The Goddess’s Choice
by Jamie Marchant
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GENRE: Fantasy (epic)
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BLURB:
In a world where the
corrupt church hides the truth about magic, the fate of the joined kingdom
falls on the shoulders of two young people from opposite ends of the social
hierarchy.
Crown Princess
Samantha’s life begins to fall apart when she starts seeing strange colors
around her potential suitors. She fears that she’s going insane--or worse that
she’s defying the Goddess’s will. Robrek is a lowly farmboy with incredible
magical powers. He has been biding his time waiting to get revenge on those who
call him a demon.
Thrown together by
chance, they must overcome their differences to fight their common enemy Duke
Argblutal, who, with dark magic, is slowly poisoning the king’s mind and
turning him against his own daughter.
Time is running out for those chosen by the Goddess to prevent the power
mad duke from usurping the throne and plunging the joined kingdoms into civil
war.
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Excerpt One:
He returned to the horses, loaded the supplies on Wild
Thing, and rode in silence to the abandoned stable. Robbie led the horse
inside. When he lit the lantern he kept there, he let out a whistle of
amazement. The horse was a bronze-colored mare that looked more like it was
forged out of metal than living flesh! But the horse’s impossible color wasn’t
the only thing that struck Robbie. Sores spotted the beast’s body; puss and
blood oozed from under the saddle. The horse’s coat was matted with dried
blood. Her ribs stood out in stark detail. How could anyone neglect a horse so
badly? “Where could you have come from, girl?” Robbie could feel a wail
building up inside the horse, so he hurried to take the armor and other
equipment off her back, unsaddled her, and removed her harness.
“I don’t think you’re
a demon. But I don’t know what you are. By the look of the armor you must have
been some knight’s lady. But what happened to him? Sores like these don’t form
overnight. If he’s still alive, he obviously doesn’t deserve a lady like you.
So how about it? Will you be my lady?” He paused at the sound of his own words.
Milady. “I had a lady once. For one day, that is. My brother didn’t approve—I’m
sure he wouldn’t approve of you, either.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Jamie began
writing stories about the man from Mars when she was six, and she never
remembers wanting to be anything other than a writer. Everyone told her she
needed a back up plan, so she pursued a Ph.D. in American literature, which she
received in 1998. She started teaching writing and literature at Auburn
University. One day in the midst of writing a piece of literary criticism, she
realized she’d put her true passion on the backburner and neglected her muse.
The literary article went into the trash, and she began the book that was to
become The Goddess’s Choice. She is now releasing an expanded edition of the
novel. Her other novels include The Soul Stone and The Ghost in Exile. In
addition, she has published a novella, Demons in the Big Easy, and a collection
of short stories, Blood Cursed and Other Tales of the Fantastic. Her short
fiction has also appeared in the anthologies--Urban Fantasy and Of Dragons
& Magic: Tales of the Lost Worlds—and in Bards & Sages, The World of
Myth, A Writer’s Haven, and Short-story.me. She claims she writes about the
fantastic . . . and the tortured soul. Her poor characters have hard lives. She
lives in Auburn, Alabama, with her husband and four cats, which (or so she’s
been told) officially makes her a cat lady. She still teaches writing and
literature at Auburn University. She is the mother of a grown son.
Links
Website: http://jamie-marchant.com/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/JamieMarchantSF
Newsletter Sign
up: http://jamie-marchant.com/newsletter/
Buy Link:
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GIVEAWAY
Jamie will be awarding a $15 Amazon or
B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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