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    Sacrifice – Trust (Book 3-Episode 3)
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    Sacrifice – Trust (Book 3-Episode 3)
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    Sacrifice – Trust (Book 3-Episode 3)

    By Tara Maya

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    ABOUT THE SERIES:

    Long ago, to win a war, humans Cursed the Aelfae, fairest and wisest of the faeries... But all magic has a price. The same Curse that destroyed the Aelfae now threatens all of Faearth. One young woman and the warrior she loves must fight the Curse to prove which is stronger...love or death.

    DINDI desperate longs to become a Tavaedi, a magic dancer. But no one in her clan has ever passed the Test at Initiation. To violate the taboo, and dance without permission, is to risk death. The only other way to prove worthy is even more unthinkable: to bargain with the fae.

    KAVIO is the half-human son of the Last Aelfae, exited from his tribe. Refusing to be a pawn in his tribe’s struggles, his only goal is to find a new, peaceful life. But when he catches Dindi violating a taboo, he must choose between condemning her to death or helping her. Even if it means war.

    The Unfinished Song series is an epic, romantic fantasy appropriate for an older Young Adult and for a New Adult readership, as well as for readers of any age who love magic, love, adventure and happy endings.

    PLEASE NOTE...

    There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

    This is the third episode of the third novel, Sacrifice. Each week, a new episode will be available.

    If you prefer to read the entire novel, you can find Sacrifice (The Unfinished Song, Book 3) here on this online site where you found this episode.

    You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

    The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.
    Even better, you can request a review copy by emailing me: tara@taramayastales.com, or my publisher, editor@misquepress.com.

    The complete series of novels (seven episodes each):

    Initiate
    Taboo
    Sacrifice
    Root
    Wing
    Blood
    Mask
    Mirror
    Maze
    Sworn
    Flute
    Wheel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTara Maya
    Release dateFeb 1, 2016
    Sacrifice – Trust (Book 3-Episode 3)
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    Tara Maya

    Tara Maya has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia. She's pounded sorghum with mortar and pestle in a little clay village where the jungle meets the desert, meditated in a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas and sailed the Volga river to a secret city that was once the heart of the Soviet space program. This first-hand experience, as well as research into the strange and piquant histories of lost civilizations, inspires her writing. Her terrible housekeeping, however, is entirely the fault of pixies.

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      Sacrifice – Trust (Book 3-Episode 3) - Tara Maya

      The Unfinished Song

      Book 3: Sacrifice

      Episode 3: Trust

      There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

      Right now, you are reading the third episode of the third novel, Sacrifice. Each week, a new episode will be available.

      If you prefer to read the entire third novel, you can find Sacrifice (The Unfinished Song, Book 3) on the online site where you found this episode.

      You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

      The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.

      Even better, you can request a review copy by emailing me: tara@taramayastales.com, or my publisher, editor@misquepress.com.

      Chapter Three

      Trust

      Brena

      Dull pain, worse than mere nausea, churned in the pit of Brena’s stomach. The air smelled of overripe fish and burnt seal blubber, a stench she had promised herself she would avoid for the rest of her life. Yet here she was, once again climbing out of a shaky canoe onto the deck in front of a Blue Waters clanhold. Slimy wood betrayed her hand when she tried to grab the slick wooden post. She slipped and almost fell back into the river. The strong hand of a Blue Waters warrior grasped her arm and pulled her up. The man had dark hair, blue eyes and tattooed muscles, and for a moment her heart leaped: Rthan.

      He was not, of course. This man’s face was craggy and lined, not chiseled and cut. He grunted at her, and led her deeper into the clanhold, where a number of elders awaited her.

      This was one of those clanholds built over a flat, smooth tributary to the river, entirely on wooden decks held up by huge pylons. The peace party had not stayed here during their journey, but this clan had contacted Vultho that they might be interested in his offer of an alliance in return for sanctuary for the Shunned in case of war. The oiled-skin huts over bone frames looked familiar to her, but in the center of the clanhold, she walked into a surprising scene. A dozen seals sunned themselves on the wood deck. The Blue Waters men and women had gathered in a semi-circle around the seals, who did not seem disturbed by the humans.

      Brena scanned the crowd for the Shunned. In every Blue Waters clanhold she had ever visited, there had always been a handful, sometimes more, of the scruffy, ragged beggars, but she didn’t see any here. She wondered if they had been forced outside the palisade altogether.

      Be at home, Envoy of Yellow Bear, an elder woman said, stepping forward. The auntie wore a seal skin hood over

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