Title-
Half-Mortal
Series-
Daughter of Light Trilogy # 2
By- Heidi
Garrett
Genre- YA
Fantasy/Faerie Tales
Expected Publication
Date- July 30th, 2015
Blurb-
In
Illialei, a light queen practices black magic.
In
Tyrannis, the dragonwitch rises to power.
In
the mortal world, Umbra pursues the half-bloods as vessels of incarnation.
Energies
in the enchanted world are shifting and new alliances are forming; the battle
between Dark and Light has begun. Melia is desperate to make things right with
Ryder, the young priest from Idonne, but first she must warn the half-bloods in
the mortal world that Umbra is coming for them—and face the powerful
dragonwitch and her spectacular Dragon Carnivale.
They heard the song—a duet—before they saw the singers. A
siren’s ethereal face peered over the cliff’s ledge; her enormous wings—they
looked like they belonged to an oversized butterfly—beat a slow, steady rhythm,
suspending her in midair. Two arms wrapped around her neck. Her singing
partner—a glamorous nixie—peeked from behind the siren’s neck through a tumble
of golden hair.
Tatou stepped back.
Melia froze. Sirens lured mortals to a watery death, but a
powerful one could seduce a creature from the enchanted world too. Her hand
dropped to her was.
“We were coming to dive.” The siren sounded like a swan and
her perfume—the scent a thunderstorm left in its wake—carried Melia all the way
back to her childhood in the mortal world. “We couldn’t help but hear your
call.”
Melia and Tatou backed up one step at a time.
“It’s the black eagle,” the nixie said in the common tongue.
Melia clamped her beak against the creature’s pungent scent.
A row of small pointed teeth contrasted with the nixie’s
pouty mouth. Nixies—distant kin to Illialei’s mermaids—were the water faeries
native to Tyrannis. They were smaller than mermaids, although not as small as
pixies, more like the size of a short field faerie. They were reputed to be
wicked.
“You know me?” Melia asked.
The nixie showed even more of her teeth.
Melia flinched before she realized the water faerie was
smiling.
“Everyone knows Pressina’s girls.”
Heidi
Garrett is the author of the author of the
Daughter of Light series, a fantasy about a young half-faerie, half-mortal
searching for her place in the Whole. She's also the contemporary fairy tale
novella collection, Once Upon a Time
Today. In these stand-alone retellings of popular and obscure fairy tales,
adult characters navigate the deep woods of the modern landscape to find their
Happily Ever Afters.
Heidi
also collaborates with B. J. Limpin. They've cooked up a yummy paranormal
romance, Cupcakes & Kisses!
Heidi
was born in Texas, and in an attempt to reside in as many cities in that state
as she could, made it to Houston, Lubbock, Austin, and El Paso. She now lives
in Eastern Washington state with her husband, their two cats, her laptop, and
her Kindle. Being from the South, she often contemplates the magic of snow.
