Book Tour: From Ashes to Magic (Anthology) + Giveaway

by Various Authors

Genre: YA Fantasy

Release Date: December 2nd, 2019

Summary

It’s when they creep out of the shadows that you should beware. The good ones will hold your hand when you’re having a nightmare; the bad ones BECOME your nightmare, seeping into your very soul and burrowing in the darkness until they’ve completely taken over.
Ten authors. Ten stories. Many supernatural beings you’ve come to know and love.
Once you plunge into these pages, you won’t want to leave.

*****

REBIRTH by A. Denner

Immortality always comes with a sacrifice. But how can Nova finish the deed when her Prey is the only one that can save her?

GABBY’S FUTURE by Mikki Noble

A future-telling tree offers Gabby an unpromising future she must try to change. Will that change make things better or worse?

LIFE AND DEATH by Nita Pan

Brimming with love and betrayal, the courtship between two gods explores what it means to have humanity. Is the divine romance between Life and Death doomed from the very beginning?

CHOSEN by Jennifer C. Colvin

Stolen away to the Philippine Underworld by a mysterious goddess, dutiful and meek Bituin, a young girl from a small hidden mountain town on Cabu Island, discovers the gods have chosen her as a Babaylan (shaman). Newly imbued with powers beyond her wildest imagination, Bituin’s spiritual awakening sends her life into upheaval and rocks the foundation of her quiet town.

BROKEN PROMISES by Evelyn Chartres

A young woman finds herself isolated from all she knows when her home is set ablaze. Despite insurmountable odds, she must risk traversing unfamiliar and hostile territory to find help, or declare her life forfeit.

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET? by Carmen Adams

Palkar Village is a bloodthirsty place for those of the supernatural, and after years of senseless persecution the Sorcerer community sought refuge elsewhere. For decades the Earth Sorceress Alina lived peacefully among her kind in a deep forest until one night of magic changed her world. The Sorcerer community lived in secret tranquility for decades…but would things stay that way?

HAVENLESS by Ryen Lesli

Bitter Regret creates beautiful betrayal in Havenless. In the fall of 1513, the ebb was torn apart by the tragic love story of Torr and his Witch, Nahlia. Murdered by her own twin, Nahlia’s lost spirit roams the Haven clan, leaving Torr with a broken heart, fighting against the shocking betrayal that stole everything from him. A betrayal that will echo through time.

SULFUR NIGHT by Abby Paul

Cursed. Tainted. Marked. The children born on the sulfur night aren’t like the rest of us. They can serve only one purpose. Perhaps the new gods are as blood thirsty as the old.

THE LOCKSMITH by Air Meghlen

For Cara, a non-magical human, in a world of magic, picking locks is how she makes a living. Her quiet life is threatened when a mysterious traveler brings her a complex lock that makes her the target of a powerful enemy.

ORDINARY FAE by Melony Paradise

The only way to hide from a Fae king is to live among humans—as a human. Can Izbella Rane have the normal life she wants, or will she be forced into a world her family fled from?

GOODREADS

AMAZON

Excerpt

Ordinary Fae by Melony Paradise

A football zipped past my head, circled around my mother, and followed my annoying brother out of the kitchen, narrowly missing the antique cookie jar. His high-pitched laugh pierced my ears even after he’d vanished into the living room. I rolled my eyes at my mom and swiped a finger across the lopsided chocolate cake she was frosting.
“You should’ve left the glamour binding on him, Mom,” I said, stuffing my frosted finger into my mouth as she swatted at me with the spatula. “Do we really have to wait to take my binding off? I’m so tired of being ordinary!”
“Yes, Izzy,” she said, sighing. “You know we must wait until the actual time of your birth in Faeloria, and that isn’t until ten twenty-three tonight. Now, if you ask me again, I’ll make you wait—indefinitely.”
I slumped back from the island counter, arms crossed, and pouted. Mom smirked and winked at me, turning to wash the dishes she’d used to bake my birthday cake.
“I’m going to be eighteen—an adult!” I slapped my hands down on the counter and growled. “I’ll be able to drop my glamour whenever I want, and use my magic, whatever it is.” I let out a loud, exaggerated sigh aimed directly at my mother.
Mom turned around to cock an eyebrow at me while drying her hands with a dishtowel. “You’ll be fourteen, little miss. The age of majority for Fae, yes, but that doesn’t make you an adult. Being mature and responsible with the magics, and as a person, makes you an adult. Once the binding comes off, you’ll feel different, more powerful. That can go to your head. Don’t make us regret this.”
“I’ll be more responsible than Kye was after he got his magic.” I huffed a little laugh and shook my head. “You remember when he went to his football game without his glamour on?”
“It’s a good thing his natural coloring is the same as the high school colors.”
We giggled, remembering how we watched my brother walk onto the football field with blue skin and green hair. Luckily, he played it off as a prank and danced around the field with the mascot.
“I invited Bren, by the way.” I smirked, knowing that would push her buttons. Being a teenager was fun sometimes.
She shot a glare at me. “Izbella,” she said hotly, wagging a finger at me, “you get to kick him out after cake then. You know he can’t be here when we perform the unbinding.”
I rolled my eyes. “Fine. But I wish I could tell him about us. I hate keeping such a ginormous secret from my best friend.”
Mom came around the island and wrapped an arm around my shoulders. “I know, sweetheart, but he’s human. We can’t let humans know we exist. If it got out, the king could find us and force us back to Bilora, or worse, turn us into the Prime Fae. Then we would have to live the rest of our very long lives in the worst prison of Faeloria.”
It was difficult to really understand what she was saying. My parents had lectured us so many times about the dangers of our home world, but they were just stories of a land I’d never seen.
The Prime Fae governed Faeloria from afar as they sat in their ivory towers, turning their noses up at most of Fae kind. They let the regions rule themselves but stepped in only when they deemed it necessary. Unfortunately, forced betrothal was beyond their purview.
“I know, Mom. Being the Vex Fae princess would be almost as bad as centuries in a Fae prison.” I sighed. “I know, without a doubt, that Bren would keep our secret, but I won’t tell him. I swear.”
Leaning away from me, Mom nodded and gave me a tight smile. “Good. Your father and I will never let anyone force you to marry into that vile family and live amongst the immoral Vex Fae.”
I stood and hugged my mom. She kissed my forehead and pushed me towards the living room. At the doorway, I glanced over my shoulder at my beautiful mother, with her pale blue skin and shimmery, turquoise hair, putting away dishes in the cozy kitchen.
“I’ll keep all of our secrets,” I muttered to myself, “as long as I don’t have to be ordinary anymore.”