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    Cally: Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins 2
    Cally: Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins 2
    Cally: Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins 2
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    Cally: Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins 2

    By G R Jordan

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    A village emptied of its children. A warrior finding her greatest desire. But a witch’s vengeance wrecks a curse that will devastate her forever.

    The tale of Calandra’s curse is the 2nd story in the A&K origins series, a collection of short stories that expand G R Jordan’s A&K universe. If you love rollicking action, imperfect heroes and extraordinary, magical villains, then you will love the Austerley & Kirkgordon series.

    Yesterday, he offered her the rest of his life. Today a vengeful witch wants to take him away. Can Calandra’s dreams survive the mother of all storms?

    Sometimes a woman can be too cold for any man!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG R Jordan
    Release dateMar 11, 2017
    ISBN9781912153015
    Cally: Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins 2
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    G R Jordan

    GR Jordan is a self-published author who finally decided at forty that in order to have an enjoyable lifestyle, his creative beast within would have to be unleashed. His books mirror that conflict in life where acts of decency contend with self-promotion, goodness stares in horror at evil and kindness blind-sides us when we are at our worst. Corrupting our world with his parade of wondrous and horrific characters, he highlights everyday tensions with fresh eyes whilst taking his methodical, intelligent mainstays on a roller-coaster ride of dilemmas, all the while suffering the banter of their provocative sidekicks.A graduate of Loughborough University where he masqueraded as a chemical engineer but ultimately played American football, GR Jordan worked at changing the shape of cereal flakes and pulled a pallet truck for a living. Watching vegetables freeze at -40C was another career highlight and he was also one of the Scottish Highlands blind air traffic controllers. Having flirted with most places in the UK, he is now based in the Isle of Lewis in Scotland where his free time is spent between raising a young family with his wife, writing, figuring out how to work a loom and caring for a small flock of chickens. Luckily his writing is influenced by his varied work and life experience as the chickens have not been the poetical inspiration he had hoped for!

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      Cally - G R Jordan

      G R Jordan

      Cally

      Austerley & Kirkgordon Origins #2

      First published by Carpetless Publishing 2016

      Copyright © 2016 by G R Jordan

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      G R Jordan asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      G R Jordan has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

      Designations used by companies to distinguish their products are often claimed as trademarks. All brand names and product names used in this book and on its cover are trade names, service marks, trademarks and registered trademarks of their respective owners. The publishers and the book are not associated with any product or vendor mentioned in this book. None of the companies referenced within the book have endorsed the book.

      Second edition

      ISBN: Epub: 978-1-912153-28-2 Mobi: 978-1-912153-29-9

      Editing by Roma Gray

      Cover art by J Caleb Clarke

      This book was professionally typeset on Reedsy

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      To my four dreamers, for the joy you bring into my life!

      Contents

      Prologue

      Ferrean

      Leaving

      The Village

      Proposals

      Seeking Help

      The Witch in the Tree

      Returning

      The Mother of All Storms

      Epilogue

      A Small Request

      About the Author

      Also by G R Jordan

      Prologue

      The wet hair caught his eyes first. He traced a drop of water from the top of her forehead as it slid down the side of her face. Despite gradually slowing, it had enough momentum to fall down her cheek and then gently splash onto the top of her bare shoulder. There it formed a thin icy streak. His eyes continued to her pale white arm loosely positioned across her chest, before drawing breath at her exposed belly and the white towel wrapped around her waist and legs.

      You could’ve dressed.

      It’s not like you hate the view.

      The woman turned her back and grabbed the towel, pulling it loose. After swinging it over her shoulder, she strolled down the hallway, hips jigging from side to side in time with her long, black hair.

      His eyes lingered on her buttocks until she turned the corner into her room. The shopping bag in his hands, somehow still there, was cutting into his hands and snapped his attention back to the cold night outside and his need to go indoors.

      Dammit, Cally, you pretend you’re teasing, but we both know where you’d like to be—and we both know I can’t go there!

      Entering the kitchen, Kirkgordon removed the groceries and set them down on the kitchen table. Flour, eggs, cereal, milk and that cheese that Austerley likes (whatever foreign muck it was). Not to mention bread, enough to feed an army.

      You’d think we could get a gofer to fetch this stuff.

      It had been two months now since they had left the island, and the routine was well established. Austerley, now a cripple due to the loss of his foot, was looked after alternately, a fortnight at a time, by Calandra and himself. The eccentric, former professor of Occultic Affairs had constant nightmares and flashbacks which were proving to be quite a handful. Still, at least he got two weeks with his estranged family away from Austerley.

      And the time had been good. Well, kind of good. He had seen his children. He had played with them. But he had also screamed in the night, battling his own demons, his own recollections of that place. No child should see or hear their father going through something like that. Alana, his wife, was more understanding but there was still a rift between them. Struggling to cope with his troubles, she went from being engaged to wanting to walk away.

      There had been passion and nights that reminded him of their early times together. Nights when the bed sheets were soaked in sweat and he wasn’t left shaking in fear. But there were also such moments of disconnect and anger, tears of frustration that he knew a

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