Title: Order Of The Seers Trilogy
Author: Cerece Rennie Murphy
Publisher: LionSky Publishing
Publication Date: September 30, 2014
Pages: 164
ISBN: 978-0985621049
Genre: Science Fiction
Format: Paperback, eBook, PDF
What
would you do if you held infinite power in the palm of your hand?
The Order of the Seers trilogy poses this
question within a story that fuses action, mystery, and romance within a
science fiction adventure that keeps you at the edge of your seat.
Captured and enslaved for their extraordinary gift, a group of
individuals, known as Seers, are forced to serve a ruthless world organization
that uses the power of the Seers to exploit the ultimate advantage: knowing the
future. While a brother and his Seer sister fight to evade the group that hunts
them, an unlikely captured Seer plots his escape from within the organization
and sets off a chain of events that will change the world.
The journey begins with Order of the Seers (Book I) and
continues with The Red Order (Book II). The final
chapter in the Order of the Seers trilogy, titled The Last Seer (Book
III), will be released on September 30, 2014.
Book Excerpt:
Chapter 1: The End
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Liam was losing his patience. “Aw, come on! Are you serious? You
can’t want to ride this thing again!”
Instead of answering her older brother, Lilli remained in her
seat as the Ferris wheel conductor looked on expectantly, hand outstretched and
waiting for another two tokens.
The way Lilli’s skinny arms hugged her book bag while she stared
blankly at the pressed metal floor of their “Fairy Land Caboose” made it hard
for Liam to stay angry. The sight of her looking so dejected softened him
enough to give the conductor his fifth set of tokens in less than 45 minutes.
Liam settled back into his seat just as the lap bar clamped down uncomfortably
against his thighs.
“Lilli,say something. Why’d you drag me out here if you were
just gonna sulk? I hate the carnival, you know that.”
“I know something… okay? Just… trust me. We have to stay here.”
Her voice was so low he could barely hear her over the wind-up music that was blaring
from the overhead speakers.
“Did Mom say something to you?”
Lilli responded to his question with silence and a barely
discernable shake of her head back and forth. He tried again.
“Lilli! Did Mom…?”
“Yes,” she snapped.
They both fell silent again as Liam took in the latest weird
thing day. Lilith Knight, or Lilli as she preferred to be called, had
always been of the strange. Even when she was five,she could beat Liam at chess
lazily, without even thinking about it. She would find things and give them to
you before you asked for them. Before you, or even she, knew why. Up until
recently, he thought she was just a freak. No biggie. All little sisters are
like that, he told himself.
It was only in the past few months that his perception of her
began to shift, after her prediction that he would catch his new girlfriend,
Krista, kissing his teammate Lance in the locker room after their championship game.
At the time, he’d brushed off her premonition as meddling. Krista wasn’t even
his girlfriend and his team was 1-1 with the whole basketball season ahead of
them.
He’d forgotten her warning completely until two months later
when he ran back into the locker room after winning the championship to get the
jacket he’d left behind and immediately smelled Krista’s perfume. When he found
them, two thoughts overshadowed the scene unfolding in front of him. The first
was that what they were doing wasn’t really “kissing,” though he could see how
a sheltered thirteen-year-old would describe it that way. His second thought
was that Lilli was right; she was exactly right. He was so stunned by Lilli’s
accuracy that he didn’t even bother to disturb them, leaving his new
ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend to their business. From that moment, Liam
understood that Lilli wasn’t just a freak, or more accurately, that she wasn’t
a freak at all. She was special…gifted.
The sound of Lilli’s sniffling followed by the trembling of her
body as she began to cry uncontrollably broke the long silence that had fallen between
them. What the…, Liam half-mumbled as his mind swung from irritation to
absolute bewilderment. Slowly and deliberately, Liam moved his palms down the
front of his face as he fought the urge to shake the truth right out of her and
end whatever this was. But he couldn’t. She’s so brittle already, he thought,
without any idea as to why. So instead, he reached out to envelop his sister in
his arms, trying to soothe her and comfort her from some unknown force.
“Lilli, it’s all right. I’m sorry, okay? Don’t cry. Just… tell
me what’s going on. Why are we here?”
He tried to wait patiently, to rein in the confusion and
frustration that had been piercing through the calm day he had planned for
himself when he woke up that morning, as cool and carefree as any
sixteen-year-old boy. It was Lilli who had dragged him out of the house before
he could even wolf down his second bowl of Honeycombs. “Mom said you have to
take me to the carnival. NOW!” She had demanded.
He had started to head upstairs to launch his appeal when his
eye caught his mother’s note on the refrigerator door. “Take Lilli to the fair.
NOW.—Love, Mom,” it read.He knew that meant his mother had left the house
early; there was no appeal to be made. Begrudgingly, he slipped on his sneakers
and grabbed the car keys, all the while wondering if Lilli was still too young to
be left at the fair by herself.
His earlier thoughts of abandonment brought him back to his
sister’s form beside him. Not knowing what else to do, Liam simply held her
tight as her convulsing turned to trembling, and finally, back to stillness. At
the top of the Ferris wheel,she finally spoke.
