An excerpt from “The Sway”
Another memory comes to her. While she played the piano in the atrium at Hawthorn Place, a boy leaned on the wrought iron railing on the landing at the top of the stairs, watching her. Tall, dressed in black head to toe, dark curls.
“You’re early,” he said. Nothing more.
“I’m sorry,” she said, confused, her heart pounding. “Your mother said I could play.”
Now, her heart pounds just as forcefully. You’re early. The glass slips from her hand and shatters.
She has to go back to Hawthorn Place.
“The Sway”
Featured in the RHS Anthology All the Promises We Cannot Keep
"The Sway" tells the story of Adelaide, a young woman with an unusual sensibility who comes to understand her family's past, allowing her to move forward toward her own future and find love.
About the anthology:
Unlock the secrets of forgotten attics and ancestral halls, where mysteries await those daring enough to listen. All The Promises We Cannot Keep is an anthology of tales that reach across generations and distant realms, drawing readers into worlds where intrigue and beauty intertwine. Here, in the shadowed corridors of crumbling manors and beneath the starlit canopy of enchanted forests, stories from 51 authors uncover what lies between the cracks—whether it's hope blossoming in the ruins of a broken life or the delicate dance between darkness and light, they remind us that some promises, once made, are impossible to keep.
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Praise for “The Sway”
“I really enjoyed ‘The Sway’ by Sara Biren. Adelaide feels ‘a shifting, a surge, a swell of the sea,’ but she’s not on the ocean. It’s much more intriguing than that. Biren manages to combine time slip, romance, and the paranormal. Great story.”
—Amazon reader
