Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Justice For the Werewolf
    Justice For the Werewolf
    Justice For the Werewolf
    Ebook54 pages45 minutes

    Justice For the Werewolf

    By Juliet Fischer

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Kazzil awakens, tied to a bed, drugged by a dishonest taverner. He chose the wrong night to drug and capture her. She had been cursed as a werewolf (and used as an assassin); and tonight was the night she changed form.

    As Kazziil struggles to find the person who cursed her and destroyed her life, she is helped by a police detective and a mage's apprentice, one seeking the answers to the killings, the other seeking to help one bound against her will. Complicating matters is that her nation has forgotten much of the old magical knowledge. Her curse is supposed to be impossible

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJuliet Fischer
    Release dateDec 18, 2012
    ISBN9781301146741
    Justice For the Werewolf

    Related to Justice For the Werewolf

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cast Out

      Jul 10, 2021

      Verity pushed back the quilts, rolled off her straw mattress onto the floor, felt for the poker, and stirred the ashes. The embers glowed. She wouldn’t have to go fire-borrowing again. Her chilled hands were clumsy. One glowing bit of wood rolled fro

      21 min read

    • Article

      The Education of Mrs. R.

      Sep 6, 2022

      An adolescent shriek woke her. Cockerels, she thought, cockerels, with a wry twist to the word. She lay in the dark listening. There was no use in covering her head; the screaming still came through. The soloist was suddenly submerged in the chorus.

      13 min read

    • Article

      Holy Night

      Nov 10, 2022

      Ida Kowalska cracked open her right eye, and quickly surveying the vicinity, she deduced they had a few minutes before the kapo and guards summoned them to morning roll call. Opening her other eye, she crawled out of the lower bunk that she shared wi

      22 min read

    • Article

      Cricket League

      Jan 1, 2022

      It was an unusual birthday. Colorful banners blanketed the backyard. Kids chased each other through the grass. Adults talked. It all went downhill from there. My little sister was turning five. On her birthday cake, painted in frosting, was a fat, pi

      7 min read

    • Article

      AN EXCERPT FROM The First Line of Dante’s ‘Inferno’

      Dec 1, 2020

      Early forties, tall, self-possessed. Hiking in the woods in search of her missing sister. A young park ranger, late twenties. Pretty. Slim. Strong. The play is formatted like prose; however, it is intended for performance. If actors simply perform th

      15 min read

    • Article

      Announcing The winners Of Our FLASH CONTEST

      Feb 29, 2020

      I sever the first two fingers of my left hand on a Tuesday. They fall to the ground at my feet, causing a momentary confusion as I wonder what tree has dropped this odd fruit. Then I see the crescent scar left behind by a fish hook and know that thes

      8 min read

    • Article

      The Pain Jar

      Dec 3, 2020

      The Pain Jar
      7 min read

    • Article

      Neighbourhood WATCH

      Aug 26, 2021

      Neighbourhood WATCH
      5 min read

    • Article

      Winter Warmers

      Jun 23, 2023

      BY BETH O’LEARY QUERCUS Reading a Beth O’Leary book is like connecting with an old friend. One of those friends with whom you sit on your couch in your comfiest clothes and get a story worth listening to that will make you laugh and feel sad and eve

      3 min read

    • Article

      Yara And The Witch Queen

      Oct 1, 2019

      I knew the dangers of witchcraft. My parents had told me about the time before I was born, when magic plagued our desert kingdom of Bahati. Untrained witch doctors trying to cure warts ended up paralyzing their patients or turning them into crocodile

      10 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Writer

      May 27, 2023

      Meet the Writer
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Inventions of Witches

      Oct 30, 2017

      The Inventions of Witches
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Witch Finders

      Jul 16, 2020

      Beth pulled her cloak tightly around her. It was the very last day of October and the air was damp and chill. Dead autumn leaves lay in deep piles in the woods and smoke curled into the night air from her cottage. Not far to go now. She bent her head

      4 min read

    • Article

      100-WORD-STORY COMPETITION Winners

      Aug 16, 2022

      We’ve been delighted by the huge response to our 100-word-story competition. The entries have flooded in thick and fast during the past few months, but while we’ve enjoyed reading every story, only a few can come out on top! You, our readers, voted t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Human Contact

      Aug 10, 2022

      Beer tasted like wet money—or maybe just bad beer did. Viola had never tried any other kind. She preferred white wine, but there was no white wine at this party. “Drink it like medicine,” the guy manning the keg said. “It’ll loosen you up.” He wore a

