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Title: Infallible
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Author: Bailey Quinn
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Genre: Detective/Mystery crime
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Release Date: 24th June 2016
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Pulbisher: Fire Quill Publishing
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ISBN: 9780996974882
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From the moment Detective Scarlet Anne Martins steps into that prison, her heart begins to take over her head. Unable to deny her feelings for Alaric any longer, her desperation to save him will ultimately be what will kill them both. For a super cop, her judgement in men has truly failed her. And if matters of the heart weren’t distracting enough, she has to survive the next twenty-four hours without killing someone. Finding herself a fugitive in a foreign country, she has to rely on her charming personality, which she has long since learned to turn on when needed. But with her distinctive South African accent, and stunning good looks, she is at risk of being turned in to the authorities at any moment. With nowhere to run, she has no alternative but to face the peril head on, and ensnare the evil that is chasing her down. But with so few resources, the only way to do that is to give them exactly what they want – herself.
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Bailey Quinn is a pen name Carlyle Labuschagne writes her crime fiction under, she is an South African award wining author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.
Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within each world she writes about.
"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, its in the dark times that the light comes to life."
Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR - "To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - its a crazy world out there you dont have to go it alone!"
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Fire Quill Publishing is located in sunny South Africa. We strive to only publish and distribute pre-eminent novels to our audience<strong>,</strong> and work to offer superb marketing services to our authors. Each division is run by a team of experts in their respective fields in order to make your experience in the publishing industry as fun and exciting as possible, whilst still offering the highest quality and professionalism.
Fire Quill Publishing operates<strong> </strong>internationally<strong>,</strong> and supports international authors.
Take a look at<strong> <a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/our-titles/">our titles</a></strong> and<strong><a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/coming-soon-new-releases/"> new titles coming soon</a><a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/coming-soon-new-releases/"><span style="color: #0066cc;">,</span></a></strong> and for those that like to read before novels are released, you can grab some of our titles before publication on <a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/our-titles/we-are-live-on-netgalley/"><strong>Netgalley</strong></a>
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isabella whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13140903716710215424noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061877470568259526.post-64017979413293769052015-06-10T00:00:00.000-07:002015-06-10T00:00:06.641-07:00Cover reveal for Moonbreeze, (4 of the Dragonian Series)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpp8iB4e9JmNZhP-uF_SB_-l1tmGe3Lt1qvsgAmECkDM4oi-0yy0-UOOyhZbZVjuQL_FZ6ZB0MFfjx-T7_DfRI1Wp9F5xCuVHt4BdVYY7D9j2ypDcT-IKw0WHPD74jwKw2b9szvSJ0cs/s1600/Moonbreeze+3d.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpp8iB4e9JmNZhP-uF_SB_-l1tmGe3Lt1qvsgAmECkDM4oi-0yy0-UOOyhZbZVjuQL_FZ6ZB0MFfjx-T7_DfRI1Wp9F5xCuVHt4BdVYY7D9j2ypDcT-IKw0WHPD74jwKw2b9szvSJ0cs/s320/Moonbreeze+3d.jpg" width="268" /></a>Title: Moonbreez<br />Author: Adrienne Woods<br />Series: The Dragonian Series<br />Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />Release Date: September 2015<br />ISBN: 978-0-9946641-5-0<br /><br />Synopsis/Back Blurb<br /><br />The life or a star-studded royal has not been kind to eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins. With a Council breathing down her neck and a dragon that refuses to accept her as his rider, she must convince everyone that she is ready to rule Paegeia like her parents before her. Bust she has made a promise to her father, King Albert, that she will not go looking for him and free the people of Etan. Elena has promised to never truly fulfill her destiny.</div>
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</span>Adrienne Woods was born and raised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where she still lives
with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going
to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In
her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she
loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching
a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.</span></div>
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In this epic conclusion to the Broken Trilogy when all seems lost and annihilated, Troy will set out to find a way to rescue his friends and people from the control of Illuminatus. He alone can find Ava, rescue her and bring her back from the brink of insanity to venture out into the darkest, lost realms of a desolate Earth together seek out Cain who holds the answers on how to use the cure to the Shadowing Disease before Ava turns into the Dark Queen forever and burns down the entire world and those she loves with it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Calyle is an South African award wining author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.</span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within every outrageous world she writes about.</span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"><em style="position: relative;">"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, its in the dark times that the light comes to life."</em></span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival. </span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><em style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; position: relative; text-align: center;">"To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - its a crazy world out there you dont have to go it alone!</em><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">"</span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">follow @CarlyleL for all the crazy updates on all things me.</span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Founder of </span><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/" style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">SAIR Book Festival</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Co Founder of </span><a href="http://www.firequillpublishing.com/" style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">Fire Quill Publishing.</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;"> </span><br style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;" /><span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center;">Founder of Help build a </span><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/help-build-a-library-in-sa-2014-has-kicked-off-with-a-bang.html" style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">library in South Afric</a><a href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/1/post/2014/03/help-build-a-library-in-sa-2014-has-kicked-off-with-a-bang.html" style="font-family: 'Droid Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;" title="">a. </a></span><br />
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So the day is finally here, I'm so proud to present my new series called Dream Casters, it's available for purchase on Amazon and hopefully on all the other outlets too, but if not, then it will be in a couple of days.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Adrienne Woods was born and raised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where she still lives
with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going
to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In
her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she
loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching
a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.</span></span></div>
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Author: Adrienne Woods<br />
Series: The Dream Caster Series<br />
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />
Release Date: May 2015<br />
ISBN: 978-0-9946641-2-9</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Mr.
Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da.....Seventeen year old Chasity Blake
knows the Sandman is just a silly children's story parents tell their children
to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until the day a mysterious,
light golden sand appeared in her hands during a high school prank that went
horribly wrong. A sand that has the power to send anyone it touches into a
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Fearing she
had lost her mind, Chasity soon discovers the shocking truth of her heritage-
she is a Dream Caster. Chasity was never supposed to be raised on the Domain,
or what humans call Earth and she is forced to return to her true birth place,
Revera – the world of Dreams.<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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However, in
Revera there is no balance between good, the Light Casters, and darkness, the
Shadow Casters, and Chasity is caught square in the middle. She soon learns
that there is no place for anyone containing both the light and the darkness
within them, and the shocking truth that if anyone in Revera ever discovered
her shadow self, Chasity would be thrown into the Oblivion – the world of
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Dreams are
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<span lang="EN-US">WO SETS OF FOOTSTEPS made barely a sound on the rough and weathered wood
as they walked across the bridge that led from Main Pacific to the Glands. The
streetlights were dimmed as dusk began
to settle and last vestiges of light from the setting sun were fading to night.
