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    Without Armor: Elemental Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale Series Companion Book 4)
    Without Armor: Elemental Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale Series Companion Book 4)
    Without Armor: Elemental Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale Series Companion Book 4)
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    Without Armor: Elemental Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale Series Companion Book 4)

    By Alexia Purdy

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    The Unseelie are up to no good...

    My name is Benton, and I hunt the darkest of creatures in existence.

    Especially when they get unruly and try to invade my home, the human realm.

    Betrayal, broken hearts and uncharted magic...I never saw it coming.

    Books in this series:

    Prequel: The Withering Palace
    Prequel: Evangeline
    Book 1: Ever Shade
    Book 2: Ever Fire
    Book 3: Ever Winter
    Book 3.5: The Cursed
    Book 4: Ever Wrath
    Book 5: History of Fire
    Book 5.5: Without Armor
    Book 6: Ever Dead
    Book 7: Legends of Fire
    Book 8: Guardians of Fire ~ Now Available!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMelancholy Muse Press
    Release dateOct 8, 2015
    ISBN9781310096334
    Without Armor: Elemental Fire (A Dark Faerie Tale Series Companion Book 4)
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    Alexia Purdy

    Alexia is a USA Today Bestselling author who currently lives in Las Vegas and loves spending every free moment writing or hanging out with her four rambunctious kids. Writing is the ultimate getaway for her since she's always lost in her head. She is best known for her award-winning Reign of Blood series, and A Dark Faerie Tale Series.Sign up for email updates and exclusive giveaways: http://smarturl.it/AlexiaPurdyNewsAlexia's websites:www.alexiapurdybooks.comhttp://alexiaepurdy.blogspot.comTwitter: @AlexiaPurdyAlexia Purdy Fan page:https://www.facebook.com/AlexiaPurdyAuthorA Dark Faerie Tale Series by Alexia Purdy FB page:https://www.facebook.com/ADarkFaerieTaleSeriesReign of Blood Series FB page:https://www.facebook.com/RoBbooks

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      Without Armor - Alexia Purdy

      By

      Alexia Purdy

      Without Armor

      The Unseelie are up to no good…

      My name is Benton, and I hunt the darkest of creatures in existence.

      Especially when they get unruly and try to invade my home, the human realm.

      Betrayal, broken hearts and uncharted magic…I never saw it coming.

      Without Armor

      Elemental Fire ~ A Dark Faerie Tale Series

      Copyright © May & July 2015 Alexia Purdy

      All rights reserved

      www.alexiapurdybooks.com

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      Chapter One

      No one ever stands in a cemetery at midnight, puffing out a breath in mid-winter while the snowflakes gathered at the tips of their eyelashes. I could feel the cold, like a dusting of frost on my nose and breathe, but it didn’t truly bother me unless I let it. The fire within kept the chill at bay, melting the crystallizing coat of ice off my skin within milliseconds. It clung to my coat, where my heat did not reach and sorely attempted to gather enough to bury me in its frozen embrace. Yet, here I was…standing in the middle of Yeat’s Cemetery, hoping to find what I was looking for.

      If I knew what exactly I was looking for, that is.

      You see, somehow I got wind of a small gathering of Unseelie Faeries here, at the edge of the city of Newark where the houses were sparse and the slums grew as the months rolled by. Near a failed school project, houses stood empty; boarded up and overgrown in their left to the wild yards along with the spray of graffiti decorating their ragged edges. I could hear the echoes of the past inhabitants roaming the now empty halls of this graveyard of homes. Each one glared down at me through the darkened windows like I was intruding, like holes into the building's consciousness. Stepping on hallowed ground where only the ghosts of the past could wander.

      I was not welcomed, that I could tell right away. But it wasn’t the empty souls of houses and ghosts of the pasts filled with families, joys, celebrations and laughter that had my senses perked to the extreme alertness. No…it was the other creatures who roamed this empty scar of a town and who were far from being human.

      The banished Unseelie were everywhere. I’d already spent months tracking thousands of them down, one by one returning them to the boundaries of the Land of Faerie for judgment by the land itself, entrapping them within its reach, never to step foot into the human world again.

      Or…I would cut them down where they stood if they dared try to resist. Nothing lost actually. If they had the unfortunate luck to cross my path, most didn’t survive the trip back to Faerie anyway.

      I wasn’t a faery, but I wasn’t just a human either. I was trapped between both worlds; the mundane, or what humans thought of as normal, and the fantastical, magic filled one. I wasn’t truly part of either. My human heritage marked me as such, but my magic was elemental: not faery, not normal. Of earth, yes, but not so ordinary. You see, I could wield my element with enhanced strength, speed and agility. More so than any human could ever hope to achieve. It was what made me more than just one kind of being.

      What connected me to the Land of Faerie was having the Queen of the Seelie Court as my sister. That opened up a whole other bag of trouble for me and it was never going to end. The tie bound us forever. It was in the blood.

      Every family had its issues…right?

      Chapter Two

      Did you get the kid?

      Yeah, the scrawny one with the wet nose.

      You forgot to put on those jackets they use.

      Is that why she’s shaking?

      Moron, she’ll die before we get him to the village and put ‘er to work!

      How am I supposed to know that? She’s faery right? Can’t she warm herself up with some sort of trick?

      "No,

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