Anything but Ordinary

by Nicola Rhodes

  ‘She’s outside, Jack fainted. Shall I call her?’

  ‘I’m not talking to you,’ Tamar repeated petulantly. ‘Jack fainted? After all the dead bodies he’s seen. Men!’

  Denny was deliberately trying to keep his tone light for her sake, but privately he was in torment. He hated to see her in so much pain. She had not said it, but he had decided – never again.

  Hecaté returned to the room. ‘Ah, I have not missed it. But ah, I see it. I see the head.’

  Tamar screamed.

  ‘Oh, my poor baby,’ soothed Hecaté. ‘Yes, I remember it does smart a bit, does it not?’

  ‘Just a bit,’ said Tamar through gritted teeth.

  ‘Do not worry, after the pain there is the joy. You will see. Very soon if I am not mistaken.’

  But for Tamar, a woman who had never suffered real pain in her life, there was joy even in the pain. A new experience, a real experience. She felt truly connected to life for the first time.

  It did not stop her bitching about it, though.

  Hecaté delivered the child while Denny held Tamar’s hand tightly.

  ‘A girl,’ she said triumphantly. ‘A beautiful baby girl.’

  ‘I hope she looks like her mother,’ said Denny. ‘But of course she will. She can’t look like me. Mother Nature wouldn’t be that cruel to a girl.’

  ‘She may not look like either of us,’ said Tamar. ‘This isn’t my real face you know.’

  ‘It’s been your real face for five thousand years,’ said Denny. ‘It’s your real face all right. And look …’ He had taken the baby from Hecaté and was looking at her in wonder. ‘She looks just like you.’

  Tamar took the baby. ‘Apart from her eyes,’ she said. ‘Those are your baby blues. Oh she is beautiful.’

  ‘Just like her mother,’ said Denny, just about ready to burst with happiness.

  ‘I want to call her Iphigenia,’ said Tamar, ‘after my mother.’

  Denny raised his eyebrows in surprise but said nothing. In all the time he had known her, Tamar had never so much as mentioned that she had ever had a mother. Denny had assumed that she had forgotten her long ago. It just went to show, you’re never safe from being surprised until you’re dead.

  ‘You don’t mind do you?’ asked Tamar anxiously. ‘I know it’s unusual and old fashioned but …’

  ‘I don’t mind at all,’ Denny assured her. ‘I wouldn’t mind if you wanted to call her Rocky or Bullwinkle, as long as you’re happy.’

  ‘I am,’ said Tamar with a sigh.

  Denny took his daughter from Tamar’s sleepy grasp and went out to the others who were waiting anxiously for news.

  In the hall Stiles, now recovered from his faint, was looking sheepish. Finvarra and Jacky, Dawber and Ray were also there, the latter having flown in on a company helicopter. Someone was going to have to fudge the expenses log for that one, but they would not have missed this for a herd of troglodytes.

  Denny held up the baby proudly to show them.

  ‘Iphigenia Black, meet the world,’ he said.

  ‘World, meet Iphigenia Black.’

  THE NEXT TAMAR BLACK BOOK IS…

  TAMAR BLACK – Rise of The Nephilim

  Tamar and Co. – the Next Generation

  Who’s that girl?

  Meet Iphigenia Black – daughter of Tamar (oh, and er Denny too)

  Cindy’s back and madder than ever – and she’s brought a little surprise with her.

  Isn’t it amazing how fast they grow up?

  Renamed Ashtoreth, son of Cindy has become a powerful threat. Born of a fallen angel and a mortal woman, he is the Nephilim. And Cindy intends to throw him full force at Tamar and Co. – Revenge is sweet.

  But Tamar and Denny have a little surprise of their own.

  With the power of the Rheingold, Cindy herself has become a formidable enemy. But what will happen when she meets Denny again and realizes that she has not quite forsaken love after all?

  Also by Nicola Rhodes

  SCI ‘ON The Shadow Worlds

  The first book in the SCI ‘ON Trilogy

  Whenever a decision is taken that is of significance to the world, the world divides and two alternate futures are created. In the beginning, there was only one world. That world we name SCI ‘ON. All other worlds that sprang from it, we name the shadow worlds. Some believe SCI ‘ON is the only real world and that all others are mere reflections, hence the name. Others believe that all the alternate worlds are equally real and important – however they may have come into being.

  Whatever the case, one thing is certain. If SCI ‘ON itself – the cradle of creation– were to be destroyed, all other worlds would cease to exist. For SCI‘ON is the mainspring and without it, the shadow worlds would have no point of origin.

  Johnny Hammond is not your ordinary computer nerd. He has the makings of a hero. When a mysterious man shows him the way To SCI ‘ON, Johnny becomes obsessed. And only he can find a way to get there through the myriad shadow worlds that stand in his way. But someone doesn’t want him to get there.

  From earliest childhood, Ryan and Kai have been best friends. The fact that they come from separate universes is not allowed to stand in their way.

  As they grow up, they realise that this ability to travel between the worlds is no mere coincidence, as their ultimate destiny unfolds.

  SCI ‘ON II - Legacies

  Even his own mother, from the moment he was born, was afraid of Talvas, for she knew whence he had come and wondered what his power would be.

  Talvas Firebrand, later known as Talvas de Bellême and “The Destroyer of Worlds” was the son of Toros the fire god. His story and that of the other Undying begins on SCI ‘ON back at the beginning.

  Watching him from his citadel beyond time is Johnny Hammond, the only man in all creation capable of defeating Talvas and stopping the slaughter of millions.

  What will happen when these adversaries finally meet again in a new cycle of time?

  About the Author

  Nicola Rhodes often can’t remember where she lives so she lives inside her own head most of the time, where even if you do get lost, it’s still okay.

  She has met many interesting people inside her own head and eventually decided to introduce the rest of the world to them, in the hopes that they would stop bothering her and let her sleep.

  She has been doing this for ten years now but they still won’t leave her alone.

  She is married to the long suffering Mike who lives in Derby because he is not crazy (well not much anyway) and they have three girls between them.

  She wrote this book for fun and does not care if you take away a moral lesson from it or not.

  www.makerofmagic.co.uk

  Table Of Contents

  ~ Chapter One ~

  ~ Chapter Two ~

  ~ Chapter Three ~

  ~ Chapter Four ~

  ~ Chapter Five ~

  ~ Chapter Six ~

  ~ Chapter Seven ~

  ~ Chapter Eight ~

  Part Two - HUNTING FOR LOKI

  ~ Chapter Nine ~

  ~ Chapter Ten ~

  ~ Chapter Eleven ~

  ~ Chapter Twelve ~

  ~ Chapter Thirteen ~

  Part Three – RAGNOROC

  ~ Chapter Fourteen ~

  ~ Chapter Fifteen ~

  ~ Chapter Sixteen ~

  ~ Chapter Seventeen ~

  ~ Chapter Eighteen ~

  ~ Chapter Nineteen ~

  ~ Chapter Twenty ~

  ~ Chapter Twenty One ~

  ~ Chapter Twenty Two ~

  ~Epilogue ~

  THE NEXT TAMAR BLACK BOOK IS…

  Also by Nicola Rhodes

  About the Author

 

 

 
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