The Beast Within - Paperback

by D. L. Goddard (Author)

The Beast charged the cell door when Lord Savage left, enraged beyond reason. The handsome Lord had plans for the Beast. He would teach this creature to obey then, he would return to where Liliana and he had captured the animal. By then, the Beast would do as he was told. There the two conspirators worked their plans for the destruction of the Keeper's Peace. But unbeknownst to Lord Savage, the Beast was not some mindless animal; he was in fact very intelligent, and not even of Savage's world. Having fallen deeply in love with a slave called Anya in Savage's household, the pair had bonded the night she was given to him for her disobedience, and the Beast was lost without her. But Adam Savage had seen how the Beast cared for the girl, so he sold her to new Masters, inseparable twins who had other plans for the lovely young woman. And so the pieces were placed on the board. But in this game, no one was who they appeared to be and suddenly the race was on for the Beast to return to Castle Barshael where he was the Keeper of the Living Heart preventing the Keeper's Peace from being broken by any entering the portals to bring war. He had protected the Castle and the Heart for three millennia, and he had to get back before the Enchantress Liliana brought her armies to his world and destroyed all he held dear, setting herself up as Queen. But Anya was with his child and the twins, Mir and Val helped her without reserve to get her to her soul mate before the child was born. Whatever their reasons, they were prepared to do anything to help her and the Beast for the twins had fallen totally and irrevocably in love with her. As they all raced for the Castle to protect the heart, new pieces were brought onto the board, and others were removed, permanently. All Anya knew was that the child she carried was not human and if she didn't reach the castle on time, not only would hers and the child's life be lost, but worlds would be thrown into endless war by the Enchantress. Whatever the cost, they had to get there on time.

Author Biography

Hi my name is Debs Goddard and I have been painting and illustrating for over 30 years now. I have always wanted to write but never had the confidence until 12 years ago when I was too unwell to do much else but be stuck in bed. As a result I began giving it a go. My first novel took 2 1/2 years to write and ended up 1200 pages or 350,000 words. 'The Charnel Throne' was my first novel and is still my baby; I am very fond of the story. I decided to stick to fantasy stories, or gothic type stories to give me a break from the pain in my reality. I was diagnosed with breast cancer on my 23rd birthday and given 4 months to live. I tend to think my life is something of a miracle because I had a spontaneous remission from the very last stage of cancer. With a wonderful helpful and giving hubby at my side, we had a beautiful daughter and a cherubic son at that time. But the next eight years were ones of seizures, severe pain and many trips to the hospital with intrusive tests and surgery and more tests and more surgery. Until, after another beautiful daughter, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer on my 39th birthday. This time I was given six months to live. I had 15 operations in the following 10 years and they finally managed to stop my body trying to kill me as it kept cutting of my blood circulation. It was a truly terrifying time. Around 7 years now, I began to walk again, gaining my strength and my fitness back slowly and loving that I can walk again, even though I get very tired very easily. As a result of all my surgery and my cancer, I am and have been in unrelenting acute pain 24 hrs a day, (for 32 years now this birthday), topped up by a handful of pills twice daily. The pills help me move and think without concentrating on myself all the time. People get very self-absorbed when pain is all they can feel and I was no exception, but after the first five years I did learn to keep a sense of humour and be a happy sick lady. I began to do much more and got into my writing and painting again. I have the best hubby in the world who has carried us through the hard times, giving of himself over and over again. I have three beautiful children and I have one truly special granddaughter and two grandchildren I still don't know. I love to write and paint and I truly hope you enjoy my work.