Kali unexpectedly discovers on her first day of human high school that she’s forbidden to eat or partake of the toilet during class time, the assigned history and species books look best on the shelves of popular fiction, and the boy she’s watching over is definitely a reincarnated war lord.
The highest powers of Kali’s people and the highest powers of Yuuhi’s people, irreconcilable enemies, designated them to find proof that Jason is, in fact, the reincarnated Ares.
All Yuuhi sees in Jason is the typical scrawny, socially inept emo kid dressed in conflicting shades of black. But Kali sees that Jason’s shadow is bigger than he is, and if the powers of Yuuhi’s people find out, Jason won’t be human much longer.
The desire to protect him from an unexpected visitor brings out her most dangerous sides. Something’s changing in her, something she can’t control, and she’s not afraid of Jason mutating into a creature of the shadows more than she’s afraid she’s becoming something even worse.
And the highest powers will be watching her.
The highest powers of Kali’s people and the highest powers of Yuuhi’s people, irreconcilable enemies, designated them to find proof that Jason is, in fact, the reincarnated Ares.
All Yuuhi sees in Jason is the typical scrawny, socially inept emo kid dressed in conflicting shades of black. But Kali sees that Jason’s shadow is bigger than he is, and if the powers of Yuuhi’s people find out, Jason won’t be human much longer.
The desire to protect him from an unexpected visitor brings out her most dangerous sides. Something’s changing in her, something she can’t control, and she’s not afraid of Jason mutating into a creature of the shadows more than she’s afraid she’s becoming something even worse.
And the highest powers will be watching her.
The Marionettes of Myth Saga is a young adult urban fantasy series that begins with "Dance in Shadow and Whisper" and is available in Nook and Kindle formats.
Barnes & Noble || Amazon || Goodreads
Sarah and Victoria are offering up a wonderful giveaway....
Check out this excerpt...
My
chest tightened with a deep breath of preparation. I stared at the front door
handle, simple brass and weathered from its once gossamer brilliance, the tread
of my boots planted against the new carpet, the back of my neck tingling with
sweat.
This
whole mission was a joke.
I was
the joke.
There
must have been so many others much more capable than me, others who could
handle the foreign outside world. Damn it, I was lucky if I could handle
silencing an incoming call on my brother’s cellular telephone gadget.
The
doorbell chimed. A disarming melody lulled throughout the house but echoed
shrilly in my brain.
It
was too late now.
My arm
lifted, but my moist palm stopped just short of the sweeping grin of the handle
when I saw how my fingers quivered. I hadn’t noticed until then.
There
was no reason to be afraid—concerned, perhaps, for my personal wellbeing, but
afraid? No. Certainly not. If I had to, I could hole-punch this guy through the
chest with my fist if he gave me the right justification.
My
fingers clamped the cool handle and twisted. The door popped open. The fresh,
crisp light of early morning flooded the hallway.
There
he stood, the embodiment of my fear and apprehension and sweaty palms. He stood
nearly half a foot over me, tall for something that had once been human, but
his skin was so white that he could pass more for a glow stick than any human
I’d ever seen. His eyebrows raised above the rims of his aviator sunglasses as
he regarded me with eyes so sinister and evil and diabolical that I couldn’t
see them behind the mirror lenses.
He
must have been sensitive to sunlight.
Odd.
“Kali?”
he asked.
My
lungs bloated with another deep breath.
Sarah and Victoria run the writing
help blog Keyboard Smash Writers on both Tumblr and Blogspot and are the
authors of the YA urban fantasy “Marionettes of Myth” and NA “Monsters of Myth”
companion series.
The two became friends through the
early days of AOL chat rooms and Sailor Moon roleplay. They only officially met
when Victoria came down from Pennsylvania to attend Sarah’s high school graduation
in 2006, which was when the two crashed together upon first meeting in the
airport and fell to the floor for everyone to see. Suffice to say Sarah and
Victoria’s faces were very red.
Sharing two halves of the same mind
has made writing together easier than writing separately, and when characters
do things that ruin the lives of the authors, the sympathetic shoulder to cry
on helps. Sort of.
Sarah and Victoria have a penchant
for characters that supersede gender roles and expectations, and also
characters of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Mythology of the world is a
guaranteed way to get their salivation glands going.
Their ultimate dream is to make
readers suffer as they have at the hands of their characters.
Check them out at their WEBSITE
No comments:
Post a Comment