CHERYL DAVIS
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Cheryl Davis is a wife and stay at home mother to two sons
and two daughters who grew up in Akron, OH and eventually settled down on the
Central Coast of California. She’s always had a love of reading and had a
creative spark inside of her. She’s very active in arts & crafts. Creating
things and stories is a huge part of who she is as a person.
Cheryl’s always had a bug to want to tell the stories of the
characters that were always churning around inside of her head but never really
thought that she’d be able to get those stories out into the world until she
found indie publishing. The more research that she did, the more the idea to
actually give her characters their spotlights grew until she just had to write.
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Cora's Kismet
(The Twin Destinies Saga, #1)
only $0.99 for the month of November!
When Liam Anderson shows up to save Cora and Viola from their situation, and to bring them back into their true family fold, Cora knows that there’s something special about him.
As she and her twin are being chased down by their, now former, guardians, Cora is finding out more and more about herself that she knew nothing about. Suddenly, they have loving parents, bound powers and a prophecy to fulfill, but first they have to find their soul mates that will help them through it all. All of this has to take place before their 18th birthday, which is only six months away.
Racing against time and deadly enemies, will Cora find her mate in Liam, or will all be lost? Will she be able to find herself in this new world and make it to the ceremony that will restore her powers, or will their enemies win, putting the world’s future at stake?
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Cora's Kismet
“Who are you?” Cora asked after they’d been sitting there
for a few minutes.
“My name is
Liam,” he replied.
“Liam, I’m Cora
and that’s my sister, Viola.”
“I know,” Liam
told her.
“How do you know
who we are and where we live?” Cora asked. She knew that she should have known
he would know who they were, since he’d been in their room looking for them,
and had known who Patrick and Anna were, but adrenaline was making her thoughts
scattered.
“You will get
answers to your questions Cora, just not now. Right now we have to focus on
getting where we’re going, without Patrick catching us. I need you to trust me
for now, so I can concentrate on protecting you and Viola,” Liam bit out, a
little impatient. He wanted to explain things but knew that if he did, he’d be
in deep trouble. It was not his place. He had his orders. Oh, but for her, he
wanted to defy his orders and answer her questions. He wanted to soothe away
the stress lines that had formed on her beautiful face.
“You keep saying
that. It’s getting on my nerves. I have no reason to trust or believe you. Why
should I?” Cora responded. Her nerves were wound tight and it was evident in
her voice.
“I know you
don’t, yet, but you’re going to have to,” Liam responded, with a calmness that he
wasn’t feeling. She was beginning to irritate him and the urge to tranq her,
like they’d done with Viola, was getting stronger by the minute, but the
attraction that he felt for her kept him from harming her in any way.
“Don’t even think
about it!” Cora exclaimed a bit louder than she’d wanted to.
Liam’s head
snapped around to look at her. His eyes narrowed while he studied her. There
was no way that she was in his head. “Think about what?”
“Doing to me what
you did to Viola,” Cora responded with an angry glare in his direction. “I
could see it written all over your face that you were considering it and I
won’t let you.”
“Care to tell me
how you are going to stop me if I decide that I’m going to?” Liam asked with
slight amusement, that he didn’t feel, lacing his voice. How did she do that?
He knew that he’d kept his face blank.
“Trust
me, you don’t want to know. Now, since there’s no sign of Patrick, can we go?”
Cora asked getting impatient. All of a sudden she felt the need to move before
something bad happened.
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* COMING SOON *
Viola's Risk
(The Twin Destinies Saga, #2)
Read the entire Chapter One of "Viola's Risk" below in this Exclusive Excerpt!!
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Chapter One
Viola had never felt so lonely than she did right now, lying
in bed staring at the ceiling. Cora hadn’t even taken her stuff with her when
she’d suddenly become mated at the end of their unbinding ceremony and left her
to be with Liam.
Her mind whirled with everything that had taken place in the
last few days. The new power coursing through her veins making her uneasy. It
was foreign and she didn’t feel as if she could control it the way that Cora
had done a few times already even though they’d had their powers bound until
last night.
Rolling over onto her side, she stared toward the window,
wishing that she wasn’t so alone. Her mind kept wandering back to when Anna had
kidnapped her and held her hostage. The most awful part of it had been that
awful recording that kept playing over and over and over again trying to
convince her that fulfilling her destiny was wrong.
