Release Day! AG Henley's "The Gatherer: A Brilliant Darkness Story"

THE GATHERER by AG Henley

Alev is proud to be a Fire Sister, one of a fierce group of women who live in a flaming mountain compound called the Cloister. The Sisters live without men, so Alev Gathers young girls to replenish their numbers. After she plucks young Kaiya from the remote village of Koolkuna, the girl’s father follows them into the wilderness. Alev keeps him at bay, but over time she suspects that this man, at least, isn’t the monster she was taught all men are. 

When Kaiya's father manages to reach the Cloister, the Sisters want to put him to death. Alev can look the other way, or she can heed the growing whispers of her heart to help the girl and her father escape. But to defy the Fire Sisters is to revoke the only life and family Alev has ever known—and to face certain death herself. 
THE GATHERER is an exciting 50-page prequel novella in the young adult fantasy Brilliant Darkness series. The first novel, THE SCOURGE, was a finalist for the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Award. Two novels and two short stories are currently available. The final novel in the series, THE FIRE SISTERS, releases September 25, 2015. 

READ CHAPTER ONE at the Infinite Ink Authors website!

Recommended series reading order: 
THE SCOURGE 
THE KEEPER: A BRILLIANT DARKNESS STORY
THE DEFIANCE 
THE GATHERER: A BRILLIANT DARKNESS STORY
THE FIRE SISTERS (coming September 2015) 

A.G. Henley is the author of the bestselling BRILLIANT DARKNESS series. The first book in the series, THE SCOURGE, was a finalist for the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Award. She is represented by Caryn Wiseman of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

A.G. is also a clinical psychologist, which means people either tell her their life stories on airplanes, or avoid her at parties when they've had too much to drink. Neither of which she minds. When she's not writing fiction or shrinking heads, she can be found herding her children and their scruffy dog, Guapo, to various activities while trying to remember whatever she's inevitably forgotten to tell her husband. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

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New Kindle Release: The Heartbeat Thief by AJ Krafton

AJ Krafton has just released her debut New Adult novel…a Victorian dark fantasy, THE HEARTBEAT THIEF.

“True to its word, "The Heartbeat Thief" is part Jane Austen, part Edgar Allen Poe. The author revives the best of the style of writing found in the classics: the introspect of characters, lovely allusions comparing characters to nature and life, beautiful alliteration and prose. Mixed with this is a deep foreboding of death, a macabre sensation that follows Senza throughout the story…” Ronesa Aveela, Author of the Mystical Emona series

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Haunted by a crushing fear of death, a young Victorian woman discovers the secret of eternal youth-- she must surrender her life to attain it, and steal heartbeats to keep it.

THE HEARTBEAT THIEF is on sale for 99c through Saturday, June 13, 2015.

Time Out for Tea

So, the book came out today.*drums fingers* Yep.

What am I doing, you ask? Why aren’t I madly blogging and shouting and hugging the print ARC?

Well, I’m having tea, of course. It’s a quiet moment.

Ok, to be perfectly honest, I’m usually having tea. I have an electric tea pot that keeps me in fresh supply of Darjeeling and Irish Breakfast and I carry a thermos when I leave the house. It's caffeine for the writing and bliss for the soul. I thrive on tea.

But today, I’m not having any old tea. I’m brewing a pot of Senza Fyne tea.

*cheeky grin* That’s right. I actually named a tea after the main character in my Victorian dark fantasy THE HEARTBEAT THIEF.

Tea is an important aspect of Senza’s life. It’s nearly invisible in its necessity and commonplace constancy, yet it's the vehicle for so many important social negotiations. It’s a comforting ritual that she enjoys all her very long life, a way to connect to the past and to the memory of who she is, who she was, who she’s loved and lost. Here is the tea lore for Senza Fyne tea from Adagio:

“The Heartbeat Thief herself: Senza Fyne. Her love for a proper tea is as eternal as her youth and beauty. This blend evokes the bright flavors of her Victorian childhood, all its hopes and aspirations...as well as a sobering touch of earthiness. Life and death, breath and grave, beauty amidst the decay. Such is the complexity of she who stands apart from life and death.”

Right now, the Senza Fyne tea is brewing. In a few minutes, it will be poured and sugared and sampled (I haven’t tasted it yet so I’m jittery with anticipation.) I even have a plate of biscuits waiting for Senza’s arrival. I can’t wait for that first sip.

If I like it, I’ll share it with you all. (Right now, it’s set to “private” on the Adagio.com website.) And, who knows? Maybe new blends are coming. There’s Knell, Felicity, Mary…so many characters, so many unique flavors to their stories.)

While you’ll have to wait a little longer for a taste of Senza Fyne tea, you don’t have to wait to read her story. THE HEARTBEAT THIEF released on Kindle today, so you can download your copy now.

To learn more about AJ (who also writes as Ash Krafton) visit her web site.

You can also join in the release day giveaway by entering through this Rafflecopter.

New Release: No Return by Zoe Cannon

At last--

the newest Internal Defense novel from

YA author Zoe Cannon!

No Return

The conclusion to the Internal Defense series

 

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Every dissident knows about Becca Dalcourt.

They know about the lives she’s saved. About the prison break she carried out against impossible odds. They know she turned a dying resistance into the first real threat Internal Defense has faced in a long time.

And even now, with the resistance under attack from the inside, they know Becca can save them.

They’re wrong.

The conclusion to the story that began with The Torturer’s Daughter and Necessary Sacrifices, No Return explores what happens when an ordinary person becomes a legend – and how to choose between who you are and who the world needs you to be.

Zoe Cannon writes about the things that fascinate her: outsiders, societies no sane person would want to live in, questions with no easy answers, and the inner workings of the mind. If she couldn't be a writer, she would probably be a psychologist, a penniless philosopher, or a hermit in a cave somewhere. While she'll read anything that isn't nailed down, she considers herself a YA reader and writer at heart. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and a giant teddy bear of a dog, and spends entirely too much time on the internet.

 

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