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    Initiate - Hex (Book 1-Episode 4): The Unfinished Song Series – An Epic Faerie Tale
    Initiate - Hex (Book 1-Episode 4): The Unfinished Song Series – An Epic Faerie Tale
    Initiate - Hex (Book 1-Episode 4): The Unfinished Song Series – An Epic Faerie Tale
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    Initiate - Hex (Book 1-Episode 4): The Unfinished Song Series – An Epic Faerie Tale

    By Tara Maya

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    ABOUT THE SERIES:

    Long ago, to win a war, humans Cursed the Aelfae, fairest and wisest of the faeries… But all magic has a price. The same Curse that destroyed the Aelfae now threatens all of Faearth. One young woman and the warrior she loves must fight the Curse to prove which is stronger…love or death.

    DINDI desperate longs to become a Tavaedi, a magic dancer. But no one in her clan has ever passed the Test at Initiation. To violate the taboo, and dance without permission, is to risk death. The only other way to prove worthy is even more unthinkable: to bargain with the fae.

    KAVIO is the half-human son of the Last Aelfae, exited from his tribe. Refusing to be a pawn in his tribe’s struggles, his only goal is to find a new, peaceful life. But when he catches Dindi violating a taboo, he must choose between condemning her to death or helping her. Even if it means war.

    The Unfinished Song series is an epic, romantic fantasy appropriate for an older Young Adult and for a New Adult readership, as well as for readers of any age who love magic, love, adventure and happy endings.

    PLEASE NOTE…

    There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

    This is the fourth episode of the first novel, Initiate.

    If you prefer to read the first novel, you can find Initiate (The Unfinished Song, Book 1) on the online site where you found this episode.

    You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

    The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.

    The complete series of novels (seven episodes each):

    Initiate

    Taboo

    Sacrifice

    Root

    Wing

    Blood

    Mask

    Mirror

    Maze

    Sworn

    Flute

    Wheel

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMisque Press
    Release dateSep 28, 2015
    ISBN9781516309092
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      Initiate - Hex (Book 1-Episode 4) - Tara Maya

      Table of Contents

      The Unfinished Song | Book 1: Initiate | Episode 4: Hex

      Episode Four | Hex

      The Unfinished Song

      Book 1: Initiate

      Episode 4: Hex

      There are three ways you can read The Unfinished Song Series. Why? Some readers like to savor a story a spoonful at a time, dolloped out over weeks or months. Others prefer their sagas served in big, meaty chunks, devoured in one delicious banquet. How do you prefer to read?

      Right now, you are reading the first episode of the first novel, Initiate. Each week, a new episode will be available.

      If you prefer to read the first novel, you can find Initiate (The Unfinished Song, Book 1) on the online site where you found this episode.

      You can also find the entire first trilogy sold as three-book set.

      The complete series will consist of twelve full length novels.

      Even better, you can read any of these books for free, if you request a free review copy by emailing me: tara@taramayastales.com, or my publisher, editor@misquepress.com.

      Episode Four

      Hex

      Dindi

      To Dindi’s dismay, the distance from the wooded cliffs down and across the lowland fields was greater than it had looked from up above. There were many switchbacks on the way down the hill, and then a long meandering footpath led them through more woodsy areas and cultivated cornfields. Unlike in the Corn Hills, where the clans tilled permanent fields, the Yellow Bear people still practiced swidden agriculture. They burned out an area to be planted for a season or two, then allowed the woods to grow back over it while they moved on to cultivate another spot.

      Settlements in the Yellow Bear lands were spaced farther apart than in the Corn Hills, and smaller. Several times over the next several days, they passed clanholds, all of the same peculiar design. The beehive shaped mounds that Dindi had mistaken for houses from the buff were actually steep, artificial hills of much larger dimensions than she had estimated. At the top of each artificial hill, a clay or log pike wall enclosed a dozen or less dome shaped houses. Warriors sat in bomas, crow’s nests. These cage-like platforms at the top of tall posts reminded Dindi of larger versions of her rabbit hutch back home. The Yellow Bear people did not seem to have kraals for horses or aurochsen, but goats gamboled everywhere, along with many kinds of fat, waddling birds and peccaries. Also, occasionally Dindi caught the tantalizing smell of smoking fish.

      The fae here were strange too, though not

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