Closing her eyes, a handsome face hung behind her eyelids.
With her mind, she traced his strong features and feeling like a traitor to her
sister, Liam, Sage and her newfound parents. He was on Anna’s side, yet she
felt pulled to him the same way that Cora described feeling pulled to her mate
Liam.
“No way,” Viola exclaimed into the empty room. “There’s no
way that I’m meant to be with someone who’s loyal to the other side.”
Sitting up, she tried to pull herself together and put the
handsome guy out of her mind with little success. She wiped her face with her
hands and left the bed, heading for the shower. One bright side to having the
room to herself now was no fighting for shower time with her twin.
Viola dragged the shower out as long as she could, hoping
that it would help her feel sleepy. As the hot water started to fade, she
turned it off, frustrated that her mind was not slowing down in the slightest.
She still kept seeing the face of the man from Anna’s place.
Putting on her pajamas, she crawled into bed and tried
everything that she could think of to block him from her mind unsuccessfully.
Giving up, she let the memories of him run through her mind.
She remembered how she’d felt the electricity flow between them when he’d put
his hand over her mouth and taken her from the room that she and Cora had been
sharing in the first house that their parents had taken them. He’d been so
gentle with her as he carried her the back ways through the house as if he knew
the exact layout and had been there many times before.
As much as she’d wanted to scream for help, she’d been
caught up in his smoky gray eyes. The world had seemed to fade around them
both. She knew that he felt it to. There was a deep connection binding them
even though they’d never seen each other before now.
Her brain would not form the thoughts and commands for her
to call out for help as he quickly navigated through the house and out through
a secret entrance. He loaded her into the waiting vehicle with no resistance
from Viola because she’d been so captured by him and their undeniable
connection. She knew in the back of her mind that she should be fighting him
but couldn’t seem to make herself do so.
She wasn’t even feeling the fear that she knew should be
running through her. All she could process was him, his strong muscles wrapped
around her body and holding her tight and how much she’d love to taste his
perfect, kissable lips.
As he slid into the vehicle next to her, she had a brief
moment of fear that faded as soon as his eyes returned to hers. He reached
across her body to pull the seat belt and latch it securely in place to keep
her safe before buckling his own belt. She heard the driver ask him a question
and saw his lips respond but didn’t comprehend anything that was being said.
Shaking her head, she pulled herself out of the memory that
was flooding her senses with him. She needed to find a way to move on from him.
There was no possible way that her parents would approve of her mating someone
who was loyal to Anna and Patrick and their cause. She couldn’t even believe
that, after everything that had gone down, she was still thinking of him.
With a deliberate focus, she turned her thoughts away from
him and tried to focus on the events of this past evening during their
unbinding ceremony. Things started off well enough until that old hag showed up
and crashed the party.
She’d seen the exchange between Cora and their father but
couldn’t hear anything that had been said. Wishing that she could have, she
rolled over onto her side and wondered why the woman had tried so hard to steal
their powers.
The woman was old but extremely strong-willed and determined
to succeed in her mission. It took both Sage and Liam to fight her and had
killed Liam for a few minutes before Cora had performed her little miracle.
Everything was such a mess.
Avoiding the crushing loneliness that came with thinking of
Cora and Liam’s impromptu mating ceremony, she switched her thoughts back to a
few days ago when her major summer plans had included getting paid to sleep.
Things had changed so much from that day.
There was a soft knock on the door before it cracked slowly
open and her newfound mother poked her head inside.
“How are you doing my dear?” she asked with concern filling
her voice.
“I’ll be okay,” Viola said, not wanting to confide in
someone that she didn’t know all that well.
It was more than obvious that Angelica didn’t believe her daughter
because she came further into the room and closed the door with a soft click
behind her. Before Viola could object, Angelica was sitting on the edge of the
bed and smoothing Viola’s hair back from her face with a mother’s touch.
All she could do in response was close her eyes and the
touch that she’d longed for her entire life stroked and soothed her in a way
that not even Cora had soothed her.
“Baby girl, I know that you are wary of us and I can’t say
that I blame you. Both of you have lived hard lives no matter how much Thomas
and I tried to make sure that you had everything either of you could have ever
wanted. Please don’t shut me out right now. I know that you are lonely and
pained. I would like to help in any way that I can,” Angelica said in a gentle,
imploring tone.
