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    Evil Under The Circle (G1: The Guardians)
    Evil Under The Circle (G1: The Guardians)
    Evil Under The Circle (G1: The Guardians)
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    Evil Under The Circle (G1: The Guardians)

    By Steve K Smy

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    A chance find of a tunnel under an ancient stone circle leads to a terrible secret, hidden millennia before. As terror strikes, and evil consumes, only one group can help: the Guardians. Their elite team, G1, arrives and must overcome the ancient evil. If they fail, then the very world will be destroyed.

    Joined by unexpected allies, G1 face one of the greatest challenges their organisation has ever encountered, and there's no guarantee that they will survive!

    A novelette.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSteve K Smy
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9781301275557
    Evil Under The Circle (G1: The Guardians)
    Author

    Steve K Smy

    Steve K Smy was born in Ipswich, Suffolk - a picturesque part of England famed for being part of Constable Country, where the renowned artist John Constable worked and produced many of his finest paintings. He has lived virtually his whole life there. He started writing for pleasure when he was 13 years old, with a science fiction novel! Naturally, his writing was less dominant for many years, as he and his wife Jenny raised their three children to adulthood and independence. He returned to writing seriously in February 2012, following a long illness. Since then, he has written and published, in ebook format, several short stories and, in ebook and paperback formats, four novelettes and a novella, and has been working on a major fantasy novel. His published stories include tales in three series: the Thief series of fantasy short stories, the mixed genre G1: The Guardians series (two novelettes and a novella, to date) and the science fiction Captain Henri Duschelle Stories (a short story and two novelettes, so far). The novelettes and novella have now been published in paperback. Fans of the G1: The Guardians series should be aware that a novel (part four of the series) is going to be published very soon! Mr Smy is also a blogger with a growing readership for his blog Imagineer-ing, Again, fans of the G1: The Guardians series will be happy to hear that they can find background information on the stories, especially the political shape of the world, in a special section of the blog site! Steve passed away on November 22nd 2013 after long periods of illness. His novels are being typed up and published by his son, Damien. Any profits are to be donated to Help for Heroes, a charity that Steve supported.

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      Evil Under The Circle (G1 - Steve K Smy

      Evil Under The Circle

      Being Part 2 of

      G1: The Guardians

      by

      Steve K Smy

      ***

      Copyright © Steve K Smy, 2013

      Published by Steve K Smy

      First edition: April 2013

      Second edition: October 2013

      Smashwords Edition

      The right of Steve K Smy to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

      This is a work of fiction. All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Cover and interior artwork by Chris Graham,

      Cover design Copyright © C Graham & S K Smy, 2013.

      ***

      Contents

      Title Page

      Copyright

      About the Author

      Also by Steve K Smy

      1

      2

      3

      4

      5

      6

      The Sigil of Ahriman

      About the Author

      Steve K Smy was born in Ipswich, Suffolk - a picturesque part of England famed for being part of Constable Country, where the renowned artist John Constable worked and produced many of his finest paintings. He has lived virtually his whole life there. He started writing for pleasure when he was 13 years old, with a science fiction novel! Naturally, his writing was less dominant for many years, as he and his wife Jenny raised their three children to adulthood and independence.  He returned to writing seriously in February 2012, following a long illness. Since then, he has written and published, in ebook format, several short stories and, in ebook and paperback formats, four novelettes and a novella, and has been working on a major fantasy novel.

      His published stories include tales in three series: the Thief series of fantasy short stories, the mixed genre G1: The Guardians series (two novelettes, a novella and a novel, to date) and the science fiction Captain Henri Duschelle Stories (a short story and two novelettes, so far). The novelettes, novella and novel have now been published in paperback. The novel is also available in hardback.

      Mr Smy is also a blogger with a growing readership for his blog Imagineer-ing.  Fans of the G1: The Guardians series will be happy to hear that they can find background information on the stories, especially the political shape of the world, in a special section of the blog site!

      ***

      Also by Steve K Smy

      The G1: The Guardians Series

      Novelettes:

      Shade of Evil

      Evil Under The Circle

      Novella:

      The Sigil of Ahriman

      Novel

      A Darkness in Amazonia

      :

      The Captain Henri Duschelle Stories

      Free short story ebook:

      To Sail The Dark Sea

      Novelettes:

      For the Sake of Mercy

      The Ossilan Affair

      See Mr Smy's website at imagineerebooks.wordpress.com for the latest news.

      ***

      1

      The stone, a slab of granite that had flecks of gold through it, gave way suddenly. Its surface had been almost invisible under its cloak of lichens and mosses, and its location had further enhanced its secrecy, until now. Once, it had borne carefully carved runes and mystic symbols, chiselled painstakingly into a smoothed face, but that had been millennia ago. The warnings had long since been eaten away, despite every effort made to protect them with charms and spells.

      The nan-druids, servants of the gentle Earth Mother, had worked so hard, risking their lives as they worked, despite the far more numerous anri-druids, followers of the dark gods, who violently opposed their work. They were the last of the few, never numerous, always spurned by the tribes in favour of their darker brothers, with their foul practices and fouler magics. But the nan-druids were determined. What was hid below must remain so, lost for all time. Or so they prayed.

      The odd stone had been found accidentally, as such things are. A young man taking a stroll outside the confines of the ancient stone circle had slipped. His left elbow banging into the stone as he fell. Of course, he had looked at his elbow first, and then rubbed it as he looked for what could have been so painful an object. It took a moment before he spotted it, with the grass partially obscuring it, and the dull colours of the tenacious lichens and mosses on its surface. He scrabbled at it for a little, discovering that it was big, too big to be dug out with ease. Getting up, he hurried back up the slope to the stone circle, where the professor and the other students were.

      The professor, informed of the young man's find, hustled down to see for himself, exuding excitement. Upon seeing the seemingly insignificant slab of rock, his excitement grew even greater. Without hesitation, he dug a rather

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