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    Out of the Tower
    Out of the Tower
    Out of the Tower
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    Out of the Tower

    By Meyari McFarland

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    Laurie's entire life had been spent in the tower, subject to her magic and her whims. Then chance gave her the opportunity to escape and Laurie seized it with everything she had.

    The world outside was wild, dangerous and fraught with other spells as dangerous as anything in the tower.

    It was beautiful.

    Come what may, Laurie wouldn't give up. This was her life now and nothing was taking it away.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMDR Publishing
    Release dateMay 20, 2016
    ISBN9781311420497
    Out of the Tower
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    Meyari McFarland

    Meyari McFarland has been telling stories since she was a small child. Her stories range from SF and Fantasy adventures to Romances but they always feature strong characters who do what they think is right no matter what gets in their way. Her series range from Space Opera Romance in the Drath series to Epic Fantasy in the Mages of Tindiere world. Other series include Matriarchies of Muirin, the Clockwork Rift Steampunk mysteries, and the Tales of Unification urban fantasy stories, plus many more. You can find all of her work on MDR Publishing's website at www.MDR-Publishing.com.

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      Out of the Tower - Meyari McFarland

      Out of the Tower

      By Meyari McFarland

      Other Books by Meyari McFarland:

      Matriarchies of Muirin:

      Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

      Repair and Rebuild

      Storm Over Archaelaos

      Coming Together

      Facing the Storm

      Fitting In

      Following the Beacon

      The Solace of Her Clan

      Mages of Tindiere:

      Artifacts of Awareness

      City of the Dead

      Transplant of War

      Running From The Immortals

      Hearts of Magic

      Triumph of the Artificer Mages

      Debts to Recover:

      The Nature of Beasts

      The Manor Verse:

      A New Path

      Following the Trail

      Crafting Home

      Finding a Way

      Go Between

      Like Arrows of Fate

      Clockwork Rift

      Blood Worms

      Copyright ©2016 by Mary Raichle

      Cover image © Sattva78 | Dreamstime.com - Sands Of Memory Photo

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be emailed to me_ya_ri@yahoo.com

      This book is also available in TPB format from all major retailers.

      Dedication:

      This story is dedicated to my mother and father for letting me read whatever I wanted whether it was endless dinosaur books or fairy tales I should have long since outgrown, not that anyone ever truly outgrows fairy tales.

      Table of Contents

      Out of the Tower

      Excerpt: The Solace of Her Clan

      Afterword

      1. Spider

      Laurie Rene Barros!

      The shout echoed off the brick wall surrounding the garden. Laurie ducked. Out here, amidst the lilacs and cedar that grew along the wall, she should be safe. Manu rarely came out here. He claimed that there were too many mosquitoes and snakes, not that Laurie had ever seen a single snake that wasn't stuffed. The mosquitoes were tiny and harmless, too, just little bits of legs and wings that whined around her ears as she furtively dug at the base of the wall.

      Not that her digging was making the slightest bit of difference. The brick wall was fifteen feet high, maybe sixteen and at least that many feet wide. When she'd snuck away from her duties in the kitchen and clambered up onto the roof of the house, Laurie had just been able to see the top of the wall. It looked like it stretched at least five or six feet wide, maybe more. Possibly a lot more given that she'd only gotten one quick glimpse before Manu started screaming at her to get down from there before she broke her neck.

      She wouldn't break her neck. The fall wasn't that far. And since she'd hit her last growth spurt she was almost six feet tall so the roof was only twice as far from the ground as she stood. Nothing to it.

      Didn't really matter to Manu, though. He thought rules were rules and if the rules said you didn't see outside the wall and you never climbed onto the roof and you certainly never tried to dig a hole underneath the wall so that you could get out, well then, you didn't do it. Any of it.

      Looked to her like the rule not to go under the wall was because the bricks went down and down and down into the loamy earth with no stopping. She'd managed to dig a hole almost four feet deep during stolen moments over the last couple of weeks. The earth was mounded under a dozen different shrubs, all too small to support Laurie's weight. Despite that and the effort she'd put into digging, she hadn't found the bottom of the wall yet. It might go on forever, from all she could tell, so deep underground that it came

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