The Storm Prince by M. L. John
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Monday, March 3, 2014
Friday, January 31, 2014
COMING FEBRUARY 1, 2014!
The Storm Prince by M. L. John
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #youngadult
A defiant prince of Faerie fights to retake his homeland and uphold the ideals for which his father was executed. The Storm Prince, by M. L. John, coming soon!
Beriani Quintinar, the youngest son of Faerie’s High king, is brilliant, beautiful, and spoiled as only a prince of the Sidhe can be. He has committed an unforgivable sin—he has fallen in love with the half-human daughter of a traitor. When ogres conquer Avalon and execute his father, he must convince the treacherous Queen of Summer to give him troops enough to win back his homeland. But if he makes it home, what kind of king can he be when he has already committed treason?
Word Count: 50000
Pages to Print: 165
Price: $4.99
EXCERPT:
Chapter 1
Karen was sick, very sick. Just below her breast was a gash deep enough to flay her skin from the wet, red muscle below it. Pus and blood had dried in a striated crust on the surface of the make-shift bandage, and when Beri pinned her hands in one of his own to peel the fabric away, she struggled against him and cried out.
Red lines of infection, spiky and multiple as the limbs of a spider, radiated toward her heart. The wound needed stitches. The girl had not bled to death, though it had been a near thing. Beriani Quintinar had allowed himself to believe the worst was over and she would pull through until this very moment. He swallowed alarm as she turned her face away from him, the tendon in her neck standing out. Good. He hoped she was too ill to have noticed the dismay in his expression.
It took all of his High Court conditioning to keep his voice calm. “This is abscessed. You need a healer, and now.” Goddess, they were in the middle of nowhere, days away from civilization. “Just . . . just stay here. I will find one.”
Her head whipped about, dark eyes wide and wild. Curls stuck in sweating clumps to her forehead. Her lips were colorless as the belly of a dead fish.
“What? No! You can’t leave me! What if the Ogres find me? What am I supposed to do?”
Beri shook his head. “Karen. I have to get help. You are in no shape to travel any farther. You have to stay here.”
“No.” The wounded girl pushed herself up onto her elbows. A spurt of cloudy blood gushed from her side where the scab had ripped loose. Beri pushed against her shoulder to keep her still. Through clenched teeth she said, “I’ll go with you.”
“How can you?” Taking a shaky breath, he added, “You are pale and sweating. Mother. I have done this with my idiocy. I never should have let you come.”
Karen’s eyes flashed. “Yeah, you’re a real jackass. I forced you to bring me along and then I threw myself between you and an archer. This is all your fault.”
Beri glared at her and she glared back. She was right; of course she was right. No one let Karen MacGregor do anything, even when one happened to be the eldest surviving member of the royal Quintinar house. Sighing, he tucked one of her damp curls behind her ear.
“I will offer you a compromise,” Beri suggested. “I will stay here until you fall asleep. Then I will erect a defensive circle and go for a healer. Will that do?”
She blinked. “What if something happens to you?”
Beri considered his answer carefully, his desire to keep her calm warring with his need to keep her safe. “Your chances are as small if I stay as if I am unable to come back. You cannot ask me to watch you die when I can help you. There is nothing so cruel in you.”
She chewed the corner of her bottom lip, then nodded. Her gaze was haunted with fear. “You’ll stay until I fall asleep?”
Beri pulled her against his side and she rested her head against his heart. She was as hot as a sun and trembled endlessly. She must have spent the entire night worsening in order to be this sick at dawn. He had asked her to tell him if the wound started to hurt again, but he had known even as he said it he could not stop infection if it happened. His magic was not in healing. She must have seen through him. She always did.
Karen’s ragged breathing slowed and evened. He dropped a kiss onto the top of her hair and managed to extricate his arm from under her. She didn’t wake.
