The Waters of Arcamo
Book Two of the Arcamo Saga
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The bathroom was now quiet. She tried to collect her thoughts. The first bell for classes sounded, and she knew that at least she’d be afforded the luxury of being alone while she got sick. "Oh, Dennis," she thought. She couldn’t even put into words what she felt. She wondered if she’d ever be able to.
Then, the wave of nausea came over her again. Her head grew cloudy. She felt as if she would pass out as her heart raced and she gripped the sides of the porcelain bowl. As she leaned forward, feeling something, she noticed that she was losing her grip on the sides. She looked at her hands and got the fright of her life. Her hands were gone, replaced by two, furry paws. Her clothes felt loose and damp, twisting around her. Her weight shifted; she was slipping, falling over amid a tousle of clothing and the ceramic tile floor. The last thing she remembered before losing consciousness was looking into the clear water of the bathroom bowl and seeing a reflection, not of her own face, but of the head of an animal, “ A wolf!,” she thought.
They found her, an hour later, passed out on the floor of that stall, completely clothed and physically shaken. She regained consciousness on a cot in the nurse’s office.
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High-school senior Gina Corcoran lived a fairly normal life with her mother, grandmother, and brother. Once, every year or so, she would even get to leave her home in San Antonio, Texas, and spend a few weeks in the summer with her great-aunt Anna, at a small farmhouse just outside of Binghamton, New York. There she would be told stories of her family, of how they came from the Italian island of Sicily to America—first to New York, and then, when her grandmother moved, to Texas—and of her life in San Antonio. Family stories like these often have a lasting effect upon a person. The stories that she wasn’t told were older, deeper, darker, and would change her life forever.
This is the story of Gina, the great-niece of Anna Del Forno, the wealthy owner and CEO of Del Forno Bottling, producers of Acqua D’Arcamo, a popular, bottled water made at a plant on the grounds of the Del Forno Villa, an estate in Arcamo, Sicily. How Anna came to be the head of such a profitable company and all the abundance that came with it, at first meant very little to Gina, until of course, the legacy took hold. What some would see as a family legacy, others might view as a curse. How could Gina have possibly known what turns her life would take, when with each passing day, each startling revelation brought her closer to danger, dancing with death.
Have you ever been frightened? So afraid that you could barely control your own emotions? Imagine what it would feel like if your inner fears and angers got the better of you and came out. Think of it as letting out the inner beast. Imagine, over time, being able to allow those feelings to come out whenever you needed them. Oh, and imagine that when you do, you are no longer you, but rather a fully grown wolf—not a monster, not a science experiment, but a genuine, living wolf. You can think like a wolf thinks, see like a wolf sees, even hunt with the quiet tenacity in which a wolf hunts. And when you hunger, you will hunt. All this unfolds here, and more, as Gina becomes immersed in the Waters of Arcamo.
About the Author
A.C. Nicholas lives with his wife in Sayville, New York. He really enjoyed the experience of writing his first book, Anna and the Tale of the Wolf. Apparently, a number of other people enjoyed it, too. So much so, in fact, that he wrote this, the second installment of the Del Forno saga. It is his fervent hope that you enjoy reading this as much as he did writing it.