Rated �R�
Written By:
Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc
�Copyright 2003
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SYNOPSIS OF TWILIGHT INNOCENT
Farayne Glenedon was a young lady of wealth and privilege, yet she wasn�t happy. Born into a world of greed, self-delusion, and power, she longed for the simpler things in life. She saw the servants angrily shoo away the poor and needy when her family had all the resources needed to help those less fortunate. It broke her heart and made her ashamed of what she was, of what she had been raised with.
Then one night she was brutally attacked and her life changed forever. She felt compelled more than ever to seek out why these men who had attacked her felt they had to do so. Is this what a simple life did to people? She had to know, if nothing else, for her own piece of mind.
With the help of a kindly old witch and a handsome, beguiling stranger her life could become what she had always dreamed. Happiness beckoned her, but so did another world, a darker and more sinister world, a world like nothing she had ever dreamed of. Was this what she wanted? Was this what she needed? Would her new lover�s secret destroy her in the process? Would she finally find happiness or make the ultimate sacrifice to her own demise?
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Her name was Farayne Gleneden, and she was very beautiful. A socialite of upper class and impeccable breeding, she had the type of life most other women could only dream of. Yet she was not happy. The endless teas, the endless balls, the endless parties, and her father trying to push her off onto every young, handsome, available upper classman in London. She hated all of it.
She tired of seeing the same people over and over, the people who pretended to be her friends, but whom she knew secretly whispered about her behind her back. She longed for something different, something to give her life meaning. She longed for adventure.
She had seen the beggars at the manor, her manor Stoneingham Green, and had seen how they had been harshly admonished for pleading for food and water. Why had they been turned away? Her family had enough food to feed an army, yet they could not spare crumbs for hungry people, people whose eyes showed hard times and sadness. The children were the worst, clinging to their parents, with wild, terrified and hungry eyes, not understanding why they were hungry and why the man at the gate, Theodorus, the gatekeeper, was yelling at their parents.
She tried to clear her thoughts. This night she attended yet another gala. She watched the people, happy and laughing, oblivious to anything but their own greed and pleasure.
She would leave this party early. Her father had introduced her to yet another single fellow socialite, Ronan Tanserlyn, the local well to do heir of London�s largest lumber company. Dashen, her father, had grown up with Ronan�s father. They had been great friends for many years. Farayne didn�t think highly of Ronan. She considered him to be self-deluded, conceited, egotistical, and boring. She had spoken with him briefly, if only to placate her father, then managed to slip away. Luckily she had been able to avoid him most of the night.
Her father�s presumptions angered her. Why could she not pick her own husband? Not that she was interested in a husband yet. She had only recently turned eighteen. Why did her father feel it necessary to choose her friends? He had always been controlling, but after her beloved mother�s death three years previously, he had become downright intolerable.