Taliasman (Beyond Fairytales) by Anastasia Vitsky
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Will Talia accept love, or will she reject the one who offers her everything?
Taliasman blurb:
Born to a destitute woodworker who
wanted a son to carry on the family business, Talia grew up with one phrase on
her lips: “If I had been born a boy.” If she had been born a boy, she would
have been cherished, supported, and launched into the world with her father’s
legacy. As only a worthless girl, she toils all day long to earn her handful of
inferior grain.
Far away in the heavenly palace, Queen Vina receives a mysterious coin necklace from Nicodemus, teller of stories. Compelled by the throbbing heartbeat, she scours the earth to come across Talia, enslaved to a family who never wanted her. Rather than admit her motives, Vina purchases the girl with a sack full of gold. Furious, betrayed, and homesick, Talia endeavors to share her misery with the entire palace. Vina, afraid to confess her love, allows herself to become trapped in the role of brutal slave owner.
Talia, bred to expect nothing but misery, faces the first choice of her life. Will she accept love, even if it comes from an unlikely source? Or will she reject the one who offers her everything?
A Beyond Fairytales Adaptation of Our Lady’s Child
Far away in the heavenly palace, Queen Vina receives a mysterious coin necklace from Nicodemus, teller of stories. Compelled by the throbbing heartbeat, she scours the earth to come across Talia, enslaved to a family who never wanted her. Rather than admit her motives, Vina purchases the girl with a sack full of gold. Furious, betrayed, and homesick, Talia endeavors to share her misery with the entire palace. Vina, afraid to confess her love, allows herself to become trapped in the role of brutal slave owner.
Talia, bred to expect nothing but misery, faces the first choice of her life. Will she accept love, even if it comes from an unlikely source? Or will she reject the one who offers her everything?
A Beyond Fairytales Adaptation of Our Lady’s Child
Taliasman
excerpt:
If I had been born a boy, I would have followed
in my father’s footsteps to become a tradesman. Because I was a girl, he sold
me instead.
“No,” Vina corrects me when I bring up the
story, which is not often. She doesn’t like the facts, and I dislike her pretty
lies. “Your mother agonized whether to let you go, but she knew you would be
better off here. She wanted to give you a better life.”
I would call Vina on her mistruths, but she
claims I still reason as a child. All of my protests to the contrary serve to
prove her right, at least in her mind. Only when I agree with her does she
admit I am a full-grown adult.
“You’re happy with me, aren’t you?” Vina makes
me sit next to her at the formal dinners she hosts most nights, and she dresses
me in rich silks with real lace. If I tell her “no,” she sends me to my room as
punishment for my petulance. If I resist, she gives me one of her lessons in
obedience. Some are painful, some pleasurable, and all serve to narrow my world
and make me focus on her. How could I not, when she owns me?
“No,” Vina corrects me when I call her my
owner. “I set you free, and I gave you the life you never could have had
otherwise.”
When I turned nineteen, no one wanted to marry
me. My mother fussed with my “hope chest,” if it could be called that, and
arranged the one cotton handkerchief as if it could attract a suitor.
“Let me stay with you,” I entreated, and I won.
I always did. The house needed new walls, and I wielded the power tools.
“You’ve turned her into such a tomboy no one
will want her,” Mother chided Father, and the truth stung. I could have cared
for my parents into their old age, but they wanted me gone.
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Author bio:
Cookie queen, wooden spoon lady, and champion of carbs,
Anastasia Vitsky specializes in F/F erotic fiction. She hates shoes and is
allergic to leather. When not writing about women who live spankily ever after,
she coordinates reader and author events such as Spank or Treat, Love Spanks,
and Sci Spanks. Her favorite event is
Ana’s Advent Calendar, a month-long celebration of community, books, and making
a difference.
She is too afraid to watch Dr. Who, but she adores The
Good Wife and anything with Audrey Hepburn. In her next life, she will
learn how to make the perfect pie crust.
