Into The Night

Tasha just stared me down holding the lantern. I had raised her since she was a cub. It was eerie how well the animal could read my moods. At times it was as if we were one. But I couldn't deny the fact that I had to get away from the castle. I needed to breathe and being inside these gilded walls offered little of that.... freedom. 

 

I rubbed her head just behind her ears, thanking her. I took the lantern before I scaled the trellis that afforded me the ability to escape without notice. I was light enough on my feet not to make a noise alerting unwanted attention. The first step was always the most thrilling.

Rhiannon

Title: Rhiannon
Author: MargaritaFelices
Publisher: Books To Go Now
Genre: Gothic, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal
Format: PDF
Pages: 330
Rating: 5 *****Stars

Description:
Mother Tydfil didn’t think that the woman who’d wandered down from the frozen mountains could have posed any risk.
But she should’ve sensed her aura.
After all, what’s the point in being a witch if you can’t spot one of your kind? But soon after, this young woman had taken over her cottage and Mother Tydfil was gone. Rhiannon Turner was a witch and she was there for a reason. Until she met Evan Harding and then it all changed. She hadn’t meant to fall in love with a married man. She hadn’t meant to get pregnant by him. She hadn’t meant to get on the wrong side of Evan’s wife, Elizabeth. But she did and now Elizabeth was after revenge. Elizabeth had a plan, to have Rhiannon accused of witchcraft and have her executed. Rhiannon went on the run but didn’t make it to the mountains. She gave birth in a field, was captured and her new-born left to die. Without a proper defence, Rhiannon was tied to the stake and the pyres lit. In the last moments before the flames consumed her, she cursed the village of Treharne.

Four hundred years later, Mari Thomas began to research a story. If the story was true then it would prove that Salem was not the first place that burnt witches at the stake – it was Wales.
Together with her University professor Simon Jenkins, Mari heads for Treharne and they both head up the mountain hoping to locate where Rhiannon was buried.
But was Simon really helping her or was he there to retrieve something of his own?
Double crossed by Simon, Mari is left trapped inside a cavern with no way to escape and accidentally finds a jar that holds a secret – and soon Rhiannon Turner is back.

Mari and Treharne’s local Pastor, John, are soon on the trail of a book written by the former Pastor that explains how to get Rhiannon’s soul back to where it was. Meanwhile, Rhiannon is reining havoc throughout the town and several descendants of the council members that condemned her are dead and half the town is on fire.
But there’s a secret that Rhiannon doesn’t know.
Now it’s a race against time to tell her the truth and capture her soul before she lays waste to the rest of the town and kills the remainder descendants of those who condemned her.

My Review:
This is a 1st time author me and I am so glad I decided to dive into her story.  She combines my love for historical with the world of darkness, fantasy and paranormal. Rhiannon is a unique woman in many ways, it is easy to get lost in her life and world of that time in the 1600s.

Love, suspense, betrayal, life, death all dance upon the pages as you read about the people living in Treharne. I was captivated from the first chapter to the very last. Just when I thought I knew where the story was going or I had a part of the mystery figured out I was taken down another twist and turned that was well worth it. I couldn't put this story down.

 Will Rhiannon get her revenge? Is the town truly cursed? Can Simon and Mari find what they are looking for in modern day 2019? Can they prove history wrong that the first witches to burn weren't in Salem?