The Space Within (The Book of Phoenix #3) (30 page)
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Authors: Kristie Cook
Tonight, we were celebrating.
Leni handed me a red plastic cup, and I groaned at the smell of hunch punch, but laughed when I saw the rest of our group had one as we gathered into a circle.
“To life,” she said, lifting her cup in the air. “To family. To the souls who have found their other halves and the ones who will soon. To this beautiful world called Earth that I never want to leave again.” She turned toward Jeric. “And to love for eternity.”
“Here, here,” Brock said, and we all bumped our cups together before chugging the hunch punch, then letting out a whoop.
“Shall we get this party started?” asked a sexy male voice that came through the speakers.
The band was set up on a portable stage, and several people cheered in the crowd, which had grown immensely. Hope really had invited the whole town.
“Jeric, my man,” said the guy speaking through the microphone, his guitar hanging at his hip. “You have something to share?”
Jeric grinned and planted a kiss on Leni’s forehead before jogging over to the stage and jumping up on it. The other guy handed him the microphone, then stepped back and took his guitar in hand.
“A little something I wrote for my girl Leni, but I think many of you can relate.”
The song opened with a tune I liked so far, and my body started swaying against Hayden, but when Jeric began singing, we all froze. The lyrics about love and longing and hope were beautiful and his voice completely mesmerizing. And when he was done, all the girls had wet eyes and wet panties, too. Leni threw her arms around him when he returned to her, and they locked into a sweet embrace.
“Before we really start up,” said the guitarist on stage, “let’s everyone raise our cans and cups to our hostess, Hope Verdor.”
Our group cheered the loudest, and both Brock and Jeric whistled loudly. I looked around, but she seemed to have disappeared. But I knew she wasn’t really gone. She was watching over us from somewhere, the Light eliminating the Darkness.
The guitarist held his beer can up.
“Here’s to knowing that when life is at its worst and the world feels darkest, we just have to look within and remember that we
always
have Hope.”
THE END
TO A BEAUTIFUL BEGINNING
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About the Author
Kristie Cook is a lifelong, award-winning writer in various genres, from marketing communications to fantasy fiction. She continues to write the Soul Savers Series, a New Adult paranormal romance / contemporary fantasy, with
Promise, Purpose, Devotion, Power,
and the latest release,
Wrath,
book five, available now. She’s also written a companion novella,
Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella,
which details the compelling history of her Soul Savers mythology. Over 300,000 Soul Savers books have been sold, with
Promise
peaking at #54 on the Amazon Top 100 Paid list and at #1 in the Amazon Fantasy category.
Kristie’s second series, The Book of Phoenix, is a completed New Adult paranormal trilogy including:
The Space Between, The Space Beyond,
and
The Space Within
.
Besides writing, Kristie enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, and riding on the back of a motorcycle. She has lived in ten states, but currently calls Southwest Florida home with her husband, three sons, a beagle, and a puggle.
Acknowledgements
Thank you first to the Maker and His Son, who have blessed me in so many ways. With Him, the possibilities truly are endless.
Thank you to my boys–Shawn, Zakary, Austin, and Nathan–for your support, your love, and your inspiration. Without you, I wouldn’t know things like “turtling up.” Seriously, you are true gifts in my life, and I thank God every morning and night for you. Thank you to my parents for life.
Thank you to Chrissi Jackson for all that you have done. To Tammi Swartz for keeping me on track and real.
So much appreciation goes to Regina Wamba at Mae I Design for the photo shoot and gorgeous cover designs; to Nadège Richards for the beautiful print interiors; and to Jen Trammell and Kristen Yard for finding my bloopers and polishing my words to a shine.
More thanks to my beta readers—Stacey Nixon, Julie Bromley, Debbie Poole, Jessie de Schepper, Inga Kupp-Silberg, and Heather Wakefield—for making me think. An extra thanks to Debbie for helping with the Liverpool scene. For all of their support and cheerleading, I thank my fabulous street team, Kristie’s Warriors: Stacey Nixon, Julie Bromley, Inga Kupp-Silberg, Jessie de Schepper, Claire Downes, Debbie Poole, Marissa Feidelbaum, Christina Silcox, Heather Wakefield, Jeana Todd, Lisa Reeves, Chloe Billingham, Josephine Militello, Christina Madison, Kate Wilson, Char Wilcoxson, Jill Cruz, Zee Hayat, Kelly Victorine, Lisa Ammari, Megan Elworthy, Michele Luker, Mindy Janicke, Katherine Murphy, Jenny Finnigan, Annmarie Spiby, Wendy John Jahnke, Heather Brandt, Felicia Filion, Sue Van, Meshell Blackborow, Jennifer Murray, Dawn Sutphin, and Georgee Olivia Leigh Frost. And thank you to all of the book bloggers who do so much for authors
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There are no words to express my appreciation to you, dear reader. Thank you for spending your very precious time and hard-earned money on this world I have created. Thank you for supporting not only me, but all authors.
You
are our life force.
Until we meet again …
Want more by Kristie Cook?
— Soul Savers Series —
A young woman discovers she’s the future leader of a secret matriarchal society that serves as the angels’ army on Earth, and the man who’s supposed to be her soul mate and serve at her side was created by the very demons they fight.
Books 6 & 7 (Coming late 2014)
Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella
— The Book of Phoenix Series —
The Space Within