The Knowers (Volume 1)
Merry Brown
Language: English
Pages: 264
ISBN: 0615721877
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Will's sole ambition is to get out of high school alive and away from his vicious father. His brilliant plan to fly below the radar blows up in his face when he gets involved with the mysterious Lizzy. Will mistakes his world as the danger to avoid, only to discover what Lizzy really is. How can Will, a Knower, and Lizzy, a daughter from the Garden, possibly find a way to be together?
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place. I would wait. I could wait, for her. She let the silence fade and spoke. “I’m glad to be here, with you, too. By the way, this place is great! How come I’ve never heard of it before?” The Daily Grind was awesome. It was much more than a place to get coffee; it was an old fashioned coffee house. In my opinion, it was the best-kept secret in town. In a once-abandoned turn-of-the-century house out by Cal State Bakersfield, the owners – Tina and Jim – restored the property and turned it
father? But honestly, that’s not the reason I don’t go to mass anymore. It may have been in the beginning, but not anymore. More than anything I’m simply out of practice. When you don’t go for a while, it becomes a habit, not going. So I don’t. I’ll get around to going again, someday. Like maybe when – or if - I have kids.” “Okay then, that’s how we’ll raise her,” she said with an excited wink I didn’t understand. “Now wait just a minute, we are supposed to do this together. You’ve got to
bedroom door I knew something was wrong. Eggs, coffee, bacon? Either I was having a vivid hallucination or my father had made breakfast. If he was in the kitchen I could certainly go without food this morning or pick something up on the way to school. I made up my mind to slip out quietly when I heard someone humming. Yuck - guess my father’s one-nighter actually stayed the night. I knew he had someone over, per usual, but they don’t usually stick around. My curiosity got the better of me, and
gurglings in the brain. So, what are you?” “I guess I’m a body and a soul.” “Yes! You are obviously a physical creature, but there’s an immaterial part of you too. If that’s the case, when people have sex, then the whole person has sex, not just detached bodies.” Her eyes were intense, her voice rising in pitch and volume. “Okay . . . .” “So, how does a condom or the pill protect the heart? When we pretend these kinds of devices ‘protect’ us, we lie. It may guard against STD’s and pregnancy,
wraiths.” Her voice was chilling. Cold and distant. “Human?” “Not at all!” she gasped. Ah, not human. Her danger was of the supernatural kind. Just when I thought I had a handle on her world, I realized I still hadn’t a clue. Even though I believed what she had told me and showed me of her world, whenever her reality came up, I felt like I was being told a fable. “What’s a wraith?” “A wraith is a being born out of hate, from the side of the Beast.” “And they are dangerous to you?” “Yes
