To Flame a Wild Flower

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It's not in my nature to beg but I'll stay on my knees until I feel that flame sputter out.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>And then ...</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>I'll rip the world to shreds.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've tumbled into a darkness so deep it's hard to see the light my petals curling inward as I tip my face from the sun. Hide from my monstrous actions.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Traitor. Murderer.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>High Mistress.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My mistakes hunt me down and I'm pulled into a political tug-of-war balancing Ocruth's welfare on the edge of a bloody blade. The moon is swelling the weight on my shoulders compacting and my unfailing curiosity keeps weaving its roots in the wrong direction.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Horrible truths unravel casting explosive light on everything I thought I knew. I'll have no choice but to shed my morals my withering self-preservation and sow the seed of a plan set to bloom beneath a bloated moon. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One wrong move could destroy everything.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Destroy </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>me.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lines will blur blood will spill and I'll learn how fragile I really am-at a cost far greater than I could have imagined.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Fate is a ravenous beast and there's only so far I can run.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>To Flame a Wild Flower</em> is the third book in the <em>Crystal Bloom</em> series-a dark fantasy romance full of immersive imagery and breathtaking angst.</strong></p>