By Tonya Macalino
Who created that slide of silk across your skin as you reached for your cinematic lover? Who recorded the crushing weight of the grizzly as you fought for your life in the fictional wilderness? It is Lone Pine Pictures’ Alyse Kate Bryant who wraps your body in the story only your mind was privy to before.
A brilliant sensory immersion artist and a wild daredevil, Alyse will do almost anything for the perfect sensory file, but the violent death of her father has her teetering on the very edge of reckless sanity.
For just one night, Alyse seeks refuge in the arms of a beautiful stranger.
And her recklessness finally has consequences.
Now Alyse finds herself trapped in the flooded ruins of Venice, a quarantine camp for the carriers of Sleepers’ Syndrome. But it can never be that simple. Because the Sleepers’ Syndrome carriers who populate the camp are no longer as human as they seem.
The city of legend is bringing its legends back to life.
They come now, Alyse.
Run.
Excerpt:
But this time the gate
had a guardian.
I felt her before I saw her, that same surge of power I’d
felt from Jürgen, but more elemental, more penetrating. Both Matteo and I
stopped abruptly. His grip on me tightened.
She took form from the shadows that clung to the structure
where the light couldn’t penetrate the fog. The delicate lines of her face took
shape first, upward sloping eyes, cheeks, and jaw. Her skin had the same pale
hue as the clouds around her and her eyes were a ghostly blue, narrowed coyly. She
stepped forward and Matteo went completely still beneath my hands. Her long,
long silvery hair danced around her face and her glittering gown flowed in the
same mysterious storm. My whole body screamed a warning at a mind that had long
since gone numb.
Then she laughed, a light airy sound, completely at odds
with the seductive threat I felt coming off her.
“Ah, Matteo, are you going to hide her from Hadria? Keep her
for yourself?”
Matteo jerked into motion.
“Get lost, Cirena.”
Again the tinkling laugh. She tossed her head back, her
hands clasped in merriment. Matteo’s arm turned to steel as he held me against
him and pushed his way around her. She floated easily aside, her glee never
faltering as she watched us.
“Oh, little Matteo, but what if I want her for myself?”
About the Author:
Tonya Macalino lives in Hillsboro, Oregon with her husband and two
children. She is an avid collector of folklore and folk history, far too many
to fit comfortably within the pages of any given book. When not working on her
latest novel, she enjoys coaching other writers through the How to Build a Book workshops at
Jacobsen’s Books & More. To read more of the little folklore gems she
unearthed during her research, please visit her blog at www.tonyamacalino.com
For
news and events, drop by her Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TonyaMacalino.com
The Story of Place Blog: www.tonyamacalino.com/page10.php
Amazon Author Page:
Shelfari: www.shelfari.com/tonyamacalino
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/tonyamacalino
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/TonyaMacalino
Pintrest: http://pinterest.com/tonyamacalino/
Giveaway:
2 Prize Packs (photo
attached)
One Night in
Venice gift pack
- 1 pot of
Crimson Lip Dew with Lip Wand
- 1 bar of
Sparkle of First Light Shimmer Bar
- 1 bag of
Chocolate Sin Bath Salts with Wooden Scoop
- 1 bag of Rose
Milk Bath Salts with Wooden Scoop
- 1 Paper Mache
Venetian mask - Colors May Vary
3 comments:
Thanks so much for the plug, Aubrie! Hope your books are doing awesome!
Sounds like a brilliant use of history.
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