Review: A paranormal short story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2013
I liked this surprising short story, it was not what I thought I was going to be reading. The heroine is sixteen, and suddenly finds herself an orphan. As the daughter of the American ambassador to Italy, Kendika is used to being independent and dealing with new situations. She's feisty and full of life, and wants to stay in the house she inherited and find a guardian to live with her until she turns eighteen. But her father's lawyer insists that her parents' will decreed that she go to live with her father's cousin. Because she's so distraught, he gives her some medicine and they board the plane.When she wakes up, she's in a strange castle, with clothes from the eighteen hundreds, and told she's the ward of a Duke. As she explores, she finds all roads lead right back to the castle, all doors are locked, and there is a strange collection of swans in the estate lake with sad, human looking eyes. There are eyes in the sky sometimes, looking down at her, and the servants seem to be spying. Her new guardian, though kind, warns her to learn the rules and abide by them, and he's very serious about it.She needs to find out not only where she is, but when she is, and why she's there! The penalty for rule breaking is too severe to ignore.Heat factor mild.