All The Write Stuff: Kindred Spirit

Mankind’s day of reckoning is coming; A young Wicca must learn to harness the elements and reconcile old friendships if she is to save mankind from Mother Nature’s wrath.

Kindred Spirit

by Julia Firlotte

Genre: SciFi Dystopian Romance

A plague for a plague, to make the human race pay
For the destruction of a planet which was not theirs to slay

Mankind’s day of reckoning is coming and all hopes lie on the shoulders of one young Wicca. Only Cady Leigh can harness the elements and reconcile old friendships if she is to save mankind from Mother Nature’s wrath.

Set three hundred years in the future, the impact of global warming has divided the nation into two opposing societies. Cady Leigh’s family are Wiccans and the healers of their underground traditionalist community, so when a craft from the opposing technologist’s society crashes near her home, Cady saves a wounded technologist teenager Drew Kemp and brings him to live with her family.

Like all technologists, Drew has a nanochip implant and uses it to spy on the traditionalist villagers to root out the terrorists who attack the metropolis he calls home. However, he falls in love with the independent and spirited young Wicca, Cady. When he reveals the truth to her, she feels betrayed and rejects him, so he returns to his city alone.

Some years later, due to the damage inflicted on the Earth by humans, mother nature unleashes her displeasure on mankind in the form of a dangerous virus. Passionate about healing, Cady travels to the technologist’s city in search for a cure. But in a world of science and fact, Cady’s Wiccan roots start to reveal themselves at the worst time and her paranormal abilities to harness the elements evokes fear and oppression in the technologists around her.
When Cady discovers her abilities are more significant, that she is in fact the final hope to redeem mankind, she must turn to Drew to help her navigate this new world and find a cure.

EXCERPT

‘As long as Cady wants me here, I’ll be taking over as head of the Leigh family, and Cady can damn-well choose her own future. Are you following me?’

Kegan jerks his head back, enough to loosen my grip on his jaw.

‘You won’t be her head of family! You’re an outsider. The elders will never…’

I press my knee further into his knuckles, twisting it on his joints until he groans.

‘That group of weak-kneed idiots! You think they’re going to tell me what to do?’ I laugh. ‘Like you, you mean?’ I press my thumb into the nerve endings that run under his teeth that I learned in a ranger combat training load, and he squeals like a pig in heat.

This is just too easy.

I’ve mastered so many martial arts and physical defence classes in my mind. Now the opportunity to bring things to a head with Kegan has finally presented itself, the ease with which I could beat him is almost disappointing. I wonder if that makes beating him to a pulp the right thing to do, though, just because I could, then I decide couldn’t care less! The reasons for hurting him are the right ones, even if my actions aren’t.

‘Let’s just make something really fucking clear. She’ll never be yours, Kegan, because she doesn’t want to be. Do you understand?’

Kegan grunts and nods, so I ease back and let him up. He rises slowly to his feet, one hand pressed over his face and then turned in a flurry of movement, his free hand coming forward to punch me in the stomach, but I pivot, swinging one leg back in a semi-circle, and trapping his wrist in the other hand, twisting his wrist into a lock. It’s like taking toys from a baby. It’s that fucking easy with so many years of training in my head and years of physical training chopping wood. I apply just enough pressure so that he can feel that I can snap it if I choose to, and then I hold it there until the sweat is running down his forehead, and he’s gasping obscenities at me, bent over and immobilised with pain.

‘You hurt her, and I’ll hurt you. Are we clear?’ I tell him.

‘We’re clear,’ he growls at me

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About the Author

After a lifetime of reading romance novels, Julia Firlotte started writing her own novels in 2018. As soon as she started, she knew she'd found her passion.

Julia is inspired by the world around her, often coming up with the opening scenes of a novel and the characters in them and then later developing a plot line. Julia's stories always have a focus on the role trust plays in a relationship and the twists and turns love takes when this is brought into question.

Julia is also a romance blogger and reviews books on her website.

Her favourite authors are Jaine Diamond, Sylvia Day, Chrystal Kaswell, EL James and Kendall Ryan.

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When she's not writing, reading, blogging or editing, Julia works at her day job in Logistics, shipping other people's books all over the world. Julia is married with two children and five fur babies and lives in West Sussex, Southern England.

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