The lumbering clouds were moving in, blocking out any light from the two moons
that shone overhead, even the stars seemed less bright dotted across their
velvet backdrop. With his golden dust Graig Chen could conjure and wield
anything by simply believing in its reality. If he wanted it to be real, it
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<span lang="EN-US">The Reverse was the most painful thing either of them had ever
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<span lang="EN-US">Graig and his pregnant fiancé, were fleeing from
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<span lang="EN-US">They knew neither of their families would ever
understand, even though it had been his grandmother who had always said, <i>the heart wants, what the heart wants.</i>
How could he have known that his heart would want a Shadow Caster, and not just
any ordinary Shadow Caster. She was special, or at least her family was. She
was expected to uphold the family line with her offspring, Graig knew that did not include carrying the
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<span lang="EN-US">The two lovers could never live in peace, not since
the balance between good and evil inside Revera was thrown into upheaval. There
were only two choices for casters like them, either light or dark. The balance
could not accommodate a person containing both, so for his child’s sake they
had no choice but to leave Revera. Live like normal humans in the Domain, or
what humans would call reality. He’d found a perfect place, one he’d made sure
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<span lang="EN-US">They knew about the relationship, they’d been there
when he’d first laid eyes on her, tried to talk him out of it, to forget the
blonde bombshell that would only cause him darkness and misery, but without her
his life would be spent in darkness and misery. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her silver blonde hair and bright blue eyes had
done him in, if only he’d seen the bow that she’d aimed straight at his heart.
If it hadn’t been for his love when arrow hit, and for Liam, a healer, he
wouldn’t be in his currant predicament; trying to get him and her off this
dimential world that most people would call make-believe, but Revera was far
from that. It was the world of dreams, and Graig was a Level Four Caster whose
mission was to seek out Selene, their only live Somnium. It was on one of these
very missions that he had met the love of his live, the one woman he couldn’t
live without, and he didn’t care if she had black dust, he didn’t care that she
was a Shadow Caster, or what some would call a nightmare wielder. Yes, those
horrible dreams that leave you paralyzed with fear are actually wielded by
Caster’s, not some grave impression of ones subconscious. They are responsible
for doubts and forgotten dreams. She was his nightmare, and a nightmare he was
prepared to die for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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survive living in Revera and he was unable to cope with the Oblivion, wherever
it was. Oblivion was the realm of the Shadow Casters, created when Selene
casted out Magdelena, one of the first Shadow Casters, who was the third
Somnium, as a consequence for the death of her brother, Darius, the second
Somnium. Magdelena had no realm to call her own, so she created Oblivion by
focusing her hatred toward Selene, a world that could exist inside Revera, far
from Selene’s sight. For years, Selene tried to find it, but as long as the
Sodivic bloodline flowed through Shadow Caster’s vanes, Oblivion would never be
found by a Light Caster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Magdalena’s family line. There were many Sodivic’s since the dawning of
Oblivion but Magdelena reigned over them all. Graig had met many Sodivic’s on
his quests, each meeting always ended up in a bloody mess, and in all the years
he had encountered them, not one had ever
shown any kind of mercy or remorse. They were sadistic and couldn’t be
reasoned with. He had been taught from a young age, if you see a Sodivic, you
kill it. That was the number one rule taught to the Level One Dream Casters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remember.” He opened his hand, just to make sure she hadn’t forgotten what he
was, and threw more golden sand into the air, shielding them from anything that
tried to followed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she slammed into him. One second of doubt was all it took to break the spell,
and before he could realized that doubt, they were surrounded by Nimgolians,
the biggest and wicket shadow hounds ever imagined. They were veil, and
reminded him of a Rottweiler that had chased him ones in the Domain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: Evanescent</div>
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Author: Carlyle Labuschagne</div>
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Series: The Broken Series #2</div>
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Release Date: 19th May 2015</div>
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ISBN: 978-0-9922446-4-4</div>
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Within my blood runs a thing our kind calls the Shadowing Disease. It shadows over, and bends everything to its will. </div>
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When the first blood-shift came, it tore through flesh and blood, threatening to bend me, break bone, shatter my mind and entrap my heart with its honeyed, seductive poison. It came with vicious intent, moving my thoughts and altering me forever. </div>
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The shift has caused a rift within me. No one was safe when it entrapped me in its claws of foul lust. But I have the only antidote against the evil that becomes me - his touch alone has the power to release the spurs of sweet darkness that clung on for deal life. </div>
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I knew what I had to do; the desperation pulled my mind with the deep determination of a hungry predator. </div>
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By the time the revelation raised me from the dark dungeon of my bounds - it might have been too late.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Carlyle is
an South African award winning author, with a flair for mixing genres and
adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For now she is happy to take
over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences
and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within
every outrageous world she writes about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">"I
love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my
passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of
countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them
instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, it’s in the
dark times that the light comes to life."</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Carlyle
used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers
support event - SAIR bookfestival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors,
bloggers, readers and cover artists - it’s a crazy world out there you don’t
have to go it alone!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hi Everyone, I'm super excited to announce that Posion, the second Novella (Venom - Novelette was the first) is now available to purchase. It was so sudden as we didn't had a set date at all and then VOILA it just happened!!!!!!</div>
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I truly hope that you are all going to enjoy it.</div>
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Title: Poison: A Dragonian Series Novella</div>
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Author: Adrienne Woods</div>
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Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing</div>
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Release date: 21st May 2015</div>
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ISBN: 978-0-9946536-6-6 </div>
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Everyone dreams of being a princess, well everyone except eighteen-year-old Elena Watkins.</div>
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After learning about her lost heritage, Elena is forced to choose between learning to be the perfect ruler for Paegeia and her old life.</div>
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Not to mention that pesky dragon of hers who always seems to appear and disappear at just the right time. With her friends beside her, Elena must discover her own future as Paegeian royalty.<br />
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where she still resides on the East side of Johannesburg with her husband and
two little girls. She's been writing for the past four years and in her free
