title: Ellenessia's Curse Part 1: The Shadow Seer
author:  Fran Jacobs 
description: Fran Jacobs lives in the UK and graduated from the University of Nottingham with a Masters degree in Ancient History in 2001. She now lives in Swansea where she runs an online gothic website, Megaera's Realm. Fran mostly writes fantasy, with a penchant for the darker side of it, and her stories have been published in a variety of magazines including Forgotten Worlds, Nanobison, Chaos Theory: Tales Askew, Neo-opsis, Alien Skin, Dred, Art and Prose and a Tangled Script of Intangible Soul Engravings.
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  ## The Curse Keepers
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The Curse Keepers - 1 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Denise Grover Swank
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The wall between our world and that of vengeful spirits has protected humanity
  for more than 400 years. It’s about to come crashing down.
  
  
  Ellie Lancaster has lived her whole life by the site of the mysterious Lost
  Colony of Roanoke, the Virginia settlement that vanished without a trace
  around 1590. Only the descendants of the two men who banished the spirits of
  an enemy tribe from the material realm know what really happened to the
  colony. Ellie is one of those descendants—a Curse Keeper. Her father took
  pains to teach her what he knew of the curse and the responsibilities of its
  guardians. He taught her that if the two Curse Keepers ever meet, the curse
  will be lifted, the gate will open, and the raging Native American spirits
  will be unleashed to seek their revenge.
  
  
  Despite her father’s seriousness, Ellie has always taken the l