be used for playing simple tricks on children and Terrans.

Flesh Eaters:
Another term for biter.

Flesher:
Another term for biter.

Haro Caste
: The lowest caste in the Family and the lowest. They work with the Thayns.

Intended
: A person to whom another Famila has been pledged.

Imprimatur:
A ninth metal artifact that allows humans to travel through to the Family’s realms.

Jade Ocean
: A green ocean near the Family’s home.

Jaga:
A racial slur used by some Famila to insult humans. It is even more offensive than the term
Terran
.

Journeying:
To travel between realms via the thresholds.

Lead empiric
: One of the five chief empirics in the Family.

Leviathan:
A giant sea dragon that lives in the Jade Ocean

Liege
: The master or mistress of a Thayn. A Famila who renewed a Thayn is her liege.

Matula
: Famila insult.

Moin-moin
: Steamed bean pudding

Mongrel:
A derogatory term for a person who is part Famila and part human.

Mordin:
The third highest caste of the Family.

Mosroc
: A
deep
emotional and mental bond between two people in the Family.

Nero Disease:
A sickness that causes humans to turn into biters, also called Nero plague, the madness, Nero illness.

Obsidian Coral
: Red coral used by the Family that enables them to journey through thresholds without dying, as thresholds are very dangerous and will rip any traveler apart.

Obsidian Crystal
: Synthetic obsidian coral, deadly if used to travel through thresholds

Overland
: A hovering vehicle used by the Family.

Peeka:
Nickname for girl. Often suggests some attraction.

Perfection:
The process of transforming Famila into Dy’obeths and for regenerating injured or weakened Dy’obeth.
Pillar
: A clan within the Family. There are seven Pillars in the Family. Each Pillar has four castes.

Piron Net
: An artifact used by the Family to conceal their dens on Earth from humans.

Prax
: Virus created by First Pillar to stop Dy’obeths.

Prime
: The first child and heir of a Sen.

Pulse
: A blue light that emanates for the family. The blue light has many uses including: converting of humans to Thayns, healing the injured Family, healing humans.

Pulse disrupter:
Metallic artifact band worn by Famila guards on their right knuckles. It is used to increase the strength of a sentinel’s pulse almost ten times.

Qwaynide
: An insult in the Family Dialect.

Raltour
: Dy’obeth incantation

Rabja
: A battle to death between Dy’obeths over the right to a mate. The winner gets the right to marry the mate in question. Rajas’ are more often fought between males, but on rare occasions females can battle for a male.

Reaper:
An undead member of the Family brought back to life by magic. They hunt down and murder members of their bloodline and can only be destroyed by fire.

Regeneration
: A period of long rest during which Famila heal themselves.

Renewal
: The process of turning humans to Thayns.

Shana
(singular and plural): Tattoo-like dots on some Famila.

Sen
: A chief and head of a Family Pillar.

Sen-Dra:
The spouse of a Sen.

Sen-Filla
: The daughter of a Sen.

Sen-Son
: The son of a Sen.

The Seven Elders
: The heads of the seven Pillars of the Family also referred to as the
Seven or Elders.

Skrell:
A two headed snake.

Sleepwalker
: What some humans call Thayns.

Terra
: The Famila word for Earth.

Terran
: What the Family calls humans. It means Dirt people.

Thayn
: A human who has been turned into a devoted follower of the Family by being renewed, also called
Sleepwalkers.

Threshold
: A Gateway used by the Family to travel between realms.

Wahr-chart:
First Pillar artifact used to locate loved ones.

Nero

Almost six years ago, the Nero virus spread out across the Earth. The disease infected over eighty percent of the population, transforming humans into violent, angry, bloodthirsty flesh eaters. The infected had only one desire to hunt and feed on the few healthy humans.

Soon after the biters came, everything went to hell and the society crumbled. Education, health care and security were distant memories. Fresh water and laughter became luxuries as what was left of humanity fought to find a place to hunker down and wait out the madness.

A few safe havens and secure cities sprang up, no one can tell how many there are or where they are. There’s hope for the day when people will take back control of the world from the infected, but the hope is fading fast.

However
, the Family, a race from another dimension and immune to Nero, takes pleasure in seeing the human world fall. After all, to them, humans are rats to be enslaved or slaughtered.

This is the continuing story of young Wisteria Kuti and her test of survival….

I’m a good person. I can count a hundred others who deserve to die, but not me.

Woolmer, Earth Realm

Eighteen-year-old Wisteria Kuti still couldn’t believe she’d travelled all the way from the Southeast of England to the West Coast of the United States and back. It wasn’t like, she could jump on a plane and in a few hours be in America. Things changed when the Nero Virus infected over eight percent of the world’s population. The infected became crazy and obsessed with one thing, hunting and eating the survivors. Telephones, the Internet and entertainment became a distant memory. It all became about survival…at least for the humans.

A supernatural
race existed from another dimension that called themselves the Family. They were stronger than humans, moved faster and were immune to the virus. These beings were also able to control the infected people and humans with their blue light or pulse. Above all, the Family hated humans and wanted nothing more than to turn them all into mindless slaves—all but one—Bach.

He’d been
different.
When would he return? Would he ever come back?
She shook the thought of him away.

She nee
ded to be alert as another troublesome moment in her hectic life unfolded before her. She stood watching her stepfather, Major Elliot Coles, in front of a roundabout full of overgrown weeds in Woolmer, as he dealt with a problem.

Woolmer was
a village a few miles from Norton. Norton was the town located just outside the Isle of Smythe, Wisteria’s home.

Coles glare
d down at the ex- mayor of the Isle of Smythe, Sir Charles Davenport.

“
Come on, Elliot, you’re not serious.” The Fifty-eight year-old Charles nervously laughed as he smoothed his silvery brown comb over. “No one on Smythe is going to believe I stole a truckload of supplies then ran off with my girlfriend and daughter.”