time she likes to review books of new and upcoming authors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dragonian-Series/301375039891281?fref=nf" target="_blank">The Dragonian Series Facebook Page</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://thedragonianseries.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Dragonian Series site</a></span></div>
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A good friend of mine has her release day of Evanescent, book two in The Broken Series.<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Carlyle is an South African award winning
author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story
she creates. For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi
believers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">"I
love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my
passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of
countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them
instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, it’s in the
dark times that the light comes to life."</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bloggers, readers and cover artists - it’s a crazy world out there you don’t
have to go it alone!</i>"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Author: Carlyle Labuschagne<br />
Series: A Broken Novel<br />
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />
Release Date: 19th May 2015<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">My makers would say
I was created for revenge. I say, I was born to prove them wrong. I defied the
Council and its Keepers. Fought back
against the dark magic of our enemies, but I am afraid it had come at a cost. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Inflicted with the dark disease, I
was lost in every possible way; and they were wrong – death does not bring you
your true purpose. After death, I am more misplaced than ever, but only because
I am immune to guidance. I relive my darkest moments over and over again, just
to remind myself of who I am. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">I am the destined one</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. The haltered. For me, there is no love and
no release, only destruction; but I am on a path to be free of its burden. I <i>do</i> love and I will have it, absorb it
and never, ever, let all its enchanting affections go. In order to be with
love, there is only one path to lead me there; through this war. But nothing
and no one knows what awaits on the other side, or what lies have been
afflicted upon us about the after. Remorse is an infection I no longer want. I
had made apocalyptic mistakes, and will probably keep on faltering forward. It
has become my only direction in a reality where there is none. To him, there is
no him, if there is no me. He is bound to me, and I hated it more than I will
ever confess. His cross to bear is me, and to be that – to be <i>this</i> – is a curse I must fight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When the first true
blood-shift came, it tore through flesh and parted blood, threatening to bend
me, break bone, shatter my mind and entrap my heart to become its will. It</span><span lang="EN"> comes with
vicious intent, moving my thoughts and touching me with a cutting effect from
the inside. <i>It</i> has many ways of
bleeding out, and when it releases, there is nothing I can do to stop it. No
one is safe when it entraps me in its claws of foul lust. </span><span lang="EN-US">Corrupt,
damnable, depraved, destructive, hideous, demonic; your kind would call it many
things. I have a weapon against the profane that becomes me – his touch alone
has the power to release the talons of a sweet darkness that clings on for dear
life. It has one trigger – my guilt. I can change it if only I can take the
leap, surrender myself utterly. I am ready with all of me, for all of him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to do, the desperation of it pulls my mind with the unfathomable determination
of a ravenous predator. I let it sink in hard and true. I feel the swell of the
fight fill me with a bitter sweetness, and with a glorious soothing pain that
tears my mind from the disease which transforms me. My loss has become my fight
as I watch it all wither away. But, I will never stop fighting. I am my own
destiny; my destiny is to be with him. And the Truth-seekers of this prophecy
will not take it lightly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Adrienne Woods was born and raised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where she still lives
with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going
to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In
her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she
loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching
a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Author: Adrienne Woods<br />
Series: The Dragonian Series<br />
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />
Release Date: 19 September 2014<br />
ISBN: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">978099244606<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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Teenage girls don’t believe in fairy tales, and sixteen-year-old Elena Watkins
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a fairy talke killed her father.<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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a new world, and a new school. The cutest guy around may be an evil dragon, a
prince wants Elena’s heart, and a long dead sorcerer may be waking up to kill
her. Oh and the only way Elena is going to graduate is on the back of a dragon
of her own.</span></h2>
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lower abdomen and looks more like a dirt spot. It's not very dark and I'm
afraid if I rub too hard it's going to come off (chuckle). Just joking. I'm
like one shade away from being one of the non-gifted kids who's parents pay a
lot of money to attend Dragonia Academy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: So, Lucian. I heard you are a
prince?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Urgh (eye roll) Yeah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: You don't want to be a prince?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Do you want to be royalty? It's
not as glamourous as people think. You have to attend really boring functions
and meetings. At the last Royal Council meeting I actually fell asleep. My
father hasn't taken me to another one yet. You can't enjoy a night out without
cameras flashing in your eyes, and you always have to think three times before
you speak. Not to mention the responsibility that weighs on my shoulders. I
mean, I'm going to run a country one day. I don't think I'll be able to, but
I'm going to try. (He’s starting to become restless in his chair) You’re sure
my mom won't see this?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: I promise you she won't. (And
there's the gorgeous smile)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Do you have any close friends?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: I'm the prince of Tith, what do
you think? (We both start to laugh) Yes, a couple. The rest, I think just want
a piece of the spot light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: So, you guys really ride on
dragons?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: (He roars with laughter.) You
should see the look on your face. Yes, but first you've got to tame one. We
call it a claim. It's better to wait until you gain your ability. It usually
happens around your 17th birthday, depending on how dark your mark is. Only
then will you know which breed of dragon you are compatible with, and it makes
the claiming procedure easier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: How many breeds are there?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: (He smiles again.) Ten. They all
have different abilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: So, back to the claiming
procedure. What is it you need to do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: You basically fight with the
dragon until it surrenders.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(A small shriek leaves my lips) Me:
Don't you get hurt?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Sometimes, but there are dragons
that can heal human injuries in a matter of hours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: So what's your ability?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: I haven't ascended yet (meaning
gained his extra ability)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: How do you ascend?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: It's different for everyone.
Some riders became really sick, and I mean, death bed sick. Then before they
slip into the everlasting life, they change, and wake up with an extra ability.
