Child of Fear and Fire

Child of Fear and Fire - a gothic novellaFear feeds wickedness.It hungers for the tremor of a voice the drop of a tear. Wickedness dines on the echo of a racing heart delights in the falsetto of a scream.Eliza lives darkness dream. A maid in a great house owned by indifferent aristocrats run by their three cruel daughters.Daily beatings tricks and cruelties by the Norlane sisters have left Eliza a mute shell a vacant vessel besieged by fear. Yet alone as she feels as small and insignificant as her life seems something is watching her.Darkness lives in the forbidden forest beyond the neat and orderly civility of Norlane Hall. Wickedness hears Elizas silent tears rises to the vibrations of her body that quivers in terror.Wickedness awakens from its slumber and calls to her.