Clarity

By Patricia Leever

Gasping for air inside an ice-filled tub. Convulsing from an electric shock to the brain. Struggling against restraints that bind and gag...Just another day at Agnews, The Great Asylum for the Insane.But for Evelyn, the night is so much worse.Demons-wearing white coats and crisp white prowled the halls, searching for a patient who would serve as their evening's entertainment. And from the moment I'd arrived, I seemed to be their favorite play toy.A young woman committed to the asylum during the late 19th century, Evelyn knows she isn't insane, that the creatures she sees and suffers at the clawed hands of aren't hallucinations. Yet she's all alone but for their unholy company and the doctors trying to vanquish these. All alone but for the others who can see what Evelyn sees, too. And they're coming for her.


In this short-story prequel to Patricia Leever's Divinity, we meet Evelyn Brighton before the tattoos-before a century of training and supernatural combat makes her an official bad-ass. Both eerie and endearing, Clarity transports us back to Evelyn's origins, revealing the crucial turning point that delivers her from misunderstood maiden to deadly demon hunter.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Omnific Publishing
• Release date: Oct 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781623429133

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Clarity

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Patricia Leever

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Omnific Publishing

Dallas

Copyright Information

Clarity, Copyright © 2012 by Patricia Leever

All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher.

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First Omnific eBook edition, October 2012

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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Leever, Patricia.

Clarity / Patricia Leever – 1st ed

ISBN: 978-1-62342-913-3

1. Supernatural—Romance. 2. Fantasy—Romance. 3. Hollywood—Romance. 4. Magic/Occult—Fiction. I. Title

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Cover Design by Micha Stone and Amy Brokaw

Interior Book Design by Coreen Montagna

Dedication

To all my amazing little love monkeys,

you humble me every day with your amazingness!

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"Ever drifting down the stream—

Lingering in the golden gleam—

Life, what is it but a dream?"

~ Lewis Carroll

Clarity

Evelyn

SITTING IN THE LOBBY OF AGNEWS, The Great Asylum for the Insane, I could hear my father whispering to the doctor. I couldn’t make out the words, but I could imagine what they were.

You need to fix our daughter so she can marry. We have found her a husband who is willing to indulge her eccentricities to a degree, but no man wants to be saddled with an insane wife.

Mother sat next to me, sobbing into her handkerchief. She’d been sobbing all morning, even in the carriage where all and sundry could see her. Terrified of being the object of scandal, here she was, sitting in the lobby of a mental hospital, committing