Please welcome Kalen Cap author of The Ancient Tripod of Peace
Kalen Cap will be awarding a $40 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
The Ancient Tripod of Peace
by Kalen Cap
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GENRE: Young Adult Mystery
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BLURB:
Plagued by loneliness in her Lake
Erie Islands community, vegan Lexi hopes to make like-minded friends in high
school. But her dad’s job is jeopardized when relics are stolen from his
museum, changing her priorities. And she finds her new teachers’ eerie dislike
of her troubling.
His dad in jail, cipher enthusiast
and bacon-loving Gil hopes freshman year will provide a clean slate. Soon, he
discovers secret codes within a Shakespearean play while paired with Lexi,
pulling him into an ancient mystery.
With the official museum burglary
investigation stalled, the mismatched teen sleuths join forces to try and crack
the case. Lexi’s inquiries and Gil’s codes capture their teachers’ attention.
But these teachers have the stolen Tripod of Peace, a powerful relic sought by
rival secret societies. Caught in these societies’ crossfire as thieves wield
an instrument of astounding power, Gil and Lexi are in danger.
The Ancient Tripod of Peace is the
first book in novelist Kalen Cap’s Teen Thief-Catchers Series. If you like
stories with artifact treasures, fighting secret societies, and spirited
protagonists, you’ll enjoy this novel.
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EXCERPT:
Brandon
flicked on the light switch. The yellow bulb provided a muted view of the
dusty, windowless room.
A
box with shiny tape near the entrance looked new. It contained three metal
pieces, each about thirty inches in length, that he needed. He unboxed the
items, each unevenly notched and appended with short metal lengths, and set
them by the door. He found the only large piece, a tripod seat, already unboxed
in the back of the room. The museum board had pulled the tripod seat from the
prior evening’s exhibit opening on the main floor.
Though
he’d received a text confirming arrangements as planned, Brandon grew worried
two remaining pieces were displayed upstairs after all. He wouldn't risk
triggering the security system in the main exhibition hall to retrieve them if
they there. Breaking into the warehouse was already too far beyond his comfort
zone.
The
room’s dust taking its toll, Brandon sneezed. He frowned, worried a sprayed
dripping might get him caught by some high tech analysis like those used in
crime television shows. It’d be my luck
to be caught by snot.
Or sweat. Tears of
perspiration streamed down his cheek. Brandon checked the room again. Curation opportunity? What a joke!
Sue
Ballentine, who hired him for the job, had called it a “curation opportunity.”
Though Brandon knew selling steroids was illegal, stealing objects from a
museum was a more aggressive crime. But he needed the money to finish paying
his supplier.
Brandon
knew not to cross his steroid supplier in Detroit.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Kalen Cap is a writer living
in Ohio and regularly commutes back and forth between Columbus and Port Clinton
residences. Set among the Lake Erie Islands, “TheAncient Tripod of Peace” is
his second novel, first of the Teen Thief-Catcher series. His first novel,
“Tangled Ties to a Manatee,” was published in 2012.
Author website -
http://www.kalencap.com
http://www.amazon.com/Kalen-Cap/e/B007XZEKTC/
Author’s facebook page for
the new series - http://www.facebook.com/TeenThiefCatchers/
https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Tripod-Peace-Thief-Catchers-Novel-ebook/dp/B07B29FTBX/
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
Kalen Cap will be awarding a
$40 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f2628

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ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting the novel on your blog today. I hope readers enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteSeems the older I get, the more I find teen protagonists intriguing. Hope your tour goes well!
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