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    Clue To Her Lost Shadow: Legacy Of The Black Dahlia, #1
    Clue To Her Lost Shadow: Legacy Of The Black Dahlia, #1
    Clue To Her Lost Shadow: Legacy Of The Black Dahlia, #1
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    Clue To Her Lost Shadow: Legacy Of The Black Dahlia, #1

    By Chera Carmichael

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    Dahlia's carefully planned life is turned upside down thanks to a soulscream from her soulmate, Shayla Imaldis. They have a history together and it's pushing at the fragile new walls of their new relationship.

     

    Between missing soulmates, silencing oaths and secrets they can't share with each other—it looks like their happily ever after will take a lot more than just a little bit of work. Can two guarded hearts find happiness together? Or will this new reality tear them apart? 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChera Carmichael
    Release dateJul 31, 2022
    ISBN9798201963743
    Clue To Her Lost Shadow: Legacy Of The Black Dahlia, #1
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    Chera Carmichael

    Chera Carmichael (aka Scioneeris) to her TBDH fans is a Writer by night and a 9-to-5 worker by day. Her dragel stories feature slow-burn Poly romances featuring dragons, soulmates, elemental powers and otherwordly adventures.

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      Clue To Her Lost Shadow - Chera Carmichael

      Clue To Her Lost Shadow

      Clue To Her Lost Shadow

      Legacy Of The Black Dahlia : #1

      Chera Carmichael

      Chera Carmichael

      Copyright © 2022 by Chera Carmichael

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      This is a work of fiction. All resemblances to any persons alive or dead is entirely coincidental.

      Cover design by Starlight Book Covers

      Editing by Excel Designs

      Contents

      Prologue

      1. A Series Of Unexpected Situations - Shayla

      2. Necessary Conversations - Dahlia

      3. Hidden Secrets - Shayla

      4. A New Home - Dahlia

      5. Mental Gymnastics - Dahlia

      6. Finding Answers - Shayla

      Also by Chera Carmichael

      GLOSSARY

      Have You Read The Prequel?

      Author’s Note

      About the Author

      Character List

      Prologue

      Inducing a soulscream was not the worst thing Shayla Imaldis had ever done in her life, but it was right up there in the top of three of bribing the former Grand Archmage from the Earth Courts, and requesting a memory wipe to cover for her cousin-turned-assassin that was never, ever mentioned after that fateful day.

      Not her best moments, really, but sometimes a girl had to do what no one else in the family had the nerve to.

      She also had to listen to the elemental Casper fused into her veins and branded into her body—and make sure that her parents didn't redistribute her share of the inheritance to her least favorite sibling—for the fifty-ninth time in the past decade.

      There was also the whole headache of being a Submissive with Ferros potential. Her parents loved to remind her that she needed to be refined and elegant and not wild and incompetent.

      As if that was something she actually had control over. Ha!

      To them, a Ferros designation—honestly inherited from her Sire's side of the bloodline—was nothing short of scandalous.

      It was worse when their Casper, Portgas, chose her instead of the insufferable Althani, her older sister by three years.

      Three torturous years.

      Her parents were good upstanding citizens of the Air Elemental division. One of the three rotating families in the Chief Clan designations. She'd cut her teeth on formal presentations, smiling when she wanted to murder someone and speaking politely about the sorts of topics that probably shouldn't ever be mentioned in polite company.

      Oh, she was picture perfect enough for her parents, when they thought she could be trusted to be paraded around like their perfect poster child.

      It was a terrible kind of agony. The kind that made her wish for any kind of escape, diversion or amusement. Something, anything at all.

      And, really, that opportunity came in the form of one stubborn, vivacious Soula Deveraine.

      Maybe, she wouldn't have tried so hard to get along with Soula, if it wasn't for her parental triad's immediate reaction of no—and do not—that let Shayla know that she absolutely had to.

      Soula was difficult to befriend, but easy to like.

      A girl after her own heart with enough buried snark and refined manners to pass in high or low company, regardless of creature courts. Soula Deveraine, after all, was a dragel Submissive born into an Elven circle.

      Whether there was actual Elven blood in her or not, Shayla had never quite bothered to check. Soula didn't talk about her parents—beyond her terrifying mother, Ilsa Deveraine—and the rest of it all didn't matter to her.

      The main drawing point was that her parents absolutely hated their friendship. It really didn't need to be anything more than that.

      At least, that's what she thought until the day she'd gone to visit and Soula had carelessly introduced her favorite siblings, a golden-eyed, soft-spoken Beta, her brother Ariki, and a dark-skinned beauty with a raised scar bisecting her pretty face, her sharp-tongued Gheyo ACE sister, Dahlia.

      That simple introduction had turned her world sideways just long enough to realize that whatever it was that Dahlia Deveraine had—that easy confidence, fierce aura and ever-present patience that was somehow layered underneath everything—well, her heart flipped over twice and her brain immediately kicked every other thought out of her head.

      That, it had decided.

      That grumpy, pretty, slightly loudmouthed Gheyo with the stifling kind of presence that could make her melt—yes, that was the one she wanted.

      Maybe though, she should've told Dahlia that first—instead of accepting her parental triad's challenge of having a public bonding—and getting Portgas to help snag her with orchestrated soulscream.

      Eh.

      It was probably going to happen anyway.

      After all, they were actually soulmates.

      She'd made sure to check that first.

      1 A Series Of Unexpected Situations - Shayla

      Soft slices of sunlight filtered down the rough stone wall of the building where Shayla stood, waiting. It was tucked out of the way and overlooking a wide expanse of bright green fields with a few lines of colorful flowers following the smooth

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