He cast the circle as he had promised; he even attempted to disguise their makeshift camp—though he had little talent for Glamourie. He turned his fear into violence and sang a song of lightning before he left her. Perhaps this delicate half-human beauty would die of her wounds, but she would not be accosted by anything from outside his defenses.
Beri stumbled as he walked away from her and his vision blurred. He paused only long enough to shake the fog from his brain and rub his eyes clear. He didn’t have much left now. He needed to find help, and quickly.
On all sides of him, the Enchanted Forest stretched as far as his eyes could see, emerald green and changeless. Birds sang above his head and shafts of sunlight struggled through the thick leaves to pierce the wooded gloom. Finding help would be easiest accomplished with magic, but it had been days since he’d eaten a proper meal and the protective circle had exhausted him. Mage exhaustion lurked in the weight of his limbs.
Beri had no idea where he might go to find help. Even if he found a healer in this lush wasteland, it was unlikely she might be induced to use her skills on his companion. Karen was half-Fey. Her very birth had been an act of treason. He started walking anyway.
Beri was a wizard; he had spent the entirety of his childhood studying meteomancy and was therefore not much given to superstition, but as he walked he prayed. Mother of Us All, let me find some village with a kindly populace or a clever hedge witch. Please do not let Karen die.
I have only now grown courage enough to love her.
But either the Goddess did not hear or She did not care, because Beri wandered on and on and no miracle appeared. His belly grew empty, but he had no time to see to its demands. He had become increasingly used to hunger since fleeing Avalon. He ignored it.
In the distance, a faint sound increased to a dull, steady roar. Beri paused, then altered his direction. It sounded like water, perhaps a strong river. Water Fey often had healing magic. Perhaps he could convince one of them to come back to camp with him.
Cynical, he thought, Having a Quintinar owe you a favor is no small prize.
Through the trees water shone, coin-silver, in the sunlight. As he approached, Beri realized he had miscalculated: he had not found a river. At his feet lay the edge of a tall, white cliff, and below him was a lake so huge it stretched past the range of his vision. White waves crashed against the rocks at the cliff base, and around these the sinuous, scaly tails of mermaids flicked plumes of water into the air.
Beri thought, Where there are mermaids, there are Nixies to eat them, and shuddered. No. There would be no healers in those viciously populated waters. He turned away from the cliff’s edge and moved back inland.
This aimless wandering was not helping. He did not want to wear out his slim energies, but the girl he loved was going to die if he did not think of a better way. Perhaps . . . perhaps he would just open his senses a little and let the weather flow into him. Reading air currents was something he could do with minimal effort. Closing his eyes to aid his concentration, Beri breathed in the magic hovering in the air around him. Power filled his head and chest like the smell of distant rain.
Above him and to the East, that evening’s pending storm was a knot of potential at the edge of his senses. He felt the moisture in the clouds, the sharp snap of electricity as energy built. There, too, hidden in the condensing raindrops was the salt tang of grief, sharp enough to sting. He knew the storms were for his father. Until someone took the High Crown, Thael Quintinar’s rampaging magic would be free to disrupt the natural patterns of everyday life in Faerie. Or perhaps the Goddess missed him as Beri did and these storms were how she wept.
Focus, fool, he told himself. He dropped his attention into the forest canopy above his head. Birds and rodents altered the patterns of the wind currents as air splashed against them; a swarm of pixies generated their own cloud of magical potential. The barometric pressure dipped between the ancient, sleeping trees. Soon, it would be raining. The small animals that dwelt in the branches moved to and fro as they prepared to take cover.
Hot air rose. His awareness rode the currents of cool air toward the ground. The disturbances in the air were larger here. The lake breathed mist into the waiting sky as its top layer evaporated. He turned his attention away from it; a body of water was too much input and would not help his search. He was looking for something living. Particles of air forced themselves against a bear’s shape, then splashed back against him as the creature shook itself. A rabbit expelled its last puff of breath and began to cool as a fox buried its snout into entrails hot enough to release vapor. No. He needed something sentient. A healer.
