An first-time attempt to write a romance novel! Prologue 16 year-old Maple didn’t know exactly how she was made for nature. After all, everyone said she was made for nature. The way she went out every morning, the wind blowing her chestnut brown hair, to water the tulips and daffodils, with not another thing in mind but to sit on her rock and bury her head in the latest book about nature she had checked…
| Chapter Nine | “Okay, so we are going to follow this path-” Scarlet indicated the thin trail of marble shards scattered on the ground. “-and it should lead us to the Devils Pit.” “Great. And what if it doesn’t?” Kammie wondered, but Scarlet shook her head. “No what ifs” she said, and so the tired group trudged on. Kammie wondered what her mother was doing right now. Was Grandpa taking a nap? Her mother…
Leaves crunched under careless hikers feet, as the honey gold sun burst through the sparkling ruby leaves in thin ribbons of light. Towering trees, thin as sticks, spread their arms toward the cloudless cobalt blue sky watched the rocky cliffs, with rocks jutting sharply from their sides. Round acorns rolled out from under my feet, their golden brown sides peeking out from under silky leaves, crimson in the afternoon light. Leaves collected on the sides…
| Chapter 7 | “Okay, seriously, how long are we going to be walking?” Nuri asked, her heaving chest visible through her cloudy flames. “I’m not really sure,” Scarlet answered, and Kammie looked up in surprise. “You mean you don’t know where we are going?” she asked, gasping in the cold air of, well, wherever they were. Cliffs jutted out of towering mountains, piles of snow heaped onto their rocky sides. The frozen grass crunched…
The mountains sliced into the cobalt blue sky, the sun barely peeking out from behind a mix of blushing pink and purple clouds, that created an aurora over the towering aspen trees, the sun turning the leaves a deep golden. A stream ran over frosted stones in the distance, and a roaring waterfall rushed into a silver pool of flashing fish. The echo of crickets slowly faded as the rays of sunlight rose over the…