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Shapeling Trilogy Book Two: Fawn (Six-Sentence Sunday #7)

8/7/2011

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Six-Sentence Sunday--Follow the fun! You can navigate to other six-sentence authors from the SSS website.  Better yet, follow and join the fun with your own six sentences!

Set up:  This snippet is from a WIP. In Book One of Shapeling Trilogy, I introduced Fawn Woods. In Book Two, she gets to tell her story. The Thirteen co-Princes have sent her on a mission to Cortez, Colorado to become caretaker to Zoe, a troubled seven year old girl, and housekeeper at Dream Catcher Ranch. Wade Spencer, the child's father and ranch owner, had expected the employment agency to send a matronly type, not a raven-haired beauty who looks like she should be on the cover of a romance novel. In this scene, he's just met her at the airport.

Wade led her to his decades old, rusty Ford pickup, and set her suitcases in the back. Sam, his ancient hound, sat stoically in the bed of the truck among a bale of hay, ropes of varying lengths, a tool chest, and several empty coke cans. When she reached to pet Sam, Wade warned, "Careful; he don't take well to strangers."

As if to make him a liar, Sam sidled over to the woman's hand and licked it like she was his best friend.

"Now, aren't you a sweetheart," she cooed, while Sam shivered and wagged his tail uncontrollably.

The dog actually cried when she turned to enter the cab.

Thank you reading my snippet. Here's a "Big Hug" of appreciation!

8 Comments
Moira Reid link
8/6/2011 11:40:55 pm

I like this! Nicely done!!!

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Liz Culver link
8/7/2011 03:38:39 am

Nice six - loved how the dog was drawn to her - how Wade was drawn to her last week.

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dianne hartsock link
8/7/2011 04:29:03 am

I think Sam Wade is going to find himself over his head with her really quickly! Lucky man. :)

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Karysa Faire link
8/7/2011 05:02:41 am

Haha! Did his jaw just drop?

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Jane Rochester link
8/7/2011 07:26:13 am

Great six. I love the dog's reaction, and I wonder if its a reflection of his master....

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Pippa Jay link
8/7/2011 06:30:48 pm

Sounds like he's got a lot of surprises to come! :)

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Alix link
8/7/2011 08:47:59 pm

Lovely Six. The dogs confidence in her is very telling.

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Sandra Sookoo link
8/7/2011 09:21:25 pm

lol sounds like it's going to be a good story!

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  • SERIES BOOKS
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    • Finding SOMEWHERE
    • OASIS
    • ROMANCE ON THE RANCH
    • RED ROCKS TRILOGY (Past, Present, Future)
    • SHAPELING TRILOGY
    • UNCONVENTIONAL
    • ZOE'S SONG (From Shapeling Trilogy)
  • FRAGILE HEARTS
  • BIO / BOOKS LIST
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  • RESTORING 'TWEEN TIME (Middlegrade Novella)
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