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)
Video Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/CZ6BN0RquJk
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
Video Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/8TRLY5eKrD4
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.
Author Links:
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