It seemed to lessen his pain before in his cell. Maybe she could break the nightmare with a light touch. His body contracted tighter and he shook his head against the covers. Thankfully, he didn’t move as she crept closer on her hands and knees. She didn’t want to wake him or least that was the plan. The bed barely moved or compressed under her dainty weight. Irritated with her thoughts, she stepped on the sideboard and hoisted herself on the thick plush mattress.

What if Bomani walked in? How would she explain this? Climbing in bed with him uninvited caused her heart to flutter. She couldn’t very well assess him from her vantage point. Heck, she had bled, almost died, and ran naked into his frigid subconscious in less than twenty-four hours of knowing him.īakari lay in the center of the enormous bed. Who was she fooling? She wasn’t going anywhere other than straight to his bed. If only she could take that next step toward freedom. Kendra commanded herself to march straight out the door.

In the wake of his self-destruction Kendra is his only hope of salvation, but another has vowed to keep Bakari from the one thing he craves most– his Parvana. To save Bakari from himself, she may have to sacrifice her innocence, and possibly her soul, before he becomes his family’s worst enemy.īakari awakens to a world at war and a beautiful woman who has tethered his soul to hers. Desperate to free him, she inadvertently binds herself to the god with a spell that only death will undo. Kendra, an Egyptologist and demi-god in waiting, is the key to unlocking Bakari, the Egyptian God of Death, from his cursed slumber.

Soul Awakened by Jean Murray