Blood and Bone
The Iron World Series
Book Two
Candace Osmond
Genre: YA Urban
Fantasy
Cover Artist: Corey
Majeau from Coris Designs
Book Description:
The stakes are high
in the second installment of The Iron World Series as Avery Quinn decides which
path her life will take. Become a vampire and be with Jack forever, or pledge
herself to the Fey and help save Faerie from the horrible Queen Mabry?
The more she thinks
about it the more she wants to remain human. But as she sinks further into the
magical world she has come to love, Avery realizes that remaining human is next
to impossible, especially when a dark king sets his sights on her. To make
matters worse, a secret society of shape shifters have sworn themselves as Avery’s
enemy all because of a certain classmate with a caustic temperament.
With a mythical war
brewing and Evaine close on her heels, Avery must decide who to give her
humanity to before it’s too late.
Excerpt:
Change
has an irrevocable impact on the mind, body and soul. To the fearful it’s
threatening—it means there’s a
possibility that things could get worse. To the hopeful, however, it’s
encouraging because it means things could get better.
Was I
fearful or was I hopeful?
I lay
in bed, staring at the ceiling in my sunlit bedroom and pondered about that. To
most people this wouldn’t be so stressful. To most people change meant a new
hair color or a new job.
But I
realized a while ago—I am not most people.
I had
been left to make a choice that was so life changing that it would alter me
completely, forever. I could choose to become a vampire and gain the strength I desperately
needed to protect myself. With this choice I could spend an eternity of nights
in the arms of the most perfect creature because I too, would
be a perfect creature.
Or, I
could choose to pledge myself to a monarch, a leader of the fey.
Become a child of magic, wonder and beauty and still possess the strength I
need for my defense.
Or door number
three, choose not to choose. I could remain human, as I’d lived comfortably for
the past eighteen years now. But, to choose nothing would still be a choice, and
would determine the path my life would take. None of my options
guaranteed a smooth path. But I had a lingering a feeling that, no matter what
I chose, the path that was unwinding in front of me was going to be very, very
rocky.
About the Author:
Born in 1985 as
Candace Osmond in North York Ontario, I began to travel with my parents at the
very young age of four years old. I had lived all over Canada and seen
everything my country has to offer, from the enchanting shores of Newfoundland
to the gigantic snowcapped mountains of British Columbia all by the time I was
ten. I did, however, spend most of my life in Eastern Canada where I was
surrounded by folklore and legends, not knowing how they would shape my
personality and imagination for the rest of my life.
Being the only girl of my age in a small group of kids, in an even smaller town, left me spending most of my time by myself and, in result, letting my imagination take over. I would sit by the shore and dream up stories of mermaids and other fantastic creatures to pass the time. Coming from a family with writers and artists dispersed throughout, it was only natural that I spend my time writing, drawing and reading. I dreamed of becoming nothing more than an artist, a creator of any kind. By the age of eleven, I spent most of my waking hours scribbling down short stories, poems and anything else I could think of, while adding my own personal illustrations. By the age of fourteen, I had won numerous local and minor arts and writing competitions.
I excelled at anything art and literature related so, naturally, I planned to attend university for nothing more or less than that. In 2003 I planned to attend university for Creative Writing and Literary Studies. But, with the fear that I would spend all my time and money on an education and end up in a field that I may very well struggle to succeed in, I backed out and attended school for Design instead. Now, a successful Designer specializing in interiors, I met a man and fell in love. His passion and talent for art far exceeds my own, but he motivated me and awakened my old habits of staying up late and waking up early to scribble down dreams and ideas before I had forgotten them and they disappeared forever.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/candaceosmond
Website: http://www.ironworldseries.com/
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