A monk
raced to the side of the abbot. “People at the gate. With torches and knives
and… and… The monastery is attacked. They want the babe.” He clutched at his
chest, trying to inhale air.
Hawkyns
slipped his arm through the shield’s straps and gripped his weapon. Derry could
sense the anger building in him. It wasn’t evil anger. It was the anger of a
knight knowing he must right an injustice.
“Derry,
stay back here. Take the horse and hide in the herbarium. I will get the child
and return.”
The
abbot stood in front of Hawkyns, barring his attack. “Ye cannot kill anyone
within the walls of the abbey. This is a place of peace. Of God.”
Hawkyns
flinched. “But if they kill yer brothers?”
The
monk lowered his head. “'Tis
God’s will.”
Hawkyns’
knuckles turn white from the grip on his sword. Frustrated anger filled his
brow.
Father
Jacobus raised his hand. “Do not fight me on this, my son. Swear, in the eyes
of God, that ye will not kill within the walls of Baswich Abbey.”
Hawkyns
knelt and placed the point of his sword on the ground and rested his forehead
on the cross-shaped hilt. “I swear I will kill no one on abbey grounds.”
The
abbot made the sign of the cross over him. “Go. Save the child.”
What do dragons,
knights and romance have in common? Grab a copy of multi-published author Daryl
Devore’s medieval fantasy romance – The
Last Dragon and discover the answer.
A sorcerer craving
dominance merged with a dragon, the power overwhelmed him causing him to split
into three dragons. Demora ruled thought, but was lost in time. Yidithe offered
protection, shining like the light of the sun. Ayrradex craved chaos, revelling
in destroying souls.
Many knights died,
attempting to slay the devil beast. One knight, Prince Hawkyns, did not fear
death. He’d lost everything. Away on a mission when Ayrradex attacked his
father’s kingdom, Penrythe,
Hawkyns returned to find his noble father – feeble and defeated. His wise
mother – crazed. His beautiful wife and unborn child - dead. Only a pile of
ashes remained for him to bury. He knelt before his King and vowed to slay the
devil-beast or be slain.
Derry was born with
powers that terrified her parents. They delivered her to a nunnery to be raised
in secret. Jathe, a wise sorceress, discovered the young girl and trained her
to one day use the secret hidden in her soul.
Legends spoken
around campfires hinted the sole way to destroy Ayrradex was when the hearts of
a knight and a golden dragon became one. But after a vicious battle with
Ayrradex, the golden dragon was thought to be dead.
Can Prince Hawkyns’s
bravery and Derry’s powers end the reign of the devil-beast’s terror?
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Two
writers in one. Daryl Devoré writes
hot romances with sexy heroes and strong heroines and sweet romances with
little to no heat. She has several published books available on Amazon in ebook
or print book and available at other book retailers via Books2Read.
Daryl (@daryldevore) lives
in an old farmhouse in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and 2 cats. Daryl
loves to take long walks on her quiet country road or snowshoe across the back
acres, and in the summer, kayak along the St. Lawrence River. She has touched a
moon rock, a mammoth, and a meteorite. She’s been deep in the ocean in a
submarine, flown high over Niagara Falls in a helicopter, and used the ladies
room in a royal palace. Life’s an adventure and Daryl’s having fun living it.
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