Fray Nychol Nightingale's Once Upon A Price

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Once Upon a Price

Blurb for the Book

“Nothing comes without a price when it comes to their kingdom, my little Nightingale. Always remember that, no matter what happens. Never trust an Unseelie member, no matter their rank. You will regret it like nothing before.”

Fray Nychol Nightingale has lived her whole life has a foster child, or so she thought that she did. When the tiny, blue-eyed girl’s dreams become even more intense and unbarring around her seventeen-year-old birthday, she starts to realize why she is so different from other children. Why others cannot handle what she is cable of doing. Why she is getting dreams of a cruel, male being. She realizes what really happened to her before she was in foster care and why her family left her all alone.

Prologue

When he finally went to visit the Queen, he saw that she was cuddled against his dungeon wall. Her red hair was a complete mess compared to what her usual hairstyle looked like. The once breathtaking dress that she always wore, was ruined to the point that it looked worse than rags on a beaten slave. The last thing that he had taken in blissfully when observing her, was that of her teary, hazel eyes. They held no hope, faith, and stubbornness, like she was known for when ruling the Golden ones.
Very good, he thought
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Like being able to read someone’s emotions from their body language, I was able to see everything in that moment. She is just how I thought she would be. The office lady has so much kindness, trust, happiness, and being blind from the wickedness of this cruel world. She is nothing like the man that haunts me. Cruel, sadistic, and down-right evil to the core, this is what I saw when his dark, green eyes meet mine in my dreams at night, I allowed myself to think about his and her character. They were both complete opposites. One person that held good and the other held only evilness in its

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