Blitz: Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by Annette Marie + Giveaway
Slaying Monsters for the Feeble
by Annette Marie
(The Guild Codex: Demonized #2)
Published by: Dark Owl Fantasy Inc.
Publication date: November 1st, 2019
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy
Synopsis
For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I’m responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer.
Demons are evil.
That’s what my textbooks say. That’s what I see. He’s ruthless, he’s temperamental, he’s cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he’s hiding a heart behind his hostility.
My demon is a monster.
Heartless or not, my contract with him is illegal and beyond dangerous. Together, we need to find a way to send him back to his own world before anyone discovers our secret. If that wasn’t difficult enough, there’s another problem:
My demon isn’t the only monster I should be worried about.
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From the author of The Guild Codex: Spellbound comes a new series that will plunge an unprepared young woman into the darkest magic of the mythic world.
Excerpt
I dashed into the bathroom, pulling the infernus out of my sweater with one hand.
“Zylas,” I said breathlessly. “Come out.”
The silver pendant glowed. Red light spilled down, then expanded into Zylas’s shape. As his body solidified in front of me, his dark eyes gazed into mine—then he crumpled.
I grabbed him, gasping at his weight, and he clutched the towel rack for balance. It tore off the wall. As he staggered, Amalia dove into the bathroom and braced him from behind. Supporting him between us, Amalia and I pulled him over to the tub and tried to ease him down, but he was too heavy. He slipped backward and fell into the tub, his legs hooked over the edge and elbows smacking into the opposite side with hollow thuds.
“Sorry, Zylas,” I panted. “Amalia, get the hot water on.”
She spun the tap and water blasted from the showerhead, spraying across him. His dark eyes went wide.
“Cold!” he gasped, seizing the tub’s edge. With sudden strength, he hauled himself up.
“It’ll get warm in a minute!” I exclaimed. Amalia and I caught his shoulders and held him back. The last thing we needed was for him to collapse on the floor. “Just wait—”
He grabbed the front of my shirt and tried to pull himself out of the water—almost yanking me down on top of him.
“Idiot demon!” Amalia shoved him under the spray. He landed hard, water drenching him. “Would you toughen up for a damn sec—”
Zylas’s head lolled back, half-lidded eyes emptying as though a light had been flicked off. He went limp.
My heart gave one panicked lurch and stopped. “Turn off the water!”
Amalia wrenched on the tap. The water cut off.
“Zylas?” Putting a knee on the tub’s edge, I pressed a hand to his cheek, then patted it gently. No
reaction. I held my fingers over his nose and mouth, lightheaded with relief when I felt his breath.
“Zylas?”
Amalia leaned over his other side. “I think he’s unconscious.” Her stunned stare turned to me. “We just knocked out a demon with cold water.
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