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A Spider in the Garden by Courtney Davis | Win a $25 Gift Card, Excerpt, Guest Post | #Paranormal #Romantic #Fantasy

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Book Details

A Spider in the Garden by Courtney Davis
Published by 5 Prince Publishing on 02/08/2022
Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 240

Aranha is the last of her kind, a spider shifter who preys upon the dregs of society in an attempt to validate her existence and feed her hunger. She’s lived alone for two hundred years, no family and no friends; always watchful for those who would kill her.

Dag is one of a dying species, vampires who can walk in the day. They have lost their companions and live in dread of the day that they too will become extinct; leaving the earth to the vile creatures who prey upon humans without mercy.

Aranha sees danger in Dag’s face, Dag sees the future in hers. Neither can believe the other exists and their lives are about to get very complicated. Together they embark on a mission to save a young human from the vampires and learn the reality of what their two species were doing in The Garden of Eden.

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Excerpt from A Spider in the Garden

“I’m Dag, and I am a daywalker. You are a webmaker and I don’t appreciate you sifting the thoughts of my paying customers.”

Aranha moved back and narrowed her eyes at the man. His skin was sun-kissed, his lips delicious and kissable, he even smelled like a sunny summer day. Of course, he was a daywalker; a blood drinker who had the ability to withstand the light of the sun. “I thought you were extinct,” she said quietly. She’d never met one, but she didn’t doubt his words.

“If I was extinct, I wouldn’t be slinging beer in the depths of New York. Why are you here and why do you smell like werewolf?”

“I tracked a killer to your establishment; I intend to intercept him before he removes another innocent life from the planet.” She ignored the werewolf remark, she would protect Jonah at all costs.

He looked unconvinced. “You some kind of savior to these lowly humans?” He raised one eyebrow in a devilishly enticing way.

“They deserve to live as much as us, maybe more so…” she mumbled. “I have to eat, and the way I see it, if I take out a dirtbag instead of an innocent, then great.”

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Guest Post from the author of A Spider in the Garden

Who deserves to exist?

This is a question that Aranha struggles with throughout her story. She can only survive by taking the lives of others and this naturally makes her a murderer, but can murder be for good? She chooses her victims carefully, finds the worst that the world has walking its streets, and removes them before they can hurt anyone else. She, unlike anyone else, is able to know for certain what lies deep in the mind of others and so she can be sure when she kills and eats, that the one who dies deserved it.

At least to her, they deserve it, is she really any better?

Depression runs deep when you feed off others and have no one to share your burden of sin with. She wonders if she should give herself over to the enemy, let the vampires suck her dry, and remove her for the good of the world. She’s not sure she’s ever directly helped anyone, isn’t sure her own suffering should continue. Should the species end with her once and for all?
Or does she serve a purpose she doesn’t yet understand?

It takes a life-changing discovery in the dirty dank basement of one of the worst humans imaginable to start to move her out of those thoughts. Then the possibility of stopping the vampires in what has to be an evil plot to show her she has value in this world and maybe she does deserve to continue being a part of it. Perhaps her species is meant to be here on earth, straight from the garden.

I really enjoyed writing this dark character and her journey.

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