Excerpt + Giveaway: Heartweed by Erin Searles

Heartweed by Erin Searles

The human realm and the realm of Faerie. Two worlds separated by the thickness of a shadow. For seventeen-year-old Artemisia Jacobs these two worlds will collide when her twin brother is stolen away by a faerie lord. She is plunged into a world of beauty and cruelty, and must fight to protect those she loves.

Erin Searles is addicted to stories in any medium. She was determined to be a writer from a young age, despite her parents telling her that mathematically inclined girls do better as accountants, actuaries or software engineers.

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An Excerpt from Heartweed

“Ready?”

Artie nodded. Gorth held the egg over her head. She heard a crunch and a shower of dust fell around her. A sudden pressure crushed in on her. Her ears rang. Then it was over.

She looked down at her hands. They weren’t her hands. The hands in front of her were pale blue and translucent in the blurry glow of moonlight. When she lifted them closer to her face she could see pale bones and the darker blue blood vessels that wound through the flesh. Her thumbs protruded from the middle of the wrists.

Artie shuddered and looked away.

“What am I?” Her dry throat rasped.

“Still human.” Gorth put a soothing hand on her shoulder. “Don’t worry. You only look like an asrai. In one of its solid forms, that is.”

He offered his arm. “Shall we go?”

Artie gingerly linked her new arm through his. She tried to avoid looking at the strange shapes her hands had become. Instead she looked down at her clothes. Her jeans and sweatshirt had vanished, replaced by something scant and gauzy and bright magenta.

“I hate pink.” Artie picked at the edge of the fabric.

Gorth laughed and Artie couldn’t help but allow herself a small smile in response. Of all the things to be worried about when infiltrating a party full of faeries, the colour of her dress shouldn’t even make the list.

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