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    The Silent Isle
    The Silent Isle
    The Silent Isle
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    The Silent Isle

    By Zoey Brouthers

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    Adele has always enjoyed her solitude...until her strongest connection to the outside world disappears. With strange dreams and feelings prodding her toward that lost connection, she must decide whether to stay in her comfortable, lonely home or break free and discover what awaits her outside. This captivating retelling of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Lady of Shalott" makes you wish for more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZoey Brouthers
    Release dateOct 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301579365
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      The Silent Isle - Zoey Brouthers

      The Silent Isle

      By Zoey Brouthers

      Copyright 2013 Zoey Brouthers

      Smashwords Edition

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      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.

      Acknowledgements

      Thank you, Melody, Mom, Elizabeth, Brittany, and Rachel for being my first readers. Colin, thank you for the cover!

      Table of Contents

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

      Chapter Five

      Chapter Six

      Chapter One

      And the silent isle imbowers

      The Lady of Shalott…

      There she weaves by night and day

      A magic web with colors gay.

      Adele lifted her latest creation to the light, eyeing the colorful scene critically. She’d finished it so quickly, with so little trouble, that her suspicions were roused. There had to be a mistake somewhere, one she hadn’t yet caught. A loose thread, a mangled knot in the back, warp showing where it should be weft or vice versa. But no matter how closely she looked, how carefully she ran her fingers over the fabric, she found nothing. The piece was perfect, her only one so far to come out exactly as she’d imagined it.

      Frowning a little, she laid the afghan over the massive bench in her workroom.

      She usually wove natural scenes, unless the commission called for something different. Fields of flowers, stately trees, mist-shrouded mountains, even a starkly beautiful desert, once. This was completely different. It was a riot of color, vibrant and wrenching, a story told in fabric. She’d woven in the style of medieval tapestries before, by request, and this had some similarities, but it depicted no tale she’d ever heard before. Elements of other stories appeared throughout; a brilliantly armored knight on a horse, a flaming dragon, a white stag all leapt from the blanket. But what about the little boat floating gently down a river, or the weeping lily?

      She didn’t know what made her weave such disparate images into the afghan, only that she’d felt compelled to do so. And she’d done them all easily, despite having no pattern or conscious plan. Without a single mistake.

      Shaking her head at the mystery of it, she turned to her desktop to see what orders had arrived while she was ensconced in her art. She scrolled through the long list of e-mails and read through the important ones. One company wanted three new designs and prototypes for their winter collection, a Seattle store owner asked for an original to replace the most recently sold, and four requests for personalized gifts. The timing would be a little tight, but she could do it. With the holiday season fast approaching, she’d have

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