Chapter 1
There was a time when everything was perfect, when there was pure love, and pure hope, and pure dreams – pure ecstasy.
We had it all.
But that was in the time before there were angels. Avenging angels.
And some angels will avenge anything.
When I saw her for the first time, that was it. Pure love even pure thoughts, for a second or two.
She was tall, lithe-limbed, with knowing eyes and Scandinavian white hair that invited me to dive my fingers into it to make her tense and preen.
Yes, those pure thoughts really did only last a few seconds.
Astonishingly, my immediate reaction to her was reciprocated. She wanted to rake her hands through my hair too (dark and tangled) and to run them down me as we kissed, as she told me afterwards many times when we reminisced about that first meeting.
We were a human taste explosion that neither of us had ever experienced with anyone else, and it wasn’t as if either of us was inexperienced.
Nothing had ever happened to us like this and nothing could again, or so we thought.
We were magic together from that first moment of that impossible soul fusion.
And already our best moments were behind us, and not for want of trying.
Before she became an avenging angel.
Before
There Were Angels
Sarah
Mathews
She was the
ex-wife who wouldn't go away
When Luke leaves
his wife, Rafaella, divorces her, moves to the US, meets Belle, falls in love
with her, and then marries her and her two young sons, they all settle down to
live happily ever after.
Until Belle
spots an ad for a classic San Franciscan Victorian in which four murders have
just taken place. It's ideal: it's a Victorian, it is probably haunted and it
is unbelievably cheap to rent.
However, they
could probably have done without the terror, torment and tragedy that pursued
them in their new house.
Should they have
stayed in their cozy mid-city apartment and spared themselves the anguish of
what was to come? Possibly, but Rafaella was not the kind of woman who was ever
going to leave them alone.
Sarah
Mathews
Sarah Mathews
lives in San Francisco and has written her first book set in an architectural
symbol of the city - a 'Victorian'.
There is the
slight problem that while there are
reputedly several ghosts who march around the city, there are very few murders
that take place there, however Sarah seems to have corrected that.
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