Escape From Faerie – Jamie A Waters

“Mother?” she whispered in shocked horror. Fingers clamped around her arm. She gasped and instinctively jerked back. Giannia slammed her against the tree, one hand clamping tightly over Sabine’s mouth, the other tightening on her freshly marked arm. “Giannia?” Sabine’s muffled voice broke beneath her palm. “Taciren,” Giannia whispered. Agony exploded through Sabine as the word of power took hold. It seared into her skin, tore past her markings, and bound her from the inside out.

She couldn’t move. Couldn’t even cry out. The shock of betrayal lanced through her. It shouldn’t be possible. Giannia was blood-sworn to her family’s line. Giannia’s green eyes were wild, brimming with something Sabine couldn’t name—fear, regret, resolve. “She’s passed beyond the Veil,” Giannia whispered. “You can’t help her now.” With a swift slash of her knife, she cut Sabine’s palm and caught the blood in her hand. Giannia smeared it down Sabine’s face, her whispered words spiraling into a strange, rhythmic cadence as she invoked her bloodline’s magic.

“Blood to bind, magic to veil. Her face I wear, her fate I trail.” Sabine’s eyes widened in horror as Giannia smeared the blood across her own skin. The world shimmered. Her vision blurred. When it cleared, her tutor was gone. In her place stood a perfect copy of Sabine. Giannia leaned in, her breath warm against Sabine’s ear, “When the time comes, you must run, little star. One day, your magic will burn brighter than they ever imagined, and even the gods themselves will have to look away.”

She unclasped the silver locket from around her neck. Sabine stared at the old heirloom in confusion. Giannia fastened it around Sabine’s neck with shaking hands. The weight of the cold metal against her skin pressed just above her heart. The realization of what her tutor intended slammed into her. With trembling fingers, Giannia pressed two fingers to Sabine’s brow, lingering for one final heartbeat. Then she stepped back. Sabine tried to shout, to stop her—but the silence was complete. The power word held her frozen against the tree, arms bound tight to her sides, her breath shallow in her chest.

Even her tears refused to fall. She could only listen. Blood dripped from her cut palm… The only part of her not bound by the magic. Drip, drip, drip.

Escape from Faerie © 2026 by Jamie A. Waters All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the author. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, or events, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author. NO AI TRAINING: Without in any way limiting the author’s and publisher’s exclusive rights under copyright, any use of this publication to “train” generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to generate text is expressly prohibited.

The author reserves all rights to license uses of this work for generative AI training and development of machine learning language models. Cover Art: Deranged Doctor Design Editor: Tracy Dickey ISBN: 978-1-949524-47-5 (Paperback Edition) ISBN: 978-1-949524-46-8 (eBook Edition) Library of Congress Control Number: 2025925215 First Edition *February 2026 Hidden Realms Publishing OceanofPDF.com CONTENTS The Dragon Portal Series Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Thank you!

Special Offer Also by Jamie A. Waters About the Author OceanofPDF.com THE DRAGON PORTAL SERIES To Kill a Fae By Blood and Magic Facets of Power Shadows and Twilight Dance of Wings Forest of Secrets OceanofPDF.com L CHAPTER ONE iquid fire surged beneath Sabine’s skin. The mental exercises she’d honed since childhood shattered beneath the agony searing through her left arm. She stared upward, refusing to betray her weakness by letting her tears fall. “Good. Just a few more alterations,” Elder Turvina murmured, clicking her tongue in approval.

As one of the oldest fae in the Court, her magic carried enough weight to inspire a quiet deference from even the highest- ranking nobles. Not that it eased Sabine’s resentment in that moment. She pierced Sabine’s skin again, sending a jagged pulse of magic through her nerve endings. The ink hissed faintly as the needle bit deeper. “Elegant, graceful, and powerful. This may be one of my best works yet.”

Sabine gritted her teeth, tempted to yank the needle from the woman’s hand and stab her with it. As heir to the Unseelie throne, Sabine had been marked before—but never like this, and never with so much at stake.

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