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    Shackled
    Shackled
    Shackled
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    Shackled

    By Debra Anastasia

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    Enjoy a Sexy Single, Shackled, from Debra Anastasia, author of Crushed Seraphim and Poughkeepsie.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOmnific Publishing
    Release dateFeb 16, 2012
    ISBN9781936305407
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    • 4/5
      The story was a bit far fetched, but that is not a deal breaker. I liked the focus on survivor's guilt and what that does to the psyche. It is not something that is often a focus in YA. What I didn't love was the fact that a boy was the catalyst for her overall change; however, I can see this being a book that my students are drawn to and it will definitely be one that gets passed around.
    • 2/5
      Pelly hasn’t been the same since six years ago, when her best friend was kidnapped from right in front of her. Tired of being alone, Pelly decides to try and re-enter society. She gets a job at a coffee shop and stops going to therapy and taking pills, turning instead to cigarettes and cutting. When a thin girl comes trailing into the coffee shop behind a much older man, Pelly swears the girl mouths “Help me” at her. She looks into the girl’s eyes and recognizes her as her lost friend. When the police brush off Pelly’s leads, she realizes that she’ll have to take matters into her own hands.
      This story had a lot of potential, but it was slow in the wrong sections and glossed over a lot that could have been gritty reality. I also wish there hadn’t been a romantic aspect.

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    Shackled - Debra Anastasia

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    Shackled

    Debra Anastasia

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    Omnific Publishing

    Dallas

    Copyright Information

    Shackled, Copyright © 2011 by Debra Anastasia

    All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher.

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    Omnific Publishing

    P.O. Box 793871, Dallas, TX 75379

    www.omnificpublishing.com

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    First published by OmnificPublishing as part of the anthology Summer Lovin’ Heat, July 2011

    Published by Omnific Publishing, February 2012

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    The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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    Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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    ISBN: 978-1-936305-40-7

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    Cover Design and Interior Book Design by Coreen Montagna

    Shackled

    by Debra Anastasia

    AELIEA GLOWERED AT HER handmaidens through her heavily stained eyelashes. The collection of talented but scared women was boring her, and that could be terribly deadly. After all, the summer heat was making the eighteen-year-old Aeliea antsy.

    She rolled her wrist and examined her fingernails. The three rings on her left hand were worth more than an entire generation of her people could ever hope to make in their lifetime. She liked it that way. Her fresh linen dress was stitched with elaborate gold and silver thread. It had taken four women three straight months to make it for her. She would wear it this once and then cast it aside.

    She lived in utter opulence. Her mother and father gave her whatever she decreed, and had done so since she was a small child. She was, after all, in line to be queen. Aeliea often dreamed of wearing her mother’s crown. She reveled in power. A terse word from her and a whole community could be endangered, and often was. Her attention span was extremely short, much to the distress of her handmaidens and guards.

    Her irritability was so infamous that the entire kingdom of Indovia was attuned to her monthly cycles. She was often the most treacherous a few days before she succumbed to the belly cramps and bleeding.

    Today would be one of those scary, scary days.

    Demee! My comb is slipping!

    Her favorite handmaiden rushed to her side and began to fix the offending comb. Aeliea sneered as she felt a slight tug. She heard Demee hold her breath in worry and fright. The handmaiden’s terror soothed the future queen.

    Demee was lucky to be alive. When she’d arrived to replace a previous maiden who was beheaded for her slow reactions to Aeliea’s needs, Demee’s looks immediately caught Aeliea’s eye. She was almost too beautiful for the future queen’s liking.

    Aeliea had forced the woman to shave her long, luxurious hair so that it was nothing more than the fuzz of a peach.

    There. Now you look like a little boy. Better, but keep your eyes down. Aeliea had smiled when she’d noticed a tear escape Demee’s eye. She must have been growing her hair for a very long time.

    Aeliea grudgingly complimented the girl’s skills in her head. Demee could arrange her long golden locks better than anyone before her. The handmaiden was also very talented at creating appealing oils for her skin. Aeliea enjoyed knowing she was a pleasure to behold no matter what sense a person was using.

    She caught her reflection in her looking glass.

    Stunning, as usual.

    Her beauty was almost as legendary as her viciousness. For the sole purpose of showcasing Aeliea’s good looks, her parents had put her profile on some of the lesser coins.

    Her big blue eyes were outlined with black liner that gave them a cat-like appearance. She set them on her largest guard. Falk. Where are my parents? I need to see them for a visit this morning. Beckon them!

    Falk cast his eyes to the floor. He was a huge, hulking guard, known for his great strength. His bottom lip seemed to tremble as he delivered the bad news. "The king and queen departed before the cock crowed this morning. They had business in the kingdom of

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