BLOG TOUR STOP~ THE MIRAGE by C. Warner-Thompson
Blurb:
Abbii can’t remember a time when Shadows weren’t chasing
her.
Everywhere she goes they are there, hunting her down.
Since discovering the magical powers in her grasp, she has
fought against members of the Forgotten- those pulled into Darkness willingly-
and her friends have fallen into danger. Innocent people have lost their lives
and the Shadows have spread. Abbii’s friends have fought to remain by her side,
but something inside of her has changed.
She is filled with regret and pain of losing her best friend
Jake, though she keeps it hidden well- not even Nate can see the damage. Her
lack of emotion pushes him to leave and he is thrown into his own spiralling
destiny.
Abbii has a choice- to stay by her friends’ sides and fight
to protect their home, or leave the realm she knows and search for those that
she has lost. Her heart is broken but her friends cannot help her. She has to
choose between searching for Jake in the Dark, or whether to return to Nate’s
side and keep the Light burning brightly.
The question is, will Light be able to save her from the
Darkness within?
Excerpt:
Two Shadows caught sight of him then, screeching loudly as they oozed towards him. He straightened his back and ran at them, jumping into the air when little ground separated them. Rolling to absorb his landing once he had moved through the air, he kicked the creatures’ legs, causing them to fall to the ground. Sharp fingers of ice pierced their bodies, causing them to wriggle and screech in pain. Nate commanded his magic to spread fluently, and without much warning, the Shadows disintegrated, leaving only remnants of the cold matter behind.
He looked around briefly to search for his friends. Alice was near the water’s edge, stopping as many of the Shadows as she could from reaching dry ground. Lyu was nowhere to be seen. A lump built in the back of Nate’s throat as he thought of how timid and reserved Lyu was. She wasn’t ready to fight—he had to find her.
Running towards a stray Shadow that seemed dazed, Nate grabbed at its head before it could retaliate and twisted its neck. Its body fell to the ground limply as he continued to run. Small tendons of the black substance stretched towards him as he moved, though he easily avoided contact with them, following the declining beach. The air strangely grew colder as he neared the water, proving that the Shadows thrived in the cold, though he didn’t understand why the Shadowed form that had taken Tricia’s body had recoiled from the cold wind. Nate guessed that the metamorphosis process of changing a human into a Shadow needed warmth.
A body collided into Nate with no warning, knocking him from his feet. He inhaled a quick breath to compensate for the hastened exhalation and then moved to the side to see who it was. Alice was on her back, trying to catch her breath as well. She leaned her head to the side and met Nate’s gaze.
“N-nice of you to join me,” she stuttered.
He struggled a smile and moved to his feet, extending his hand. She stood up with his help and then took a moment to look over the beach. So many bodies, Shadows and humans, littered the sand. Her magic formed as her fists clenched. She turned and started to run towards the largest of the creatures.
“Alice, wait! Where’s Lyu?”
Turning on the spot briefly, her irises were overcome with light. “We parted ways.” And with nothing more said, she disappeared from sight, materialising a moment later on the back of the creature. Nate ran towards it, calling upon his magic.
He had never seen such a large creature before. Its legs were strong and well built, ending in sharpened talons ready to kill. Masses of fur surrounded its neck and underside, creating the illusion of black skin, though Nate could see that its colour was closer to maroon. It roared ferociously as Alice stabbed at its neck, and it grabbed at her body harshly. Ideally Nate would have left to search for Lyu, but Alice needed his help. He created a blast of heated energy which surged ahead of him as he continued to run.
Author Bio:
Clemy was born in the UK in 1991 where she still lives,
growing up alongside one younger and three older brothers.
Books and writing was an interest that she began to develop
from the first years of secondary school, and on her thirteenth birthday,
she began to plan and design the idea to write a fantasy novel. She
finished secondary school with high GCSE's and then went on into further
education to study English and all aspects of art and design. After six
years of writing, planning and overall editing of the book, it was successfully
completed, containing over 82,000 words, and self published in the first
week of 2011.
With high expectations in herself, she immediately began to
write a second novel in the series, while keeping her art and design a part of
the process. The achievement of completing the first novel 'Purest Light,'
allowed the ideas of the second to flow much easier and it was completed by
early 2012. As she was writing the third and final book, New Beginnings, at the
same time, the series was finished by its publication in 2013.
Writing is now a part of her everyday and she has now
started her newest project, The Mirage, which is book two of three.
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