Tempest’s Fury by Alicia
Michaels
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Title: Tempest’s Fury (The Lost
Kingdom of Fallada Book Four)
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Genre: YA Paranormal/Fantasy
Publisher: Marion Press
Blurb: Gretchen Thomas isn’t
exactly princess material. She’s not thin, perky, graceful, or refined. So,
when a mysterious man claiming to be from another world appears, telling her
that she’s royalty, her first instinct is to laugh in his face. However, his
assertion that she’s from this strange parallel realm rings true—especially
given the freakish abilities she’s had since childhood.
Yet, with that knowledge comes a set of expectations
Gretchen isn’t sure she can live up to. With an entire kingdom relying on her
to fight for them against an evil queen, and a long lost family hoping to
reunite with her, being a princess doesn’t seem like all it’s cracked up to be.
One thing is for sure; when the war between good and evil spills over from one
realm into another, disrupting her life and threatening the brother who raised
her, Gretchen will not hesitate to unleash the powerful storm brewing inside of
her.
*A fairytale reboot of Hansel &
Gretel*
Excerpt:
Brooklyn, New York
Moisture coated the air, steam from the showers lingering on
the air along with the chorus of Miley Cyrus’ “We Won’t Stop”. Gretchen Thomas
scowled. She hated the song with a passion, almost as much as she hated the
girl who sang it.
To add insult to injury, the locker room echoed with the
constant chatter of high-pitched voices. They sounded like a flock of birds … a
flock of tall, leggy, blonde birds with perfect bodies and daddies who gave
them everything they wanted.
The goddesses of high school. The banes of Gretchen’s
existence.
They giggled together and danced to the music, not at all
shy about their various states of half-nakedness.
Turning her back to them, she peeled off the sweatshirt
she’d worn to gym class. Beneath it was her not-so-skinny body and nondescript
black sports bra.
She tried to be quick about covering herself. Unfortunately,
she wasn’t fast enough.
“Whale, ho!” one of the high-pitched voices said from behind
her.
She stiffened, her face growing hot as the insult washed
over her. Refusing to turn around, she pulled on her long-sleeved black and
white striped tee, before layering it with a shorter-sleeved purple one.
“Want some butter for those rolls, porky?” a second voice
asked.
Ariana Smith and Jessica Simmons … she recognized the voices
as two of her most dedicated tormentors. Their insults sent giggles through the
locker room, and now she could feel the stares … the eyes of the other girls
boring into her.
Determined to ignore them, she slid out of her sweats and
into her jeans as fast as she could. One of the girls muttered something else,
but she couldn’t hear it through the anger causing her heart to pound, filling
her ears with the sound.
Gritting her teeth, she shoved everything into her backpack
and slung it over her shoulder. Not bothering to put her shoes on, she carried
them, making a quick escape.
“Watch out, wide load!” wailed Ariana, giggling and backing
out of her path in a dramatic motion.
She glared over her shoulder at both of them, then
retreated. She could still hear the laughter as she paused, leaning against the
wall outside the locker room and closing her eyes.
Ignore them. They’re just a couple of mean girls
who put other people down to make themselves feel better. Be the bigger person.
You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Fitting in is for
losers.
Yeah, none of that worked. The more she fought against her
anger, the worse her need to lash out became until she felt a familiar heat
beginning in her palms. The air around her shifted and moved like a gust of
wind, and a bluish-white spark flashed in one hand.
Taking a deep breath, she swallowed past the lump of rage in
her throat. She could hear Hayden’s voice in her head, telling her not to act
out, not to use her abilities in public. But, her big brother wasn’t here, and
her anger won out.
Releasing the emotion on a wave of energy, she grinned as
the sound of screams and curses filled the locker room. The staccato
pitter-patter of raindrops wasn’t enough to satisfy her, though. Fighting back
laughter, she peeked around the corner for a glimpse of her handiwork.
Girls ducked and covered their heads, wailing their distress
over the soaked clothes strewn across the locker room floor. Water rained down
on them from overhead, drenching them all. Ariana and Jessica stood in their
midst, screaming as their ruined hair fell around their heads, and water
streamed down their faces, ruining their makeup.
Gretchen grinned, turning away from the locker room. She
slid into her Converse sneakers, then reached into her backpack to retrieve her
phone. Jamming her earbuds in, she cranked up the volume as Aerosmith crooned
“Janie’s Got a Gun”.
