Sentinel

My name is Adara Marie and I am dead.

In the kingdom where I lived, magic users are employed to use their talents for the good of others; Healers, Warriors, Shields, even Sentinels.  At least that is what I was always told, but I never believed it.  Unlike other magic users, I knew that Sentinels are monsters who use their magic to force people to tell the truth.

I was horrified when my father announced he had hired a Sentinel. This one was also a Healer and a Shield and used his powers to protect my family, but that didn't stop me being terrified of him, even after he saved my brother's life.

I couldn't understand how my father, bothers and sisters could treat him as a friend, not after he demonstrated what he was capable of when my sister was attacked.  But they all ignored my pleas to send him away.  If they had, I would still be alive.

My nightmares became a reality when my sister was kidnapped and my father...