The White Raven Series: Legacies meets Lost Girl in this fast-paced new urban fantasy trilogy by M.J. Moores Book Tour with Guest Post and Giveaway
Legacies meets Lost Girl in this fast-paced new urban fantasy trilogy.
When the supernatural world decides to kick your ass... Smile and kick it right back.
The Blade of Balance
The White Raven Book 3
by M.J. Moores
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
No
job. No alliance. No clue…
This isn’t about Dray
finding herself anymore. This is war. Her BFF-Familiar is holding the
fort at the club. Wolf Boy is in uber Nexus protection mode, and the
drive-her-mentalist is tracking a missing dragon.
It’s
time to go hunting… but seeking the essence required to jumpstart
the Blade of Balance drops Dray squarely in everyone’s crosshairs.
Really, nowhere better to be than on the brink of social annihilation
behind enemy lines. Unfortunately, the key to unlocking the power of
the Blade lies with Dray’s less-than-strategic ability to negotiate
with severely unbalanced forces… and deciphering the meaning
of the final riddle.
If Dray is only the Seeker… who,
then, is the Wielder?
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Lost
Girl meets Legacies
If you like your urban fantasy rife
with sassy resilient heroines, diverse characters, and a hint of
mystery be sure to snatch a copy of The Blade of Balance today!
**NEW RELEASE!**
The Soul Collector
The White Raven Book 2
It’s a bird, it’s a plane. No… it’s
a murder-hornet!
Stuck in raven
form after her run-in with the most insane wizard alive, Dray is
content to focus on healing. But the djinn she negotiated help from
has other plans. He sends a warning via stinger in mid-air, forcing
Dray to shift before she’s ready. The hostile calling card parrots
in her head as she plummets to the ground: Time’s up. Favour’s
due.
Back on the asphalt, Dray barely has time to take a
breath, or a step, before getting blasted by a second summons. She’s
on the fae council’s radar, big time. No one else can root-out the
maniac wizard who spliced her soul (Public Enemy No.1), so the
council offers Dray a deal she can’t refuse. Being a high school
outcast never prepared her for this kind of popularity contest.
Can
she survive spying for the good guys while breaking the djinn (Public
Enemy No.2) out of jail right under their noses?
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Lost Girl meets
Legacies
If you like your urban fantasy rife with sassy
resilient heroines, diverse characters, and a hint of mystery be sure
to snatch a copy of the second book in the White Raven
series The Soul Collector today!
**On Sale for Only 1.99 May 27-31!!**
The Hollow Kiss
The White Raven Book 1
Bloody Walls and Supernatural Espionage Were Not on the Final
Exam
Graduation meant a whole new world away from the
labels of outcast and freak, but a supernatural
abduction leaves Corvina Dray with a hole in her memory and a deadly
kiss.
Inexplicably drawn to a dark stranger in a back
alley, Dray’s soul-sucking lip-lock lands her with a DB and the
local PD on her trail. Then, a girl she doesn’t remember shows up
out of nowhere and helps her dispose of the corpse.
Dray’s
dead-body-bestie initiates her into an underground world with only
one rule— expose the fae and suffer the consequences. But
navigating this piranha-paradise to hunt down the maniac responsible
for her transformation is likely to kill her… or worse.
Can
Dray reverse the curse before she spends the rest of her life in an
orange jumpsuit?
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Lost Girl meets Legacies
If you like
your urban fantasy rife with sassy resilient heroines, diverse
characters, and a hint of mystery be sure to snatch a copy of The
Hollow Kiss today!
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See What the Experts Are Saying
"It
was so much fun watching Dray unravel the mysteries of her new world.
MJ's fantasy was fresh, and the plot intriguing." ~ Auburn
Tempest, author of the Chronicles of an Urban
Druid series
"Hollow Kiss is a terrific
first-in-series for an exiting new paranormal YA series. If you like
found-family stories with rich magic systems and tons of action,
you’ll love Hollow Kiss."
~ Kim McDougall, author of
the Valkyrie Bestiary series
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THE HOLLOW KISS
Excerpt
1
After paying for my
supplies, I walked out the back to get away from Mac’s penetrating stare. He’d
sensed a change in me. I wasn’t in the mood to dodge questions.
Outside, I pulled the
full cart down the alley connecting the rear of two rows of stores. The
hardware place had been at one end, but I didn’t turn onto the closer side
street—didn’t know if another wave of nausea would hit. The last thing I needed
was the whole town knowing I had a bad hangover. Or worse. Lips were loose enough without my help.
I’d take the long way
home. The side streets and back alleys of town had always been my escape route
growing up. No one knew them better, except maybe the rats.
My guts contracted
and forced me forward—not to my hands and knees, but stumbling toward the back
door of a shop across the alley. No! No!
Shit, no! My cart overturned. Somebody sauntered out of the back of the
store. My heart flailed against my chest. The door banged shut. Midnight Man
from earlier glanced over at me, confused, then a cocky smile lit up his face.
The idiot thinks I’m coming on to him. I tried to scream at him to run, but my voice died in
a strangled squawk.
I lunged forward,
bound by the invisible force. Opening my jaw a second time, I launched myself
at him. Terror crystallized in his eyes as our mouths smashed together.
We crashed to the ground next to a fence. His fingers
dug into my arms, then stiffened. Body rigid, cheeks caved, the guy shuddered
as I pulled my lips from his and a long trail of smoke filled my every tingling
cell. I arched my neck back, swallowed, and collapsed. Spent. Whatever had
filled me seconds before, that had driven me to attack this guy, now left me
empty.
