The Legacy: the Keeper of Rowan Series Book One

Watching from the shadows, Liliaan has been guarding the men of her family for over three hundred years. Lured from the dark by the promise of being a part of her family again, she is claimed, bound and enslaved, her calling bound into her very flesh. One of her own is out for blood- set upon a path of vengeance that neither of them might be able to return from.In this 7-book series, get to know Liliaan, keeper of her line and Roux Rowan, her latest charge. Join them on their quest to avenge the evil done to the Rowan family. Join Roux on his journey from young man to one of the most powerful and dangerous bosses in his city, and Liliaan as she tries to free him from the darkness growing in his soul.The Legacy is Book 1 of The Keeper of Rowans Series.All good stories start with magic.Magic is the glue that binds us, the tie that holds this world together. Some call it science, some call it math, some call it religion or belief, but we know better. And we that know better, hold the secrets to the universe…Little Roux was only five when he stumbled into my attic hide away. Hidden as I was in the shadows, he couldn’t see me, but I could see him quite clearly. The absolute carbon copy of my blood brother Rowan — the original. The reason for my unnaturally long life span. I couldn’t have helped it even if I wanted to, but my heart swelled with affection for this curious, brave little boy.He headed straight for my treasure trove and rummaged about its contents for about five minutes until he came across the watch. The little boy turned the watch this way and that, constantly glancing in my direction. I had ’melted’ with the shadows, and knew that I was invisible to the natural eye. Yet, somehow, he sensed me. At times it felt as if he was looking straight into my eyes…It is yours, I thought to him, but not yet. Someday, you will come back here, and claim what is rightfully yours. And maybe, just maybe, finally free me from this terrible, terrible burden…“NO!”Roux clutched the watch to his little chest, holding to it so fiercely the fine lines of blue veins on the backs of his hands stood out.“Mine!”I chuckled. Oh, yes, Little One, you are indeed of Ro’s line. You have his spirit, his possessiveness, and also, it seems, his sight. It had been too long since one of Ro’s line had had the sight. This one – was going to be quite interesting…Liliaan Rowan became the Keeper for her family before her first breath, before her first sunrise, before her will had ever truly been her own. And now she was bound, betrayed, and burning with rage at the family that could very well be her only hope of salvation.The Legacy is the first in the The Keeper of Rowan Series, a new supernatural series about the Rowan family and their keeper, who watches over the family line. Liliaan is bound to follow each male heir of her line since her own brother, keeping them safe, keeping them protected, and loved.Until Roux Rowan she was alone in her dark shadows watching over her line in silence and from afar. But when Henk, Roux’s father, finds evidence of her existence she is remembered for the first time in generations.She is welcomed and loved, until she is brutally betrayed by the very heir she is bound to watch over. Rowan. Now they must find a way to exist together as keeper and kept as well as betrayed and betrayer.Will either of them survive the rage within the other? Will Liliaan find a way to save not just the Rowan line, but Roux from his own darkness? Will she find a way to give up the mantel of Keeper and live the life denied her so long ago?