Welcome to this stop in the
Destiny Blog Tour, sponsored by
Bewitching Book Tours!!
I am featuring an excerpt,
plus my mini-review!!
Destiny
(Absent Shadows Trilogy, Book 1)
S.M. Spencer
Kindle Edition, 209 pages
Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Cover Artist: BookPOD
October 4, 2014
Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy,
Young Adult Fiction
When
nineteen year-old Lili McIntyre decides to trade in her California
summer for a mid-winter visit to Australia, it's in hope of finding
inspiration and direction in the country where her father was born.
But
when she arrives in Melbourne, the first thing she finds is the last
thing she's looking for--a brooding man who makes her heart race every
time she sees him.
Against her better judgement, Lili finds
herself drawn into a relationship that tests her very beliefs about
life, reality and fantasy. But the real test is how to follow her
destiny as she faces some of the hardest decisions of her life.
Using
a modern theme, the author tells an old- fashioned love story that you
won't want to put down, even when you've finished the last page.
The excerpt below is a very short but highly intriguing one! Of course, I know exactly what type of paranormal being Sam is.....
From the very first sentence, Spencer grabbed my attention, and I was hooked! Since this scene is just a snippet, after reading it, I immediately headed over to Amazon so I could preview more of this book on the online reader. I was rewarded with an engaging selection of chapters from the book that, again, pulled me in right away! I learned more about Lili and her past, and also met Claire, who befriended Lili on the flight to Melbourne.
Ms. Spencer's writing is great to read, and her characters are deftly drawn. The story has the right paranormal flavor, as well!
What else can I say? Just this: I like what I read SO much, I've already bought this book!! I know I'm going to devour it! My only hope now is that Ms. Spencer will decide to release a print edition sometime soon, because I do prefer printed books. If she does, I will definitely buy that one, too!!
Sometimes, when
something bad happens, time seems to slow to a crawl.
Like that time I
was running to visit my friend who lived down the street. I was only about ten
at the time, but it seemed like it was yesterday. I remember exactly how it
felt as I ran down that street toward her house. And how, when I was only part
way there, I stepped on an acorn and my foot rolled out from under me. As I
fell, the pavement got closer and closer to my face—in horrible slow-motion. I
hit the ground with my hands stretched out in front of me, scraping the skin
off both palms. They barely bled but man, they hurt like crazy.Yes, I could
replay that memory like a slow-motion movie in my head even now—years later.
But this … well,
this wasn’t like that.
What happened
next was like a series of still photos. Tom flew out of the bedroom in a blur,
but stopped just long enough for the image of his face to be burnt into my
mind. His eyes were no longer soft brown, but were instead a glowing red, and
his normally tanned complexion was now pallid grey. But what really stood out
was the blood that ran down from the corner of his mouth.
Then I heard
Sam’s voice—loud and harsh. ‘Go!'
Tom was gone and
I heard the door slam.
I closed my eyes
for no more than a long blink—it couldn’t have been more than a second—but when
I opened them, Sam was in the bedroom, bending over Claire. Was he doing
something to her neck? She was so still.
I ran to the
doorway but stopped short of going in. I couldn’t draw a breath to scream or
talk. I just stood there, frozen.
S. M. Spencer was born and raised
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
As a young teenager, her mother
introduced her to the world of romantic suspense by encouraging her to read the
works of authors such as Daphne du Maurier and Mary Stewart. These books
stirred a passion in her that would last a lifetime—to become a writer.
Feeling the need to experience
life before embarking on a writing career, Ms. Spencer completed a business
degree. Her career eventually landed her in Melbourne, Australia, where she has
lived ever since. Yet her true passion to be a writer never abated.
S.M. Spencer now writes from her
home in the outskirts of Melbourne, where she lives with her husband, horses,
cats, and dogs.
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