#8Sunday #SundaySnippets: A grief beyond tears

I received the cover art for To the Wind, Anton and Lenora book two this week. I love getting cover art, it's like unwrapping a present! The cover is down below, if you'd like to take a gander.  Meanwhile, I'm still hard at work on the third novella of this series, All Things Returned.  Here's a sample of what I've been scribbling--

I went to the bedroom and shut the door behind me. The bed that Anton and I had so recently occupied was evidence of better times. Would those times ever return?  I lay down and stared up at the ceiling.

The day of my father’s funeral flew into my mind and it was as though I stood again in the rain by his gravesite and watched as his coffin was lowered into the ground. I had wondered, then, why I had not been able to conjure tears for the father I had loved so dearly. Now I knew the condition for what it was—the deepest sort of grief, a grief beyond tears. 

           “Why did you not tell me?” Anton stood at the threshold.

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Book One, Sweet Lenora, is currently available

And, because it's new and I love showing it off, here's the cover for book two! To the Wind is coming out on October 7.