{"product_id":"deathbed-prophecies","title":"Deathbed Prophecies","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"133\"\u003eI remember when the world was young.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"297\"\u003eBefore Babylon’s walls rose from the desert.  Before empires carved their names into stone.  I was a priestess then, chosen by the gods, bound to blood and prophecy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"318\"\u003eAnd I remember him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"330\"\u003eTheodōros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"509\"\u003eA brilliant Mesopotamian general with a crooked smile, a sharp mind, and a talent for surviving wars he should have died in.  He was infuriating.  Dangerous.  Impossible to ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"560\"\u003eHe was my husband in soul, if not always in name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"562\" data-end=\"602\"\u003eAnd I am the reason he became a monster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"604\" data-end=\"750\"\u003eI remember the night I damned him to eternity.  The blood.  The ritual.  The terrible mistake that turned him into something that should not exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"762\"\u003eA vampire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"902\"\u003eSince then, we have found each other again and again across the centuries.  Different names.  Different lives.  But the ending never changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"904\" data-end=\"910\"\u003eI die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1023\"\u003eSometimes by his hand.  Sometimes because of the darkness that follows him.  But always the same inevitable fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1058\"\u003eThis life should be no different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1060\" data-end=\"1230\"\u003eExcept now I carry a magic that should not belong to the living... \u003cstrong data-start=\"1124\" data-end=\"1139\"\u003eblood magic\u003c\/strong\u003e, ancient and hungry.  And dying witches whisper the same prophecy with their final breaths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1232\" data-end=\"1262\"\u003eA monster is searching for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1264\" data-end=\"1379\"\u003eTheodōros believes the prophecy means our end.  That this time the darkness hunting me will finally destroy us both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1381\" data-end=\"1421\"\u003eBut fate has taken my life enough times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1538\"\u003eIf something monstrous is coming for me… it may discover that I am no longer the helpless priestess it remembers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1540\" data-end=\"1588\"\u003eAnd this time, the blood will not be mine alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Dragons Den","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49804064555285,"sku":"9781739015602","price":34.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/8434\/6389\/files\/61XzhL9AnZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1773241794","url":"https:\/\/www.bookdragonsdenshop.com\/products\/deathbed-prophecies","provider":"Book Dragons Den","version":"1.0","type":"link"}