Time is ticking down to the release of The Blood of the Covenant, a paranormal anthology with seven stories by amazing indie authors. Below are some of the blurbs to the stories you’ll find in the anthology.
A Song of Steel and Shadows
Her Vicious Beasts: The Beginning
E.P. Bali
In a world of vicious beasts, if you are not a predator, you are prey. Aurelia Aquinas is a discarded girl. Forced to live a life of isolation, she is forbidden to speak of her powers and forbidden to find her soul-bonded mates. She awaits the day she can escape to a human college and live a life free and away from her father and the beasts that might come after her. But when she is called to heal an injured beast, locked away in a dungeon, the course of her life changes forever.
Feathers of Truth
Britton Brinkley
Here’s what I can tell you about me:
- I’m a homicide detective.
- I’m a hitwoman.
- I’m the last phoenix in existence.
Or so I thought…
My life was simple. Solve crimes as a Chicago homicide detective. Murder the targets my boss gives me. Simple.
I lived a life of solitude and loneliness being the only creature of my kind. I grew up with an adoptive family never knowing my parents. Never understanding how it is that I came to exist. Years and years of searching puts me no closer to the answers I so desperately want. That was until my newest murder case brought me face-to-face with a woman whose eyes match my own and my newest target led me to the answers I’ve sought my entire life.
My simple life will become a tangled weave that threatens to strangle me. For once, I’ll be forced to pick a side — the enemy or my family. My real family.
My only question is, will I survive the raging battle between the two?
A new story in the Dragonbound world by J.L. Casten
Grown From Tainted Seeds
Dartanyan Johnson
Oden, and his brother, Philip, are Apprentice Elementalists awaiting orders to enter the war that has taken the lives of their friends. But after years of being away from home, they’re allowed to attend their sister’s wedding.
Reunited with their loved ones, the brothers can finally relax and have fun, until the war lands on their doorstep forcing them to engage in a battle that ends in bloodshed.
Will the war take the lives of their family as well, or will Oden and Philip somehow save the people they value the most?
The Devil You Seek
Isabelle Olmo
A vampire killed my family. Years later, I travel across Texas to hunt down the killer. Until a man saves me from a burning building. Dressed in black and mysterious as the night, he says is name is Leon. He hunts the same man as me. Forming a shaky alliance, we embark on our own journey across the wild west to find our monster.
A journey filled with hungry coyotes, maniacal preachers, and a bond I never sought.
My name is Dania Gonzalez. This is my blood tale of revenge.
Beautiful Untamed Things
Nikita Rogers
There are three rules that a witch must abide by in the modern world.
- Never perform spellcraft in public. If a normie catches you, it’s curtains.
- Always keep your mark hidden.
- Craft with care. Whatever you cast will come back times three. Always.
Unfortunately for Margot Fawn, magic at its purest form can never be completely tamed. Living in a city where the witch population are persecuted, arrested and executed by a tyrannical government, Margot has lived her 19 years of life pretending to be a human and living a normal life. Living as a normie, however, is proving harder by the day, and the battle to keep the magic contained inside her veins is a war she cannot win.
When her magic inevitably slips, resulting in the murder of a man, Margot finds herself pushed into the world of witchcraft for the first time, teaming up with a group of misfit orphaned witches to try and locate a necromancer to undo her misdeeds, before the government finds her. However, the battle between human and witch, normal life and craft, is a war only magic can win.
Beautiful Untamed Things is a story about finding family in the most unlikely places, of magic, political unrest, and underground rebellion.
The Impastusae Witch
S.J. Stewart
Deep in the centre of the woods is a cabin where all beings befall a feast. Many eat and leave, but a trial must be survived by all who eat the pie. Jhaeros was thrown into the dungeon with a belly full of pie. The magic of the impastusae witch assaulted him as he realized he was a prisoner. If he wants answers, he is going to have to do something he’s never been good at. Jhaeros was going to have to play nice.
Obscura had survived more of the witch’s trials than she cared to keep count of, with each being plucked up for the cauldron, another was thrown down to join them. Jhaeros was no different than any other being, though his arrogance caused anger to burn in her belly. He wanted to escape, and he didn’t care just who he had to step over to do it.
With their numbers dwindling, can they work together to avoid the cauldron of the wicked witch?
I can’t express to young guys how excited I am for all these amazing stories. I have a feeling a lot of these are going to have you guys begging for more! Make sure to preorder your copy of The Blood of the Covenant now!
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