Obscured, as if behind a veil, hidden, unknown and certainly unwanted. That is who they were, two children easily discarded by parents that only accepted perfection. Each, born and raised on opposite sides of the continent, but somehow they would find one another.
Dahlia Rose, it’s very much a beautiful name for a gorgeous child. A child her father never wanted, but tiny whispers only proved of her existence. She became a servant, but not the kind of servant you would find in a prominent home. Her father agreed to his wife’s terms, that nobody except the most necessary would ever see the face of the angel. Her father owned the town, that included the brothel and that’s where she would live, as a servant to the prostitutes he forced into working for him, and his most elite guests.
Jonas Ward was a boy who could have made his father proud. He was strong, handsome, intelligent, and fiercely stubborn, but nobody would have known. The boy was impossible, refused to see what he could have been, but he fought too hard. His mother begged and pleaded with him to behave, to grow into the man his father needed in a son, but Jonas wouldn’t do it. He suffered nightmares, maybe even a message from God, warning him of the atrocities his slave owning father laid down on innocent people.
The year was 1858, it was the year he made a choice, one his father forced him to make. Either stand up and be a man, or learn to be a slave. He was fourteen years old the night his father sent a young slave girl into his quarters. He was told to either take her with force and learn of his power the hard way, or face the severest consequences. He would never force himself upon a girl, he knew in his heart he could never be like his father. That was the day Jonas disappeared, sent to the slave quarters to live as an enslaved young man, but first he must be punished as one.
Malcolm Ward and Jeremy McDowell may have been evil, horrible fathers to the most innocent, but fate had another plan. There is a greater plan for their children. Fate split one soul and gently placed it into two infants. When they finally meet, they’ll instantly become one. The trials ahead will be difficult, but a strength like theirs will prevail.
Genre: Sagas
Dahlia Rose, it’s very much a beautiful name for a gorgeous child. A child her father never wanted, but tiny whispers only proved of her existence. She became a servant, but not the kind of servant you would find in a prominent home. Her father agreed to his wife’s terms, that nobody except the most necessary would ever see the face of the angel. Her father owned the town, that included the brothel and that’s where she would live, as a servant to the prostitutes he forced into working for him, and his most elite guests.
Jonas Ward was a boy who could have made his father proud. He was strong, handsome, intelligent, and fiercely stubborn, but nobody would have known. The boy was impossible, refused to see what he could have been, but he fought too hard. His mother begged and pleaded with him to behave, to grow into the man his father needed in a son, but Jonas wouldn’t do it. He suffered nightmares, maybe even a message from God, warning him of the atrocities his slave owning father laid down on innocent people.
The year was 1858, it was the year he made a choice, one his father forced him to make. Either stand up and be a man, or learn to be a slave. He was fourteen years old the night his father sent a young slave girl into his quarters. He was told to either take her with force and learn of his power the hard way, or face the severest consequences. He would never force himself upon a girl, he knew in his heart he could never be like his father. That was the day Jonas disappeared, sent to the slave quarters to live as an enslaved young man, but first he must be punished as one.
Malcolm Ward and Jeremy McDowell may have been evil, horrible fathers to the most innocent, but fate had another plan. There is a greater plan for their children. Fate split one soul and gently placed it into two infants. When they finally meet, they’ll instantly become one. The trials ahead will be difficult, but a strength like theirs will prevail.
Genre: Sagas
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