The night was as black as the Devil's dreams, not even a ghost of a moon, not a single star to pierce through the thick rain clouds.
It was a perfect night.
Julian tethered his sixteen-hand bay gelding, Cannon, to a skinny branch of a lone bent oak tree and made his way carefully down the steep narrow winding path to the hidden cove, a trek he'd made countless times in the years before he'd left England. It was good to be back. He slapped his arms against the cold, the wind off the channel slamming against his thick coat, wheedling in to cozy up to his bones. Down, down he went. When he finally reached the shadowed overhang in the cliff, he lit the lamp and held it up, flashed it three times, a signal he himself had established many years before.
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
6 comments:
This sounds like a good book! I like reading the whole first paragraph...it really gives us something substantial.
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That doesn't sound like a perfect night to me!
Here's ours:
http://ourstack.blogspot.com/2011/10/tuesday-teasers-dog-who-knew-too-much.html
I really like Catherine Coulter's books. This one looks very good.
My First Chapter First Paragraph is here: Quirky Girls Read
This sounds like a classic, the kind I haven't read in awhile. Hope you enjoy it. Here's Mine
Nise, that intro does draw me in, so now I am hoping the rest is just as good for you. enjoy
Wonderful teaser! I love that "black as the Devil's dreams"! Never read anything by Catherine Coulter, but I might have to do something about that now.
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