Closer than he expected, almost close enough to hear a shout, something walked on two legs. Beri’s attention snapped to it and his focus narrowed. The person felt large, almost as large as the bear. A troll, then, or a rock sprite? He hummed a breeze just strong enough to kiss the person’s face. The moving currents outlined a pair of long tusks like those of a boar extruding from the creature’s bottom lip.
Beri recoiled. Ogres, he thought. They were closer now than they had been since Karen was wounded. In the back of his memory, the Wizard Gen whispered, Focus, young prince. Was it one Ogre or many? The answer could mean life or death. His consciousness eddied against a second warm body, then a third, then a group around a cook fire. A troop, then. A troop close enough to hit with a well-thrown rock.
Another mind brushed his thoughts like a caressing hand. Meteomancer, it greeted.
Beri’s eyes flew open and he ran.
Behind him, a voice shouted in Ogre. Branches broke and foliage crashed. Beri swerved around a tree and jumped over a fallen log. He had magic enough to defend against the number of Ogres that chased him, but that voice in his head was wizard-strong. That much magic meant other Fey. After the strain of living in the forest for nearly two weeks, he was not up to a full-on wizard’s duel. Who were they? Avalon was not at war with other Fey! Still, he heard the musical voices of trained magic users mingling with the harsh tones of shouting Ogres. Perhaps Avalon had not been at war with them, but they certainly wanted him now.
He had to get back to Karen; those wizards might be strong enough to break the circle in which he had left her. He shouted down his wards as he drew into sight of his camp and dove into the tent he had made them from leaves and a purple string.
He shook her awake, hard. With one hand she rubbed her face. “I’m up, I’m up.”
“Good,” Beri whispered as Karen opened her eyes. “We have to run.”
Her sleepiness and confusion turned to fear all in an instant. “What is it?”
“Keep your voice down,” Beri hissed. “Ogres. They know where we are.”
“Oh, no,” Karen whispered back. “How did they find us?”
“There are Fey with them,” Beri told her. “They could have tracked us with a hair, or a drop of blood. Their methodology is endless.”
Karen shot him a look of wide-eyed fear and pushed past him to peer through the tent flaps. Then she turned back, gasping. “Sidhe. There are Sidhe hunting us. What are we going to do?”
They were already within her line of sight, then. “Run.”
He dragged her out of the tent. He reined himself in as much as he could bear. She was too sick to run, and she was not full Sidhe. Even the pace he kept taxed her; her breathing rasped in the air behind him.
“What are we going to do?” Karen panted.
“I do not know,” Beri said. His brain buffeted itself against the inside of his skull as he tried to think and run. “They will wear you out long before we wear them out. We have to think of a way to lose them, and quickly.”
“We’ve got to stop,” Karen gasped. “I’m bleeding.”
“If we stop, they will have us in seconds,” Beri said, though his steps faltered. Goddess, he was killing her. “We have to find a way to hide from them.”
“The blood will leave a trail, like before,” Karen observed.
“You may be right about that,” Beri said. “Wait! I have an idea!”
It was raining, he realized for the first time, and darkness had fallen. He had been too panicked to notice. The smell of salt water rode the evening air. If the lake’s energy had disrupted his concentration, it would do the same thing to the wizards who hunted them. He sent his magic spinning between the pounding raindrops to locate the lake’s direction and hauled her toward it.
The lake wasn’t far. In the darkness the water was black and the tidal foam was white against it. The stones below rose above the water, pale as jagged teeth.
Grimly, Beri said, “It’s the Lake of Dark Dreams. We climb down here.”
“Oh, I get it,” Karen panted and held her hand over her wound. Blood, black in the moonlight, soaked her shirt and her fingers. “They can’t get our scent over the water. Good idea.”
“Right. And the waves will break their tracking magic.” Whatever Karen said, this was a terrible idea. But it was the only one he had. He considered her wound. “The only problem is the Nixies.”
