Rogue's Angels Present: Ties of Smoke by Claudia Herring

Please welcome Claudia Herring author of Ties of Smoke.

Claudia will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

Ties of Smoke

by Claudia Herring

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GENRE: Fantasy

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BLURB:

Lady Lavinia Bramley is master of a Djinni.

Lavinia runs away from her husband to make a life with the djinni Yasir, but it’s not what she thought, not pearls and flying carpets and wishes come true . . .

Her desperate efforts to find happiness with Yasir are foiled by her husband’s reappearance, murder attempts by the jealous magician who cursed Yasir to the urn, and Yasir’s desire for revenge.

Lavinia finds love, and loyalty, are as ephemeral as ties of smoke.

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EXCERPT:

Chapter 24, pages 3-4

Her head spun as she repeated the words, words that tangled her tongue, words of a Djinn spell. The stars whirled above her head, the blackness enveloping her, the sounds of the spell spinning into her very being. She felt his warmth beside her as he lifted her off the basket. The bars were still blocking the window. She opened her mouth to ask—

“A quick conjuration, thanks to your help.” He set her on the ground and stood beside her. If her family knew what she had done . . . She hadn’t thought what the djinni might do when she freed him. She hadn’t thought further than giving him his earring and asking for her magic back in exchange. But had she gotten her magic back?

“Now you know you can be the sorceress your people need, little one.” His voice sounded gentle.

“Mehadeh, my name is Mehadeh.” She gulped and clapped her hands to her mouth. Why did she say her name? He could use it against her. Had he already started another spell?

“I am Yasir. And we owe each other nothing now, little Mehadeh. Let us be brother and sister in magic. Here.”

He waved a curved dagger.

She pulled back, almost falling, but before she could bolt, a streak of blood glistened on her palm. He swiped the dagger over his palm and held it out, an identical line of blood beading onto his flesh. He held up his hand.

“Raise your palm.”

She wanted to wipe the blood on her clothes and go back to her mother, her father, but his palm glowed, lit all around with golden light, the rainbows of his rings displaying their vivid colors in the dark night. Magic. Magic that he would return to her in his blood.

The djinni pressed his hand against hers. As their skin touched, he glowed brighter. Yasir moved closer. “We will each be the stronger for this. And no one will know.”

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Claudia Herring aspired to be a baton twirler when she was five and an archaeologist at thirteen. When she became a graphic designer and an author of fantasy, she decided she'd hit upon the perfect compromise.

Along the way she worked as a gift wrapper, a server in a Mexican restaurant at an amusement park (where she rode the Black Dragon at midnight—an actual ride, not a sexual allusion) and an illustrator in medical graphics (where they featured videos on wound healing during lunch) at the Texas Medical Center.

Her novel, His Master's Bride, a historical fantasy with romantic elements set in Regency England, won first prize in the Houston Writer's Guild Novel Competition. Ties of Smoke is the second in the series The Djinn Chronicles.

When she's not delving into the world of the Djinn, Claudia is practicing yoga to go to that hushed space where she imagines and plots her next fantasy novel.

If you like Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series or Carol Berg’s Soul Mirror series you'll love His Master’s Bride and Ties of Smoke.

Links:

Website: http://www.claudiaherring.com

Blog: http://www.claudiaherring.com/blog

Twitter: @claudiakherring

Facebook: http:www.facebook.com/claudia.herring.writer

Amazon author: http://www.amazon.com/author/claudiaherring

TIES OF SMOKE on amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Ties-Smoke-Novel-Djinn-Chronicles-ebook/dp/B01M2BXKD9/ref=sr_1_1

HIS MASTER’S BRIDE on amazon: http://tinyurl.com/mg83vjj

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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE

Claudia will be awarding a $15 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f2060