Uncovering Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something far more sinister. When she turns to neighbor and only friend James Riley for help, she realizes that not only is their bitter-sweet past haunting her every step, but James is keeping dangerous secrets. Can Norah discover what they are before its too late to share her own.
Excerpt;
For the past several months, Norah has been having
strange dreams. She initially believes
they are part of the hallucinations that have been plaguing her since Gram’s
death. However, as time goes on, Norah
begins to wonder if her peculiar visions aren’t something more prophetic.
Standing before
me was a woman with tangled, waist-length hair—hair the color of blood. Her
eyes shone like amethysts. She reminded me of a painting Uncle Jack gave me
when I asked him yet again for a mother—a painting of the prophetess known as
the Opalian Eye in the Cobbogothian legends. As her eyes shone down upon me, I
remembered her name—Totherma. She watched me carefully. Then, lifting her arm,
she pointed to my right. I looked and saw a woman covering her face and crying.
Turning back to
Totherma, I watched her enter a doorway, walk down a corridor, and stop in
front of another doorway. I went to follow, but something made me look down. My
hands were covered in blood, and the floor sparkled with shards of glass. I
smelled something pungent and musty, something burning.
Looking up, I
saw Totherma pointing into the doorway where she stood. I hurried to meet her,
but my path was suddenly blocked by people dressed in white.
Angels?
I wondered.
They were
huddled around something , and I knew that whatever it was had caused that
salty, burning smell.
I struggled to
get by them, trying to see what Totherma wanted me to see. I stood as tall as I
could, but it wasn’t enough. I looked for Totherma until our eyes met.
Understanding, she lifted her arm, and with the motion of her hand, I rose up
off the ground. I could see over the group of people into the center of the
circle.
What I saw made
me scream . . .
Author Hannah L. Clark
Hannah L. Clark lives with her husband and their son in the Rocky Mountains. She has always known she would be a storyteller. In 2006 she graduated from Utah Valley University with a bachelor’s degree in English and immediately began writing Uncovering Cobbogoth, the first book in a seven book series based on Clark's mythological brain-child, the Icelandic Legend of the Cobbogothians.
Clark loves her family, running, mythology, laughing, soulful bluegrass music, road-trips, studying alternative medicine, retro hairdos, and growing things. Like her heroine Norah, she also kind of believes trees have souls, but must clarify (for her parents' sakes) that she was not raised by hippies. ;-)
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