      18 min read

    • Article

      Dark Tales

      Dec 2, 2021

      Dark Tales
      6 min read

    • Article

      Penny

      Jul 2, 2020

      Penny
      6 min read

    • Article

      Ann Beattie

      Sep 15, 2017

      I’d started to visit Olivia more often because it was obvious she was lonely. The ALS lady who’d been moved to Hopkins had been Aunt Olivia’s closest friend, leaving aside Merton Hillstead, who actually went home. Even the friendly paperboy who somet

      23 min read

    • Article

      GhoST StoRies

      Apr 12, 2021

      GhoST StoRies
      8 min read

    • Article

      Chost Stories

      Apr 12, 2021

      Chost Stories
      8 min read

    • Article

      Girls Like You

      Sep 5, 2023

      Girls Like You
      17 min read

    • Article

      Discarded Wraith Of Apartheid

      Apr 13, 2024

      It’s been years since I read a book that strained the Likability Principle as viscerally as Karen Jennings’ new book, Crooked Seeds. Her previous novel, An Island, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, but I fear the more I tell you about Crooked Seed

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Kind of Deep Companionship: The Millions Interviews Jo Ann Beard

      Jun 3, 2021

      When you’re slogging through your day, imagining what else is to come, and you remember that the minute all else is done you can sink down into your book like warm water, and be absorbed while you’re absorbing, is priceless, as they say in capitalism

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Justice For the Werewolf

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Justice For the Werewolf - Juliet Fischer

      Justice for the Werewolf

      Juliet Fischer

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012

      Cover by Dorothea Adams Fischer

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Justice for the Werewolf

      Werewolves did not exist in Serinkar. That sort of magic was impossible. Even children knew that stories of mages who summoned creatures from other planes, and of cursed people and objects, were fictions once encouraged by powerful elites terrorizing the common people. The hearth-witches and hedge-wizards of tradition were no more than clever peasants with rudimentary medical knowledge.

      In the tenth Year of the Eagle, the fifth year of King Mehrenal’s reign, a werewolf lived in the minor city of Pernik. She roamed uncaught for two years. Had it not been for an unscrupulous taverner, she would never have been found out.

      The fog in her head told Kazziil that she’d been drugged. Ropes bound her. A gag cut her mouth.

      She waited, eyes closed, for her head to clear. Sounds of traffic, horses and wagons, came dimly from one side. Steam whistle in the distance. Under her, a mattress and bedding. Both needed airing, by the smell. The gag tasted as if it had cleaned the floor.

      Bastard.

      Unusual position for her hands and feet. She opened her eyes, then carefully rolled over and worked into a kneeling position on the bed.

      Unusual and interesting: hands crossed and bound so that the palms faced her. A loop of rope went around the bedstead frame and was tied to her wrists on the side away from her. Try as she might, she could not move her wrists.

      She had taken day-work that morning, and the taverner had paid her in a meal.

      He would pick tonight. Second night of the full moon.

      Look around.

      Bed, a wash-stand on the other side of the room, with mirror, metal wash-basin and pitcher. Small window on one wall. No knives, scissors or any other sharp or jagged edge in sight or reach. Very basic.

      After all, I’ll be doing work I’m good for.

      She bent double and reached the knot of the gag (nicely centered on the back of her head). Difficult to work with only one hand, but she could do it. She needed her teeth for the wrist-knot.

      A deep-body ache began: first sign of the transformation.

      Small, tight, knot. Wait a bit—damn. Again, and she pinched a bit of the knot between her fingers: an edge of cloth. She tugged and worked until the knot parted.

      Get out of here.

      Short loop on the rope. She couldn’t get to the knot. I don’t have time for this.

      The bed filled the corner, a cheap wood-frame with a headboard like a railing. Where the rope looped.

      Down. She folded her arms and lay down. After straining around for a bit, she got her teeth on the knot.

      He could have contracted with the Prostitute’s Guild. No need for this.

      The ache worsened. What would happen if she spasmed while bound?

      False start. Loosened loop of knot. She cursed and worked more, until an end pulled free. Finally, the knot fell apart.

      Her body cramp-spasmed. Bone and muscle slid.

      Son of a bitch.

      With suddenly-clumsy fingers, she untied her ankles. Her feet lengthened as her fingers shortened and thickened. Thighs and calves

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1