Desecration: The Wizard Queen at Sixteen Synopsis:
In a hidden world of wizards where only men hold the power of magic, one girl arises with the power to change everything, if she isn’t killed first…
Adriana Victoriana Evangelista (Addie), daughter to the High Chancellor of the Wizard’s Council, has always been the perfect wizard girl. She never questions why men possess magical powers and women have no power at all, magical or otherwise. Male wizards blend into the modern human world, leading huge corporations while wizard women are sequestered away.
On her sixteenth birthday, Addie discovers she possesses magic. Under wizard law, she is a desecration. An ancient prophecy surrounds the emergence of a girl magic-wielder, the wizard queen, who is destined to bring about the downfall of the wizard-kin.
Addie has long had a forbidden crush on a human boy who lives in the wizard stronghold, Rory Devlin. As she delves deeper into the dangerous mysteries surrounding her own destiny, she suspects Rory might be more than just human.
Addie’s fate sends her straight into the path of a powerful and evil sorcerer, but the worst danger of all may come from right inside her own home.
Buy Links:
Barnes and Noble:
Links:
Hadley Holt Bio:
Hadley Holt, author of paranormal, and fantasy YA (Young Adult) has always loved to write. She also nurtures an incurable fascination with all things supernatural and fantastical. From a young age, she imagined stories about dragons, wizards, witches, ghosts, shape-shifters, vampires, and other magical creatures. As life often does, it blessed Hadley with family - a hunky husband and amazing children, and with family came a rewarding career. Hadley spent many years in the not-so-magical world of finance and mortgage banking, but the stories were always there in the back of her mind, demanding to be set free.
Thanks to the housing market crash, Hadley finally realized her dreams. She now breathes life into her magical tales of reluctant young heroes finding their inner power to stand up against terrible creatures and even more terrible odds.
.jpg)
1. Addie (Adriana Evangelista) and her journey.
Addie is a girl who is used to being in the background and accustomed to feeling
powerless. As with many people born into a particular society with inequitable
societal rules and constraints, she doesn’t think to question her circumstances. In
the midst of wizard society, where only men wield magic, Addie is gifted with her
own magic on her sixteenth birthday. That makes her a DESECRATION under
wizard law. Addie will discover just how broken her world is, and that she’s
destined to put things right, but she just might get herself killed in the process.
2. Addie’s relationship with Rory (Rory Devlin), the guy Addie secretly likes.
For years, Addie has had a secret crush on Rory, but she knows the relationship
can never happen because Rory is a “norm,” –a human. It is strictly forbidden for
a wizard girl to have a relationship with a human boy, particularly when Addie is
betrothed (promised in an arranged marriage) to someone else. Circumstances
throw Addie and Rory together, and their attraction sparks. The problem is that
the relationship is even more doomed than Addie ever imagined, because Rory
just might be something far worse than human.
3. Addie’s best friends, Izzy and Hugo.
I think everyone should have best friends like Izzy and Hugo. Izzy is a spunky,
outspoken redhead who’s always willing to jump into the fray and defend her
friends. Hugo is a loveable giant, and a walking encyclopedia of wizard magic, but
he, unlike Izzy, doesn’t want to make trouble. When it comes down to it, Hugo will
be there for his friends.
4. The settings:
I visited each location, from the rolling mountains and vibrant spring flowers of
the Catskill Mountains, to the bustling shopping and Broadway plays of New York
City, to the bohemian fun of Woodstock, to the awe-inspiring luminescent
turquoise water of Moraine Lake (a glacial lake in Banff National Park in Canada), I
hope the reader feels some of my fascination for each incredible location.
5. The world-building of the backwards wizard society, hidden within the
modern/contemporary world.
In many stories wizardry is an amalgamation of magic and technology (science),
which is the direction that I wanted to take. Since alchemists provided some of the
most famous historical (actual) attempts to combine science and magic, I named
the leading wizard corporation, Allied Alchemy International. I also wanted a ruling
class – a governing wizards’ council with core families. The core families are
descendants of famous scientists such as Archimedes, Copernicus, Galileo, and
even more modern day scientists such as Einstein. I also threw in a couple of
legendary wizards like Merlin and Prospero. Altogether, I think it creates a fun
premise for the wizard world. Lastly, the wizard world is dominated by male
wizards, but that might be about to change.
6. Sorcerers – the flipside to wizardry.
In most legends, sorcery is a darker magical art. In Addie’s world, sorcerers are
evil. They are wizards gone very wrong. If a wizard resorts to the use of blood
magic, they do so knowing they are choosing to become evil. The use of blood
magic triggers their metamorphosis into corruption, into a sorcerer. Once the
choice is made, there is no going back.
7. I like doing a series!
Not many years ago, a series was not a popular choice for authors, but that’s all
changed. I’ve always been attracted to writing a series because once your
characters evolve and take shape; you want them to grow and to continue. In
addition to DESECRATION, there will be many more stories for Addie and her
friends in the Wizard Queen at Sixteen series. Also, I will be rolling out an
overlapping series (or sister series), called Warrior Queen at Seventeen. The first
book in that series is INVIDIOUS and should come out later this year. At some
point, a few of the characters will begin to appear in both series.
8. Animals - Familiars!
I have a pattern of including animals in my books, and I’ve always enjoyed the
concept of familiars. In Addie’s world, wizards bond with one special magical
animal that helps focus and boost their powers. Since girls aren’t supposed to
have magical powers, they don’t have familiars, but Addie does. And they come to
her in very dramatic ways.
9. The Oracle, in Woodstock.
I have fun with the whole hippy-chick vibe of Woodstock New York. One of my
favorite characters is a bohemian store clerk, who’s actually an Oracle. Even more
fascinating, she’s a Lamia (a half-snake, half-woman prophetess). I had a whole
lot of fun writing about her. She will make future appearances in the series.
10.Good vs Evil, saving the world, and magical high-stakes adventure.
That’s the kind of story I like to read, and it’s also the type of story I write.
Addie’s journey takes her from indifference to making a difference, and she does
that by discovering and learning about her own magic, but also learning how to be
strong, and how to fight for something that is important – important to the whole
world and its survival
Please visit me at HadleyHolt.com!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
No comments:
Post a Comment