“Why are they a problem?” Karen asked.
“Well, they are more like sentient sharks than people. If you encounter any, be very, very polite to them. They are fierce, but they always appreciate good manners. For the Mother’s sake, whatever you do, do not thank them.” He hoped it would help.
“And how did you say we’re going to get down there?”
Beri patted his pockets, looking for his string. Meteomancer or not, even first-year magic students could use sympathetic magic to turn a piece of yarn into a rope. A smart wizard’s kit always included a pitch pipe, a match, and one string. Behind them, a group of Daoine Sidhe glowed silver against the darkness. There were more of them than he had feared. “We will have to climb. Did you see where I left that string?”
Karen asked, “The purple one? You left it back at camp.”
“Mother’s Hair, that was the only string I had. Damn. We shall have to jump.”
With a hiss and a thud, an arrow stuck in Beri’s side. Karen screamed even as the force of the bolt propelled him over the side of the cliff.
As he fell he thought, Karen.
Saturday, November 23, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day November 23
The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
#gypsyshadow #adventure #romance
In Song of Sorcery, Book 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives, hearthwitch Maggie Brown met minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. All in a quest’s work for a girl who can magically do anything she can convince her power is housework. To reward Maggie, the king makes her a princess, and therefore a good catch for the local noble bachelors. Only problem is, she doesn’t want to get married. She wants to be with Moonshine, whose Unicorn Creed, as he understands it, forbids him to consort with anyone except a chaste maiden. It’s rather a touchy situation, and so Princess Maggie abandons her crown and with Moonshine, she and Colin set out to see if they can find a loophole in Moonshine’s creed. Of course, in the process they have to try to save the land of Argonia again, this time from a were-man, a revolutionary nymph, a town’s worth of zombies, an ice worm and an evil wizard.
“Gentle humor, deft plotting and a fine light-handed prose style, all combine to make THE UNICORN CREED a pure delight.” —New York Daily News
Word Count: 146,000
Pages to Print: 302
Price: $5.99
http://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Creed-Seashell-Archives-ebook/dp/B00440DPI
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unicorn-creed-elizabeth-ann-scarborough/1103101831
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/24909
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#Unicorn
Princess
Maggie, Colin Songsmith and Moonshine the unicorn have to try to save
the land of Argonia again, this time from a were-man, a revolutionary
nymph, a town’s worth of zombies, an ice worm and an evil wizard. The
Unicorn Creed, Songs from the Seashell Archives, Elizabeth Ann
Scarborough. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other
fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#Unicorn
Friday, November 15, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day November 15
The Silver House by Janet French
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #adventure
The Zashran invaders are at the gates of Cardanon. As the city falls the Dragon Mothers take the Silver House and the city’s children into hiding away from the mortal world.
The future of the House, the threads of Power and the land itself are in the hands of a ragbag of escapees. Aric, the new Duke of Cardanon; Agbani, a beggar girl; Marka, a House Sister; Bertran, a merchant’s son; and a group of rescued children are led by Genya, a stranded Dragon Mother. Used to the safety of city life they must evade the pursuing Zashran and find their way through a strange and exciting countryside with only their courage and resourcefulness to rely on.
It is up to these few to face the dangers of the road and find their way to the heroes who can help them save the House and their world.
Word Count: 147566
Pages to Print: 439
Price: 5.99
http://www.amazon.com/Silver-House-Cardanon-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B005KAE3PI
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-silver-house-janet-french/1105171341
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/85231
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JanetFrench.html#SilverH
Escapees from a fallen city face the dangers of the road, searching for the Dragons and heroes to help save their world. The Silver House, Cardanon Chronicles, Book 1, by Janet French. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JanetFrench.html#SilverH
Thursday, November 14, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day November 14
The Sidhe and the Dragon: The Seeking by SilverValkyre
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #shortstory
A Sidhe is under the ensorcellment of a dragon—who ya' gonna call? The Bane Sidhe who is his complete and utter enemy? Of course. Cimmerian, at your service. In the world of immortals, a worthy enemy can be difficult to find. Join me in my Seeking of my chief adversary and learn more about the dark side of the Bane Sidhe.
