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IN THE BEGINNING.........

Today's Snippet theme is prologue. Some writers love them, some not so much. I myself enjoy a good one. They can help to set the tone, lend a little backstory to help set the main premise up. I've chosen a prologue that is for my YA book, Ravyn's Fall. I hope you enjoy. Please don't forget to read the others that are participating. They are listed below the excerpt:



Ephesians 6:12: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world,
against spiritual wickedness in high places."





Prologue




The child had been swept into the small town of Kings Crossing on the heels of a fantastic thunderstorm; one that had drenched the entire area in torrents of rain, hail and lightening. Days later it was referred to as a “hundred year rain”, meaning the swollen storm drains, sewers and rivers were unprecedented.

The residents were grateful no one had been killed. They claimed it was a miracle.

But Hank Creed knew better.

He held the miracle in his arms.

“Keep her safe until I come for her on the night of her birth, seventeen years hence.”

He’d been charged with the newborn’s protection, and as the other, the one who stood in the shadows, swept up and was away into the angry night sky, Hank made a vow that he would give his very life to do just that.

Sadly, he had no way of knowing his future. No way to know that his fate was shadowed in darkness, one that would touch the angel child he held so tenderly.

One that would eventually tempt her fall.


Sylvia Day
Shelley Munro
Jaci Burton
Michelle Pillow
Juliana Stone
Moira Rogers
Sasha White
TJ Michaels
Lacey Savage
Jody Wallace
Eliza Gayle
Kelly Maher
Taige Crenshaw
Beth Williamson
Lauren Dane
Mandy Roth
Beth Kery