From my latest chapter:
Katrina put a finger to her lips, a panicked expression on her face. She looked up the mountain in the direction of the summit.
Glancing around, Riley saw fear come over Alley’s face as well, and Riley’s heart skipped.
They hear something we don’t.
A high-pitched whistle reached her ears, followed by a thud. Riley turned and saw a black arrow embedded in the side of a tree… just inches from Pash’s face.
Katrina morphed into her panther and ran low and fast into the woods, perpendicular to the direction the arrow had come from. She disappeared completely from view as a second arrow whistled by and hit another tree beside Pash.
“Alley, go down for help!” Pash yelled. Alley’s golden cougar leaped into the air and sprinted back down the trail.
Pash dropped her pack and turned to Riley with a panicked expression. “We can’t outrun them… we’ll have to hide!” She glanced over Riley’s shoulder and gasped. Riley, too, turned to look.
Two Veiled men with painted faces were barreling down the mountain, not bothering to be quiet now that they’d been spotted. They were charging through the brush toward the women on the trail. Both were armed with bows. ...
Fantasy, romance, animal spirits, action, a treasure hunt, and maybe the end of the world.