Others get it through the forces of nature. Some, but it's really rare, only
ascend when facing their dragon in a claim, but the Academy almost never allows
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: What's your biggest fear?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: (He sighs) Not being able to
claim the Rubicon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: The Rubicon?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: He's one of a kind. A really
strong dragon that can do many things, from spitting acid to breathing fire. We
all know him as Blake. We used to be really good friends, the best. But his
dark side is already starting to take over and if I don't claim him soon, he
will become evil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Your friends with a dragon?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: (He chuckles) they do own a
human form too, and yes. He used to be one of the most amazing and caring
people I know. I guess that’s why I'm so hard on myself when it comes to
claiming him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: On the lighter side, do you have
someone special?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Yes, there is, but it's
complicated. It's a royalty thing. I'm trying hard to make my dad understand
that we don't live in the 16th Century anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Do you have pets?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Plenty: 5 horses, a monkey name
Jeeves, 4 parrots, a spider and an English bulldog name Cat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Cat?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Short for Catastrophy. My mom
named him. (We both laugh.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Do you have a secret?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Yes, but it's more of a family
secret. I don't know what I would do if my friends ever find out about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Me: Well, then I hope with all my
heart nobody finds out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was so nice meeting you Lucian,
and I can't recall ever meeting a prince for real. I wish you all the luck with
claiming the Rubicon and can't wait to read more about you in Firebolt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">LM: Thanks for having me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Title: The Broken Destiny</div>
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Author: Carlyle Labuschagne</div>
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Series: The Broken Trilogy (Book #1)</div>
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Genre: Sci-fi, YA </div>
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Publisher: Fire Quill (SA) Hallowed Ink Press (USA)</div>
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Release Date: October 2014</div>
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ISBN: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">97809922446208</span></div>
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"You cannot know what light is if you have not experienced darkness"</div>
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Ava and her people have been exiled to the planet Poseidon for reasons she can't fathom. Upon meeting a boy from a different sector, her life turns into a beautiful chaos. She begins to feel things she isn't allowed to, thus motivating her to find out the truth about why her kind are so different, and why the Council are so interested in her. Once her mind is freed, with it comes a terrible power that could either save her kind, or destroy them all. But Ava is not the perfect heroine. She will become what she hates to save the ones she loves, and the cost of such a burden is deadly at best.</div>
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About the Author</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuPfOHtPylLAu767Vo8eZulEYx4qyHcnkKwzmV2WuAlbFRi-wdmUvEY13ZdPMsX7qoBh-OydvXQy10ZAKggEELgjpNQNCYjxNWMZicqbT75gicxgiZ61SSXgVRhj-QwuvUSKbYhV2D1E/s1600/carlyle+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyuPfOHtPylLAu767Vo8eZulEYx4qyHcnkKwzmV2WuAlbFRi-wdmUvEY13ZdPMsX7qoBh-OydvXQy10ZAKggEELgjpNQNCYjxNWMZicqbT75gicxgiZ61SSXgVRhj-QwuvUSKbYhV2D1E/s1600/carlyle+3.jpg" /></a>Carlyle is an South African award wining author, with a flair for mixing genres and adding loads of drama to every story she creates. For now she is happy to take over the world and convert non Sci-fi believers.<br />
Her goal as an author is to touch people's lives, and help others love their differences and one another by delivering strong messages of faith, love and hope within each world she writes about.</div>
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"I love to swim, fight for the trees, and am a food lover who is driven by my passion for life. I dream that one day my stories will change the lives of countless teenagers and have them obsess over the world literacy can offer them instead of worrying about fitting in. Never sacrifice who you are, its in the dark times that the light comes to life."</div>
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Carlyle used writing as a healing tool and that is why she started her very own writers support event - SAIR bookfestival. <a data-mce-href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/" href="http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/">http://sairbookfestival.weebly.com/</a> - "To be a helping hand for those who strive to become full times writers, editors, bloggers, readers and cover artists - its a crazy world out there you dont have to go it alone!"<br />
follow @CarlyleL for all the crazy updates on all things me.</div>
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I smiled to myself―breaking rules was part of who I had become; I would try anything just to feel alive, to feel free from a dying planet―a dying race. The water beneath me shimmered, while the mountain appeared pale green in the dim light. I imagined for a moment that I was stuck in a beautiful painting.</div>
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Once more, I glanced at Sam, her fiery locks still resting lightly across her face. With her eyes shut and her long, dark, thick lashes sweeping over the top of her rosy cheeks, she looked just like a doll. Her coat was tucked tightly into the nape of her neck to ward off the cold, and a faint smile started curling up at the edges of her mouth. <em>Not a care in the world,</em> I thought to myself as I looked thoughtfully at Sam snuggled in silent reverie.</div>
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As I turned my gaze back to the distant horizon where nightfall was quickly creeping toward us from over Mount Inja, a shimmer of an early star set against the amethyst sky caught my eye―so silver, so sparkling, so high and so serene that I could only dream of ever reaching it. I closed my eyes tight, fighting the pang in my chest, and I wished for that star to fall down on me, to grant me my wish of changing my life forever. I wished it would close the emptiness within my chest and fill it with the kind of peace that would make me the person I was meant to be, not the girl I was. The girl who was constantly poked fun at, never once left alone to just be herself; the girl who envied everyone else, and the girl with the huge inheritance that meant nothing to her. I felt belittled every day because of it. I looked harder into the glimmer of the star and wished to be envied, just once.</div>
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<strong>Humbled by Writing</strong></div>
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I had written from the age of twelve, secretively to myself in the form of poems, songwriting, keeping a diary. I had always been that girl who wanted to be liked, who needed approval from the world. I had changed myself to become popular, altered my whole being to conform to the ideals of others.</div>
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I might have been a little <em>too</em> good.</div>
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Being popular consumed me. I tried my hand with great success at many things, from figure-skating, gymnastics, ballet, art, drama; TV presenting…the list goes on. But all those things never really touched me, moved me. The passion was lacking. So, many years later–many wrong turns later–the bad girl had to change.</div>
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The only thing ever keeping me solid and grounded was my writing…being by myself to not have my thoughts corrupted by others. (Of course I allowed it to happen). But it wasn’t until two years ago that I felt compelled to shut the world out and indulge in my imagination without caring what anyone thought of me. I had always been ruled by that element. Self-consciousness. I felt that unexplainable sense of belonging almost instantly.</div>
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At first it was all about getting all the emotion out there, and through writing my first novel, I came to terms with who I was. I finally started dealing with all my baggage I had always run away from. Writing saved me from becoming what I hated.</div>
