Title: History of
Fire
Author: Alexia Purdy
Series: A Dark Faerie Tale Series #5 (Spin Off Series #1)
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Publisher: Lyrical Lit. Publishing
Release Date: Sept 15 2014
Edition/Format Available In: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
No one knows the secrets he keeps.
No one knows the secrets he keeps.
No one knows of the worlds that exist right alongside ours.
Benton is human, but he walks the line between two worlds:
the mundane and the supernatural; the commonplace and the extraordinary. As a
rare Fire Elemental Warlock, he finds himself in trouble more often than he
cares to admit. It doesn’t help that his sister is a Faery Queen of the Summer
Seelie Court.
This
is Benton’s story as he makes his way between the mortal world and a world
where magic reigns. Do you dare follow? Do you dare see what lurks just beyond
the edge of perception?
Excerpt
“What kind of a name is Benton?”
I wrinkled my nose and pushed my shirt back into place since
it hung tattered and dirty now. Glaring at the girl, I pondered what to do
next. “What kind of a name is Zena?”
“My mom, she’s into that new age stuff, you know. She’s
weird like that.”
“Yeah well, we all got our family quirks.”
Peeking over my shoulder, I could feel her eyes peeling
wider as she watched me walk over to Ralis and begin to mutter a few words over
the dead faery’s corpse, holding out my Empyrean blade, in case it decided to
reanimate before I was done. A blast of wind hit us and the body exploded
into a pile of ash, dissipating into the wind in a flurry of flakes. Zena
gasped behind me and I reluctantly got ready for the barrage of questions she
was sure to bombard me with.
“What did you do?”
“Its funeral.” I wiped the ashes from my face. Nothing
grosses me out anymore.
“But. How? Did you use…magic?”
My patience was gone and I stood up to meet her eye to eye.
She was a cute little redhead, but her bold green eyes were filled with terror,
edged in a more dangerous curiosity.
“How do you know about magic?” Shaking my head, I realized
this had already gone too far. “Doesn’t matter. Go home. Zena.”
“No! I won’t go until you tell me what happened and
that…that thing! What is it? One minute it was following me, the next I’m here
and it’s about to kill you but you pulverized it into a pile of specks! What
the hell is going on?”
She was shaking so hard, I thought I might have to catch her
before she passed out right there in front of me. Why the heck was Ralis
following her? That fact alone made me frown.
Reaching out, I touched her forehead with one finger. “Calm
down,” I hissed.
Instantly, her body stilled and her widened eyes drooped
into a dreamy gaze. “Where am I?” she asked. Her entire demeanor seemed
nonchalant, as if standing in a garbage filled alley way next to an Elemental
Warlock was commonplace. She peered around, curious still. Darn.
“You’re nowhere. Don’t come back here, you hear? It’s time
to go home.” I slapped her fallen purse I’d just swiped from the ground where
she’d collapsed into her arms and turned, marching away in disgust from making
such a ruckus and involving an innocent human girl in the mess. I was going to
have to be more vigilant while hunting down the rogue Unseelie faeries and
these psychotic night elves, which were now mucking up the streets of Las
Vegas, too, since the breach of Faerie wards. Already I’ve had to mind wipe at
least three non-magics since I started this entire mission, and it hadn’t been
any fun. I was all about fun, and killing unauthorized Unseelies in the mortal
world kept me quite busy enough as it was.
Still, I wished I didn’t have to watch her walk away. I
wanted to know more about her in every way. Her jeans were snug and hugged her
in all the right places and I wanted to be the one escorting her in this crazy
town at night. I followed her until the crowd swallowed her up and I let her
go, no matter how much I didn’t want to.
Places to find: History of Fire by Alexia Purdy
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Alexia currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada- Sin City! She
loves to spend every free moment writing, or playing with her four rambunctious
kids. Writing has always been her dream and she has been writing ever since she
can remember. She love's creating paranormal fantasy and poetry and loves to
read and devour books daily. Alexia also enjoys watching movies, dancing,
singing loudly in the car and Italian food.
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