At first, Viola said nothing. She considered her mother’s
words, wishing that she had Cora here to be a buffer between them. Cora was
better at all of this than she was.
“What can I do to earn your trust?” Angelica asked. Viola
felt the emotion behind her mother’s words.
“I don’t know,” Viola answered. She wished that she had a
definite answer for her mother but she didn’t.
“The day that Thomas and I decided that it would be safer
for you and Cora to grow up away from us, I held you both close to my body for
over an hour and cried my heart out. I couldn’t believe that after the miracle
of us having you both when we shouldn’t have even been able to conceive, I had
to let you go before you were even able to defend yourselves. My heart did not
become whole again until you both came home. I promise you, I will do whatever
it takes to earn your trust,” Angelica spoke in a gentle tone and Viola could
hear the pain in her voice as she spoke to her.
“I wish it was that easy. I can’t tell you what you want to
know because I have no idea. All I know is that things are so confusing right
now. I wish Cora were here with me right now,” Viola said, pain and loneliness
creeping up into her voice.
“I know you do sweetie. Everything has changed for you so
fast that your head must be spinning. I’m not Cora, but I’d be glad to help you
try to sort through everything,” Angelica said with hope in her voice. Viola
felt bad because Angelica was trying but she just couldn’t bring herself to
open up to the woman just yet. She knew that she couldn’t mention the guy
rolling around in her thoughts to her mother.
“I’m used to always having Cora here. None of this feels
right,” Viola whispered. It was the most that she was willing to divulge at
that moment.
“I can relate to that. Before I knew what Anna was, her and
I were very close. She was the barrier between my parents and I. We told each
other everything. I never knew that she had in her what you and Cora told us of
your experience living with her. She’d always been loving and caring with me.
She was my guide and I looked up to her,” Angelica said with sorrow in her
voice. “If only I had known then what I know now. It would have saved you both
a lot of heartache and pain.”
“Anna is very good at making people believe what they want
to about her,” Viola said, anger lacing her words. “No one ever suspected what
she was like before it was too late.”
“We used to lay in bed for hours after dark talking,”
Angelica whispered. Viola could hear the pain in her mother’s voice. Anna had
meant the world to Angelica in a way that only a sister could and now that the
truth about her was out, Angelica was mourning the loss of her closest
confidant and friend, her sister.
“That’s how Cora and I are…were,” Viola said with loss
filling her heart.
“The two of you will still be close in the way only sisters
can be Viola, don’t ever doubt that. Cora did not leave you and never would.
The two of you have just reached the next stage of your lives. Cora is not Anna
and will never betray you. She was frantic when you were abducted,” Angelica
told her with complete confidence.
“I don’t want to be a third-wheel,” Viola whispered. Part of
her fear being revealed even though she’d have rather kept it locked tight
inside of herself.
“You won’t be. Cora would never allow that. She adores you.
I’m sure that you know that,” Angelica said, she was doing her best to reassure
her daughter.
“I want to believe that,” Viola responded.
“You should believe that. Keeping Cora in that car while the
rest of us came in to rescue you was very difficult. Sage worried that he was
going to have to physically restrain her and risk a fight with Liam in the
process to keep her from going in there and risking her life for you,” Angelica
confided.
“Really?” Viola said, her voice perking up with hope.
“Yes. Without a doubt, even though it would have hurt Liam,
she would have entered that building, put her life at risk to save yours. Have
no doubts about losing your sister Viola because you have nothing to worry
about,” Angelica said and smiled.
“Thank you,” Viola replied.
“You’re very welcome my dear. Is there anything else
bothering you that I can help you work through?” Angelica asked.
“I do have a question…” Viola started but let her voice
trail off.
“What is it?” Angelica asked with extreme patience.
“Who was that horrible woman who showed up tonight?” Viola
asked and shuddered.
Angelica reached out and rubbed Viola’s back in a gentle
circle. She stayed quiet for a few moments before meeting her daughter’s eyes
with shame in her own.
“That was my mother, Camilla. She’s named after the ancestor
who started all of this horrible conflict in our race. I knew that she was mean
but never knew that she could be this horrible,” Angelica said with tears
building in her eyes.
“Well, I guess we know where Anna learned her cruelty from,”
Viola said trying her best to ignore her mother’s pain. “I’m glad that you’re
not like them though.”
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