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I knew from the moment I thought about writing <em>The Broken Destiny</em> that I’d be published, I’d make it happen. It was not to prove anything to all those who did me wrong (okay, maybe a little). It was to be okay with me, self-approval above approval of the untrue world out there – to set away all those false needs of belonging in society. It was like someone chimed a magic wand over me and I became <em>me</em> again.</div>
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The journey has been amazing–life changing. I have really been accepted with great encouragement by the most amazing people. And it is because of all of those who did me wrong , all those wrong turns, that I am able to inspire and help others feel better about themselves. My insecurities melted away the more I wrote. It is amazing to find something that is utterly and truly satisfying. For me, my novel is my soul, my journey though the dark to find the light. So yes, I am very nervous about people reading my work, as that is my soul-baring experience set in a tale of difficult and trying times created by one ’s self.</div>
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I hope to inspire, change and motivate you to follow your dreams, stray true to yourself. The only person that can hurt you is you. By being truly you, you can achieve anything you so dearly desire. I had never worked for anything in my life, one of those spoiled kids who grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth (that is how you say it in English, isn’t it?). I have overcome my language barrier with such ease; I have surprised myself and have grown because of it. I have never worked so hard and so passionately for something in my life. Having great friends along the way has helped me hang on through difficult, frustrating times. My deepest gratitude to all who have touched my life during this time (you know who you are – yes, you reading this!)</div>
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My friends still find it strange that I don’t wear high heels everywhere I go. I find myself not relying on makeup and things. Writing is my feel-good med. I am humbled by the magic it has brought to my life. I am at peace. My first novel is all about overcoming those insecurities, believing and loving one’s self. I not only changed myself through writing – I hope to change all those who read my work.</div>
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<em>~ Don’t let fear cripple your dreams. Let love and passion give you wings ~</em></div>
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Happy writing all,</div>
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Carlyle Labuschagne”</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Adrienne Woods was born and raised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where she still lives
with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going
to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In
her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she
loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching
a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.</span><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Author: Adrienne Woods<br />
Series: The Dragonian Series<br />
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />
Release Date: 9th March 2015<br />
ISBN:</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">978-0-9946641-1-2</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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Prince of her heart and discovering her true identity has made Elena Watkins'
life almost unbearable. However, new trials will test the 17 year-old's
strength and push her to limits she didn’t think were possible.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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around her, Elena will have to face a monumental decision about the fate of
Paegeia. She can either make peace with Blake’s demands or try once again to
unravel the Queen’s secrets that lie deep within her dragon, Tanya La</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background: white; color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Frey’s, heart.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #181818; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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I WAS BACK INSIDE that cave, the one where
Lucian lost his life. I looked around but I knew he wasn’t going to come for
me, he was dead. <i>Then what the hell am I
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“You really thought that I was your dragon,
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“Get away from me you freak,” I spat.<o:p></o:p></div>
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His hand connected hard against my cheek, it
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“I’m not a freak, I’m a patriot.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Patriot?” I laughed as loud as I could. “You
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Another strike. The Elementals clucked like
crazy, they could feel the danger all around them and must have felt helpless.
It was beginning to drive me insane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Stop it you mongrels, or I’ll skin you alive,”
Paul yelled and for some reason they listened. He looked back down at me again.
The point of his knife was close to my throat. “It’s funny how everyone around
you knows who you are, Elena, except you.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What are you talking about?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He laughed again. “I guess they like to play
mind games with you, like to keep you in the dark.” His eyes met mine. “Some
friends you have.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Stop that, you know nothing about my friends,
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“Why? Because they all end up betraying you at
the end of the day. Take it from me; it’s better to live in the dark. You can
do whatever you want, be whatever you want. Your friends don’t give a shit
about you, and neither does your dragon.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“You are not my dragon,” I yelled again.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Oh, I know that, and for some sick, twisted
reason your true dragon wasn’t bothered one bit that I claimed you as my
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“You are lying.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Am I?” He looked around. “Then where is your
dragon, Elena? Why isn’t it here?” The Elementals’ clucking noises drowned the
rest of Paul’s words. I could see his lips moving, but their sounds of pure
panic drilled through my brain, making it impossible to hear what he had to
say. It grew louder and louder and then a cannon shot rang through their cries.
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I jumped up in bed, soaked with sweat. It was
like, the gazillionth time I’d had that dream. I could still hear their
clucking and it made me feel like I was going crazy, but still, no tears came.
My heart felt as if it was bouncing inside my ears. No matter how many times I
had the same dream, I could never hear Paul’s last words as the Elemental
sounds kept interrupting him. But there was one thing that I knew was a lie, I
didn’t own a dragon. I <i>was</i> a dragon,
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HI EVERYONE! Look what has arrived, finally. My cover reveal for Dream Casters: Light #1 of the Dream Caster Series. I hope you all love it.......It's so different from THe Dragonian Series.</div>
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Adrienne Woods was born and raised in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region>, where she still lives
with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going
to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about four years ago. In
her free time―if she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she
loves to spend it with friends, whether it’s a girls night out, or just watching
a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt,
book one in the Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including
a further two to three books, which will be stories that take place within the
Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid 2015. She
also writes in different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy
Diaries, will be published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal
series by the name of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten
novels. And if that wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of
Monsters, which will be released in 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h2>
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Author: Adrienne Woods<br />
Series: The Dream Caster Series<br />
