"Secret Society of Kings, Witches and Spirits" by Farhana Uddin

EXCERPT FROM "Secret Society of Kings, Witches and Spirits" by Farhana Uddin:

 

In their centuries-spanning marriage, Lana and Lucien had endured their fair share of blessings and curses. But the famous royal duo have never encountered anything quite like this before.

“Lana? Hello! … The line’s a touch scratchy… Are you there?”

“I’m here alright,” Lana spat into the receiver. “I’m standing right next to your body.” She stared down at her husband’s form – youthful, beautiful and unmoving – as she spoke to him on the phone. “Your seemingly dead body… which brings forth the question: Where the bloody hell are you?”

An uneasy little laugh came from the other end as Lucien proceeded to explain his unique supernatural situation.

By the time he finished, Lana’s face was twitching in irritation. “You’re telling me you’re trapped… No, scratch that, someone has trapped you intentionally and indefinitely in the circles of Heaven.”

“The higher circles, but yes,” said Lucien from the other end of his celestial call.

“I swear, this could only ever happen to you.” Lana shut her eyes briefly in irritation. “Ever since we met, you’ve attracted such madness and brought it into our lives on the regular! For once, I wish you’d behave like a normal person. Can’t you ever be normal?!”

“I am a Divinely chosen being with limitless power wedged into a mortal meat-vessel of a body, whose soul was assigned to enter the terrestrial realm for the sole purpose of creating and leading the greatest empire ever known to man. I can turn absolutely nothing and everything into the most precious of gold. I can create electric storms across the realm with one mere thought. I can send bolts of lightning two Kingdoms over and get them to report back to me. If I so please, I can hear a butterfly flapping its wings on the other side of the planet. If I so wish, I can fly straight to the Sun without ever once having to stop on the Moon. … With all that in mind, the answer to your question is a profound, No… No, I can never be normal.”

“All that power and yet you can’t find your way back into your own body?”

A stilted silence stretched between them, until Lucien finally broke out with, “Well, I can’t be expected to do everything by myself now, can I?”

The Queen glared down at her Husband-King’s body. With her realm at risk and her mate trapped in another dimension of time and space, Lana must weave through a secret society of mystical Kings, witches and spirits to get him back. She didn’t know what to expect, but she knew this much: she’d kill whoever did this to her man, and once he was awake, she’d kill him too.

Lana hated the inconvenience of it all. What she hated even more was that she loved him enough to go through with it.

Release Date: October 25th 2024.