Adrienne Woods
YA Paranormal
Fire Quill Publishing
May 28, 2015
Mr. Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da.....Seventeen year
old Chasity Blake knows the Sandman is just a silly children's story parents
tell their children to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until
the day a mysterious, light golden sand appeared in her hands during a high
school prank that went horribly wrong. A sand that has the power to send anyone
it touches into a deep, sound sleep.
Fearing she had lost her mind, Chasity soon discovers the
shocking truth of her heritage- she is a Dream Caster. Chasity was never
supposed to be raised on the Domain, or what humans call Earth and she is
forced to return to her true birth place, Revera – the world of Dreams.
However, in Revera there is no balance between good, the
Light Casters, and darkness, the Shadow Casters, and Chasity is caught square
in the middle. She soon learns that there is no place for anyone containing
both the light and the darkness within them, and the shocking truth that if
anyone in Revera ever discovered her shadow self, Chasity would be thrown into
the Oblivion – the world of Nightmares.
Dreams are always more than they seem, and this time Chasity
is going to discover just how different they can be.
Excerpt
Dogs could always see them, where humans couldn’t. He had always
assumed the dust worked differently for animals. He used to toy with them, he’d
told Zac once it was a good work out, before hitting them with a dose of dust
that would kick them out for at least half a day. Against these hounds,
however, his golden dust didn’t just put them to sleep, it put them to sleep
forever.
“Take my bag,” Graig spoke softly reaching out his hand.
“I’m not leaving you, I can fight.”
“These are your family. It’s enough that you have to know
that they will die, I’m not going to let you kill them.”
“I don’t give a shit, Graig. You are my family now, you and
bean, nobody else.”
Graig smiled. Ever since they’d found out that she was
pregnant, she’d called the fetus, bean. Spinning her in his arms, he gave her a
hard kiss and handed her a celestian, an oval shaped gel pendant that would
take her and the child to their save haven, in case he didn’t make it, and a
small green bag filled with his dust. “Just in case,” he spoke, swallowing the
lump in his throat.
“There is no in case, you make it, you hear?”
She planted a hard passionate kiss on his lips. The kind
that filled him with confidence, he had no doubts not even in that second that
would have given away their hiding place.
“Vinicola, are you sure you want to do this?” One of the Shadow
Casters mounted on the back of a hound growled. His voice made Graig’s skin
crawl. Everything about them screamed the word evil. How that power ran through
this beautiful creature standing fiercely next to him, was beyond his
knowledge.
Graig surveyed the Caster before him. His hair was wild,
hung to his shoulders, and was pure white, just like his love. He must be her
family, but how close he didn’t know. Yet, the man didn’t look anything like
her. He was big, brought shoulders, and dirty.
Vinicola laughed, the one that Graig hated. It didn’t sound
anything like her, but it was the only language she knew to speak, a sound that
told them if they killed her, they would feel her father’s wrath. This was
purely a retrieval mission for her, but a wipe out for him. “Sibian, you can
tell him I’m done with Oblivion, and nothing you do will ever drag me back to
that wretched hell hole you love so much.”
“Your mind seems a bit clouded, dear,” the Shadow Caster
said. “Let me refresh it.” He lifted up his hands and let his dust flow freely,
and four more Shadow Hounds appeared out of his dark sand.
Graig whipped his bow from his shoulder and started to shoot
invisible arrows that would take shape through his golden dust.
The hounds that were hit fell into useless heaps of black
sand. Vinicola ripped of her whip that had been securely around her waist, and
did the same. The other hounds exploded into the sky, but they weren’t
destroyed, they would reemerged a couple of minutes later, whole once again.
It was useless for her to fight, she only gave him a couple
of minutes as she was still one of them, even though she’d made the choice to
leave in her heart.
Graig made sure he used all of the minutes she gave him and
when it was time for the full on fight, they both took on two at a time.
He conjured his sword for full on battle and started
slashing away.
“Graig!” Vinicola’s voice yelled in panic. When he found her
she was captured, with a huge Shadow Caster’s arm around her neck.
In those few seconds he felt defeated, their plan was ruined
and he knew he wouldn’t get a second chance with her.
As he stood there, an ax hit him straight in the back, the
dark sand ripping his veins inside his body apart. It hurt like hell, and he
could feel his golden sand starting to seep out of him. Vinicola’s shrill
scream pierced the night air around them.
He wasn’t going to survive this, but he’d made the choice
for the love of his life and their unborn child.
He took a celestian out of his pocket, stood up with a
mother of an ax inside of him and mustered all the strength he had. He had only
moments to act before the others would come, or worse take her away.
He threw the celestian hard on the ground near her feet and
yelled the word “San Francisco” as loud as he could. In an instant, a bright
light blinded all the Shadow Casters and he watched her close her eyes tightly.
She knew what to do and he watched as she, and the Shadow
Caster who had his arm around her neck, disappeared.
The Shadow Caster would die. His DNA wasn’t attached to the
celestian, and he wouldn’t make the trip. He had won. Just then another object
sliced through his neck and he fell on the floor, the last images he saw was a
body without a head before everything went black.
About the Author
Adrienne Woods was
born and raised in South Africa, where she still lives with her husband and two
beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going to be a writer, but it
only started to really happen about four years ago. In her free time―if she
gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with
friends, whether it’s a girl’s night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a
very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the
Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including a further two to
three books, which will be stories that take place within the Dragonian series.
Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid-2015. She also writes in
different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy Diaries, will be
published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name
of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that
wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be
released in 2016.
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