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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Title: Spark
Series: The Hellfire Series
Author: Karyn Pearson
Genre: Paranormal, Fantasy
Publisher: The
Writing Network
Formats Available In: Digital
Release Date: June 23, 2013
Blurb: For centuries, the powers
of Heaven and Hell have been at war, locked in a perpetual stalemate.
Fifty years ago, the war spilled out on Earth and the last modern age
of man ended. Humanity now finds itself at the brink of annihilation,
barely surviving in small pockets of civilization scattered across
the globe. But even in the direst of circumstances, the human spirit
lives on.
Now, in this post-apocalypse, humanity
has but one choice: resist or die. In order to combat the forces of
Hell, man has learned to fight, training from their youth to hunt the
demons that threaten their very existence.
Twenty-five years ago, a demon hunter
dared rise against an ancient demon family, the Saligia—the Seven
Deadly Sins—and was cursed for her defiance. The curse appeared in
the guise of an innocent: the huntress’s own daughter, Ardentia,
who had been born with a demon soul attached to her own.
In the present day, Ardentia, now
grown, seeks to free her mother from her curse by hunting down the
demons responsible. But the road ahead will be difficult now that the
demon within her has awakened. Trusting him is dangerous, especially
when he can turn on her at a moment’s notice. Others have warned
her that succumbing to the demon will be her own downfall.
Now Ardentia must decide what she’s
willing to lose: her mother’s freedom or herself.
Excerpt:
The demon snapped his fingers and the
daemonis igni behind Ardentia grew blindingly bright and white-hot,
the flames reaching over forty feet high and surging straight toward
her. She froze with fear, knowing that in a few seconds she was about
to die, burned alive in the fires of Hell.
“Ardentia!” Noxius was shouting.
“Run! Run now!”
She was too scared to move. She could
not even muster up the strength to take that first step. Somehow,
even if she did run away, she knew that the flames or Gula would end
up devouring her anyway.
Distantly, she could hear the voices of
her comrades, yelling for her to run, to find higher ground, but
still, she could not move.
Noxius snarled with irritation,
muttering a stream of curses in lingua daemon.
“Idiot girl!” he hissed at her.
“I’ve no other choice. I simply cannot allow us both to die
here.”
And then an indescribable force slammed
against the inside of Ardentia’s skull. She saw bright lights pop
in front of her eyes, nearly blinded with pain, and dropped to her
knees in a daze. Dimly, she could feel Noxius seizing control; his
power coursed through her, flooding her with an unimaginable strength
and power that she was incapable of using. Her hand started to reach
for the reliquary dangling from her belt, only to feel an invisible
hand within her snatching it away.
“What are you doing?” she asked
weakly.
“You’ll thank me in a moment,”
Noxius answered her.
Ardentia’s eyes fell shut and she
thought she could hear the sound of wings being spread then close
around her. If she leant to the side ever so slightly, she swore she
could feel the leathery velvet of the wing brush against her cheek.
An intense heat passed over her; she
realized that it was probably the demonic fire, having reached her at
last. She inhaled sharply, preparing to scream as she burned in the
hellish pyre, only to find that she did not need to. There was only
heat but no flames. She was not burned.
About Karyn Pearson:
Karyn Pearson is a post-grad university
student with a B.A. in Anthropology, currently living in California
with her two dogs. Over the years, she has created many worlds,
characters, and series, which naturally makes her head a very crowded
place to be.
When she’s not writing, she can be
found curled up with a book, playing video games, doing research for
her books on the web, or attempting to not burn the house down with
another kitchen experiment, a hobby otherwise known as cooking.
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