If the Sun Spares Us (Braving the Light, Book 3) by Brenda Marie Smith | Blurb Blitz ~ Excerpt ~ Gift Card | #PostApocalyptic #Thriller @GoddessFish @bsmithnovelist
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Book Details
If The Sun Spares Us by Brenda Marie Smith Series: Braving The Light Series #3
on September 1, 2023
Genres: Post Apocalyptic, Thriller
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 364
Two years ago, a solar pulse destroyed modern life. Bea Crenshaw organized starving neighbors into a farming community. But now Bea’s gone, and her grandchildren must carry her legacy forward.
In the post-apocalyptic pressure cooker of Austin, Texas, 19-year-old Keno and his
younger cousins, Milo and Mazie, struggle to ensure their community’s survival
even as they’re forced to relocate to safer grounds. Northern Lights that don’t
belong this far south grow increasingly intense, making Keno fear what harm the sun
will cause next.Even worse, a marauding militia called the Raiders is closing in, led by a deranged
woman who preys on teenage boys. Despite Keno’s debilitating flashbacks from a
firefight, he and his wife have a new baby to protect. Milo and Mazie’s parents are
losing their grip on reality. Though Bea is dead, her spirit desperately searches for
ways to shield her grandkids. When Raiders target two neighborhood members, the
only hope lies in the community’s strength, Keno’s ingenuity, and the family’s fierce
love for one another.
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Excerpt from If the Sun Spares Us
In the next second, thick neon bands of green light shoot into the sky like they’re spewing straight out of the earth at the horizon, the aurora pulsing and soaring hundreds of feet into the air toward the stratosphere. This is nothing like the tame Northern Lights we’ve had off and on over the past year, but crazy-bright and thick and enormous. None of it belongs in Texas. I stare at the lights, getting dizzy from their movement and intensity.
The guys out on the street whistle and shout… I close my eyes to get my bearings.
Residual streaks of light burn my eyeballs and flash across my eyelids, then mutate into the recurring, overly-vivid memories I can’t shake: flaming, screaming boys, falling fiery trees, bursting Molotov cocktails, strafing assault rifles—a hand slaps across my mouth and covers my nose, and Richie’s behind me, yanking me to the ground, hissing, “Shhh! Shhh! Don’t scream.”
“The End of Days is upon us, and we’ve got work to do!” shouts the woman from the street. “Head back north.” The feet start tramping around. “Jonesie, north’s the other way.”
Richie’s pressing so hard on my mouth and nose he’s gonna suffocate me. My tears run over his hand. Flaming bodies still flash before my eyes while green lights burn in the sky overhead…
I grab his hand to yank it off, but he presses harder. I panic. Dude’s gonna kill me.
Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.
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About Brenda Marie Smith
Brenda Marie Smith is attracted to stories where everyday characters transcend their limitations to find their inner heroism. She lived off the grid for years in a farming collective where her sons were delivered by midwives.
A lifelong community activist, Brenda has managed student co-op housing, produced concerts, and raised a small herd of boys.
She and her husband live in Kyle, Texas. They have more grown kids and grandkids than they can count.
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I want to thank you again for hosting my book here today, and for all the fun comments. I wish all of you the very best!
Thanks for hanging out with us all, Brenda. I hope your tour has been a great success.
Great excerpt and cover
Thank you, Marisela. I appreciate it.
Really beautiful cover! Love the cat in the desert and the girl looking down!
Thank you, Denise. I also love the cover. Fact is, that’s a baby-faced boy, but oddly, he looks amazingly like my 13-year-old granddaughter if you hide his beard, which is a little hard to see on the bottom of the side of his face, since it’s obscured by lettering. You can see the beard better in the tour banner. Even my granddaughter agrees that he looks like her.
Well, it’s even more appropriate if he looks like your granddaughter!
I know, right? Just a twist of fate, lol.
Sounds like a really good read.
Thank you, Sherry.
Such a gorgeous cover. When I saw it and saw that the series was apocalyptic/dystopian, science fiction, I knew I had to have it.
sherry @ fundinmental
Thank you, Sherry. The cover artist is Olivia Hammerman, and I am very fortunate to have had her design all the book covers for the series. She’s also a great person.
This story sounds very intriguing.
Thank you, Marcy.
It’s been an informative tour!
Thanks for visiting today, Elizabeth!
It’s been a fun tour for me, getting to chat with so many readers.
Thank you so much for hosting my book here today. It’s much appreciated. I have to go out this morning, but I will be back in early afternoon and I will check in regularly from then on. I’d love to chat with you and your readers. Until then, have a great day!
Thanks for hosting today!