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    Hidden in Shadow
    Hidden in Shadow
    Hidden in Shadow
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    Hidden in Shadow

    By Chrissy Wissler

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    Kate Silver knows stubborn. Really. Even if Grandma throws another sausage onto that pan. Sizzling and perfect. Her traitorous stomach, growling—

    Nope. Not saying a word.

    Of course when Kate demands the seemingly innocent question, why she got handed these freakishly-pointed ears, she stirs up a whole lot more trouble than just Grandma and her cooking.

    A good thing stubborn runs the family.

    "Hidden in Shadow," the third story in the popular Elven Heritage series, follows Kate as she dives deeper into her mysterious heritage. A heritage filled with elves and magic, where she slowly uncovers her place in this world. And, her future.

    "I love this [story]; it was a very fast and clear read. A wonderful coming-of-age fantasy novel." —Dean Wesley Smith, USA Today Bestselling Author, on Hidden in Time

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlue Cedar Publishing
    Release dateMay 22, 2011
    ISBN9781458039880
    Hidden in Shadow
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    Chrissy Wissler

    Chrissy’s short fiction has appeared in the anthologies: Fiction River: Risk-Takers, Fiction River Presents: Legacies, Fiction River Presents: Readers' Choice, Deep Magic, and When Dreams Come True (writing as Christen Anne Kelley). She writes fantasy and science fiction, as well as a softball, contemporary series for both romance and young adult (Little League Series and Home Run). Before turning to fiction, Chrissy also wrote many nonfiction articles for publications such as Montana Outdoors, Women in the Outdoors, and Jakes Magazine. In 2009, Inside Kung Fu magazine awarded her with their ‘Writer of the Year’ award. Follow her blog on being a parent-writer at Parents and Prose.

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      Hidden in Shadow - Chrissy Wissler

      Hidden in Shadow

      Hidden in Shadow

      An Elven Heritage Short Story

      Chrissy Wissler

      Blue Cedar Publishing

      Contents

      Hidden in Shadow

      Sneak Peak: Hidden in Time

      An Impatient Forest. One Stubborn Girl.

      Also by Chrissy Wissler

      About the Author

      Hidden in Shadow

      Kate crossed her arms, the pale pink sweater her mom had bought her rising up her forearms. The sweater barely pushed aside the chill that even now crept in from the early morning, seeping through the closed windows, under the door. Even in early June, at this northernmost tip of Montana, it was still really, really cold, and sweaters (she’d learned quickly) were a necessity.

      Even if they didn’t happen to be actual, you know, good quality sweaters (and not just the cute kind).

      Still, the sweater and the cold were the least of her concerns. Grandma, on the other hand…

      Kate glared at her grandmother’s back, and that god-awful shawl with too many tassels and fringes that draped from her shoulders. Grandma, who was bent over the stovetop, cooking sausages and doing her wonderful best to ignore Kate.

      The sausages sizzled and one gave a small pop.

      Kate willed her stomach not to grumble, even though the sausages happened to smell particularly good. As did those sliced heirloom tomatoes, the pineapple-yellow kind that Kate loved so much (which, come to think of it, how had Grandma known about that?).

      Maybe her mom had mentioned it before she’d hightailed it out of the mountains, though Kate seriously doubted that.

      But even with this…this amazing food that, okay, put her Cap’n Crunch cereal to shame, she was still annoyed—like, really annoyed. She’d come here for answers, willingly chosen to live with this old woman, a grandmother she’d never met in her life before a week ago. Hell, she’d given up the Internet, of all things, and for what?

      All to learn one simple (or not-so-simple) truth: who she was.

      Kate’s heritage…it was a mystery—to her, anyway. Why she was so damn different than every person who walked the planet (okay, most people)?

      She couldn’t help it. She lifted her hand and traced the outline, the shape of her ear. Perfectly normal…except for that slight tip at the end. Hardly noticeable, unless, of course, you were looking. Unless, of course, you also noticed that she had incredibly good hearing, or the way she moved, silent and quiet, at least compared to most people.

      All she wanted was answers.

      And instead here she was, fighting a grumbling stomach because within two days of her mom packing up and hightailing it out of Lighthome, Montana, she’d learned nothing.

      Absolutely nothing.

      She’d at least gotten wise to Grandma’s tactics. She wasn’t eating a thing until she got answers.

      I want the truth, Kate said.

      Grandma hummed to herself, acting as if she hadn’t heard. Which Kate knew damn well that she had (crazy-good hearing apparently ran in the family), which only made her grumpier.

      Grandma.

      Such an impatient child. No wonder why your mother kept you from this place.

      Kate’s back straightened. That’s not why and you know it.

      Still. Grandma shrugged as she dished out a sausage for Kate and one for herself. She was right, at least partly. All these years of keeping the truth from you? The truth isn’t something to be taken lightly, or without caution.

      The only thing her mother had been right about was warning Kate that if she stayed, she’d regret it. Stayed here. With Grandma. Which, truthfully, she now did.

      Go get your plate. Breakfast is ready.

      Kate did not move an inch. Instead, she dug her fingers harder into the soft fabric of her sweater.

      If Grandma refused to give her answers, what was the

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