Cole and I spent the day reading every one of my mother"s journals. If I had found them years ago, I would’ve understood better why she left us. The books would’ve told me how my mother had fallen madly in love with Cedric Drygen and how different their life would’ve been if Snowystra hadn"t kept them apart. The cruel goddess manipulated my mother, just as she controlled Cole. She forced Eliza into my father"s arms. No matter how hard she tried to be a good wife and mother, she lived with the torment of being apart from the man she really loved. Will this be my future, too? Will this be my future, too?Picking up another journal, the first page was about me. Mara asked me, today, why, when I put Meg to sleep, I didn"t say a prayer to the Goddess. How could I possibly tell an eleven-year

