River Child (Gay Fantasy Romance) E-Book

Trina Solet

• Herausgeber: Trina Solet
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Until this fateful night, Will Galen lived an ordinary life in his family cottage and peaceful village. Tonight Will has set out to finally satisfy his curiosity about the mysterious, forbidden river that everyone fears. He finds no answers at the riverside, but he does find a helpless child and takes him home.
Though the child is only a sweet, three-year-old boy, he is greeted with superstition and fear by Will's father and his grandmother. They claim the boy carries the river's curse and want to cast him out. To keep the child safe, Will must take him away from there and not look back.
As he leaves behind his family and the place where he has lived all his life, Will finds one bright spot. The man he has been lusting after comes to his rescue and takes Will and the boy home with him.
Russ is a rough looking man with a big heart. Will is more taken with him every day, but what will happen when Russ discovers the secrets Will has been keeping about the boy?
Even if Russ can accept the strange child, their troubles are not over. As Will and Russ become close, they must risk everything when a terrible curse threatens to take away the little boy they have come to love and think of as their own.

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River Child (Gay Fantasy Romance)

By Trina Solet

Copyright © 2017 by Trina Solet

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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, locales or actual events is entirely coincidental.

River Child

Gay Fantasy Romance

Trina Solet

Chapter 1

Strange things went on along the river in these parts. It had been that way since the days when Talisbury was but a hamlet. No one knew what that glow was that came over the river at night. Since he was a child, Will yearned to see it up close. When he was small, he was forbidden to go near the river after sunset, and he didn't dare disobey.

Will was old enough now for his father and his grandmother to be telling him to pick out a girl to marry. For some reason no girl he ever saw had caught his eye, captured his heart or stirred any feelings lower down. But if his elders though him old enough to marry, that meant he was a grown man and childish rules couldn't hold him any more.

The rule wasn't only for children though. Not even full grown men and women dared to approach the river after dark. In daylight hours, fishermen could be seen casting their lines and their nets into its waters. Boats and barges ferried goods up and down the river in daytime, but not at night. Everyone knew not to travel these waters after darkness fell.

The River Eleth was enchanted and much feared. Strange things happened on its shores after nightfall. Shapes rose out of the silvery fog and inhuman voices sounded. The voices enticed people to come closer and apparitions pulled them under.

The unfortunate ones who drowned in River Eleth had to be buried far from the village under a pile of heavy stones so they would not arise and spread their curse. Will's own grandfather was drowned and buried far away, where no one could visit his grave. That's how much the river's curse was feared.

It was said that if anyone so much as walked by the river in the nighttime, they would take on its curse. Until that night, Will had only risked visiting the river in the evening and in the early dawn hours. He never saw any apparitions during those in-between times. Tonight it was his twentieth birthday, and he was brave enough to go to the river when he knew it had to well past midnight.

He sneaked out of the cottage while his father slept in one room and his sister and grandmother slept in the other. As he tiptoed his way out of doors, his grandmother was a special concern. She was a light sleeper, and if she knew where he was headed... He didn't want to think about that.

No one had a horror of the river like his grandmother did. Her feeling might more rightly be called hate. The river had taken a young child from her and then her husband not long after. That left her to raise Will's father alone. Will's grandmother even blamed the death of Will's mother on River Eleth, though she died giving birth to his sister, Sally. After losing so many, Grandmother Iris would not countenance what Will was doing. That's why he could not let her hear him as he made his way outside.

Tonight, Will was in luck as he tiptoed through the cottage. The floorboards did not creak so much as to give him away. Then his grandmother started snoring and that covered any little bit of noise he made.