Prologue

FYI, I am only posting this as a preview and placeholder for now. This is a draft of the prologue, but it will still be a while before I'm ready to begin posting regular updates to this book. I don't have an estimate of when that will be because I've been dealing with some health crises that have been taking up pretty much all my time, energy, and focus lately. But since I had a cover, blurb, and prologue already saved for this one, I decided to just go ahead and share them now. Just know that I might make some changes before I'm ready to dive in and get this story going for real, but I'll let you know if that happens. Keep an eye on /Author.CeraRyland for updates, even if it's been pretty quiet there lately. Someday soon, I will be back at it!