City
of Hope and Ruin
by
Kit Campbell and Siri Paulson
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GENRE:
Fantasy (with LGBTQ romance)
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BLURB:
Every
night the monsters hunt.
A city that is the whole world: Theosophy and her companions in the City militia do their best to protect the civilians from the monsters, but they keep crawling from the Rift and there’s nowhere to run. Theosophy knows she’ll die fighting. It’s the best kind of death she’s seen, and at least she can save lives in the meantime.
They say the Scarred carve you up while you’re still alive.
A village in the shadow of a forest: Refugees from the border whisper about the oncoming Scarred, but Briony can’t convince her brother to relocate his children to safety. Briony will do anything to protect them. She owes them that much, even if it means turning to forbidden magic.
When Theosophy and Briony accidentally make contact across the boundaries of their worlds, they realize that solutions might finally be within reach. A world beyond the City would give Theosophy’s people an escape, and the City’s warriors could help Briony protect her family from the Scarred. Each woman sees in the other a strength she lacks—and maybe something more.
All they need to do is find a way across the dimensions to each other before their enemies close in.
A city that is the whole world: Theosophy and her companions in the City militia do their best to protect the civilians from the monsters, but they keep crawling from the Rift and there’s nowhere to run. Theosophy knows she’ll die fighting. It’s the best kind of death she’s seen, and at least she can save lives in the meantime.
They say the Scarred carve you up while you’re still alive.
A village in the shadow of a forest: Refugees from the border whisper about the oncoming Scarred, but Briony can’t convince her brother to relocate his children to safety. Briony will do anything to protect them. She owes them that much, even if it means turning to forbidden magic.
When Theosophy and Briony accidentally make contact across the boundaries of their worlds, they realize that solutions might finally be within reach. A world beyond the City would give Theosophy’s people an escape, and the City’s warriors could help Briony protect her family from the Scarred. Each woman sees in the other a strength she lacks—and maybe something more.
All they need to do is find a way across the dimensions to each other before their enemies close in.
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Excerpt
Two:
Briony
edged out from behind the tree, shuffling slowly backward, making
sure she hadn’t attracted anything’s attention. There was another
crack. She took refuge behind a sizeable bush as a large group of
something moved out of the dark and mist. Briony put one hand on Poes
to calm him and pulled him closer. Poes’s light coat sometimes made
him painfully obvious.
As the
group got closer, Briony could tell they were human. She narrowed her
eyes, keeping hold of Poes. People, this deep in the forest? Hardly
anyone came in here, especially not this deep. Her mother had made
sure she and Jael knew the forest’s ways, but their land backed up
to it and Briony needed it for her medicinal draughts. Most people in
Westenaedre avoided it unless absolutely necessary.
There
was something unnatural about their movements. As they got closer,
Briony could make out their features through the gathering dusk. Her
breath caught in her throat. People they were, yes, but their faces
were covered by some sort of horrific mask that hid their features
and gave them insect-like appearances. Tubes twisted from the masks
into metallic canisters on their backs. Now she could hear their
breathing as well, rough and much too loud. Every whispered tale from
the refugees flitted through her head. The Scarred. But they
shouldn’t—couldn’t—be here. They were still at the border.
What did
it mean that they weren’t?
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AUTHOR
Bio and Links:
It is a
little known fact that Kit was raised in the wild by a marauding gang
of octopuses. It wasn't until she was 25 that she was discovered by a
traveling National Geographic scientist and brought back to
civilization. This is sometimes apparent in the way that she attempts
to escape through tubes when startled.
Her
transition to normalcy has been slow, but scientists predict that she
will have mastered basics such as fork use sometime in the next year.
More complex skills, such as proper grocery store etiquette, may be
forever outside her reach.
Kit
can be found cavorting about the web at her blog
(http://landsquidattack.wordpress.com) or website
(http://kitcampbellbooks.com), on Pinterest
(https://www.pinterest.com/campbell1091/), and even occasionally on
Twitter
(http://www.twitter.com/KitCampbell).
Siri
Paulson writes all over the fantasy and science fiction spectrum,
including (so far) secondary-world fantasy, urban fantasy, steampunk,
Gothic, historical paranormal, and YA with spaceships. She is also
the chief editor at Turtleduck Press (http://turtleduckpress.com/).
Siri grew up in Alberta, Canada, but now lives in an old house in
Toronto. By day, she edits non-fiction for the government. Her other
current passion is contra dance, a social/folk dance done to live
Celtic and roots music. Her favourite places in the world are the
Canadian Rocky Mountains and a little valley in Norway.
Siri's
short fiction and the anthologies she has edited can be found on
Turtleduck Press, at
http://turtleduckpress.com/wordpress/2010/11/30/who-is-siri-paulson/
. She blogs at https://siripaulson.wordpress.com/ and
tweets at http://twitter.com/Siri_Paulson.
The
book is on sale for $0.99 on Kindle or Nook the day of the tour.
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GIVEAWAY
INFORMATION and RAFFLECOPTER CODE
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authors will be awarding a $50 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn
winner via rafflecopter during the tour.
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