Promo: Sunbolt By Intisar Khanani @IntisarKhanani @GHBTours

Title- Sunbolt
Series- The Sunbolt Chronicles # 1
By-Intisar Khanani
Publication Date- June 17, 2013
Published By- Purple Monkey Press
Genre- YA Fantasy

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The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to undermine the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame.

When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain-and execute-a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi's, and much worse fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.

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In the darkness, something chuckles, a sound like the rustling of dead grasses, the snapping of winter-hardened twigs underfoot.

"Amused?" Kol asks. "I thought you would appreciate her."

"Your men run like startled rabbits. Their noses even twitch the same way."

I press my back against the wall, turn my head to face the door, and then slowly, while the lantern still lights the room, slide a glance towards the speaker.

Kol tries to laugh. "Humans."

The creature doesn't answer. He sits against the far wall, his legs crossed, his back resting against the stones. He is tall and gaunt, so thin his face is but a skull stretched over with skin, his eyes so faintly colored that I can almost imagine they are not even there. His hair falls to his shoulders in a straggly fringe of white. His tunic and pants hang off his frame, and his hands where they rest over his knees are hardly more than bone. If he were human, he would be dead.

Kol says, "You'll want to know a thing or two about your dinner."

About the Author-

Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five.

Intisar currently resides in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, she wrote grants and developed projects to address community health and infant mortality with the Cincinnati Health Department-which was as close as she could get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising her family and writing fantasy.

Intisar's latest projects include a companion trilogy to her debut novel Thorn, featuring a new heroine introduced in her free short story The Bone Knife … and of course, she's hard at work on the remaining installments of The Sunbolt Chronicles.

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Promo Blitz: Storm Without End By R.J. Blain @rj_blain @RABTBookTours

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By R.J. Blain

Epic Fantasy

Date Published: November 10, 2013

Kalen's throne is his saddle, his crown is the dirt on his brow, and his right to rule is sealed in the blood that stains his hand. Few know the truth about the one-armed Rift King, and he prefers it that way. When people get too close to him, they either betray him or die. The Rift he rules cares nothing for the weak. More often than not, even the strong fail to survive.

When he's abducted, his disappearance threatens to destroy his home, his people, and start a hopeless and bloody war. There are many who desire his death, and few who hope for his survival. With peace in the Six Kingdoms quickly crumbling, it falls on him to try to stop the conflict swiftly taking the entire continent by storm.

But something even more terrifying than the machinations of men has returned to the lands: The skreed. They haven't been seen for a thousand years, and even the true power of the Rift King might not be enough to save his people - and the world - from destruction.

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"Be welcomed to the Spire of the Eternal, Breton, Guardian of the King. What do you seek?"

"Knowledge and advice," he admitted, unable to stop from frowning. "Is Crysallis here?"

"My sister walks the world. I may be young, but perhaps I can help?" Asaleese cocked her head to the side. Without looking away from him, she reached up and threw back the hood of her cloak to reveal her short-cropped, black hair. "Come, and be as one of us for as long as you can."

Breton shoved his hand in his pocket and pulled out the pouch he'd taken from the corpses on the plains. "Do you know of the outsiders?"

"I did know of them. You will be pleased, I think, to learn that their voices do not pollute the song of our ancestors. One remains, but flees up the trails in fear of the one who follows. I feel for their horses, wretched though they might be. I do not think he will find them worthy."

"He?"

Instead of replying, the witch gestured for him to follow. Stairs circled the entry niche's walls to vanish through a hole far above.

Breton swallowed back a sigh and began to climb. "I haven't seen Crysallis in quite a while."

"She wanders far," Asaleese replied.

"It seems like a rather contagious disease. I don't suppose you have a cure for it, do you?" Breton asked in a dry tone.

"You've been keeping company with Maiten again, haven't you?"

"Not for half a year or more. He's in Mithrias."

"He'll be disappointed to learn of all of the excitement he has missed, then." Asaleese guided him to the next level and sprawled on a stone bench covered with pillows. A thick carpet of furs covered the stone, and another bench lined the far wall. "Sit. Be comfortable. A drink? Perhaps I can tempt you with some Hessis for when we've finished talking about what has brought you up here."

"I might be tempted," Breton admitted, flashing the witch a smile. "It may be a while until we cross paths again."

"Then allow me to give you a fitting farewell until we meet again. I, for one, will miss your skill in the spearing caves." Asaleese sighed. "Do try not to get yourself killed chasing after that foal of yours."

"And here I thought you'd miss me for other reasons," Breton replied, feigning disappointment.

"We'll discuss this at length - later. Surely that pouch isn't all that brought you up the Eternal Spire?" The witch held out her hand. Breton dropped the pouch into her palm and sat on the floor beside her.

"It did, in part. What's in it?"

"You haven't opened it?"

Breton shook his head. "They had poisoned their weapons."

"What do you think is within?"

"The Three Sisters," Breton replied with a cringe. "I was hoping it wasn't."

"You're wise not to open it then." Asaleese slipped a finger under the string tying the pouch closed and opened it. Three sachets fell out into the palm of her other hand. "It seems your guess may have been correct." Setting two of the smaller pouches aside, she opened the third and dipped her finger in. She lightly touched the white powder to the tip of her tongue. "Vellest. It seems it is as you feared."

RJ Blain suffers from a Moleskine journal obsession, a pen fixation, and a terrible tendency to pun without warning.

When she isn't playing pretend, she likes to think she's a cartographer and a sumi-e painter. In reality, she herds cats and a husband. She also has a tendency to play MMOs and other computer games.

In her spare time, she daydreams about being a spy. Should that fail, her contingency plan involves tying her best of enemies to spinning wheels and quoting James Bond villains until she is satisfied.

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Blitz: Once Upon a Darker Time By M.J. Bell @MarlaBell2 @GHBTours

Once Upon a Darker Time

Series- Chronicles of the Secret Prince Book # 2

By- M.J. Bell

Defying the odds, Deston Lespérance defeated Grossard, the Solitary Faerie who kidnapped his mother and father, and delivered the Light Crystal back to Tir na-nÓg in time to secure the Fae's reign of the high realm. Now at long last, his dream of having a whole family has come to pass. Unfortunately, "happily ever after" doesn't last forever, for Grossard lives and is more resolved than ever to get his revenge on the Fae-this time teaming up with Mordred to unleash the darkness which has lain dormant since the earth's creation.

Deston, though still struggling with his newly found powers, sets off with Margaux on another epic adventure to locate and destroy the Shard of Erebus before Grossard and Mordred can find it. He is fully aware the stakes are high, but he has no idea the scope of sacrifices he'll be required to make. As his world crumbles around him and his friends fall, he holds onto the only glimmer of hope he has left … that the Fae power and strength truly does reside within him and that he still has a chance to become the hero they claim him to be.

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