Maiden
C.L.
Marin
Evernight
Teen Publishing
Paranormal/Romance/99k
Released
March 6, 2015
Tomes of the Authentic Witch, 1
Tara secretly wished her estranged
father would want her around, so when he unexpectedly contacted her,
she agreed to get reacquainted. That wish turned into a nightmare.
She learned that she is an Authentic Witch—the Maiden of the Moodus
Coven—and the key to obliterating the black magic Haddam coven.
Tara’s mother took her into hiding
when she was small in order to keep her alive but the Haddam’s
found her. Now Tara must trust the help she’s found in her three
close friends, one mystifying new love, and a father she barely knows
as she fights for the life of her mother using a power she doesn’t
yet understand.
And one of those trusts might cost
Tara her life.
Buy Links: Evernight
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Excerpt:
We walked up on a small, cinderblock
building. There was a plaque on the door facing us with the
silhouette of a woman in a dress painted on it. Isaac turned the
handle back and forth firmly. It was locked. His teeth bore down and
ground together loudly.
“I just can’t catch a break today,”
he whispered into the night.
Unexpectedly, and with unrealistic
strength, he kicked the door in. Never before had I seen a blow
delivered with such force. The hollow metal door fired open like a
cannon, striking the wall behind it, discharging a deafening echo
through the structure. Isaac held onto me like a treasure while he
led me inside. Maybe it was the near-death experience, but I melted
into his strong arms like any good damsel-in-distress would.
Isaac turned the water on, and it
rushed into the basin hard, splashing droplets all over the counter.
I stood like a zombie. Isaac hiked my shirtsleeves up to my forearms,
trapping my bracelet in the bunched up fabric, but as he fumbled
around with the dead weight of my limbs scrubbing at the dried blood
stuck to them, the jewelry was knocked loose and fell to my wrist.
Isaac went rigid at the sight of it but recovered fast to finish my
arms before moving on to my forehead. We said nothing.
Anguish lodged in the wrinkle between
his furrowed brows, now only inches from my face. Isaac wet down
another wad of paper towel, and as his gentle strokes wiped across my
face it brought a little life back to me. Even so, there were no
romantic gazes or love-struck smiles being exchanged—only intense
analysis from Isaac, and all-consuming fear from me.
About the Author:
C.L. Marin was born and raised in
Lafayette Indiana. As a high school student she was more interested
in her extra curricular activities like marching band, show choir,
and being a diver on the swimming and diving team, than homework. In
fact, C.L. Marin always said if her English Literature teacher ever
found out she wrote a book she might die of a heart attack.
After high school she worked as a
travel agent for ten years before going back to college and becoming
a dental hygienist. It wasn’t an easy task as a single mom but once
C.L. Marin has focused on a goal it isn’t often it goes unattained.
Once she settled into her career there was finally time to enjoy some
pleasure reading. She was spellbound to a popular young adult series
but found herself unable to fill the void of the characters she’d
lost after finishing it. Right then C.L. Marin made herself a new
goal—write the novel she could not find! She wasn’t expecting it
to be as hard to do, nor as rewarding, but it is truly her passion.
C.L. Marin still works full-time as a
dental hygienist while she writes in the hours she is not sleeping.
She is the mother of three wildly intelligent, and extraordinarily
brilliant, children, and the wife of her high school sweetheart. They
have an eleven-year-old narcoleptic black lab named Murphy Lee, a
seven-year-old massively obese cat named Thai, a four-year-old
spastic pit bull named Molly Jean, and a one-year-old cat named
Tuttle.
twitter @cindy1408
website clmarin.com
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