I'm please to be hosting the wonderful BRANDICE SNOWDEN on my blog today for this SIZZLING SUMMER EVENT!! I hope you all take the time to read about Brandice and her book Demon's Veil. With out further ado... Demon's Veil by Brandice Snowden:
Title: Demon's Veil
Author: Brandice Snowden
Release date: July 15th 2013
Published by: Curiosity Quills Press
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Book Descriptions:
Powerful veils hold Earth apart from
realms mortals believe are merely tales of myth and legend. They are
opening again, leaving humans vulnerable, and the monsters ready to
strike.
Marie Leveau prefers to remain alone
and anonymous, for she knows what goes bump in the night, and
sacrificing others isn't part of her personality. But life isn’t
always about getting what you want.
Contracted by The Organization, a
shadow government agency, Marie is assigned a new Special Ops team,
one she must introduce via Paranormal 101 to the very monsters they
didn’t believe existed. Marie and her team are sent to Asia in
search of an ancient relic, leading them into the jungle and tests of
a fragile new bond. Despite the initial distrust, and an unholy
battle with a demon-god, the team survives, their lives forever
changed and woven into an unbreakable tapestry.
Returning home, the new friends sense
the very people responsible for their safety are willing to sacrifice
them all in the name of power.
They learn of a prophecy, and The
Paladin, the one person able to close the veils and keep the mortals
safe.
With few clues, the team must unravel
the prophecy and figure out how to close the veils. Or the monsters
will use Earth as ground zero, innocents be damned.
Adult Urban Fantasy: Intended for
readers 17 years of age and older.
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“Hello, Marie,” the figure seated in front of a bank of monitors
spoke with a deep resonating voice. “I’ve been expecting you …
And look, you’ve brought me company.” The figured turned and both
Delgado and Johnson audibly gasped. He was beautiful, so beautiful
they might have thought him a woman had it not been for the voice.
“Hello, Keiron.” Marie smiled at him and for once, her smile
actually made it to her eyes. A casual observer might believe her
taken with his good looks. But those who knew Marie understood she
truly cared about those she considered friends, and the strange man
was counted among that number. “Let me introduce you to some
friends.”
Keiron raised his eyes to the two men standing behind Marie, and
despite his inhuman beauty, it wasn’t until the men saw his direct
gaze the thought of Keiron not being human crossed their minds. His
eyes were still beautiful, large, with a slightly Asian tilt to the
outside of the eye, but they were unearthly in composition; the color
of amethyst and almost seemed to glow. His pupils were slightly off,
giving an almost reptilian feeling, like being stared at by a
poisonous viper. Fearing what his voice would sound like Johnson just
nodded his greeting.
Delgado was less subtle, his eyes shifting between Marie and the
stranger. Marie reached out and dragged Keiron from his seat, forcing
him into the circle of humanity.
“Keiron, this is Johnson and Delgado. They are good men. Guys, this
is my friend.” Keiron looked surprised for just a flash at being
called her friend. “He is the best when it comes to sniffing out
information; there isn’t a system out there that he can’t get
around,” she smiled, proud of her friend’s abilities.
“So he’s a hacker.”
“I prefer the term information specialist,” Keiron smiled and it
nearly took Johnson’s breath away. God, he’d never been attracted
to a man before; why now? His discomfort made him answer more sharply
than he intended.
“I don’t like breaking the law, but I am pragmatic enough to
understand it might be necessary to save our skins.” He turned to
Marie, “I told you I would let you know when I had doubts about
you. Well, I have doubts.” Ignoring Keiron he spoke only to Marie,
“You’re hiding something about this guy, something is very off
here.”
A little surprised at Johnson’s rudeness, Marie turned her gaze
toward Keiron, a silent plea for forgiveness.
“Johnson, is it? This is not Marie’s secret to tell, so address
your concerns to me. And please, in the future, don’t take your
homophobic fears out on my guests.”
Johnson
sputtered, trying to come up with a convincing denial for his
outburst. But the fact of the matter was he couldn’t find one, and
he sullenly turned his attention towards Keiron. Delgado tried
unsuccessfully to stifle a giggle and was punched in the arm by
Johnson.
“You’re not human, are you?”
“Well, not entirely anyway.”
“Can you read our minds?”
“Not exactly. I feel your emotions, and if I concentrate, I can see
the color of your thoughts. But there are times when people project
so strongly what is going on in their heads that I am surprised
anyone misses it. Just now your distress at your thoughts was
palatable and since I have engendered that reaction before, it was
simple to deduce what distressed you. In fact, I find Delgado’s
reaction to me more interesting.” Keiron turned alien eyes on
Delgado. “You must love her very much.”
“Love who?” Marie asked the question.
“I am assuming it is his wife.”
“It is,” answered Delgado.
“Why would his love for his wife be interesting?”
“You are new to this world outside of what humanity perceives as
reality, aren’t you?” Johnson nodded. “What do you know of the
Fey?”
“Only what I have heard in old folk tales.”
“Kernels of truth buried in mountains of fluff.”
“Huh?”
“My mother was human. My father was Fey, one that crossed into this
realm over the last few hundred years. There are reasons poems such
as ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ exists. The Fey are beautiful, but
more than that, they secrete a pheromone that attracts those around
them almost without fail.”
“Almost?”
“True love, soul mates, whatever you want to call it. Those few who
have the connection that transcends the mental and physical realms to
lay in the spiritual are immune to our pheromone. Don’t ask me why.
I find the fact that Delgado is immune to me interesting because in
my many years of existence, I had never met anyone who truly had that
kind of connection. You are very blessed, Delgado.”
“So how do we know we can trust you? All we have is Marie’s word
that you are on her side. Maybe you are working your hocus pocus on
her.”
“It could be possible, I won’t lie about that. But, I assure you,
it’s not. Marie sees the truth about me. It is one of her many
gifts. I can’t influence the truth, only illusion. If it is any
consolation, Johnson, the longer you are around me, the less you will
be affected.”
Marie laid a hand on Johnson’s arm, “We need him; otherwise we
are going into the fray blind. You have already experienced the
director’s penchant for not giving his teams all of the information
they need. I don’t want to lose lives because the director decided
to play games.”
Still tense, Johnson forced himself to look at the situation
logically. “All right.”
“One more
thing,” Keiron looked at both of the men, “You can’t tell
anyone I exist. I prefer not to be dissected in the name of science.”
About the Author
I grew up around the tall tales and
history of Texas. I worked my way through college just because I was
told it was out of my reach; earning a degree in Literary Studies
from the University of Texas at Dallas. Along the way I learned to
shoot, wield a sword and even met a family ghost or two.
I have been an
artist, teacher, military wife, mother and now novelist. I spend my
free time indulging in my fantastical side, learning first hand
skills my characters use in my books. I have a passion for history
and mythology and use much of what I learn to create new worlds.
I currently resides on the
Texas/Oklahoma border with the love of my life and my children of
both two legged and four legged variety.
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