Samantha King: The Whispering Woods

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…Samantha felt her own heart thrumming, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. The warmth of the Sunstone seemed to pulse in time with it. Elias Thorne, her childhood friend, the mysterious stranger, was revealing himself, piece by agonizing piece, and with each revelation, he was weaving himself deeper into the tapestry of her destiny, and the destiny of the Whispering Woods. The path ahead was still fraught with peril, the sorcerer Malakor a looming threat, but for the first time, Samantha felt a flicker of true hope, a light in the encroaching gloom, and it shone not just from the Sunstone, but from the eyes of the man standing before her.