Title: Child of the Sacred Earth
Series: The Lost Kingdom of Fallada, Book #2
By: Alicia Michaels
Publisher: Anchor Group Publishing
Release Date: June 2013 (Exact Date TBA)
Blurb:
Get a degree, get a job, save adorable foster siblings from the clutches of the evil foster mom …
These
are Jocylene Sanders’ top priorities as she enters her sophomore year
of college. The last thing she expects is to find herself the champion
of an entire kingdom. However, that is just what happens when the
mysterious Faerie, Rothatin Longspear, appears to her tasking her with
saving a parallel world full of creatures from her wildest dreams.
Jocylene
journeys with him into the world of Fallada, hoping for answers about
her birth parents and background. What she finds is a mystifying past,
and an even more uncertain future, as her heart becomes entangled with
the stoic, battle-hardened Rothatin, as well as Eli, the untroubled
Panther Shifter with no loyalties and no home. With her heart and soul
pulled in so many directions, can Jocylene find the strength needed to
become the savior one nation so desperately needs?
Excerpt:
Okay,”
Jocylene held her hands up to halt Jake’s speech. “Let me get this
straight. My mother is the bitch queen of all evil and wants to take
over the world. You think that me and a band of teenage princesses have
enough combined power to stop her, and you expect me to lead battles in
this epic war against a hostile takeover?”
Jake cleared his throat again and blushed, nodded his head slowly. “That about sums it up, Princess.”
“Hell.
No. Hell-to-the-no. Forget it. There is no way you can convince me that
I’ve got what it takes to lead a freaking army, let alone go up against
a woman evil and sadistic enough to kidnap seven girls and cast them
into another world. Her doing that was obviously a warning; ‘stay away
little princesses’. Fine by me!”
“You are being irrational,” Rothatin said in that infuriatingly arrogant way of his. Jocylene turned her narrowed eyes on him.
“Says
a man who flew to my rescue tonight on a gigantic owl! If your world is
separate from mine, then it’s all the better for me because I have no
desire to go there or become part of anyone else's plans.”
“Do
you have any idea how powerful you are?” Wil asked, his hands on his
hips as he came forward and stared down at her from behind the smoke
trailing out of his pipe.
“I do,” Rothatin muttered as he stared out over the blanket of pine trees beneath them.
“I’ve seen it with my own eyes. It is easy to see why Eranna would be afraid of her.”
“Sounds
to me like she doesn’t have much to fear,” Jocylene countered. “If
she’s as powerful as you’re telling me, I don’t stand a chance in Hell.”
“Not by yourself,” Jake agreed. “But with the others—“
“Where
are they?” she asked, her arms spread wide. “Where are these others
girls? As far as I can tell, you guys are just casting your net out to
see who you can catch. Sure, you got lucky once and now you’ve done it a
second time. But seven seems like a big number when we’re talking about
the possible end of the world here. Besides, things happen in this
world too; cancer, car wrecks … who says these other girls are even
alive? I’m having a hard time believing your luck will hold out. And
then what happens? I’ve given up what’s left of my life fighting for a
lost cause.”
“Do
not think to question the powers of the Fae Queen,” Rothatin growled,
coming up from his relaxed pose against the ship’s rail, his shoulders
squared and his jaw gone hard and tight. “Her power is ten times that of
the dark queen and her all-seeing eyes are everywhere. She will find
them, just as she found you.”
“I’m
sure your queen is a nice lady, and I mean no disrespect to her when I
ask this but, if she’s so dang powerful, why hasn’t she stopped my
mother herself?”
“Because
the Fae are the keepers of fate and destiny,” Rothatin answered with an
agitated eye-roll, as if this were information she should already be
privy to. “We do everything we can to guide those in our realm on the
right path but in the end their decisions are ultimately their own. We
cannot interfere. And even if we wanted to, Eranna’s iron fortress keeps
us out.”
“The
Fae’s only weakness is the element of iron,” Jake supplied from behind
Rothatin’s hulking form. “Her fortress is surrounded by it.”
“Well,
you just said yourself that you can’t force me,” Jocylene huffed. “So,
do whatever you need to do to turn this ship around and take me home.
Or, let me off here for all I care. I can find my own way back home.”
“That
is foolish, as well as dangerous,” Wil said to her retreating back as
she turned to make her way back across the deck. “Eranna will not stop
sending her minions after you. Of all the princesses of Fallada, she
fears her own daughters the most!”
She
paused and turned, shooting a glance at the three men watching her walk
away with expressions of horror, anger, and dismay on their faces. “In
case your friend here didn’t tell you, I am more than capable of
protecting myself and those kids in there. Send whoever you want; they
won’t get far. Once Michael, Vincent, and Gracie wake up, I’m out of
here whether you want to give me a ride home or not.”
Other Books In The Series:
Prequel: Beyond The Iron Gate (A Lost Kingdom of Fallada Novella)
Blurb: In
the year 1845, before the mystical land of Fallada was separated from
the realm of men forever, the two worlds coexisted in harmony. Man could
mingle freely in the world of the Elves and Faeries at will and peace
reigned. In the hills of Shropshire, England, just miles from the gate
separating the village of Ludlow from the world of mystical creatures,
farmer’s daughter Zara Wells longs for answers.
It
is not only the golden hair that trail feet behind her, or the strange
hue of her violet eyes that separates her from the other girls her
village. There is something inside of her, something touched by magic
that longs to know more about what lies on the other side of the gate.
In Fallada, darkness has begun to spread. As the youngest and most
beautiful girls of her village begin to disappear, Zara comes closer to
discovering the true circumstances surrounding her birth. Little does
she know, that the closer she comes to the answers she so desperately
desires, the closer she will come to being ensnared in the dark queen’s
web of growing treachery.
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Book 1: Daughter of the Red Dawn
Blurb: These
are dark times in the land of Fallada, and I fear that they will only
continue to grow darker. Only the return of those we’ve lost will even
the score.
It will begin with first line of the prophecy, which foretells of a red sun over the desert sky…
--Adrah, Queen of the Fae
On
the outside, seventeen year-old Selena McKinley is like any other
teenage girl. Yet Selena has always felt as if she doesn’t belong and is
counting the days to graduation and her freedom from the small town
that makes her feel so out of place, when the arrival of a stranger
turns her world upside down. Selena will learn just how different she is
and the truth of where she comes from.
A
lost princess, they call her, the catalyst for a war involving a world
that Selena was taken from as a child. An evil queen obsessed with her
own beauty with a plan to enslave the human race.…the notion seems so
silly, yet Selena knows in her heart that it is true. Then there is
Titus, the shape shifter whose blue eyes and claims of destiny hold her
heart captive. Can Selena find the strength to do what she must while
following her heart?
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About The Author:
Ever
since she first read books like Chronicles of Narnia or Goosebumps,
Alicia has been a lover of mind-bending fiction. Wherever imagination
takes her, she is more than happy to call that place her home. The
mother of two and wife to an Army sergeant loves chocolate, coffee, and
of course good books. When not writing, you can usually find her with
her nose in a book, shopping for shoes and fabulous jewelry, or spending
time with her loving family.
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