Sara V. Zook Cover Reveal: A Magic Within
Hey everyone! Welcome to the Realm. I can't say how much I'm excited about Sara V. Zook and her new book A Magic Within! Words fail me, so I'm just going to Kermit flail while you guys check out this awesome author.
About
the Author:
Sara V. Zook is a
paranormal/fantasy writer. She is the author of the Strange in Skin Trilogy,
Clipped and Evanescent, Book 1 in The Sempiternal Series. She lives in
Pennsylvania with her 3 small children and
husband.
Excerpt
from A Magic
Within:
“What is that sound?” I asked in a whisper. It was still
far away but growing louder and closer by the
minute.
Lydic put his arm behind his back and opened his hand for me to
take it.
I slid my fingers into his and waited for him to let me know what
to do next.
My heart was pounding out of my chest. Another second
passed and then Lydic turned, his eyes locked on mine as he nodded his
head. We
took off to try to outrun whatever it was that was coming for us. We had only
gotten two steps in before I felt Lydic’s grasp on my hand slip away. I turned around
to see what was happening. I screamed out in horror as Lydic was
frozen in place.
He was still on his feet, but his head was drawn back and his eyes
rolling into his head as if in extreme
pain.
“Lydic!” I cried
out.
The old woman was behind him. She had that stick, the same one I had
tripped over, held up in the air and aimed at Lydic’s head. There were
bright colors, green and yellow, pouring out from the end of the stick and
going directly into his skull.
The woman’s expression was one of determination. Her eyes were
closed and her lips pressed together as she mumbled something I couldn’t
understand.
What are
you going to do?
Panic seized me.
Lydic was supposed to help me, not the other way around. I didn’t know
what to do.
I had to stop this, but
how?
The high-pitched whistling grew louder and more intense. It was starting
to hurt my ears.
My gut told me that if I didn’t make a move now, it was going to
be too late.
I took a step toward the stick and reached out and grabbed it with
my hand.
I used all the strength I had to yank it from the grasp of the old
woman.
Lydic fell to his knees. The woman glared at me, a low growl
escaping from her throat.
She lunged toward me.
Without having time to think, I instinctively swung the large
stick at her, using it as a bat and she was the ball. It collided
with her head making a grotesque sound. She collapsed to the ground. Lydic looked up
at me.
I was breathing hard, trying to understand what had just
happened.
“What do we do?” I asked. The whistling noise was almost to us, but
I still couldn’t see anything.
Lydic glanced over his shoulder at the woman.
“Run!”
About the
Book:
Title: A Magic Within
Author: Sara V. Zook
To Be
Published:
June 18th, 2014
Genre: YA
Paranormal
Synopsis:
Normalcy. I need to get back to a state of normalcy.
What’s happened to me? Why am I here in this orphanage, and why am I forbidden
to leave? Everyone is so very cruel here. I can’t eat. I can’t sleep. It’s the
paranoia getting to me. It’s like someone’s always watching, always listening.
There’s a general fear around here, and for some reason, it seems fueled by my
arrival, but why are they afraid of me? I didn’t ask for this. I don’t even
know how I got here. I need to go home. My parents must be worried sick. There
has to be someone here who can help me, who can give me answers and lead me in
the right direction so I can get out of here. There is this one boy, Lydic.
Could he be my key to getting out? I can see it in his eyes he feels sorry for
me. He seems to know more than he’s letting on. These people aren’t like anyone
I’ve ever met before.
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