Rook by Monica MacDonald Guest Post and Giveaway

Rook by Monica MacDonald

Could you be the monster to save who you love?

Two women, separated by generations, must leave what they know to start a new life. Seventeen-year-old Kate's senior year is ruined when she's moved from the only home she's ever known. After an isolating month alone in her apartment, school starts, but neither her classmates nor her teacher are who they seem. Kali, a single mother living in the nineteenth century wilds of Montana, is stalked by a malicious past. She fights to keep her daughter safe while her freedom is threatened by her less than benevolent benefactor. Both find love, and with it hope, but that is quickly ripped away as one woman must learn the lessons of the other -- before it's too late to save either.

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About the author:

Monica is a married graduate student with three boys. Utah is home right now, but the need to wander has extended beyond the fantasy world of writing and into real life. She's lived all around the US and even into the Middle East. The world is really a small place, only made bigger through imagination.

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Link to the tour post: http://www.candacesbookblog.com/2013/08/new-cover-for-rook-by-monica-macdonald.html

Author Guest Post:

Top ten Ancestors (In no particular order)

1. Beethoven - Even deafness could not take away his passion for music, so he sawed off his piano legs and played for the vibrations running through the ground.

2. The Taj Mahol was a beautiful building built by the ultimate romantic man.  But he's not the one I'm thinking of - it's the woman he built it for.  How awesome must she have been?

3. The story of post-it notes is pretty interesting.  When they originally designed the adhesive, it was supposed to be a super strong glue for commercial applications.  Obviously, it didn't work out, and they shelved it as a massive fail.  Arthur Fry however, thought of the idea of post-it notes.  Add him for seeing when a fail was really a win.

4. Thomas Edison, who can tell me a thousand ways how NOT to make a light bulb is next. Never, ever give up.

5. Tommy Woodcock - When I was a little girl, I went on a daddy-daughter date to see Phar Lap - one of the most incredible racehorses in the history of EVER.  I was enchanted with horses in general, and this movie only intensified it.  Horses can often be emotionally detached animals, but Tommy had something special to create an undeniable bond.  He had similar relationships other successful horses throughout his career.  I had a horse that loved me like that once - maybe one time is the most the majority of us get.  I would love to know how he got it again and again.

6. Isabel Biangel - My son said this shouldn't count, since technically, I married into this ancestor.  But since she's not blood, I have to add her.  I've never met her, but she is my husband's Cuban grandmother. When my mother-in-law was a child, Castro became the Cuban dictator.  The Peter Pan Flights were started as an answer to the devastation of revolution, rescuing the children from that unstable country.  This brave mother sent her children to the US on nothing but faith that they would have a better life then she could give them. I hope I could make that same choice, and cope with being left behind.

7. Queen Victoria was the virgin queen who never married. In her male-dominated time, she decided marriage wasn't for her, and stuck with it. I love being married, so I think she missed out, but to be fair, my husband wasn't born for hundreds of years, so she was going to miss out anyway!  But, she was powerful, and used marriage as the same tool many men before her had used it to secure lands from wealthy heiresses. Good for her for evening up the odds in her unfair world.

8. Irena Sendler  and her underground organization rescued Polish children from Warsaw during WWII.  She posed as a nurse, smuggling older children out of the ghetto in her trunk, and babies in her tool chest.  She had to know it was a matter of  if, and not when she would be caught. Still, put herself at risk until that came to pass.  The grand total of rescued children was over 2500. There just aren't words.

9. Violet Jessop was the luckiest woman on earth. She survived the sinking of the Titanic, and then the sinking of its sister ship, the Britanic, followed by the other sister ship the Olympic. She's on the list for her refusal to surrender, and survive. On the flip side, she's unimaginably unlucky for ending up at each of those situations. Might have to rethink that...

10.  Lastly, Gene Roddenberry.  I’m going to nerd out here, and say that I’ve seen every Star Trek in its history. After school, I saw every one of the sixties-fabulous episodes.  As an adult, I’ve seen even that most recent lens-flared monstrosity earlier this year. Favorite quote that should have made it to the movie?  “Damn it Jim! I’m a doctor, not a mortician!” But the beauty of Star Trek is that many of the ideas ended up becoming reality.  For that practical and forward thinking imagination, my last pick is Gene Roddenberry.

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