Read The Dark Portal (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 3) Online
Authors: E.G. Foley
The Dark Portal (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 3) (45 page)
They disappeared before he
had even finished the sentence.
Jake, Gladwin, and Red stared at the empty space where the group had stood.
“Well!” the fairy said at last. “I suppose that’s that—like he said.”
Red nudged Jake affectionately with his head like a giant housecat and let out a brief purr. “Aw, what’s the matter, boy?”
“I think he came to bring you back to the party,” Gladwin observed, folding her tiny arms across her chest as she balanced on the back of an ancient pew.
Jake put his hands in his pockets. “I guess I could always finish up the spells tomorrow.”
“Becaw!”
“All right
, boy. I wouldn’t want to be rude.”
“That’s a first,” Gladwin teased.
Jake snorted and gave her a droll look, then swung onto Red’s back. As the Gryphon lifted off, Gladwin kept pace, flying through the dark sky beside them.
The cottage was in sight below, its windows warmly glowing, when all of a sudden, a cold puff of wind blew past, carrying with it the first snowflakes of the season.
“Oh, how beautiful!” Gladwin exclaimed.
“I guess winter comes early up here
in the mountains,” Jake agreed.
Lacy snowflakes went
spinning past them on all sides, each one unique.
“It’ll be Ch
ristmas before you know it,” Gladwin said. Then she turned to him in surprise. “Your first Christmas with a family!”
“Aha,” Jake murmured, “a
nd presents! Red, I’m going to need some gold for shopping—”
The Gryphon banked hard to the left at that comment, nearly spilling his rider off his back.
Jake hung on with a laugh. “I was only joking! All right, all right, we can talk about my allowance later. Let’s go tell the others to come outside and see the snow!”
Red snorted and swooped back the other way, throwing Jake into an upright sitting position on his back again.
With a grin from ear to ear, Jake leaned lower over the Gryphon’s neck like a jockey, while snowflakes starred his lashes and clung to his rosy cheeks.
“Brrr, it’s cold!” Glad
win said, shivering in her tiny fur-trimmed coat. It had holes cut in the back for her delicate wings to poke through. “Race you!” she challenged all of a sudden.
“You’re on. Hey, no fair!” Jake
cried as she tore off in the blink of an eye, disappearing in a streak of golden sparkles.
Red let out an indignant roar and pumped his scarlet wings harder, but there was no catching up to a fairy courier moving at top speed.
“Showoff!” Jake yelled merrily after her. But in truth, he was just happy to be returning to the party and his friends and the warmth that was home.
And,
of course, the food.
Definitely
the food.
The End
COMING SOON
!
It’s Jake’s first Christmas with a family, but nothing’s ever quite what you’d expect. Celebrate a Victorian Christmas with a Gryphon Chronicles holiday novella.
JAKE & THE GINGERBREAD WARS
Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men…And Gingerbread Men?!
Look for the next full-length Gryphon Chronicles Novel coming in 2014!
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EGFoley.com
for more information about both series, with sneak peeks, contests, videos, book extras, and more!
The United States of
Ahhhh!
-merica
5
0 States of Fear
By E.G. Foley
Come along on a journey – if you dare – from sea to shining sea!
Welcome to the spine-tingling new series of strange and spooky tales, with hair-raising happenings in all 50 States! Get ready for frightful chills and thrills as we visit every star on the flag. From Civil War ghosts in Alabama to weird Wyoming cowboy legends, there’s always something to scream about in
Ahhhh!
-merica.
ALABAMA – Now Available!
By day, sunshine and Southern hospitality. But by night, the ghosts of the Old South come alive…
I knew my Alabama Grandma couldn’t wait for me and my sister to come down from New York to see her new apartment in a grand old Southern plantation house. Of course, I had no idea the place was crawling with ghosts—or that a simple trip to Grandma’s would doom me to four nights in a haunted mansion.
More States Coming Soon!
Hooray for the Red, White, & BOO!
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
E.G. Foley is the pen name for a husband-and-wife writing team who live in Pennsylvania. They have been finishing each other’s sentences since they were teens, so it was only a matter of time before they were writing together, too.
They are the authors of “The Gryphon Chronicles” historical fantasy adventure series (
The Lost Heir, Jake and the Giant, The Dark Portal
), as well as a contemporary series of shorter books called, “The United States of
Ahhhh!
-merica: 50 States of Fear” – spooky stories for kids set in all fifty states.
“E” is a 7-8
th
grade teacher of students who regularly use more than 10% of their brains, world traveler, ice cream connoisseur, and martial arts enthusiast. “G” loves big books and small fluffy creatures, and if she hadn’t become a writer, would have pursued a career as either a princess or spy—or possibly both. With millions of copies of her nineteen adult novels from Random House and HarperCollins sold in sixteen languages worldwide, she has been hitting bestseller lists regularly for the past decade.
Visit them on the web at
EGFoley.com
for fun story “Extras
” (you can listen to the real, historical
Souling Song
, for example!), as well as videos, creative games, and tips for aspiring writers of all ages. While you’re there, please sign up for the E.G. Foley Newsletter, so you can be notified as soon as their next book is available.
Thanks for Reading!
About The Illustrator
Josh D. Addessi has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. He has since honed his skills and passions at Huntington University, where he is currently a Professor, teaching Digital Illustration and Hand Drawn Animation to aspiring artists.
After being mentored by renowned illustrator, Bryan Ballinger, Josh has thoroughly explored the fantasy art genre, painting all manner of fantastical worlds and the characters who live in them—from dragons and monsters, to heroic knights and beautiful princesses, faeries and more.
Most of all, Josh enjoys bringing smiles with his art. That’s all he wants. Just a smile. To see more of his work, visit him on the web at
joshaddessi.blogspot.com
.