Testament (26 page)
Authors: Katie Ashley
Tags: #Literature & Fiction, #Genre Fiction, #Coming of Age, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Science Fiction, #Dystopian, #First Person, #Romance
The moment my fingers touched it I gasped. It wasn’t a necklace. It was my rosary. The one I had buried in the apple orchard behind our house. I grabbed it up and held it to my chest. As I did, a prickly, uneasy feeling came over me. How had it gotten here?
I gazed over at Griff’s cot across the tent. Maybe he had dug it up and brought it to give to me. Maybe my parents had given it to me in the dream. Neither scenario made any sense, but I didn’t try fighting it.
Instead, I lay back on the cot. Working my way through the beads, I began prayers for everything we were about to go through, as well as thanks for the outcomes my dreams had shown. It wouldn’t be easy, but we would right the wrongs—we’d be reunited with Kellan and Maureen. I fell into a sleep without fear or worry for the first time in a long, long time.
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Katie Ashley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Best-Selling author of The Proposition. She lives outside of Atlanta, Georgia with her two very spoiled dogs and one outnumbered cat. She has a slight obsession with Pinterest, The Golden Girls, Harry Potter, Shakespeare, Supernatural, Designing Women, and Scooby-Doo.
She spent 11 1/2 years educating the Youth of America aka teaching MS and HS English until she left to write full time in December 2012.
She also writes Young Adult fiction under the name Krista Ashe.
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Other Works of Katie Ashley
The Proposition | The Proposal | The Party
Music of the Heart | Beat of the Heart
Search Me | Don’t Hate the Player…Hate the Game
Nets and Lies | Jules, the Bounty Hunter | The Guardians
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