RoguesAngels: Rogue's Angels Present: The Reader by M. Pax

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Rogue's Angels Present: The Reader by M. Pax

Please welcome M. Pax author of The Reader.

The author will be awarding a $40 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

THE READER

by M. Pax

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GENRE: Fantasy

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BLURB:

With the rift closed for the season and no more monsters to fight, Daelin Long gets bored as librarian in the podunk town of Settler, Oregon. A job interview and her brother's arrival present a tempting opportunity to escape, until her brother and her best friend, a ghost, disappear.

While Daelin searches for them, more mysteries pile up: dead people coming back to life, portraits of the town founders replaced with strange white trees, and people on the other side of the rift returning. It’s impossible. The portal that allows monsters from other universes to come to Earth is sealed until next summer.

The Rifters, a secret group protecting our world, believe the troubles are nothing more than the tantrums of an offended ghost. Daelin disagrees. If she’s right, the evil hell-bent on destroying Earth has new technology making the rift more deadly.

Before the monster summons the next apocalypse, Daelin must find it and destroy it.

Book 3 in the Rifter series.

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EXCERPT:

Daelin Long hung her coat on a peg by the door, stuffing her hat, transputer, and gloves into the pockets. She draped her scarf on top of her coat and made her way to the kitchen. There wasn’t anything a good sandwich couldn’t cure.

The light on the old-style answering machine, a throwback to the 1980’s—she couldn’t imagine where her sister had found cassette tapes for the thing—flashed in an annoying beat on the counter. Daelin hit the play button and settled onto a stool at the island.

“Halloo, sistas,” bellowed from the speaker of the answering machine. The voice belonged to her baby brother Cobb.

Daelin shared a childhood, a mother, and weird names—Darlin Dae Long, Charming Moon Knight, and Cobra Moondae Buckley—with her siblings. They’d been close, despite none of them having the same father or similar appearances. Charming was fair with an elf-like stature. Cobb stood as tall as Daelin with a burlier build like a lumberjack. How he didn’t destroy every keyboard he used to code cell phones and other digital gadgets, Daelin had to chalk up to a graceful gene that had passed her by.

She knew Cobb couldn’t hear her, but Daelin replied to the recording anyway. “Halloo, brotha.”

“What’s with neither of you answering your cell phones these days? It’s the modern age, you know.”

“Not in Settler, brotha.”

“Anyway, surprise! My flight arrives at 11:45 this morning at Roberts Field. See to fetching me, Dae. Bye ya.”

Cobb was coming? Daelin leaped off the stool, sweeping the clutter on the counter—her Rifters journal and Charming’s unopened mail—into a drawer, then she sprinted to grab the broom. She hadn’t seen Cobb in a long while, not since his visit to New York City two years ago. “Yay!” She squealed and danced around the island, almost missing the second message.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

M. Pax is author of the space adventure series The Backworlds and the urban fantasy series The Rifters. Fantasy, science fiction, and the weird beckons to her, and she blames Oregon, a source of endless inspiration. She ghost hunts for fun with a group of curiosity seekers, docents at Pine Mountain Observatory in the summers as a star guide, has a cat with a crush on Mr. Spock, and is slightly obsessed with Jane Austen.

Learn more at mpaxauthor.com.

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