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Dark Waters Kindle Edition

by Chris Quinton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.7 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
Flein is a wanderer by instinct and need, roaming the known world as the fancy takes him. In the Highland village of Glenfinnan, women have been raped and brutally murdered. The killer is a waterhorse, a monstrous shapeshifter by all accounts. But when Flein meets Donnchadh, first in its equine form, then its man-shape, he knows the waterhorse is innocent. Flein is drawn to the shapeshifter, but he finds it difficult to acknowledge it's more than a monster.
Donnchadh, though wary, shares the same attraction. They join forces to hunt for the real murderer, but time is short. They must find the killer before more women die. Then suspicion is turned on them and the hunters become the hunted.
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  3. Publication date
    March 31, 2014
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Chris started creating stories not long after she mastered joined-up writing, somewhat to the bemusement of her parents and her English teachers. But she received plenty of encouragement. Her dad gave her an already old Everest typewriter when she was ten, and it was probably the best gift she'd ever received - until the inventions of the home-computer and the worldwide web. Chris's reading and writing interests range from historical, mystery, and paranormal, to science-fiction and fantasy, writing mostly in the male/male genre. She also writes male/female novels in the name of Chris Power. She refuses to be pigeon-holed and intends to uphold the long and honourable tradition of the Eccentric Brit to the best of her ability. In her spare time [hah!] she embroiders, quilts and knits. Over the years she has been a stable lad [briefly] in a local racing stable and stud, a part-time and unpaid amateur archaeologist, a civilian clerk at her local police station and a 15th century re-enactor. She lives in a small and ancient city in the south-west of the United Kingdom, sharing her usually chaotic home with an extended family, three dogs, a bearded Australian dragon [lizard] sundry goldfish and tropicals. All her books are available across the Amazon sites

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JENG7W4
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kouros Books; 3rd edition (March 31, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 31, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 606 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 106 pages
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Chris started creating stories not long after she mastered joined-up writing, somewhat to the bemusement of her parents and her English teachers. But she received plenty of encouragement. Her dad gave her an already old Everest typewriter when she was about ten, and it was probably the best gift she'd ever received - until the inventions of the home-computer and the worldwide web.

Chris's reading and writing interests range from historical, mystery, and paranormal, to science-fiction and fantasy, mostly in the male/male genre. She also writes male/female novels in the name of Chris Power. She refuses to be pigeon-holed and intends to uphold the long and honourable tradition of the Eccentric Brit to the best of her ability. In her spare time [hah!] she embroiders, quilts and occasionally knits. In the past she has been a part-time and unpaid amateur archaeologist, and a 15th century re-enactor.

She currently lives in a small and ancient city in the south-west of the United Kingdom, sharing her usually chaotic home with an extended family, which includes three large dogs.

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  • Trio
    4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done Paranormal Mystery Romance!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2023
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    What an intriguing paranormal romace! I love historicals and folklore, and Chris Quinton does a marvelous job with Dark Waters. This is a shortie, but boy does Quinton pack a ton into this story.

    In addition to a nicely crafted mystery, the lore behind both Flein and Donnchadh's character is beautifully constructed. Dark Waters is nicely written as well. I'll definitely look for more by author Chris Quinton.
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  • Elisa
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Waters by Chris Quinton
    Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2009
    This is not absolutely a "light" tale, and the cover unfortunately didn't do it justice.

    Dark Waters is a tale which has its roots in the old Scottish legends, and it's setting in a time when people still believed in those legends. The Eldren, fey people or similar, were mythical creatures, sometime in human form, sometime in animal form, and sometime in between. From a period during while they probably commanded on the world, now their mixed blood sons are among the ordinary people, even if they don't lead a "normal" life: they are travellers, leaders or monks, always a step above the common mob.

    Flein is one of them and he chose to be a traveller. He wanders all over the world, being immortal, or at least with a life span much greater than a full human. Now he is travelling in the Highland, and he is warned against a waterhorse (a shapeshifter horse who lives along the loch) who preys on human. But Flein is not scared, maybe he is also a bit fascinated; and when he meets the creature, first as a beautiful stallion and then as an even more beautiful naked man, he manages to tame it (or at least he thinks so). He named it Donnchadh, and probably he would be content like that, having seen and met a wonderful creature, but someone else in the Glen is accusing Donnchadh to be a murderer and a rapist, preying on the woman of the clan MacAllister.

