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    Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1
    Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1
    Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1
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    Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1

    By Tara Maya

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    ABOUT THE SERIES:

    Long ago, to win a war, humans Cursed the Aelfae, fairest and wisest of the faeries... But all magic has a price. The same Curse that destroyed the Aelfae now threatens all of Faearth. One young woman and the warrior she loves must fight the Curse to prove which is stronger...love or death.

    DINDI desperate longs to become a Tavaedi, a magic dancer. But no one in her clan has ever passed the Test at Initiation. To violate the taboo, and dance without permission, is to risk death. The only other way to prove worthy is even more unthinkable: to bargain with the fae.

    KAVIO is the half-human son of the Last Aelfae, exited from his tribe. Refusing to be a pawn in his tribe’s struggles, his only goal is to find a new, peaceful life. But when he catches Dindi violating a taboo, he must choose between condemning her to death or helping her. Even if it means war.

    The Unfinished Song series is an epic, romantic fantasy appropriate for an older Young Adult and for a New Adult readership, as well as for readers of any age who love magic, love, adventure and happy endings.

    PLEASE NOTE...

    There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

    This is the first episode of the third novel, Sacrifice. Each week, a new episode will be available.

    If you prefer to read the first novel, you can find Sacrifice (The Unfinished Song, Book 3) on the online site where you found this episode.

    You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

    The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.

    Even better, you can read any of these books for free, if you request a free review copy by emailing editor [at] misquepress [dot] com.

    The complete series of novels (seven episodes each):

    Initiate
    Taboo
    Sacrifice
    Root
    Wing
    Blood
    Mask
    Mirror
    Maze
    Sworn
    Flute
    Wheel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTara Maya
    Release dateJan 18, 2016
    Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1
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    Tara Maya

    Tara Maya has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia. She's pounded sorghum with mortar and pestle in a little clay village where the jungle meets the desert, meditated in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas and sailed the Volga river to a secret city that was once the heart of the Soviet space program. This first-hand experience, as well as research into the strange and piquant histories of lost civilizations, inspires her writing. Her terrible housekeeping, however, is entirely the fault of pixies.

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      Sacrifice-Book 3-Episode 1 - Tara Maya

      The Unfinished Song

      Book 3: Sacrifice

      Episode 1: Banshee

      There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

      Right now, you are reading the first episode of the third novel, Sacrifice. Each week, a new episode will be available.

      If you prefer to read the entire third novel, you can find Sacrifice (The Unfinished Song, Book 3) on the online site where you found this episode.

      You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

      The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.

      Even better, you can read any of these books for free, if you request a free review copy by emailing me: tara@taramayastales.com, or my publisher, editor@misquepress.com.

      Episode 1

      Banshee

      Kavio is going to die.

      The last night of the rushed and desperate journey back to Yellow Bear, Dindi awakened abruptly, mouth dry, sweat on her neck. A murky shape loomed over her, hanging from a tree branch over her sleeping mat, like a bat sleeping upside down in a cave.

      Don’t scream.

      The black shape unfurled bat wings to reveal a fae, a female with a pallid face, stubby snout and fangs. Long purple hair streamed behind her, and her gauzy dress sparkled amethyst like a broken geode.

      You’re the only one who can help him. The bat-winged woman’s mouth didn’t move, but Dindi felt the voice slither into her mind. You’re the last one standing between him and Death.

      Dindi stood up, shaking. A quick glance confirmed that everyone in the camp was asleep. Brena and Gwenika slept in the lean-to nearest her mat. Gremo and Svego shared the furs on the far side of the fire. There were more lean-tos and straw mats arranged around two other fire pits, where the refugees from Blue Waters, those who had been Shunned, slept. Some of them moaned and tossed on their blankets, but none were awake.

      It was close to dawn; Kavio was supposed to be on watch, yet he was nowhere to be seen.

      Where is he? whispered Dindi to the purple faery.

      The faery cocked her head. Don’t scream…

      She opened her mouth wide…wider…the lips peeled back so far that her whole face became an open mouth, a gaping chasm of fang and throat. She unleashed a scream.

      Banshee!

      The inhuman roar shook the earth and washed the landscape in so weird and brilliant a light the trees and rocks and earth itself became transparent, like loosely woven wisps of cloth, and Dindi saw, silhouetted black against the lucent shapes, a man standing on a high cliff over the river. He stepped

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