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Hope Everlasting

Name: Hope Everlasting
Brand: Lisa Williamson
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ISBN: 9781301303281

By Lisa Williamson

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Publisher:: Lisa Williamson
Released:: Jan 3, 2013
ISBN:: 9781301303281
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Spring has come to the Guardian's city and brought danger and trouble with it. Living hidden in plain site is a family that keeps the balance of the Gate city in the positive side but someone has found out who they are and worse yet what they are. Can Harry find the youngest daughter before she is used in a ritual that will change the balance of the city? Or worse yet destroy the innocence of the world?

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Length: 60 pages1 hour

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Publisher:: Lisa Williamson
Released:: Jan 3, 2013
ISBN:: 9781301303281
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Lisa Williamson

Lisa Williamson splits her time between acting and writing. She was inspired to write The Art of Being Normal after working in England's national health services in a department dedicated to helping teens who struggle with gender identity issues.

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Hope Everlasting - Lisa Williamson

Hope Everlasting

Published by Lisa Williamson at Smashwords

A book of the Guardians of the Gate City

By Lisa Williamson

The sky was still dark when I came out of Undercity but it was lighter than it was below. Closing the hidden door, I paused. Something was going down just around the corner. Sighing, I soft footed it to the end of the alley. I could hear them though before I saw them, who ever they were. I looked around the corner and shook my head. Two large, horrible smells were blocking the alley that led back to my truck. Grumbling softly I sighed, preparing to step back when I heard a soft cry. Normally I ignored the occasional mugging by the street trash on each other but something about that cry made me step forward.

As I got closer I saw two of the least savory creatures that dwelled in Undercity. They had backed a woman into a corner between the crumbling building on the right and a rusted out dumpster on the left. They were tall, even half stooped over as they were to terrorize the much smaller human before them. HE says bring the shiny one, we bring. The one on the left said in a voice that went past gravelly to stone on stone grinding. Definitely a troll with his ugly cousin, this was a pair I recognized. A pair of two bit thugs who hired out to the one with the most meat. Yes meat. It was hard in these modern times to find a good meal for trolls when you weren't near a stockyards.

The woman, what I could see between the overgrown goons, seemed average. Not too tall, or beautiful or rich looking. She was dressed simply in a long loose skirt and a full blouse. A bit out of place on the streets nearby but nothing to really call attention to her. It wasn't till she spoke that I caught on.

Thomas you know better, she scolded softly as she tried to pull her wrist from the massive paw holding it. I could see her bite her lip as Thomas pulled her from her corner. He wants something I can't give him.

Master say we do, you do, growled Thomas' cousin, Grulp. Silly ever woman do what Master says and we get yummies or we get you.

As the troll licked his rubbery lips, I sighed out a word and the power flowed out like water to wrap around the thick necks of the two and I tugged back. Magic wasn’t common in the old city and nothing I did was flashy. It took a bit of muscle but I managed to pull them back.

Growling, they turned to face me and Thomas' eyes got wider, if possible. What Magic man doing interrupting our work?

I shook my head. Ever since a little incident with a rogue night walker I had been labeled, Magic man. You know you aren't allowed to hunt in the city boys.

Grulp snorted, stepping closer. We no hunt, we fetch. Not break rules.

You are if you try to make her do anything. I tried to give Hope a reassuring smile around the hulking form of Thomas.

Huh? We not eating her. Thomas looked puzzled.

Magic man not so smart is he? Grulp grinned with a mouth filled with too many teeth.

I shook my head with a sigh. Talking to Trolls was like swimming in mud. Slow going. You know who this is right?

Thomas answered, this is the Ever woman. Who else would she be?

The Ever..? I shook my head. I wasn't sure why they were calling her that but I moved on. Hope runs what boys?

Grulp and Thomas looked at each other for a moment and you could almost see the light go on above their heads. Admittedly it was a candle, a very dim, guttering candle but they had an idea. The helpy place? Answered Thomas.

Yes, the helpy place, I shook my head again. Leave it to trolls to call the Pursuit of Happiness Shelter and Job Training center, 'the helpy place'. It had been set up decades ago as a place where anyone could go, human or not, to get clean, find a safe place to sleep and learn skills to get back on their feet. The Center and the people who ran it were sacrosanct to everyone in the city. Or almost everyone it seemed.

Um...Grulp remember why Helpy place special? asked Thomas.

Derrr um everyone welcome? answered the if it was possible less swift cousin.

Yes boys. Everyone is welcome. Therefore no one touches the family that runs it.

Right! No hurting family that runs place. Thomas was almost understanding.

And Hope here is? I felt like I was nudging a boulder up a mountain.

Family!?!?

Yes now what are you doing?

A big smile creased Thomas's face. Taking Ever woman to see the boss. He tugged her arm again causing her to cry out in pain as he put a bit too much excitement behind the tug and dislocated her shoulder. So Magic man get out of way.

I winced as I heard the pop. Now you hurt her Thomas boy. And I can’t let that go. I pulled out the brass knuckles I kept in my pocket for street brawls and charged them

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