About Crimson Winter: City of Ruby:
Reeling after the fall of the Kingdom of Taiyou, Yukari Namikoya and her remaining allies find themselves reduced to scared refugees hidden far below the earth in the Temple of Machalite. The dreaded Lady Lilyth rules in Taiyou now and threatens to bring the whole world under her dominion one piece at a time.
And what the Lady Lilyth can't control, she plans to destroy.
In a desperate bid for the survival and freedom of the various races of Crimson Winter, Yukari must seek to uncover secrets the Vile Emperor has kept hidden for a millenia and in order to do this, she has to journey to the last place she'd ever thought she'd go - the Ruby City.
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The inhuman
screams of the Lillem were repeated from various directions and I wasted no
time, whirling to face the person I had just saved.
“Yukari?” The
exchange student was regarding me wide-eyed, no doubt shocked by what he had
just witnessed.
I took his
reaction in stride at first, grabbing hold of his arm to pull him away from
here, but then I realized what he had just said. He knew my name…
Perhaps he
had heard it in the classroom this morning, but even if he had that still
didn’t explain the familiarity with which he had spoken it. That accent, so
memorable, speaking my name; I was certain I had heard it before.
“Masaru,” I
responded and his name, who he was, and how much he meant to me came flooding
back all at once, as if whatever had tried to keep the information from me
hadn’t been enough to contain it forever.
This was
Masaru. My Knight, my Roughlander, and the love of my life – how could I ever
have forgotten him? It just didn’t seem
possible, but then again none of this had made any sense since the beginning.
The red fog
was swirling everywhere now, but it didn’t leave me unable to function like it
had before. It also didn’t seem internal any longer, but instead it threatened
to destroy the landscape before me, eating at the floor and the walls here and
there, making them look less than solid.
Masaru was
studying me curiously, as if he was battling his own inner fog. The expression
on his face was so familiar to me and I realized I had seen it before. I had
left Masaru behind once because he couldn’t remember who he was back at the
Roughlander Sanctioned Outpost in Taiyou. I had left him there and it had
resulted in him almost losing his life to Fuzen.
This time
Fuzen lay dead on the floor behind me, but I could hear the Lillem scratching at
the door now, trying to break it down to get to us – their prey. I wasn’t going
to leave him behind again, no matter what; I had promised I would always keep
him safe.
“Masaru,” I
said his name once more as behind me I heard the door crash inwards to admit
the hoard of Lillem.
He met my
eyes, his expression muddled as he struggled to regain his own will and
memories. I willed him to succeed, but I could hear the Lillem behind us now as
they scrabbled across the room, their talons clacking ominously along the tiled
floor. Memories flooding back to me steadily now, I did what I had done the
last time to try and snap him out of his haze and kissed him full on the lips.
It worked; I
could feel it as Masaru returned the kiss with feeling.
It
lasted only a moment, which was all we had time for before the Lillem reached
us. I pulled back from him and gave him a push forward. “Go!”
Justine Alley Dowsett is the author of over ten novels, and one of the founders of Mirror World Publishing. Her books, which she often co-writes with her sister, Murandy Damodred, range from young adult science fiction to dark fantasy/romance. She earned a BA in Drama from the University of Windsor, honed her skills as an entrepreneur by tackling video game production, and now she dedicates her time to writing, publishing, and role-playing with her friends.
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