“It’s over now, we can go home,” she whispered. But as impatient
for answers and a reprieve from big brother duties as he was, Liam knew that it
was not over. The emotionless tone in her voice scared him. It made him want to
stay on the Ferris wheel he’d been begging to get off of a few short minutes
ago. As the music died down and their feet got closer to the ground, he
suddenly felt conflicting urges to stay where he was and to rush home to his
mother. As the ride came to a stop, he suddenly realized with profound certainty
that this was much more than one of Lilli’s “episodes.” Something was very,
very wrong
When Liam pulled his father’s green 2002 Saab in front of their
small brick house, everything seemed as it always did—quiet and predictable in their
modest yet comfortable home. They had lived in a much bigger house before his
father died, but Liam never minded sharing a bathroom with his mother and
sister. All the toys and trinkets that had mattered to him when he was a child
were rendered insignificant the moment his mother told him that his father
would never come home again. As he got out of the car and began to take the
front steps two at a time, he noticed that Lilli had stopped at the tree stump
his mother had cut down the week before. Sitting down, her eyes remained on the
ground. Just as his mouth formed the shape of a question,she spoke.
“No, you go. I can’t see it again.”
Liam didn’t stop to ask what she meant. Whatever she meant, he
was sure it was worse than he thought. He tried to hold back the swell of fear
in his chest as he ran to the front door, but his emotions spun out of control the
moment he tested the front door knob and found it opened—easily. They never
left the front door unlocked.
When he stepped into the house, he actually felt the life, the
person he had been, rush past him and out the door as his eyes took in the
overturned, splintered remains of their living room. It was a feeling he’d felt
only once before, when his father died. But what made it worse, what made it permanent,
was lying in the middle of the floor, with its contents thrown everywhere. It
was his mother’s purse, which had not been there when he left that morning.
“Mom!” he shouted as he raced up the stairs to her room. “Mom. Please!”
he shouted again, but no one answered. In every room he looked, it was the same
- scattered clothes, broken mirrors, and silence—a deafening silence that rang
louder than the sound of his own shallow breathing.
If he
took the stairs at lightning speed to make it to the second floor, an age could
have passed during his descent. The entire house consisted of three bedrooms,
one and a half bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, and a small open dining
area that you could see clearly from the front door. As he walked down the
steps, he knew there was only one room left to check. His mind was frozen on
what to hope for as his hand reached the end of the banister. If she wasn’t in
the kitchen, she might have been taken, but at least there was a chance she was
still alive. If she was in the kitchen, it was unthinkable.
Lilli’s
words came to him just as he rounded the doorway to the kitchen.
“No,
you go. I can’t see it again.”He found his mother sitting with her feet planted
on the floor, shoulder width apart, bright eyes open and cast to the ceiling,
with a hole blown through the middle of her chest.
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About the Author
Cerece Rennie Murphy fell in love with
science fiction at the age of seven, watching “Empire Strikes Back” at the
Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., with her sister and mom. It’s a love affair
that has grown ever since. As an ardent fan of John Donne, Alice Walker, Kurt
Vonnegut and Alexander Pope from an early age, Cerece began exploring her own
creative writing through poetry. She earned her master’s degrees in social work
and international relations at Boston College and Johns Hopkins School for
Advance International Studies, respectively, and built a rewarding 15-year
career in program development, management and fundraising in the community and
international development arenas – all while appreciating the stories of human
connection told in science fiction through works like Octavia Butler’s “Wild
Seed,” Frank Herbert’s “Dune” and “The X-Files.” In 2011, Cerece experienced
her own supernatural event - a vision of her first science fiction story.
Shortly after, she began developing and writing what would become the “Order
of the Seers” trilogy. Cerece lives just outside of her hometown of
Washington, D.C., with her husband, two children and the family dog, Yoda.
Connect with Cerece:
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Seers Trilogy Event Page
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My review:
I just finished reading Order of the Seers the First book in this trilogy. The author Cerece Rennie Murphy has started out this series with a bang. This book is full of action and suspense. This is a science fiction novel and I really liked it. With some romance in the mix the book is a great read. A brother and sister named Liam and Lilith and 2 strong characters that are well written. Lilith is a Seer and is why some are after her. I was interested from the very first page until the end of the book. I cannot wait to read Book 2 The Red Order. I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
I just finished reading Order of the Seers the First book in this trilogy. The author Cerece Rennie Murphy has started out this series with a bang. This book is full of action and suspense. This is a science fiction novel and I really liked it. With some romance in the mix the book is a great read. A brother and sister named Liam and Lilith and 2 strong characters that are well written. Lilith is a Seer and is why some are after her. I was interested from the very first page until the end of the book. I cannot wait to read Book 2 The Red Order. I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
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My review:
The Red Order is the second book in a trilogy called Order of the Seers by Cerece Rennie Murphy, This book picks up where the first book ends. It is a good idea to read the first book in the series as it will help you understand the characters better. The Red Order has been able to grow more powerful than ever. An battle like no other carries on. The question remains as to what people really can do or will do. I loved this book and the storyline. The language was a little unnecessary. The characters continue to grow. I given this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
The Red Order is the second book in a trilogy called Order of the Seers by Cerece Rennie Murphy, This book picks up where the first book ends. It is a good idea to read the first book in the series as it will help you understand the characters better. The Red Order has been able to grow more powerful than ever. An battle like no other carries on. The question remains as to what people really can do or will do. I loved this book and the storyline. The language was a little unnecessary. The characters continue to grow. I given this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
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My review:
This is the final book in the Order of the Seers Trilogy. This proves to be the worse fight ever for control. The Lost Seers as well as the characters in earlier books get together to fight a new group that wants to defeat all people. There seems to be no hope at all that anyone will continue to live. All Seers have to stick together to save others and use all of their abilities. The question is will it be enough? I give this book a 4/5. I was given this book for the purpose of a review and all opinions are my own.
Thanks for reading my books. I am glad you enjoyed them.
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