Title- Sunbolt
Series- The Sunbolt Chronicles #
1
By-Intisar Khanani
Publication Date- June 17, 2013
Published By- Purple Monkey
Press
Genre- YA Fantasy
Blurb-
The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many
secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned
to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she
must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to
undermine the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame.
When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to
detain—and execute—a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the
family escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi’s, and much worse
fates than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her
charges, it will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.
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Excerpt
In the darkness, something chuckles, a sound
like the rustling of dead grasses, the snapping of winter-hardened twigs
underfoot.
“Amused?” Kol
asks. “I thought you would appreciate her.”
“Your men run
like startled rabbits. Their noses even twitch the same way.”
I press my back
against the wall, turn my head to face the door, and then slowly, while the
lantern still lights the room, slide a glance towards the speaker.
Kol tries to
laugh. “Humans.”
The creature
doesn’t answer. He sits against the far wall, his legs crossed, his back
resting against the stones. He is tall and gaunt, so thin his face is but a
skull stretched over with skin, his eyes so faintly colored that I can almost
imagine they are not even there. His hair falls to his shoulders in a straggly
fringe of white. His tunic and pants hang off his frame, and his hands where
they rest over his knees are hardly more than bone. If he were human, he would
be dead.
Kol says,
“You’ll want to know a thing or two about your dinner.”
About the Author-
Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad
and world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states
as well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing
snow on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having
breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five.
Intisar currently resides in
Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, she
wrote grants and developed projects to address community health and infant
mortality with the Cincinnati Health Department—which was as close as she could
get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising
her family and writing fantasy.
Intisar’s latest projects
include a companion trilogy to her debut novel Thorn, featuring a new
heroine introduced in her free short story The Bone Knife
… and of course, she’s hard at work on the remaining installments of The Sunbolt Chronicles.
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Thanks so much for featuring Sunbolt on your blog, KJ!
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