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Retired MI5 agent Fraser Phillips relocates to northern Scotland and meets Helena, a Bostonian American on holiday. Fraser marries Helena, but their happiness is short-lived.
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Anne Spackman
At the current time, I am a gymnastics coach and a writer of many types of fiction. I have a BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. I am half-American and half-Scottish. I spent many summers as a girl in Scotland, and moved to England at 16 where I finished high school at Bedford High School in Bedfordshire, England.My first novel, The Last Immortal, I wrote more than twenty years ago. It is the first of six novels in the "Seeds of a Fallen Empire" series that was finished in 2000 and finally published as an e-book in 2010-2014 after many years of trying the traditional publishing route. I have also written one fantasy novel, Curse of the Dragon Kings, which was written in 1997 and published as an e-book in 2010.As a writer, I started out writing mostly science fiction and also fantasy as I so much loved J.R.R. Tolkien as a girl. I also really enjoy historical fiction set in the days of ancient Rome, (and Egypt.) I am now writing more romantic and historical short stories.
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The Song of Orpheus - Anne Spackman
The Song of Orpheus
By Anne Spackman
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2014 by Anne Spackman
All rights reserved.
**Disclaimer: this is a suspense / espionage story that is entirely a work of fiction, and I have no knowledge of the MI5 other than research I did to compose this story.**
The song of Orpheus could charm even the wildest of beasts. But when Orpheus lost his wife Eurydice forever, he wept tears to the song of his lyre, and all of the forest cried with him.
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He liked the dark days. The sky threatened a storm, and he walked outside into it.
He was not in the mood to have anyone stop him. His name
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