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing<br />
Release Date: May 2015<br />
ISBN: 978-0-9946641-2-9</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da.....Seventeen year old
Chasity Blake knows the Sandman is just a silly children's story parents tell
their children to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until the day
a mysterious, light golden sand appeared in her hands during a high school
prank that went horribly wrong. A sand that has the power to send anyone it
touches into a deep, sound sleep.<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Fearing she had lost her mind, Chasity soon discovers the shocking
truth of her heritage- she is a Dream Caster. Chasity was never supposed to be
raised on the Domain, or what humans call Earth and she is forced to return to
her true birth place, Revera – the world of Dreams.<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, in Revera there is no balance between good, the Light
Casters, and darkness, the Shadow Casters, and Chasity is caught square in the
middle. She soon learns that there is no place for anyone containing both the
light and the darkness within them, and the shocking truth that if anyone in
Revera ever discovered her shadow self, Chasity would be thrown into the
Oblivion – the world of Nightmares.<span style="color: #444444;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Title: Under My Skin<br />Author: Zoe Marham<br />Publisher: Carina Press<br />Publishing Date: 31st March 2015</div>
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Chloe was once a normal girl. Until the night of the car crash that nearly claimed her life. Now Chloe’s mother is dead, her father is a shell of the man he used to be and the secrets that had so carefully kept their family together are falling apart.</div>
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A new start is all Chloe and her father can hope for, but when you think you’re no longer human how can you ever start pretending?</div>
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A contemporary reworking of a British horror classic, Under My Skin follows seventeen-year-old Chloe into an isolated world of darkness and pain, as she struggles to understand what it really means to be alive.</div>
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Set against the familiar backdrop of everyday, normal teenage worries, Chloe's world has become anything but...</div>
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Having recently pulled off a dramatic escape from the rat race, Zoë now spends her days endlessly monkeying about with words.</div>
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In a tiny, tumbledown bungalow in the wilds of West Oxfordshire she creates, destroys, giggles maniacally and cries dramatically whilst consuming epic amounts of builder's tea and trying to keep the cats off the keyboard.</div>
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Her husband has learned to ignore her fictional delusions, but her five-year-old son still thinks they're pretty cool, and often offers helpful advice – usually involving dragons.</div>
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Find out more about Zoë at her website: <span lang="EN-US"><span class=""><a data-mce-href="http://www.zoemarkhamwrites.com/" href="http://www.zoemarkhamwrites.com/" style="color: #1b8be0; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.zoemarkhamwrites.com/</a></span></span></div>
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Wishing you all the luck with your first novel.</div>
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XOXOXO</div>
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Adrienne Woods</div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20737633-thunderlight" target="_blank">Thunderlight</a><br />
Venom<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Amazon:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Chapter One</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A GIRL SINGING
HER heart out about a miracle boomed inside my ear. A miracle would get me what
I needed: a chance at a semi-normal life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The bedroom
door hitting the wall expelled the thought from my mind. With his hand tangled
up in his copper hair, and with huge brown eyes, Dad's figure filled the entire
doorway. “Pack your bags.” He had that set to his jaw, the one that meant there
was no way out of this. He bolted out of the room just as suddenly as he had
appeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My teeth ground
hard against each other, and the sharp pain behind my eyes, I guessed from the
lack of sleep, grew stronger. Every fiber of my being wanted to explode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Ever since I could remember my name, Dad
and I had been on the run. From what? Beats me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">For the last
two weeks, I'd been pacing up and down through the house, struggling to fall
asleep at night, waiting for this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-US">For
the love of blueberries, no sixteen-year-old should live this way!</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I climbed off
my bed, and the first step I took left my toe tangled in the wide leg of my
jeans. I tried to regain my balance as the closet inched closer, but with
wildly flailing arms, I came crashing down. The thud reverberated across the
wooden floor, and it sounded as if I'd broken something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Dad darted back into my room. “Are you
okay?” He lifted me back onto my feet as if I weighed nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Tears lurked in
the corners of my eyes, threatening to burst, as I stared up at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Don't give me
that look, Elena. Please, we need to hurry.” He pulled my suitcase from the top
shelf and chucked it haphazardly onto my bed. “We need to go. Now.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dad…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He started to
grab my clothes from the shelf and tossed them messily inside my small
suitcase. Then he paused, sighed, and looked up with soft eyes. He stroked the
side of my cheek. “This . . .” He looked past me. “. . . wasn't the right
place, Bear. Please, you’ve got to trust me.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">His hand
reached back to pull everything off my shelf, while my hands curled up into
balls of fury. My heart pounded fast as those two words bounced inside my
skull. “Trust you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Elena, we
don't have much time,” he yelled. “Pack your bags! You can ask questions later.”
He left, and the hollow <i>thump</i> from
his stomping footsteps rang loudly as he made his way into the hall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Ask questions? Yeah right! I’ll only get answers that
don’t reveal why we are on the run for the gazillionth time.</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> “Trust me” and “I'll tell you when the time is right” were the only
two answers Dad gave. <i>Guess the time with
him will never be right.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">It was no use
arguing with him anyway. Once, he threw me over his shoulder and carried me out
without any of my things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">So I grabbed
the stuff I needed: my mp3 player, a photo of Mom and me on my first birthday
that Dad didn't know I had, and my journal from underneath my bed. I tossed
them into my backpack. It wasn't much, but it was the stuff that made my
miserable life feel less pathetic. I zipped up my suitcase and took a deep
breath. Looking around my bedroom for the last time, I said goodbye to my
sixtieth-something room.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Dad almost ran
me over in the hall, with his army bag slung over his shoulder. He grumbled,
which I assumed was an apology, took my suitcase, and ran down the stairs. He
always rented these huge old houses, pre-furnished and near the countryside,
and we always left after three months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The pickup's
horn honked as I shut the front door. I closed my eyes and took another deep
breath. <i>Just two more years, then I'll be
eighteen and free from this freak show.</i> Huge raindrops fell hard onto the
ground. The smell of wet dirt filled the air. It was my favorite smell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The water that
pooled on the ground covered all the gaps in the driveway, forcing me to
hopscotch around all of them. My shoe got caught in one of the gaps and I
smacked down hard in a huge puddle. By the time I reached the truck, my jeans
and shoes dripped with water.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Warm heat from
the vents inside the truck hit me full blast as I jumped in; a million goose
bumps erupted across my skin. As soon as
I shut the rusty door, Dad floored the gas pedal. Tires screeched and the truck
spun away as if the Devil was chasing us.
