Blurb:
When
her neighbors accuse Belladonna of Satanism and making them age years to days,
she must find who is behind it or face a modern day witch hunt. Her mysterious
enemy knows where to strike to cause the most damage: Belladonna's only friend
is losing his life-force; the garden that feeds her is dying; and her house
ghost goes poltergeist. To save her neighbors and friends and prove her
innocence, she must travel to the Otherworld where butterflies have razor wings
and where her worst fears will come to life.
Excerpt:
The mob on the other side of the wrought iron fence wore no
tri-cornered hats or starched bonnets. They
didn’t brandish pitchforks or flaming torches.
Hell, they didn’t even bring a preacher to drive the Devil out. Still, they had come to flush out a witch and
the witch was me.
They were thirty all together, gathered outside my gate
under the two California live oaks that shade the sidewalk in midday. I had to squint into the still hot
mid-October sun to study their unfamiliar faces. The mob included several dwarves. The youngest dwarf must have been in her
forties, a tiny woman that for some reason wore a yellow, red and blue Snow
White dress with an appliquéd picture of Snow White on the chest. She didn’t look like a typical dwarf: no
classically high forehead and her arms and legs were proportionate. She was holding a fluffy purple teddy bear by
a front paw and sucking her thumb.
In the sun my forehead sweated under the straw hat. A mocking bird’s harsh chirrup burst from the
oak on the right, piercing as a car horn.
I flinched.
I don’t much like or trust people in large groups - doing
time in Greenville State Prison for Women had taught me that. In prison the exercise yard is the most
dangerous place to be: too many inmates in one area, too many chances to be
stabbed with a shiv made from a sharpened toothbrush handle or from melted and
hardened Styrofoam cups.
Author Bio:
Larisa Walk,
a native Russian, lives in California with her husband and two formerly
homeless cats. She writes paranormal fiction that is more often than not
populated by characters from the Russian fairy world. Her short fiction
appeared in several anthologies and magazines. She has published a historic
fantasy novel, A Handful of Earth, and a modern paranormal novel, A Witch
Without Magic. See her quirky blog posts here: http://www.larisawalk.com
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Thanks for sharing the blurb and the excerpt! I love the sounds of it...seems like a blend of a modern paranormal fantasy and a fairy tale!
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Thanks for the giveaway! Really excited to buy the book if I win! lol!
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Many thanks, Kate. Best wishes.
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You are sweet. Thanks for your support, Andra.
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DeleteThanks for coming on my blog today. I'm always excited to meet other authors. :)
You are very kind. Blessings!
DeleteThis is not a genre I normally read, but I must say, your story sounds very good. Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway.
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Sounds intriguing
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