SELECT

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Synopsis

A Challenge Met. A Calling Sought. A Faith Required. When Mara, Oathtaker to the ranking twin members of the Select, suffers an injury, her charges—Reigna and Eden—seek to determine their callings, while Dixon suffers over the potential loss of his beloved. As their allies disperse in response to a growing threat to their homeland, and as the forces of evil set out to destroy them, the twins journey across The Tearless, where in fulfillment of prophecy, they face three challenges. A single misstep may bring them to ruin; perseverance, to glory. To triumph, they must first believe.

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Author Biography

Multi-award-winning author Patricia Reding leads a double life. By day, she practices law. By night, she reads, reviews a wide variety of works, and writes fantasy. She lives on an island on the Mississippi with her husband and youngest daughter (her son and oldest daughter having already flown the nest), and Flynn Rider (an English Cream Golden Retriever). From there she seeks to create a world in which she can be in two places at once. Oathtaker: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. One, won a GOLD medal in the Literary Classics Int'l Book Award Contest, also won an award in the Readers' Favorite Int'l Book Award Contest, and was named a Finalist in the Beverly Hills Book Award Contest. In addition, WindDancer Films has asked to take a look at it . . . Select: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. Two, won a SILVER medal in the Literary Classics Int'l Book Award Contest and earned a Finalist award in the Readers' Favorite Int'l Book Awards Contest. Ephemeral and Fleeting: The Oathtaker Series, Vol. 3, won a SILVER medal in the 2017 Literary Classics International Book Award Contest. Sign up for Patricia's email list at www.PatriciaReding.com.

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Spring? Summer? Autumn? Winter? Cleaning

I have a project on my hands. One of the largest I've ever taken on. Specifically, with my children now out on their own, I'm trying to go through all of those things that I've moved to storage over the years, as there simply was no room in our living area for some things. I've discovered that in our young adult lives - our 20s - we struggle to get by and to acquire the things we need; in our 30s, things get a tad easier; in our 40s, we acquire a little better quality tools for making life easier; in our 50s we look around wondering where all our possessions came from; and in the end of that decade and beyond, we seek to rid ourselves of the unnecessary. This is my current project: to give good items away to a charitable cause, to store only the necessary, and to throw the remainder. This all sounds a bit like what Basha and Therese were doing as they went through the palace in this scene. What do you think? What stage are you at?

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For several days, Basha and Therese went through the palace, emptying and refilling closets, tossing aged and unusable items, opening drawers to shuffle through papers and documents, and examining the contents of cabinets, all in an effort to bring some order and majesty back to the ancestral home of the first family of the Select. Having found Mae’s portrait hidden behind shelves of discarded goods in the lower reaches of the palace, Basha returned it, to Therese’s delight, to its rightful place on the wall from whence Lilith had removed it.

Along the way, they gathered items, including books that they thought might be useful. Finally, they arranged for some local townspeople to maintain the place and to care for Bernard until the family returned.

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Patricia Reding

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