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    Sands of Sorrow
    Sands of Sorrow
    Sands of Sorrow
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    Sands of Sorrow

    By Viola Grace

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    Salika has grown up on her own with her sand dog, Saluk, at her side. Foraging in the sands and stealing in the city, she finally gets caught and pays the penalty. Death.

    Thrown into the sand pit, she faces a certain demise until her sand dog comes to her rescue.

    She finds the only stranger on her world who can take her away and demonstrates her ability to move sand. As a talent, she is just what the recruiter is looking for.

    Salika is as surprised as everyone around her when her talent turns out to be electrical in nature and entirely under her control.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXtasy Books Inc
    Release dateApr 1, 2016
    ISBN9781487405366
    Sands of Sorrow
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    Viola Grace

    Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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      Sands of Sorrow - Viola Grace

      Rescued from her home, she faces change, life and losing everything she thought she was, to rise from sorrow.

      Salika has grown up on her own with her sand dog, Saluk, at her side. Foraging in the sands and stealing in the city, she finally gets caught and pays the penalty. Death.

      Thrown into the sand pit, she faces a certain demise until her sand dog comes to her rescue.

      She finds the only stranger on her world who can take her away and demonstrates her ability to move sand. As a talent, she is just what the recruiter is looking for.

      Salika is as surprised as everyone around her when her talent turns out to be electrical in nature and entirely under her control.

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Sands of Sorrow

      Copyright © 2016 Viola Grace

      ISBN: 978-1-4874-0536-6

      Cover art by Carmen Waters

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      Sands of Sorrow

      Tales of the Citadel Book 52

      By

      Viola Grace

      Chapter One

      Salika crept against the walls and held the small, squirming body against her chest. Possession of a sand dog was punishable by death. They were not only sacred; they were deadly.

      The puppy in her arms whimpered, and she stroked it, and the soft scales on its back smoothed out under her fingers. She eased her way to her tiny home and breathed more easily when she was inside the walls of her shelter.

      She set the puppy down and thought about what the sand dogs ate. He curled up in a corner of her bed, and she smiled. He needed meat, and he could eat carrion when an adult, but he was a baby now, so she was going to have to steal some softer foods.

      She smiled at having someone to look after so much time alone.

      I will be back soon.

      The orphaned pup lifted his head and snuffled at her. She grinned and ducked under the door flap. With her mission in mind, she crept back into the walled city. She had another mouth to feed.

      * * * *

      She fought the hands that held her, commanding Saluk to remain in their quarters. No! You can’t!

      Street trash, you are a disgrace and you have broken the laws of our people. You have stolen food and clothing. The penalty is death.

      She bucked as the priests pulled her toward the pit. The crowd of townsfolk jeered at her, and she finally slumped, accepting that they were going to toss her in and that nothing would stop them, aside from a fatality.

      She didn’t want to kill her people. She didn’t want to die. It was a problem that was about to be taken out of her hands.

      Without further ceremony, they threw her into the pit dug into the sand.

      Salika stood, and the lid was lowered. She was in the dark, and soon, the sand was shovelled onto the lid of the box.

      Buried alive. It was the desert dweller’s worst nightmare. She listened to the thudding of shovels and the hissing cascade of sand.

      It normally took an hour to bury the condemned completely. Salika crouched and made her way to a corner of the box she was in, and she sat while the heated air seemed to grow thick and it made her dizzy.

      She focused on keeping calm and listening to the impact of sand above her. They would watch for any signs of her trying to burrow out for another hour. After that, they would return to the city, and she could try and escape.

      Salika just had to remain alive long enough to make it out of the pit.

      The digging woke her out of her slip toward death by suffocation. Saluk’s claws were far larger than they had been when she had first found him next to the mother that had just birthed him.

      Salika concentrated and started to move the sand. Saluk let out his echoing bark, and she felt he had shifted aside.

      She crawled to the centre of the pit and lifted

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