by Jamie Marchant
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GENRE: Fantasy (epic)
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BLURB:
In a world where the corrupt church
hides the truth about magic, the fate of the joined kingdom falls on the
shoulders of two young people from opposite ends of the social hierarchy.
Crown Princess Samantha’s life
begins to fall apart when she starts seeing strange colors around her potential
suitors. She fears that she’s going insane--or worse that she’s defying the
Goddess’s will. Robrek is a lowly farmboy with incredible magical powers. He
has been biding his time waiting to get revenge on those who call him a demon.
Thrown together by chance, they must
overcome their differences to fight their common enemy Duke Argblutal, who,
with dark magic, is slowly poisoning the king’s mind and turning him against
his own daughter. Time is running out
for those chosen by the Goddess to prevent the power mad duke from usurping the
throne and plunging the joined kingdoms into civil war.
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EXCERPT
He
returned to the horses, loaded the supplies on Wild Thing, and rode in silence
to the abandoned stable. Robbie led the horse inside. When he lit the lantern
he kept there, he let out a whistle of amazement. The horse was a
bronze-colored mare that looked more like it was forged out of metal than
living flesh! But the horse’s impossible color wasn’t the only thing that
struck Robbie. Sores spotted the beast’s body; puss and blood oozed from under
the saddle. The horse’s coat was matted with dried blood. Her ribs stood out in
stark detail. How could anyone neglect a horse so badly? “Where could you have
come from, girl?” Robbie could feel a wail building up inside the horse, so he
hurried to take the armor and other equipment off her back, unsaddled her, and
removed her harness.
“I don’t think you’re a demon. But I don’t
know what you are. By the look of the armor you must have been some knight’s
lady. But what happened to him? Sores like these don’t form overnight. If he’s
still alive, he obviously doesn’t deserve a lady like you. So how about it?
Will you be my lady?” He paused at the sound of his own words. Milady. “I had a
lady once. For one day, that is. My brother didn’t approve—I’m sure he wouldn’t
approve of you, either.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jamie began writing stories
about the man from Mars when she was six, and she never remembers wanting to be
anything other than a writer. Everyone told her she needed a back up plan, so
she pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which she received in 1998. She
started teaching writing and literature at Auburn University. One day in the
midst of writing a piece of literary criticism, she realized she’d put her true
passion on the backburner and neglected her muse. The literary article went
into the trash, and she began the book that was to become The Goddess’s Choice.
She is now releasing an expanded edition of the novel. Her other novels include
The Soul Stone and The Ghost in Exile. In addition, she has published a
novella, Demons in the Big Easy, and a collection of short stories, Blood
Cursed and Other Tales of the Fantastic. Her short fiction has also appeared in
the anthologies--Urban Fantasy and Of Dragons & Magic: Tales of the Lost
Worlds—and in Bards & Sages, The World of Myth, A Writer’s Haven, and
Short-story.me. She claims she writes about the fantastic . . . and the
tortured soul. Her poor characters have hard lives. She lives in Auburn,
Alabama, with her husband and four cats, which (or so she’s been told)
officially makes her a cat lady. She still teaches writing and literature at
Auburn University. She is the mother of a grown son.
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ReplyDeleteThe Goddess's Choice sounds really good just from reading the blurb & excerpt. The cover is nice too! Adding this one to my list of must reads so I can see what happens. :)
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