Dominion

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.DOMINIONBook One of The Dominion SeriesCopyright S.E.LUND 2012Table of ContentsCopyright PageMailing List | Sign up for S.E.Lund’s mailing list and receive a free story, The Vampire’s Pet, the first short story in her new paranormal romance series: http://eepurl.com/bfw42rCHAPTER ONE | "What hurts you, blesses you.Darkness is your candle."CHAPTER TWOCHAPTER THREE | "Is it better to out-monster the monster or be quietly devoured?"CHAPTER FOURCHAPTER FIVECHAPTER SIX | "Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."CHAPTER SEVENCHAPTER EIGHTCHAPTER NINE | "If I know what love is, it is because of you."CHAPTER TEN | "Excessive sorrow laughs.Excessive joy weeps."CHAPTER ELEVENCHAPTER TWELVECHAPTER THIRTEENCHAPTER FOURTEEN | "The heart wants what it wants."CHAPTER FIFTEEN | "A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."CHAPTER SIXTEENCHAPTER SEVENTEEN | "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | "Love is my religion - I could die for it."CHAPTER NINETEEN | "A wounded deer leaps the highest."CHAPTER TWENTY | "They sicken of the calm who knew the storm."CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE | "Love is the poetry of the senses."CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO | "The heart has its reasons that reason knows not of."CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE | "There is no remedy for love but to love more."CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR | "We have to distrust each other.It is our only defense against betrayal."TEASER FROM BOOK TWO: ASCENSIONABOUT THE AUTHORSign up for S.E.Lund's Mailing ListMailing ListSign up for S.E.Lund’s mailing list and receive a free story, The Vampire’s Pet, the first short story in her new paranormal romance series: http://eepurl.com/bfw42rAnd death shall have no dominion.Dead mean naked they shall be one.With the man in the wind and the west moon;When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,They shall have stars at elbow and foot;Though they go mad they shall be sane,Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;Though lovers be lost love shall not;And death shall have no dominion.Dylan Thomas"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."Emily DickinsonCHAPTER ONE"What hurts you, blesses you.Darkness is your candle."RumiMy mother never lied to me about the existence of monsters.When I'd awaken with nightmares and dreams of shadows that moved in the darkness, she'd stay with me until my terror passed."I'm here," she'd say, stroking my hair."I'm faster than them and I'll protect you.One day, I'll kill the monsters forever."My great tragedy was that she couldn't protect herself.A decade after her death when I was only eleven, finding her killer and discovering a way to eradicate all vampires is the only thing that keeps me going.Today I take up the work that ended her life.~~~The late spring evening is rainy and cold so I bring my umbrella and stand at the bus stop outside my building.A professor of linguistics offered to translate an ancient illuminated manuscript I found in my mother's files.My mother started to translate it but never finished, dying the week she received it.The murder was never solved and I need to know if the manuscript had anything to do with her death.The evening bus isn't crowded because classes and finals are over.I take out my mother's notebook and read it over once more for her notes from the week before her death describe the document that I have tucked in a large manila envelope in my backpack.By the hand of Julien de Cernay, former Knight, identical twin brother to Michel, former Bishop of Carcassonne, bastard sons of Guillaume, Vicomte de Clarmont.Written 1224 – 1229 A.D.Interviewed on 22 December at Boston University.Included in the file is a card with a hand-written note to my mother, the script bold, masculine.Natalia,I've enclosed this manuscript as promised.It documents my making and that of my twin brother, Michel.I hope it provides you with insight into our existence at a time when life was very different than it is today.Best regards,J.My mother knew this vampire?That shocks me.She was a vampire hunter, dedicated to killing them off.As a geneticist working for the Council of Clairveaux, she studied genetic diseases, searching for the cause of vampirism – ostensibly so she could find a cure, but I know it was really so she could find a magic bullet and destroy them all.Her files describe the Council – a joint Human-Vampire group appointed by the ruling families involved in its creation.Dedicated to ensuring that the fragile peace between the two species remains in place, the Council ensures that both vampires and humans follow the terms of the Treaty of Clairveaux, signed almost seven centuries earlier.From what I can gather, the Treaty was created in order to stop the bloodshed between the two species that had been a constant state since, well.Forever.The Inquisition and the Church's concerted effort to hunt down and kill all vampires under the claim it was after 'witches' and 'warlocks' sparked a desire on the part of vampires to find a compromise.Humans were gaining ground on vampires, beginning to beat them, developing new weapons, and vampires felt under threat.The Treaty was a compromise between extinction of vampires or enslavement of humans [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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