Silver to the Heart (Light of Adua #1) by Brien Feathers | Guest Post from Author, Gift Card Giveaway, and Excerpt
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Book Details
Silver to the Heart by Brien Feathers Series: Light of Adua #1
Published by Independent on October 15, 2021
Genres: Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 307
— So begins the apocalypse, with death and a story of love —
An old soul (several centuries old), the lover, fighter, and telekinetic Drake receives an order to safeguard Ana, a mortal with Elder Talent. Ana, an artist beset by haunting visions, falls for the perfect stranger while venturing home to mediate emergent family chaos. Past-warlord and present commander Sasuke wields his telepathic might to outwit Council traitors in an effort to save the human realm and its Guardian from a new Dark War.
Criminal and light bender Lou, now sought by the Council to answer for his sins, seeks shelter with the Reverend—an Elder fit to bypass rules of magic meant to be unbreakable. As time’s last grains of sand deplete, an ancient battle may renew, with pieces of the fractured realm imperiling man’s modern world. Though few on Earth are cognizant, dark days now lie ahead. . .
----------One fate, two paths, six singular perspectives, and plethoric danger. Contemporary fantasy at its polychromic finest—pure delight.
This book is an adult dark fantasy (Not YA) with content warnings for violence and profanity.
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Excerpt from Silver to the Heart
Drake held her around her waist with one arm. He needed at least one hand free. Seeing the harbor maybe 100 yards away, he landed them on the roof of a nearby building. With his Push, he broke their fall with a moment of levitation—Ana shrieked.
“Ana, you have to stay quiet, I have to be able to hear the arrows.” Preferably when he first releases one, so I can find him.
“What the hell is happening!” Not quiet, but loud. “Drake!” Still loud.
Drake couldn’t hear the Aerian or the arrows—they needed to take cover. As he leaped again with Ana, something grabbed his leg and swiped them into the side of a building. Midair, he turned to put himself in between the building and Ana and felt the impact as they slammed into it.
Pushing against the wall, he leaped with Ana as more arrows whizzed toward them. One, two, three arrows, one after another, struck the cement wall instead of them and fell to the ground harmlessly. They couldn’t kill Drake this way, but he didn’t want Ana hurt. He needed to take down that Aerian, but couldn’t leave Ana behind. In his decision to break direct order not to engage, he hadn’t accounted for Ana. Drake still wanted to capture one of the soldiers—alive, to inquire about the Reverend, but carrying Ana around like screaming luggage, this fight wasn’t going the way he wanted.
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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About Brien Feathers
Brien Feathers is a fantasy author living in the land of permanent frost, horses, and Mongols. She likes reading, writing (of course), riding (horses and husbands), drinking dark beer, and checking things off a to-do list.
Although she claims to love everyone equally, she really loves her youngest son the most. He has autism superpowers that allow him to speak all types of rare languages including drumbeats, elevator dings, and police sirens.
Miss Feathers loves grey days, orange cats, and all creatures human or otherwise. And she hopes you will love her world (fantasy) and people (characters) as well.
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Guest Post from the author of Silver to the Heart
In the ‘Light of Adua’ contemporary dark fantasy series, vampires are neither sexy nor are they horrible beasts who burn in the sun, rather, they are souls escaped from a fallen realm of magic, reborn on a human body. They drink blood because their Grace, or the healing light that grants them immortality requires drawing of life after they use Talent— the magical power that comes from the dark.
Called Elder High Council in the series, a group of vampires guards the human realm against dark supernatural forces. Moral grey area, especially as the immortal beings wielding dark magic war with each other, is a contested theme in the book, and I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss the darkest of Elder Talents: Whispering.
In the Adua world, vampires each have a different ability, or Talent, depending on which House they used to belong to in their former lives. An Elder from House of Mind are all telepaths, but their abilities vary. A specific kind of telepath called a Whisperer can hijack the human mind and override free will by telepathically calling their name. Once the person answers to their name being called, they are under total control of the Whisperer.
What can you do with such power? And how would it corrupt your ethics, your perception of right and wrong, especially if you’ve lived over three centuries and seen war and cruelty? Questions such as these are posed in the Adua series and answered by the characters themselves. Because where there is a good Whisperer, meaning well, there is another who doesn’t… mean well.
‘Silver to the Heart’, Book 1 of the Light of Adua series is perma-free across all retailers, so please give it a chance if you want to see a new take on the vampire genre. However, being an adult dark fantasy, it has reader warnings for violence and profanity.
Thank you for hosting me here.
A voyage through the dark, together,
B. Feathers
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Giveaway!
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Full Tour Schedule:
July 27: Rogue’s Angels
July 27: Westveil Publishing
August 3: Dawn’s Reading Nook
August 10: Lisa Haselton’s Reviews and Interviews
August 17: All the Ups and Downs
August 17: Gold Dust Editing & Book Reviews
August 24: Fabulous and Brunette
August 31: Lynn’s Romance Enthusiasm
September 7: Viviana MacKade
September 14: Kit ‘N Kabookle
September 21: Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books! – promo only
September 21: Sadie’s Spotlight
September 28: Gina Rae Mitchell
October 5: Literary Gold
October 12: Full Moon Dreaming
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I enjoyed reading the guest post and Silver to the Heart sounds like a must read for me and I like the cover!
Thanks for sharing it with me and have a spectacular TGIF!
Thanks for stopping by, Eva!
The book sounds very interesting
Thanks for stopping by today, Sherry!
Thank you, Sherry. I hope you enjoy reading it 🙂
Thank you for having me here!
Thanks for hosting!
Good morning, Brien , I am curious to know, are you able to read or write when it is noisy or do you require peace and quiet or white noise as I do?
Hi Beatrice!
I prefer silence, of course. But my husband watches TV so loud, and my children are loud as well 🙁 I try to tune the noise out when it’s time to write, but constantly speaking to me or needing something from me… I manage. But it’s not ideal.