    Now Donnchadh is not a saint, and indeed he preys on human, but he is an honest beast, as said one member of the clan; he only kills if attacked or for food, and he absolutely doesn't rape his "preys". Donnchadh is not "happy" that someone else is hunting on his ground and threating his "people": in his mind, the Loch and the Glen are his ground, given to him centuries ago by his father, and he has to protect them, but more like a shepherd with his sheep than a pater familias. And so with the help of Flein he is on the trail of the real murderer.

    It's not an easy tale, but probably it respects the myths and legends. Donnchadh is not a "shapeshifter" for romance novel, he is scaring and dangerous and he probably accepts Flein's friendship (and something more), only since the man is not enterily human... he is more like him than he wants to admit.

    Flein on the other hand treat Donnchadh as a fascinating creature. For most of the book, Flein thinks to him like an "it", not a human. He is honest enough to admit that he is interested in him also in a very personal way, but at the beginning I read that interest like the one you could have for an exotic creature, that you don't consider entirely civilized... more or less the same interest an explorer could have for a native who he doesn't consider at his level. But then Flein realizes that Donnchadh has his own behavioural code, that he knows what is right and wrong, only that sometime what is right for him, it's wrong for someone else. Do you know that conquerors used to say that the natives were not human being but more animal since they didn't know how to distinct between Good and Evil? Problem is that they had as parameter their own Good and Evil...

    Anyway this is only a novella, but it's a very good one; so close your eyes and try to not look at the cover when you will click on the buy button! Oh, one last thing, for an Ellora's Cave novel, there is not so much sex as you would expect, and sometime this is not a fault ;-)
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  • Michael Holland
    3.0 out of 5 stars Dark Fantasy
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2013
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    Flein has an itch to travel, and he's seen more of the world than just about any man alive. Then again, Flein is only half human. He is the offspring of one of the Norse gods who mated with a human, and staying on the move helps keep people from realizing that he doesn't age and is in fact a thousand years old or more.

    His wanderings take him to a small village in the Scottish Highlands, where a series of rapes and murders have been blamed on a mysterious creature that inhabits the loch. Flein meets the creature, a waterhorse that can shift to human form. Both the man and horse forms are beautiful, and deadly. The waterhorse considers the loch and glen its domain, and hunts what it chooses. But Flein doesn't think the creature is responsible for the recent deaths.

    Flein and the creature, which he calls Donnchadh, join forces to find out who is behind the deaths. As the two work together, Flein finds himself more and more attracted to Donchadh, who remains as skittish as a colt, although he seems to share the same feelings. The creature is very curious about the outside world, but is bound by an oath to stay in the loch.

    "Dark Waters" is a pleasant little fantasy story. The mystery probably won't challenge true buffs, but it most likely wasn't meant to. It does help draw you into the story, which moves at a good pace. At its core this is a romance between two very unlikely lovers. Flein is rather well drawn as a character, and over the course of the story we get a good idea of his long history and what has made him the man he is.

    The waterhorse is a bit less well drawn. Of course, a lot of that is intentional. Donnchadh is a force of nature, a spirit, not a human, with a very different view of the world. But there's a small element here of the creature being mysterious because we're told he's mysterious. It doesn't really come through in the writing, which is probably a limitation of the short length of the story as much as anything.
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  • Lora Friedenthal
    4.0 out of 5 stars From long ago
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2018
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    I first read this back before it was a standalone story. 20? 25? years. Something like that. Some scenes stuck with me all that time, and it was quite a bit of research to track the story down in its current form. I've had a bit of a thing for the each uisge myth ever since.
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  • Andreams
    3.0 out of 5 stars Wish It Was Longer
    Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2017
    3.5 stars
    Great writing and characters but it was a little rushed.
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  • English Tutor
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Story
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2015
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    Although short, this is a lovely book which is very well written. The author has done their research and the book holds together very well. I loved it.
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  • Stuart Luca-Wakefield
    5.0 out of 5 stars Richly dense and atmospheric.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2015
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    Written in a richly dense style that proved to be perfect for the time and setting, I absolutely loved it.
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