Title: Frostbite
Author: Adrienne Woods
Series: The Dragonian
Series (#3)
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Fire Quill
Publishing
Release Date: Mar 9 2015
Editions/Formats: eBook & Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Losing Lucian McKenzie, the Prince of her heart and
discovering her true identity has made Elena Watkins' life almost unbearable.
However, new trials will test the 17 year-old's strength and push her to limits
she didn’t think were possible.
Only a mysterious offer from Blake Leaf, the Rubicon and a
dragon predestined for evil, reveals there may be a light at the end of Elena’s
dark tunnel.
With the life she thought she knew crashing down around her,
Elena will have to face a monumental decision about the fate of Paegeia. She
can either make peace with Blake’s demands or try once again to unravel the
Queen’s secrets that lie deep within her dragon, Tanya La Frey’s, heart.
The third heart pounding novel in The Dragonian Series by
Adrienne Wood
I DIDN’T FEEL HUNGRY that night, skipped dinner, and went to bed early. My dragon form really drained my energy.
When I walked into the cafeteria the next morning everyone stared at me. There were even a couple of Dragonians whispering about trying to claim me. I rolled my eyes at that piece of information. As if I was going to be an easier claim than Blake. If they knew her the way I was starting to, they wouldn’t be thinking that.
Around ten, Master Longwei’s voice came from the speaker system. “Elena Watkins come to the office, please.”
Professor Pheizer, who’d helped us with developing our abilities while we’re in human form, nodded her head and I packed my books and left.
She wasn’t so helpful anymore and even limited her advice, but I still saw the question in her eyes of what I was whenever I found her staring at me. She would look away of course, but my dragon eyes were a lot faster than hers. Sometimes that second that our eyes met felt like minutes before she’d drop her gaze. It was hard to explain, I just felt . . . different.
I found Master Longwei behind his desk and he gestured with his hand to the chair in front. I took a seat. He held both his hands with his fingers rested against one another in front of his mouth. “You need help, Elena.”
I huffed. “What’s new?”
His lips curved into a smile and he dropped his hands as he moved his chair underneath his desk. He took a deep breath and let it out slowly. “Blake has agreed to help you find your dragon.”
I froze. What! Blake had actually agreed to help someone else besides himself? Latin jumped into my mind and I shook my head at the words from the last conversation that had taken place between Master Longwei and Blake, right here in his office, after my secret had been revealed. “No, it’s fine. I’ll make peace with her some other way.”
“Elena. The two of you are from the same species. It won’t be anything like your Latin lessons, I promise.”
I laughed. “How do you know, did he say so? For all I know it could be his way of getting closer to me and killing me off. Two Rubicons can’t live together in this world. You know that.”
“He gave me his word that he would not hurt you. He wants to figure this out as much as you do, Elena, and I promise you he doesn’t want to kill you.”
“Just like the way Paul promised you.” It just slipped out but I didn’t regret it. Lucian died because of that choice.
Master Longwei’s eyes froze at my words, and he looked away. “I was fooled. It is a mistake I’ll never make again.”
I took a deep breath. “I probably don’t have a choice, do I?”
“Not this time.”
“Fine, where do I meet him?”
He raised his eyes and looked as if I hadn’t just offended him a couple of seconds ago. “That is up to you two. I’m only the messenger.”
You mean I have to hunt him down and ask him. “Fine, thanks.” I wasn’t thankful really. I didn’t want to spend time with Blake any more than he wanted to spend time with me. I hated how he made me feel. Sometimes I felt like a toy. He was always there, except the last time, when I was in danger, but afterward he would push me away as if he hadn’t just saved my ass. It was a frustrating little game and one I really didn’t have the time or energy for anymore.
“Have fun.” He smiled awkwardly. “Not too much though.”
For some reason I wanted to snicker at his sentence. I’d always wondered if Master Longwei could read minds. As if Blake and I would ever have fun. Nothing had changed and he was still the arrogant bastard he had been a couple of months ago.
Thank you so much for hosting me on your blog today.
I've never been asked this question before, and to think about it the list is endless when it comes to authors I admire all in different ways.
First are the traditional published authors, or what I like to call the blockbuster authors. The ones that has a kazillion of fans and who has seen their creations turning to reality. My favorite in this selections are J.K Rowling. Her famous Harry Potter has climbed into hearts of millions and has also set the bar for fantasy genre authors extremely high. I would give anything in the world to just reach one percent of what she did. Then there are Stephanie Meyer who has done something similar with Twilight, and Casandra Clare with Imortal Instruments. Another favorite, as I write in many genre's too, is Steven King. All these authors above have become idols for other authors and their non stop endurance has taught all of us that by never giving up, you too can make it. But being said all that, these authors has something others don't have, huge marketing campaigns and publicists the rest of us can only dream off, which brings me to the second category, the small press authors and self published authors. Again so many like Nelly Cab, Cambria Herbert, Mary Ting to just name a few. They are authors that decided to make things happen for them and worked their butts off getting their creations out there. They don't wait for the opportunities, they create them and I would love to one day meet these women.
They take on everything themselves, from creating covers to the editing part and work hard at marketing their own novels which takes hours upon hours to get it in front of the right readers.
I look up to many and try to learn something from each and everyone. The endurance from the blockbuster authors to the hard working group of self published authors and work hard in order to one day say that I know how hard it is, but not impossible.
Thank you so much for having me today and thank you all for reading my post.
Kind Wishes,
Adrienne Woods
Adrienne Woods was born and raised in South Africa, where
she still lives with her husband and two beautiful little girls. She always
knew she was going to be a writer, but it only started to really happen about
four years ago. In her free time―if
she gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with friends, whether
it’s
a girl’s
night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a very chilled person. Her
writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the Dragonian series. There
will be four books in total, including a further two to three books, which will
be stories that take place within the Dragonian series. Her other series, Dream
Casters, will be released mid-2015. She also writes in different genres, and
her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy Diaries, will be published under a
pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name of the Aswang
series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that wasn’t enough,
there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be released in 2016.
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