My lower lip quivered softly as he swerved onto the road. The
streetlights flew by in a blur, and I plugged in my earphones. The same stupid
song about a miracle boomed from my mp3, drowning the sound of the engine and
the hard dribbles on the roof, a percussion that became the perpetual
soundtrack to my misery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A feeling of
utter loneliness consumed my heart while I stared out the window. Homes with
white picket fences and a convenience store whizzed by in a flash. A tear
rolled down my cheek. Saying a silent goodbye, I released my breath and watched
as it created a foggy condensation on the glass. Reaching out with my index
finger, I drew a small heart. These were the reasons why Mom had left. She
couldn't handle his paranoia, but why she’d left her two-year-old daughter to
deal with it was a mystery. Dad constantly reminded me of the latter; that was
the only time he ever spoke of her. If he ever discovered I had that picture,
he would kill me. That was how much he hated her for leaving us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The lights of a
vehicle in the upcoming lane shone directly into my face. I shut my eyes,
waiting for it to disappear. When I was little, I used to watch Dad as we drove
away from yet another house. He would glare into his rearview mirror every five
seconds, every muscle in his face clenched, and his knuckles white on the
steering wheel. I hadn’t been able to force myself to peek out the window then,
as it used to scare the living crap out of me to consider the possible reasons
why he was fleeing, or who might be following us. Now, I didn't look at him or
care much about what he was going through. He’d created this problem, with me
becoming the luggage. It was a ritual I endured every three months, and nothing
over the past sixteen years had ever changed that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The “Interstate
40” sign flew by in a whirl, and the pickup slowly moved onto the turnoff lane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My eyes started
to burn as I stared at the rain running sideways against my window. Each rivet
resembled another town, another place I could never again call home. Exhaustion
consumed me and my eyelids felt heavy. I laid my head against the window and
struggled to stay awake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Suddenly, a
huge figure flew past me. Dad swerved to the left, which made me crash into his
side. My entire body pumped with adrenaline. I jumped straight in my seat, tore
out my earphones, as I wrenched the seatbelt over my shoulder to buckle myself
in, while trying to process what had just happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“What was
that?” I looked at Dad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He kept
checking his rearview mirror every five seconds with huge eyes. Beads of sweat
rolled from his hairline down to the side of his temple. Sure, he was paranoid,
but I’d never seen Dad look this scared in my entire life. This was something
more than his usual paranoia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dad!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Did you see
where it went?” he asked, attempting to inject calm into his voice, but I could
hear the fear lacing each syllable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“See where what
went? Dad, what was that?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You wouldn't
believe me if I told you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“For once in
your life, just tell me!” I screamed. Sixteen years of frustration exploded
from my lungs. I couldn't take the unknown anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Fine.” He
mumbled something else that I didn't catch. “Do you remember the stories I used
to tell you?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Stories? What
stories?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“The stories
about Paegeia, Elena.” He looked in his rearview mirror again with huge,
unblinking eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Vaguely, but I
didn't tell him that. “What does that have to do with this?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“They're real.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I froze and
stared at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“All of it,
it’s real. The dragons, the magic, the wall, everything is real.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dragons!” I
couldn’t believe this. “Is this why we’ve been on the run my whole life? That’s your reason?” I took a deep breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US"> “You can believe what you want, it doesn’t
change the fact that they are real, and somewhere out there.” He looked over
his shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A figure with
huge paws and talons flew in front of the truck. Tires screeched at the same
time I shrieked. The truck spun around on the turf a couple of times and came
to a standstill on the dark stretch of road. My heart jumped at a great speed
inside my chest. My throat and lips became dry from my deep and heavy breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pushing my face
against the cool glass of the passenger window, I searched the horizon for any
sign of life. Apart from the pickup’s headlights, there wasn’t a single light
peeking through the blanketed darkness, and the rain crushing down made me see
figures but I couldn’t tell if they were real or imagined. <i>Dragons don’t exist.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“You okay?” my
father yelled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I'm fine.” I
tore my eyes away from the window.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">His hands were
on the door’s handle. “Elena, I need to get out─”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, no, please
don't leave me here!” I grabbed a piece of fabric from his jacket. I could
feel the fear beginning to rise up again and my vision became blurry. <i>Why am I afraid? Dragons aren’t real.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He cupped my
face and made me look at him. I only noticed now how his hands trembled.
“Listen to me, Elena. Listen!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I tried to
swallow my tears, but it was no use. They were caught in the back of my
throat, silencing me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">He hugged me
tight and kissed me on my forehead. I could feel the love he had for me behind
that kiss. “You drive like hell, you hear me? Don't slow down for anybody.
There's a motel on Interstate 40. Just stay on this road, you can't miss it.
Someone named Matt will meet you there.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dad, it's
pouring outside. I can't leave you here with whatever...” <i>We can sort this out rationally.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">Dad cringed and
looked at his jeans for a minute. When he looked at me again, that set to his
jaw was back. I knew my words hadn’t made any impact on him whatsoever. He had
already made up his mind for the both of us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My strength
returned as I slowly came to terms with what I had to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">A man appeared
in the middle of the road. We both stared at him for a few seconds. I squinted,
as the rain made it hard for me to see him, but the headlights of the truck
outlined his figure. I looked back at Dad and could see that this guy was no
stranger by the look on Dad’s face. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My gaze turned
back to the guy in the rain. He was tall with long black hair; wet strands
clung to his face. He wore a pair of pants, no T-shirt, and it looked like no
shoes either. He stared at the pickup for a couple of minutes, and it made my
heart pound faster. He began to walk slowly toward us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dad?” I
slapped his shoulder, trying to expel the fear from my body.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Elena.” He
grabbed my wrist. “I'll be fine. You need to go. Now. And, Bear, I'm so sorry.
Whatever happens, don't stop for anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Dad?” My lower
lip quivered again. He kissed me one more time on my forehead and wiped away my
tears gently with his thumbs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“I'll meet you
there.” He sounded stern, climbed out of the truck and slammed the door.
My gaze switched back at this macho loon making his way toward Dad, who stood
right next to the pickup. I quickly moved into the driver’s seat, took a deep
breath, and buckled up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">With my hands
trembling on the steering wheel, I took another deep breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US">You can do this, </span></i><span lang="EN-US">the voice
in my head rambled a couple of times. The key sat lazily in the ignition, and I
jerked it to the right. The pickup sputtered and died. The guy disappeared into
the darkness, and a new fear pumped through my veins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“No, no, no,
no! Please don't die on me now,” I mumbled as I tried to restart the engine.
The man appeared again by the faint glow of the headlights. He was getting
closer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">“Start you
stupid piece of crap!” I yelled over the roar of the blood pumping in my
ears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">The engine came
to life and I screamed as the man's figure leaped toward the pickup. Dad jumped
from the asphalt and tackled him in mid-air. “Go, Elena!” he shouted over the
pounding rain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">I floored the
gas pedal and the pickup's tires screeched as I drove past Dad, who'd wrestled
the guy onto the road. Tears blurred my sight. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US">I can't just leave him back there. </span></i><span lang="EN-US"> I struggled to come to terms
with what was going on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My father and
the other man quickly disappeared into the horizon of my rearview mirror. I
wiped away my tears with the back of my hand and lowered the mirror so that I
could see Dad, but they had vanished into the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<i><span lang="EN-US">Don't stop for anything,</span></i><span lang="EN-US">
his voice replayed inside my head.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US">My hands
trembled on the shift as I found third gear. A strong force hit the pickup on
the passenger’s side. The impact of the blow jolted through my body as the
truck rolled a couple of times, and came to a halt on its roof, leaving me
suspended in the air. My head and body throbbed with pain, and my hand went
automatically to the ache on my head. It was warm and wet and when I brought
back my hand, it was smeared with dark blood. My head began to buzz and the
view started to slip away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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struck, and the road was instantly engulfed in flames, leaving me wide-awake.
