Title: Through The Veil (The Aisling Chronicles #1)
Release date: February 22nd, 2016
Author: Colleen Halverson
Entangled
About the book:
Elizabeth Tanner is no Tinkerbell,
and her life is no fairy tale. Broke and drowning in student loans, the one
thing she wants more than anything is a scholarship from the Trinity
Foundation. But after the ancient Irish text she's studying turns out to be
more than just a book, she becomes their prisoner instead. And when Trinity
reveals Elizabeth is half-Fae, she finds herself at the center of a plot to
save the magical races of Ireland from a brutal civil war.
As Commander of Trinity's elite
warriors, Finn O'Connell isn't used to having his authority challenged. He
doesn't know whether to punish or protect the infuriating young woman in his
custody. When he discovers the Dark Fae want to use Elizabeth's abilities to
control the source of all power in the universe, he'll risk everything to help
her.
At the mercy of Trinity and
enslaved to the Dark Fae, Elizabeth finds herself alone on the wrong side of an
Irish myth thousands of years in the making. Refusing to be a pawn in their
game, Elizabeth has to fight her way back to the man she loves, but to do so,
she must wage her own war against the magic that binds her.
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Excerpt
Wiping the crumbs off his jeans, Finn reached into his backpack and threw an
apple at me, which I caught with a deft hand.
“Nice catch,” he said, grinning.
I flung the apple up into the air and caught it in my other hand. “I played
third base. Little League.”
“You mean baseball?”
I nodded.
“Never seen a game myself.”
I gaped at Finn. “You mean you live in Chicago, and you’ve never been to a Cubs
game?”
He shrugged. “Not interested.” Finn’s eyes lit up, and he shoved me playfully
with his shoulder. “Now hurling. That’s a good game.”
“Well, they’re totally different. That’s not even a fair comparison,” I said
with a sniff.
“Fair enough,” Finn said, wistful. “Really, nothing can compare with
hurling.”
I laughed. “Moiré tried to explain the rules to me once, but she lost me after
hurley stick.”
“Oh, it’s simple, really.” Finn jumped down and rummaged around the rubble
until he found a large branch. He swung it, the stick cutting through the air,
slowly at first, but then with more force. Finn’s chest muscles rippled between
the flaps of his leather jacket, and my blood pulsed in my ears at the sight of
him, dancing from foot to foot as he practiced his swing.
“Now the point of hurling,” Finn began, “is to use this stick, the hurley
stick.” He raised the old branch in the air.
“To get a little ball called a sliotar
either over or under your opponent’s goalpost.” Finn picked up a handful of
small rocks and, using his “hurley,” sent a pebble whizzing over the stone
wall, inches from my head.
“Hey, watch it!”
Finn smiled up at me. “You with me so far?”
I nodded.
“Now,” Finn said. “If the ball flies under the goalpost into the net, it’s
worth three points.” Finn sent another pebble skittering against the wall,
right next to my boot. “But you have to get it past the keeper, and that can be
a challenge.” His eyes glittered at me as he swung his stick again. He threw a
rock up in the air and with a loud thwack sent it zooming over the wall.
I held out my hand and caught the stone, the look on Finn’s face making up for
the sting of impact.
“And he’s out!” I cried, jumping off the wall and doing a mock victory dance.
“Cubs win! Cubs win!
Wooooooooooooo!”
Finn stalked over to me and grabbed my fist. “Will you settle down!” he said,
attempting to pry the pebble from my grip. “I’m trying to teach you a
three-thousand-year-old art form and you’re nattering on about the fecking
Cubs.”
I giggled, snatching his hurley stick from his hands.
“Technical foul!” Finn barked behind me, but I sprinted away, swinging the hurley
over my head as I climbed the wall.
“Get back here, you brat!” Finn bolted after me so quickly, he lost his footing
on the stone wall and tumbled to the ground. I laughed as he came to his feet,
his hair loose, chasing me.
“It’s the bottom of the ninth, bases are loaded!”
Finn made a snatch for the stick, but I feigned to the right.
“Tanner’s up to bat.” I climbed a set of old stairs to nowhere and tossed up
the stone. I popped out my hips and, following through on the turn, sent the
stone flying over the hill and down the cliffs below. I jumped down, swinging
my baseball/hurley bat. “Homerun by Tanner! And the Cubs win the pennant!”
Finn smacked into me, and I collapsed to the ground, his wide body over mine as
he grasped for the stick.
“Dammit, O’Connell!” I gasped beneath Finn, his whole weight crushing my chest.
“Now I know for a fact hurling is not a contact sport!” I laughed
as I squirmed to get away, holding out the stick just beyond his reach.
“Neither is baseball!”
With a devilish grin, Finn tickled my armpit, and I curled up in a fit of
giggles. He made a grab for my wrist, pinning me to the ground, and his gray
eyes danced as he looked down at me. My laughter faded, and running my other
hand through his hair, I pulled his face to mine. He kissed me, a low moan
rumbling deep in his throat.
Finn nipped my bottom lip with his teeth, and my back arched as our hips melded
together, my better judgment forgotten. He slid his arm beneath my shoulders
and pulled me close against him, kissing me long and hard, and I gasped,
gulping for air as he lowered his mouth to my neck.
About the author:
As a child, Colleen Halverson used
to play in the woods imagining worlds and telling stories to herself. Growing
up on military bases, she found solace in her local library and later decided
to make a living sharing the wonders of literature to poor, unsuspecting
college freshman. After backpacking through Ireland and singing in a
traditional Irish music band, she earned a PhD in English with a specialization
in Irish literature. When she’s not making up stories or teaching, she can be
found hiking the rolling hills of the Driftless area of Wisconsin with her
husband and two children.
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