Scrambling away from
Midnight Man’s lifeless form, I accidentally kicked his arm. I dry heaved
against a fence that housed an industrial-sized garbage bin. Not having
eaten—except for a few mouthfuls at Rainey’s—there was little in my stomach to
come out.
I curled into a ball.
The shaking rattled my teeth. It wasn’t another attack, just the aftereffects
of the first.
A shadow fell over
the body and hovered across my legs.
Oh my God—someone saw!
I whimpered.
Just take me away now. Toss me in prison and throw
away the key. The shadow’s hand
reached out. I flinched.
Excerpt
2
Char turned to look
at me and rested her chin on her hand, her elbow propped up on the bar. She
raised an eyebrow as if inviting me to say my piece.
“Char says I came
here with her last night and then disappeared.”
“What do you mean Char says?” Matt wiped a glass dry and
placed it on a hanging rack over the bar.
“I mean I killed a
guy for the first time today and can’t remember a damn thing that happened last
night.”
Silence.
“Hello? What’s your
damage? I think I was roofied. What can you tell me about when I was here?”
“She killed a guy?”
He ignored me and slapped his dishcloth on the bar.
Char nodded.
I didn’t expect her
to corroborate that. “Char! I wasn’t serious—what the hell? Forget it. I’m
outta here.” I backed away.
Char just turned her
head a little more to watch me stumble up the steps to the door. Matt actually
stopped scowling—and that’s what made me freeze.
“You’re not going to
call the cops on me?” What’s wrong with
these people?
“No. I think it’s
time you were informed.” He glanced at Char. “Do we do this the hard way or the
easy way?”
“I tried the easy
way. I brought her here for the goods. Lock the door.”
Matt snuck his hand
under the rim of the bar. A snap echoed in the expansive and frighteningly
empty two-story club. My hands shook. My mouth went dry.
This isn’t right.
With a twist of his
neck, Matt—the stern but hunky twenty-something bartender—launched himself from
the floor to the counter. Landing on all fours, covered in russet fur, he
snapped his elongated jaws at the air around his nose.
A scream sliced my
lungs, but it never made it past my open mouth. Char reached out and petted the
large animal that glared with cold gray eyes. He leaped at me. Stumbling over
my feet on the stairs, I dropped hard to the floor, curled into a ball, and waited
to die.
What I got was a wet
ear.
Blog 1: Inspiration & Characters
It is an honor to be here to hang out and
talk stories with you today. I’m really excited about my newest urban fantasy
series, the White Raven. It’s kind of a cross between the TV shows Legacies,
and Lost Girl. It’s not an academy series, but it does deal with the concept of
“what do you do after high school?” Couple that with the discovery of a hidden
supernatural underworld right in your backyard, and that you’re a part of it,
and that brings in the detective/mystery element.
Dray, my main character, was born with
leucism. Similar to albinism (being albino), the melanin in her cells doesn’t
hold onto color the same way as the average person’s. It isn’t like vitiligo,
where your skin can become two-tone or patterned, it really is closer to being
albino—where it affects your skin evenly. The difference between albinism and
leucism is that leucism is more commonly found in animals (we learn that Dray
has shifters in her family tree), and it desaturates the melanin in the skin
and hair. So, while her parents are Italian with a deep, tanned skin tone and
dark hair, Dray is as pale as parchment with white-blonde hair. It’s to the
point where she needs to “paint” her face on every day just to “look normal.”
Writers are always looking for some way to
bring diversity into their writing while also staying true to what they
know—for believability. I did a lot research into leucism and albinism for this
book, so that I could be as true as possible to the character and the people
who live with this disease. What I discovered were a number of similarities to
those of us who have experienced ostracism or difficulty fitting in because
we’re “different” in some way. For many of us, we just want to be accepted for
who we are. This is a fairly common challenge for a lot of kids, regardless of
skin color. This commonality is where I hope readers might see themselves or a
friend or family member in Dray’s character—someone they can relate to.
What I love about Dray is how alike and
unalike we are—LOL! Throughout my life I always felt different and was treated
differently because of my empathic nature. Really, getting a handle on the
roller coaster of my emotions over my entire life has been a challenge, and
always left me feeling like I didn’t belong. I love too easily, cry to easily,
get stubborn and offended… too easily 😉. I am not bipolar; I just absorb other people’s emotions and have a
tendency to react in big ways. That made me an easy target for bullies and a
bit of an “odd duck” growing up. Like Dray does in the story, I tried a lot of
different things to “fit in.” With her, though, I went in kind of the opposite
direction. While I avoided drugs and alcohol and the “bad” crowd, I tossed her
right into the middle of it. I wanted to understand what compelled some people
to make these choices, and how those decisions affected how others perceived
them, reacted to them.
This series isn’t just about discovering a
hidden supernatural world, it’s learning about self and finding a sense of
belonging or found family who are all at once a lot like you and yet completely
different! Dray is thrust into this world by accident. Her abduction and
transformation sets her on a journey of a lifetime. It’s dangerous, sexy,
revealing, and even fun at times. Just like anyone’s life could be 😉.
MJ Moores has dabbled in all things writing since the age of nine. With a minor in creative writing, a decade teaching high school English and Drama, and more than twenty full-length works of fiction under her belt, her seven years as a freelance editor can only be the cherry on top of a life surrounded by story and words. Lately, you can find her working at the library on the days she's not dealing with a flurry of words for her latest book.
MJ loves to write upper YA adventure in sci-fi, fantasy, and suspense. Her newest series, The White Raven, is a fast-paced urban fantasy with a strong female lead, and a hint of mystery. Imagine Legacies meets Lost Girl -- Hold your breath and dive into the adventure.
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The excerpt sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing.
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