Word Count: 8,259
Pages to Print: 31
Price: $3.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Seeking-Sidhe-Dragon-ebook/dp/B00440DPK4
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-seeking-silver-valkyre/1027987740
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4673
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/Silver.html#Sidhe2
What's
happened to the Elven prince Mahshon is a mystery his arch enemy
Cimmerian intends to unravel. The Seeking, Chapter 2, The Sidhe and the
Dragon by Silver Valkyre. Available from Amazon, other fine eBook vendors
and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/Silver.html#Sidhe2
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day November 13
The Sidhe and the Dragon: Lost Jewel by SilverValkyre
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #shortstory
Welcome to the delightful world of Mahshon, the immortal elven prince. Full of magic and mystical creatures, this world is also home to a particular dragon. This dragon claims a thief has stolen a jewel that belongs to her. She demands that the prince find it and return it to her in two days' time.
But there is something else, something very strange going on here . . . read the rest and find out what it is, it's well worth it!
Word Count: 10,781
Pages to Print: 40
Price: $3.99
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Jewel-Sidhe-Dragon-ebook/dp/B0044KMNCK
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lost-jewel-silver-valkyre/1027987733
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4518
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/Silver.html#Sidhe1
A dragon has lost a precious jewel, stolen from her. What happens when she demands the immortal elven prince Mashon find it and return it to her? The Sidhe and the Dragon: Lost Jewel, Chapter 1, by SilverValkyre. Available from Amazon, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/Silver.html#Sidhe1
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day October 15
The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #adventure
Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father’s) and heads east for the Wild West.
She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a. . .dragon?
Fort Draco, as the comanchero fort is known, is as full of intrigue and nighttime carryings-on as a modern day romantic novel, but Frank Drake, the owner, is no hero. If Valentine wants to save herself and the less-guilty if not entirely innocent folks who live there, she must defeat heat stroke, gunslingers, a couple of fake rainmakers and their camel, hostile Indians, the voice haunting her dreams (not in a good way) and a dragon who not only is gobbling all the livestock and transportation in the area but is guarding the only water hole in fifty miles of drought-ridden desert. And she must do it all while taking good notes, of course.
This is a western but not as we know it and a fantasy set where we’re not used to it.
Word Count: 81,500
Pages to Print: 231
Price: $5.99
http://www.amazon.com/Drastic-Dragon-Draco-Lovelaces-ebook/dp/B0041T4FHA/
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/drastic-dragon-of-draco-texas-elizabeth-ann-scarborough/1103096316
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/23398
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#Drastic
This is a western, but not as we know it; a fantasy, set where we’re not used to it. The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas, by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/ElizabethScarborough.html#Drastic
Monday, October 14, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day October 14
The Dragon Within by Jeanne Guzman
#gypsyshadow #fantasy #romance
Angelica Crossley is trapped in a never-ending nightmare where she’s forced to relive two very important moments in her life: her parents’ deaths and her own kidnapping. Angelica’s only hope to rejoin the real world is Preston of the Anshar Dragons.
Stepping through the Flames of Prophesy, Preston enters Angelica’s nightmare to rescue her from her torment. In the process, he discovers the true reason for her forced slumber. He was meant to bear witness to the evil responsible for her captivity: a dragon from his past . . . a dragon he thought long dead . . . his father.
As Angelica recovers, Preston leaves her side, thinking the only way to give her peace of mind is to hunt down his father and send him into the flames.
Through doubts and mistrust, Angelica and Preston must mend the breach between them, solidify their bond, and learn to embrace the Dragon Within.
