Title:
Of Fire & Roses
Author:
Danielle Belwater
Release
date: February 15th, 2014
Genre:
Young Adult, Paranormal
Book
Description:
Nate West’s mother is dead, his dad
a lost cause. Anger has become a way of life, until he meets and falls in love
with Cora Ewell. But Cora has a secret, one that could kill them both.
Nate moves from the big city to a
small, forest town with his father after his mother’s tragic death. Alone and
angry, Nate feels even more isolated by his father’s inability to communicate
and relate to his only son in the wake of their loss.
Nate takes to the forest in an
attempt to find some peace, but instead finds a beautiful girl with flaming red
hair. But before he can speak with her, she vanishes. Unsure if the girl is a
vision or real he searches desperately for her.
When Nate finally meets Cora, his world is turned upside down and inside out.
Dreams of his own death plague his sleep as old dark magic, hidden for centuries, resurfaces and has its sights clearly set on Nate
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Book Excerpt
I came to stand
on the branch that I would jump from. Holding on to the branch above me, I
edged my way out to the dangled rope. With one hand, I grabbed the rope and
pulled it toward me. I inched back a few steps to give myself a decent amount
of swing room. The rope was fraying, coarse, and rough in my hands. I could
hear loud shouts and whoops of encouragement from below, but I blocked them
out, shut my eyes…then jumped.
Free…Swinging
out in the air, I forgot everything in that brief moment of peace. Letting go
of the thick rope for that split second of suspension, I felt like I was
flying. Then, I was no longer flying. I was slamming—slamming into the cold,
glassy lake. The impact shattered every cell in my body as the pain of hitting
a sheet of solid water turned me to jelly. Then I was under. I opened my eyes.
Murky darkness surrounded me.
I don’t know how
far I was submerged but I could see rays of sunlight piercing through the
surface into the depths. I waited for the moment my feet would hit the bottom
so I could push off and resurface. Feeling the sludgy sand between my toes, I
closed my eyes again and prepared to launch myself skyward. I don’t know why,
but my feet were stuck. Something cold and slimy had wrapped itself around my
left leg, tendrils crawling like ants around my calf. All the air in my chest
escaped in a single cloud of air bubbles making a frenzied dash for the surface.
Kicking and flapping about, I tried to
dislodge whatever had caught my foot. I needed air but every time I opened my
mouth it filled with the ceaseless rush of muddy water.
Don’t
panic, don’t panic, don’t panic! I crunched myself into a ball
and stretched my arm down in a vain attempt to remove whatever it was that had
the vice grip on my ankle. I wrapped my hand around the offending root that
held me. Terror stopped my heart and froze my blood, and my eyes shot open.
Clamped around my leg was a grizzly, white-knuckled hand extending out of the
lake floor. I struggled and fought to pry the digits loose. It was no use, my
ankle was locked fast, and I had nothing left.
Given the
go-ahead, the murky liquid hungrily searched for any way to penetrate and take
over my body. A thousand knives pierced through me as I battled for every last
scrap of oxygen. My arms and legs spasmed once, then twice, then stopped
fighting and went deathly still. An ethereal calmness took over. I knew right
then I was dying. I thought of Cora, imagining her warmth and fire, and I found
peace. I pictured her arms wrapped around me, holding me tight forever and
never letting go.
About
the Author:
Danielle
Belwater adores the concept of true love and truly believes everyone has their
Prince Charming or Snow White out there somewhere, even if they have to fight
demons, ghosts, and wizards to find it.
Danielle has
been having a love affair with words since she was young and in primary school,
writing some rather imaginative tales. This love has followed her into
adulthood.
She lives in
rural South Australia with her husband, young daughters and way too many
animals to mention. She spends most of her time dreaming up characters,
stories, ghostly tales, and watching Firefly re-runs. She also cooks the odd
meal for her family to avoid them looking like skeletons at official author
functions!
Danielle is
passionate about reading and her interests include pretty much anything with
words from rolling four volume epics to the daily newspaper.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DSevenwaters
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