Title:
The Thirteenth
Author: G.L. Twynham
Series: The Thirteenth Series
Genre: YA Sci-Fi Fantasy
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: November 9 2009
Editions/Formats Available In: Kindle/Print/Audio Book
Blurb/Synopsis:
Imagine starting at the end and finishing back at the
beginning. This is the story of a
teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time and
space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares, she
discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen, her first job
and an unwanted tattoo, but also magical powers and intense urges to fall in
love. She envisaged she would spend her life blending into the scenery, not
blowing it up! Val has a calling, but which side is dialling her number?
What inspired you to become an
author?
I was a single mother back in 2002 and on a tight budget.
During a trip to Tesco, I happened to pick up a book that was on offer – Harry
Potter. I went home and devoured it in one sitting. Then following my natural
inquisitive disposition, I looked on the internet to find out who this J. K.
Rowling was and found she was a single mother like myself and for some
unaccountable reason, I believed that I too could write a book. Sometimes I
cringe when I tell that story, but it’s the truth and I think of it like this.
It was like saying – I have a driving license so I can drive
like Michael Schumacher!
So the truth is J K Rowling – but not because of her books –
because she made me believe that a simple mum could write a book. She broke the
perception I had of authors living in castles on hills and wearing tweed whilst
smoking a pipe and admiring their many certificates presented for their
cleverness.
Born in Wellingborough in 1972, Georgia was brought up with
her two older brothers in a sleepy Leicestershire village until at the age of
fifteen, her parents decided to move abroad, taking her with them. A new
country and a new language helped her come out of her shell and for eleven
years, she lived and worked on the beautiful island of Menorca.
Georgia wrote short stories and poetry from an early age but
her real passion for writing didn’t truly emerge
until she was 31. Writing for
her own web site and articles for magazines helped to support her and her
daughter. After meeting her now fiancé, she was given the encouragement and
opportunity to write full-time and the rest is history.
Georgia felt there was a need for a strong British female
heroine. She also wanted a main character that had a normal family, with
problems that most teenagers/young adults in this country might be experiencing
and could relate to. And so Val Saunders, daughter to Mike and Susan Saunders,
was born.
Georgia spends time with her daughter in their home in
Leicestershire and her life is filled with promoting her books, writing and
walking her dog Milly, the Jack Russell.
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Chapter 1
The Tattoo
A young woman stood alone looking up at the night sky, a
cool breeze effortlessly caressing her slim frame as darkness closed around
her. At long last it would be her turn to be part of something that had been
her destiny since birth.
She moved on, passing the pond; she caught her reflection in
the water and smiled. The time had arrived; the moon had reached the tops of
the trees. On this particular evening, the shadows of the dense woods, mixed
with the bruised sky made the adventure that lay ahead seem all the more
exciting.
As she left the village behind and made her way into the
woodland, her body filled with anticipation. She began to run.
Knowing instinctively where to go, she weaved like a needle
in and out of the undergrowth, dodging the trees as if they were merely smoke
trails rising in front of her.
She was moving swiftly when an unfamiliar sound suddenly
stopped her dead in her tracks. A strange crackling in the air made every hair
on the back of her neck stand on end. Something was very wrong. She span
around, trying to find where it was coming from, but soon realized it was
everywhere. Then, as suddenly as it had started, it stopped.
She had cautiously started to move forward again, when the
silence was shattered once more by another wave of sound. In the confusion, her
foot caught under a loose tree root, causing her to fall awkwardly into a pile
of leaves. Before she had time to stand up, she heard violent screams coming
from the distance. These weren’t joyful cries; the cries of pleasure and
happiness she had been expecting. These turned her blood cold and left her
paralyzed where she lay on the wet forest floor, her heart pounding.
After a few seconds, she gathered enough courage to slowly
lift herself up and move forward again. She was suddenly very frightened, aware
of the risk she was taking just by being there. She darted to an old oak tree,
hiding for a moment in the shelter of its huge trunk.
Cautiously, she edged around it. Everything was quiet again
so she leant the top half of her body out, to see if it was safe. In that split
second a ball of light came towards her, travelling at amazing speed and
growing as it came, until it seemed to be the size of a mountain.
When it hit her, its power engulfed her whole body and she
was instantly lifted off the ground. She screamed helplessly as it raised her
into the treetops.
Her ears filled with a piercing noise, like nothing she had
ever heard before. Her whole body felt like it was burning up, yet still she
kept rising and rising, until she was high above the trees.
Then the light and noise stopped as quickly and as it had
started. Her upward flight came to a violent halt, and she began to fall. As
she tumbled through the trees, the thick branches scratched aggressively at her
clothes and face. The ground came towards her at terrifying speed. The scream
that was struggling to escape her was silenced when she hit the ground with
tremendous force. Her body filled with pain, the taste of warm blood filled her
mouth, and she slipped into unconsciousness.
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