Word Count: 73168
Pages to Print: 236 (also Available in Print)
Price: $5.99
http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragon-Within-Hunters-ebook/dp/B009MHDYSW
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dragon-within-jeanne-guzman/1113145141
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/242576
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JeanneGuzman.html#DW
Trapped in a nightmare, Angelica Crossley’s only hope for freedom is the Anshar Dragon Preston. Side-by-side, they learn to embrace the Dragon Within. The Dragon Within, Book 2 of Dragon Hunters by Jeanne Guzman. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JeanneGuzman.html#DW
Monday, July 8, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day July 8
Lady of the Veils by M. L. John
In a suburban town twenty minutes from the border of Faerie lives a young woman named Karen MacGregor. Though she is the daughter of an exiled Faerie princess, Karen leads an unremarkable life full of homework, punk rock and old science fiction movies. When bloody civil war breaks out in her mother’s homeland her life begins to change rapidly. Her brother is presumed dead after his fighter jet is shot down over the Enchanted Forest, and Faerie’s royal family, including Karen’s beloved godfather, have been executed. Accompanied by a Fey Prince with whom she shares a forbidden love and armed with magic she never knew existed, Karen MacGregor must lead a rebel force against an ancient and powerful enemy.
Word Count: 112700
Pages to Print: 348
Price: $5.99
http://www.amazon.com/Veils-Knight-Avalon-Series-ebook/dp/B004UN6B1K
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lady-of-the-veils-m-l-john/1029272732
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/32943
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/MLJohn.html#LadyVeil
Lady of the Veils, Book One of the Knight of Avalon series by M. L. John. A modern day fairy tale, complete with war, passion, love and loss. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/MLJohn.html#LadyVeil
Monday, June 24, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day June 24
In the Dead of Winter, a short story by Tamara A. Lowery
Master Torbin feels honored to be accepted to a post at the University of Cordun and eager to get there. His greatest obstacle is the long trip around the edges of the Forest of Narghill. Why is there no route through the forest? No one in the village he stops in on his way seems to know of any path through. The villagers try their best to delay Master Torbin’s departure, at least until the after the Solstice and the Winter Festival. Only one old man claims to know of a shortcut through the forest, and offers to show it to him. He soon learns why no one travels in the Forest of Narghill, especially on Solstice.
Word Count: 4696
Pages to Print: 18
Price: $2.99
http://www.amazon.com/In-Dead-Winter-ebook/dp/B00A5WUNLO
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/in-the-dead-of-winter-tamara-a-lowery/1113780257
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/254035
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/TamaraLowery.html#DeadWinter
Eager to start his new post at the University of Cordun, Master Torbin ignores the warnings not to travel in the Forest of Narghill on Solstice. In the Dead of Winter, a short story by Tamara A. Lowery. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/TamaraLowery.html#DeadWinter
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
GSP's Book of the Day May 27
The Dragon Lover by Jeanne Guzman
For eighteen years Kimball Crossley trained for the day she’d come face-to-face with the demon who murdered her parents. Nothing could’ve prepared her for the dragon who would change her life forever.
Dmitri of the Langhier Clan is one of the elite Dragon Hunters. For eighteen years he’s stood against evil, believing he’ll forever be a warrior for his people. That is, until the night he’s confronted with his future.
With whispers of war in the air, can Kimball learn to trust what she’s always hated and accept her love for the Dragon Hunter? Dmitri’s skills as a hunter are superior, but can he accept that women, particularly his woman, can be as strong in mind and body as any well-trained hunter? Can they put aside their differences long enough to save both their worlds?