Laughter burning in her chest, she made her way to lunch,
practically skipping the entire way.
Check out the rest of the Lost Kingdom
of Fallada books, a series of YA fairytale
reboots!
Book 1: Daughter of the Red
Dawn
Blurb: On the
outside, seventeen year-old Selena McKinley is like any other teenage girl. Yet
Selena has always felt as if she doesn’t belong and is counting the days to
graduation and her freedom from the small town that makes her feel so out of
place, when the arrival of a stranger turns her world upside down. Selena will
learn just how different she is and the truth of where she comes
from.
A lost princess, they call her, the catalyst for a war
involving a world that Selena was taken from as a child. An evil queen obsessed
with her own beauty with a plan to enslave the human race.…the notion seems so
silly, yet Selena knows in her heart that it is true. Then there is Titus, the
shape shifter whose blue eyes and claims of destiny hold her heart captive. Can
Selena find the strength to do what she must while following her heart?
*A
fairytale reboot of Little Red Riding Hood*
Book 2: Child of the Sacred
Earth
Blurb: Get a
degree, get a job, save adorable foster siblings from the clutches of the evil
foster mom …
These are
Jocylene Sanders’ top priorities as she enters her sophomore year of college.
The last thing she expects is to find herself the champion of an entire
kingdom. However, that is just what happens when the mysterious Faerie,
Rothatin Longspear, appears to her, tasking her with saving a parallel world
full of creatures from her wildest dreams.
Jocylene
journeys with him into the world of Fallada, hoping for answers about her birth
parents and background. What she finds is a mystifying past, and an even more
uncertain future, as her heart becomes entangled with the stoic,
battle-hardened Rothatin, as well as Eli, the untroubled Panther Shifter with
no loyalties and no home. With her heart and soul pulled in so many directions,
can Jocylene find the strength needed to become the savior one nation so
desperately needs?
*A
fairytale reboot of Rose Red*
Phaedra
Jones’ life is perfect. She loves her small coastal town and the beach,
graduation is just a year away, and she’s in love with the boy of her dreams.
Unfortunately, everything changes when Phaedra’s boat goes down in a storm.
Luckily, Phaedra survives, finding herself in a world beyond anything she could
ever imagine. Not only does she discover that she is a Mermaid shifter of the
underwater kingdom of Zenun, but the kingdom of Fallada—where fairytale
creatures live and breathe—is depending on her. Phaedra risks losing
everything: her perfect life, her family, even the boy she loves … all for a
cause she has no stake in.
Arrian Riverleaf, Elf prince of the Riverleaf Clan, has been
shunned by his people for over a century. After his arrogance caused him to be
cursed, he became a hideous creature, only a shadow of his former self. When
Princess Phaedra arrives in Fallada, he does not intend her to steal his heart.
With her lost love to compete with and his own insecurities over his
unattractive face, Arrian fights his feelings, knowing she could never look
beyond his curse to love him.
As the two fight together to save Phaedra’s people, the
realm of Fallada and the world of men will both hang in the balance as the
battle between good and evil rages on.
*A
fairytale reboot of The Princess and the Frog*
Prequel:
Beyond the Iron Gate (Zara’s Journey)
In the year
1845, before the mystical land of Fallada was separated from the realm of men
forever, the two worlds coexisted in harmony. Man could mingle freely in the
world of the Elves and Faeries at will and peace reigned.
In the hills
of Shropshire, England, just miles from the gate separating the village of
Ludlow from the world of mystical creatures, farmer’s daughter Zara Wells longs
for answers. It is not only the golden hair that trail feet behind her, or the
strange hue of her violet eyes that separates her from the other girls her
village. There is something inside of her, something touched by magic that
longs to know more about what lies on the other side of the gate.
In Fallada,
darkness has begun to spread. As the youngest and most beautiful girls of her
village begin to disappear, Zara comes closer to discovering the true
circumstances surrounding her birth. Little does she know, that the closer she
comes to the answers she so desperately desires, the closer she will come to
being ensnared in the dark queen’s web of growing treachery.
*A
fairytale reboot of Rapunzel*
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This is novelist Bryna Butler. Thanks for inviting me to the blog today to talk about my newest release, Wrong Side of the Grave. Wrong Side is the first in the Mothman Mysteries, a series of standalone YA Sci-fi Mysteries.