Something to the left grabbed my attention as the fire slowly began to creep
toward the overturned truck. Something lifted the truck, righting it on the
asphalt once again, and a shrill sound left my lips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The belly of a
huge, blue beast on four legs the size of tree stumps stood in front of the
pickup. The sight left me breathless and my entire body froze. <i>Dragons don’t exist.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A part of its
head popped in front of me. Huge horns on the top of his nose lingered inches
from the windshield, leaving a foggy condensation on the glass as he breathed.
One of his frilly ears lay flat against his head, like a cat’s when sensing
danger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">He climbed on
top of the hood with one of his front legs, and my body trembled as the truck
started to crumble. A part of his wing came into sight. It appeared to be
shredded, with a sharp talon located at the end. Oval-shaped blue scales fanned
over its entire body, glistening in the flames on the side of the road. Maybe
it only looked that way through the tears blinding my sight. Beady eyes, sunken
deeply into its skull locked with mine. The picture in front of me just became
my</span><span class="MsoCommentReference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">nightmare. I yelped as the dragon’s weight shifted, forcing the
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<span lang="EN-US">Another dragon sank
its jaws into the one in front of me. Two huge copper horns lay flat on top of
its copper head. The blue dragon growled, and snapped with gaping jaws at the
copper one attacking it. With powerful force the blue dragon was dragged off
the pickup’s hood and thankfully away from me. The truck shook slightly and
groaned as if a huge weight had been dispelled; while my heart pounded as if
I'd just run a hundred meters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came from the sky and lit up the entire scene in front of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">More dragons
landed with a thud in the middle of the road. One seemed to be green with a
long neck and a fin-like mane running from the top of its head to its tail. A
cloud of dark fog emerged slightly from its nostrils. The other dragon was red
and oddly beautiful, but something evil derived from its aura. They attacked
the copper dragon with startling savagery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Get the hell away from here, </span></i><span lang="EN-US">my voice shrilled in my head. Quickly, I tried to unbuckle my
seatbelt, but the clip wouldn't release. For the next couple of minutes the
earth shook with bolts of fire, and lightning flew through the air, while I
tried to free myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">My father
wouldn’t just leave me here! As each second ticked off my watch, I became more
worried about Dad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The dragons
came close to the truck a couple of times, but the copper dragon kept driving
them back, as if it was trying to protect me. I shook my head, trying to
expel that thought. <i>Dragons don't exist.
Wake up.</i> The tips of my fingers felt raw as I hammered endlessly on the
buckle of the safety belt. My face was soaked with sweat and blood, but I knew
that I had to get out of the truck, and quickly too. With trembling hands, I
pounded on the buckle with my fist until it unlocked. Throwing the vicious
restraint from around me, I watched in horror as the copper dragon bit fiercely
into the blue dragon’s neck. Blood squirted everywhere and pooled in thick
puddles on the road. It staggered and dropped down to the ground. Electricity
still sparked off its body, but it soon died away. The green and red dragons
jumped on top of the copper dragon, but it knocked the red dragon hard onto the
ground and crushed the green dragon with its huge front legs. The sound of
flesh ripping made me feel sick, and I had to lean over as tremors wracked my
stomach, but for some reason I couldn’t look away. The picture of the copper
dragon shredding the green dragon’s wing sent a stab of new fear deep into my
core.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The red dragon
got back up and flew away just as the copper dragon moved from the green
dragon’s wing to his neck. I flinched and finally looked away as more blood
squirted out of where the green dragon’s neck used to be. When I looked again, the copper dragon had
turned its gaze to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"> I started to kick at the windshield with my
newly freed legs. A new sense of urgency punctuated every kick.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">C'mon! </span></i><span lang="EN-US">I kicked three,
four times, but it only left long cracks in the glass. Watching the copper
dragon trudge toward the pickup through the jagged cracks made the scene before
me look more terrifying. The copper dragon stopped right in front of the
pickup. Our eyes locked, and I could see the vertical pupils inside a pair of
dark, rich brown irises. My heart thumped wildly inside my chest as it hooked
one of its talons gently into the windshield and ripped it off.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It paused,
stared at me for what seemed like an eternity, took a few steps back, and
nodded in my direction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US"> It wants me to
get out? You’re imagining things, Elena. Dragon’s aren’t real.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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couldn’t. The dragon started to shrink. Its wings and legs dwindled into a
smaller size until they disappeared. Its big head and horns shrunk into
nothing. I watched as the dragon's huge figure melted away. The heap transformed
into a figure crouching low to the ground. The figure lifted up its head, and
huge cuts with blood seeping from them ran down his face. It felt as if
somebody had squeezed all the air out of my lungs. I’d finally found my father─
without a shred of clothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I can't believe that it's almost time for me to release my third novel in The Dragonian Series. The novels progressed and each new one becomes my favorite, and I have to say, Frostbite is no different. </div>
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Those of you that read Thunderlight, knows its sad ending and wonder on so many things, yes, my novels does that a lot, some answer previous questions but the next leaves you with more and more.</div>
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Well, I need to say that Frostbite is the novel that will answer all, and I mean all your questions, but this doesn't mean that the last novel Moon Breeze is going to be a drag. Moon Breeze is going to be the biggest of all of them, and I know that most of you that fell in love with this series will also be excited for Moon Breeze as you can't wait for Frostbite's release.</div>
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The wonderful Hillery Dikker, my first editor and soul mate in the writers world, as she just get this series the way they should be, makes them stronger and adds her love, is almost finished and then review copies will go out to the top 10 winners of my Exclusive Review Challenge for Frostbite.</div>
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She absolute love the third novel and can't express enough how much, so I know if she is loving it, I can relax as I know all of you will love it too.</div>
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