Word Count: 84000
Pages to Print: 270/Print--256 in Print
Price: $5.99/16.99 for Print
http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Lover-Hunters-ebook/dp/B00684D88I
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dragon-lover-jeanne-guzman/1107412873
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/105272
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JeanneGuzman.html#DL
Kimball Crossley trained for the day she’d confront a killer, never expecting the creature who would change her life forever. The Dragon Lover by Jeanne Guzman. Available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at:
http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JeanneGuzman.html#DL
Friday, March 29, 2013
Book of the Day March 29
The Dragon Within by Jeanne Guzman
Angelica Crossley is trapped in a never-ending nightmare where she’s forced to relive two very important moments in her life: her parents’ deaths and her own kidnapping. Angelica’s only hope to rejoin the real world is Preston of the Anshar Dragons.
Stepping through the Flames of Prophesy, Preston enters Angelica’s nightmare to rescue her from her torment. In the process, he discovers the true reason for her forced slumber. He was meant to bear witness to the evil responsible for her captivity: a dragon from his past . . . a dragon he thought long dead . . . his father.
As Angelica recovers, Preston leaves her side, thinking the only way to give her peace of mind is to hunt down his father and send him into the flames.
Through doubts and mistrust, Angelica and Preston must mend the breach between them, solidify their bond, and learn to embrace the Dragon Within.
Word Count: 73168
Pages to Print: 236
Price: $5.99 (also available in print)
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Book of the Day March 12
In the Dead of Winter by Tamara A. Lowery
Master Torbin feels honored to be accepted to a post at the University of Cordun and eager to get there. His greatest obstacle is the long trip around the edges of the Forest of Narghill. Why is there no route through the forest? No one in the village he stops in on his way seems to know of any path through. The villagers try their best to delay Master Torbin’s departure, at least until the after the Solstice and the Winter Festival. Only one old man claims to know of a shortcut through the forest, and offers to show it to him. He soon learns why no one travels in the Forest of Narghill, especially on Solstice.
Word Count: 4696
Pages to Print: 18
Price: $2.99
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Book of the Day February 13
The Unicorn Creed by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
In Song of Sorcery, Book 1 of Songs from the Seashell Archives, hearthwitch Maggie Brown met minstrel Colin Songsmith and a unicorn named Moonshine while saving both her sister and the kingdom. All in a quest’s work for a girl who can magically do anything she can convince her power is housework. To reward Maggie, the king makes her a princess, and therefore a good catch for the local noble bachelors. Only problem is, she doesn’t want to get married. She wants to be with Moonshine, whose Unicorn Creed, as he understands it, forbids him to consort with anyone except a chaste maiden. It’s rather a touchy situation, and so Princess Maggie abandons her crown and with Moonshine, she and Colin set out to see if they can find a loophole in Moonshine’s creed. Of course, in the process they have to try to save the land of Argonia again, this time from a were-man, a revolutionary nymph, a town’s worth of zombies, an ice worm and an evil wizard.
“Gentle humor, deft plotting and a fine light-handed prose style, all combine to make THE UNICORN CREED a pure delight.” —New York Daily News
Word Count: 146,000
Pages to Print: 302
Price: $5.99
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Book of the Day February 11
The Silver House by Janet French
The Zashran invaders are at the gates of Cardanon. As the city falls the Dragon Mothers take the Silver House and the city’s children into hiding away from the mortal world.
The future of the House, the threads of Power and the land itself are in the hands of a ragbag of escapees. Aric, the new Duke of Cardanon; Agbani, a beggar girl; Marka, a House Sister; Bertran, a merchant’s son; and a group of rescued children are led by Genya, a stranded Dragon Mother. Used to the safety of city life they must evade the pursuing Zashran and find their way through a strange and exciting countryside with only their courage and resourcefulness to rely on.
It is up to these few to face the dangers of the road and find their way to the heroes who can help them save the House and their world.
