To mark the release of her YA paranormal novel,
The Dawning of Scarlet, author Jennifer Osborn is doing a virtual book blast tour today.
Jennifer will be awarding a digital copy of The Dawning of Scarlett via iBooks
to 3 randomly drawn winners via rafflecopter during the tour, Please use this rafflecopter code to place your comment:
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f1683/
Blurb
As a
pale revenant—the vampire faction believing all life is sacred—sixteen-year-old
Scarlett Ellis has learned to hide in the human world. She goes to
night-school, works at a coffee shop, and her uncle Chasem trains her in
martial arts. No matter what, she has to be prepared, because when she turns
seventeen, she’ll be of Dawning age—and her biological father Apollo vows to
see her dead first.
Expecting her Dawning to be impossible, she accepts the fact that she will
become a rogue, forever hunted by revenant renegades and outcast by her own
people. Scarlett thinks she’s prepared for this—until the curly-haired Nicholas
Lightener walks into her life and asks her out on a date.
Torn between her feelings for Nick and the danger of the revenant world,
Scarlett’s strange life is turned inside-out when she’s kidnapped and forced to
do the one thing she swore she’d never do. Plus, she has no idea whose memories
keep appearing in her dreams, or if they can even help her. Determined to free
herself from a death sentence, Scarlett must fight to become who she was born
to be.
Excerpt
He moves so fast it’s almost a blur.
I force myself to quit thinking, quit reacting to every action and strike, but
I do succeed in keeping him from hitting my body. After a few minutes of the
blistering attack, I find my strength flagging. I become slower, and Chasem
takes advantage of it, hitting me hard on the shoulder, and I drop one of my
Kali sticks. Chasem drops both of his and reaches out, lifting me by the neck
toward the wall, pinning me hard against it.
"Never, ever give up! Do you
hear me? Never!" he screams, his hot breath on my face. I squirm and
struggle to get free of his grip but find I'm stuck.
His gaze is fierce, his lip curled
up in a snarl. "Fight!" he screams again, but it's as if I can't
convince myself that I can get free. My visions starts to darken from the lack
of oxygen, and Chasem releases me. I collapse in a puddle, heaving hard and
coughing, trying to suck air into my lungs though my burning throat.
I see Chasem pace for a few moments
with his hands on his hips, like he doesn't know what to do. All around him,
the mirrors tremble slightly, as if they’ll shatter at any moment. Chasem
reaches for his water, takes a quick drink, then hurls the bottle toward the
wall. I've never seen him like this. He’s usually so contained—tough, but
contained. Now, he seems like a caged lion.
He turns towards me and leans down.
"You can't be like this, Scar. You can't. You have to keep fighting, no
matter what. Do you understand? It will be a matter of life or death. Never
surrender, do you understand?"
Author bio and links
After
working in the legal and technical fields for many years, Jennifer Osborn took
the plunge into full time writing in 2015. She is the award-winning author of
The Shilund Saga and The Sentinel’s Insurgency.
When not writing, she listens to a different muse and creates paintings
and collages of all sorts.
She
lives in the Cincinnati area with her husband, three dogs and two cats.
You
can find out more about her at
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Twitter:
hondagirljen
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