Word Count: 147566
Pages to Print: 439
Price: 5.99 (Also Available in Print)
Escapees from a fallen city face the dangers of the road, searching for the Dragons and heroes to help save their world. The Silver House, Cardanon Chronicles, Book 1, by Janet French. Available from Amazon, other fine eBook vendors and Gypsy Shadow Publishing at: http://www.gypsyshadow.com/JanetFrench.html#SilverH
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Sunday, February 10, 2013
Book of the Day February 10
The Sidhe and the Dragon: The Seeking by SilverValkyre
A Sidhe is under the ensorcellment of a dragon—who ya' gonna call? The Bane Sidhe who is his complete and utter enemy? Of course. Cimmerian, at your service. In the world of immortals, a worthy enemy can be difficult to find. Join me in my Seeking of my chief adversary and learn more about the dark side of the Bane Sidhe.
Word Count: 8,259
Pages to Print: 31
Price: $3.99
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Book of the Day February 9
The Sidhe and the Dragon: Lost Jewel by SilverValkyre
Welcome to the delightful world of Mahshon, the immortal elven prince. Full of magic and mystical creatures, this world is also home to a particular dragon. This dragon claims a thief has stolen a jewel that belongs to her. She demands that the prince find it and return it to her in two days' time.
But there is something else, something very strange going on here . . . read the rest and find out what it is, it's well worth it!
Word Count: 10,781
Pages to Print: 40
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Book of the Day January 20
The Drastic Dragon of Draco, Texas by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Determined to become an author of western penny dreadful novels like her idol, Ned Buntline, a young San Francisco newspaper editor christens herself Valentine Lovelace (after a floozie acquaintance of her father’s) and heads east for the Wild West.
She finds it in spades in the Texas Big Bend when she is kidnapped from a mule train by Comanches and ends up the guest of a ruthless comanchero, a sort of wild west warlord, after the Comanches are distracted by a . . . dragon?
Fort Draco, as the comanchero fort is known, is as full of intrigue and nighttime carryings-on as a modern day romantic novel, but Frank Drake, the owner, is no hero. If Valentine wants to save herself and the less-guilty if not entirely innocent folks who live there, she must defeat heat stroke, gunslingers, a couple of fake rainmakers and their camel, hostile Indians, the voice haunting her dreams (not in a good way) and a dragon who not only is gobbling all the livestock and transportation in the area but is guarding the only water hole in fifty miles of drought-ridden desert. And she must do it all while taking good notes, of course.
This is a western, but not as we know it, and a fantasy set where we’re not used to it.
Word Count: 81,500
Pages to Print: 231
Price: $5.99
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Book of the Day November 6
Lady of the Veils by M. L. John
In a suburban town twenty minutes from the border of Faerie lives a young woman named Karen MacGregor. Though she is the daughter of an exiled Faerie princess, Karen leads an unremarkable life full of homework, punk rock and old science fiction movies. When bloody civil war breaks out in her mother’s homeland her life begins to change rapidly. Her brother is presumed dead after his fighter jet is shot down over the Enchanted Forest, and Faerie’s royal family, including Karen’s beloved godfather, has been executed. Accompanied by a Fey Prince with whom she shares a forbidden love and armed with magic she never knew existed, Karen MacGregor must lead a rebel force against an ancient and powerful enemy.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
New Release October 6, 2012
The Dragon Within by Jeanne Guzman
BOOK TWO--Dragon Hunter Series
Angelica Crossley is trapped in a never-ending nightmare where she’s
forced to relive two very important moments in her life: her parents’
deaths and her own kidnapping. Angelica’s only hope to rejoin the real
world is Preston of the Anshar Dragons.
Stepping through the
Flames of Prophesy, Preston enters Angelica’s nightmare to rescue her
from her torment. In the process, he discovers the true reason for her
forced slumber. He was meant to bear witness to the evil responsible for
her captivity: a dragon from his past . . . a dragon he thought long
dead . . . his father.
As Angelica recovers, Preston leaves her
side, thinking the only way to give her peace of mind is to hunt down
his father and send him into the flames.
Through doubts and
mistrust, Angelica and Preston must mend the breach between them,
solidify their bond, and learn to embrace the Dragon Within.
Also available at Gypsy Shadow Publishing; eBook, and Print available for Pre-order NOW!
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