Happy weekend dear readers!
Somehow it’s May already, and I’ve just completed the third draft of the second book of my Last Lux Trilogy and sent it whizzing off to my next critique partner. I thought I was being a bit optimistic by setting myself the deadline of completing this latest draft within a month, but somehow I managed it with a couple of days to spare. Now to enjoy some sunshine and catch up on my never ending TBR…
To celebrate finishing my latest draft, I’m sharing an exclusive excerpt of one of my favourite scenes from book 2. Is it a dream sequence? A hallucination? A mysterious prophecy? Read on and predict for yourself…
Exclusive book 2 excerpt
"Death comes on dark wings," purred the cat, its eyes on the horizon as the sky faded to red. Darkness loomed, chasing a raven across the sky, its cry shredding through the rapid beating of her heart.
Night fell as the soaring raven became one with the dark, but something else approached now, bright white light illuminating the clouds, the low growl of thunder rolling towards them. As the lightning drew closer, so did the wind cast by titanic wings as two godlike creatures came into view: a snarling dragon scaled in blood and gold and wreathed in shadow, and a great bird the colour of a storm cloud, the snapping of its beak rumbling like claps of thunder, its lightning splitting the night sky in two.
She shivered, watching the battle rage on, leathery wings and grey feathers cutting swiftly through the air. Keening cries reverberated through her chest as claws flashed, beak and jaw snapped, darkness and lightning danced. Blood fell from the sky like rain, black and red and gold.
With an otherworldly scream, the winged creatures plummeted together to the ground, the impact shuddering through the world.
Other creatures emerged from the darkness then, approaching the heaving bodies: a great, hulking wolf, eyes like emeralds, hackles raised; an ethereal being of unknown size and shape moving like a shadowy cloud, drifting like it floated in water rather than air; a giant serpent slithering like a silver stream through the grass, teeth as long as a human arm, as sharp as any sword. And amongst them, approaching the fallen creatures, was a woman, crowned in starlight, cloaked in midnight.
Stay tuned on Substack and social media for more updates and release announcements later this year.
The Stormbird in the Shadows available on Kobo, Kindle and paperback
If you haven’t yet read book one, The Stormbird in the Shadows, you can purchase the eBook on Kobo as well as Kindle, and the paperback is also available as print on demand via your local Amazon.
Reviews and shares
And if you have read Stormbird, I’d love to hear your thoughts via a review on Amazon, Goodreads or StoryGraph, and a share on social media would go a long way in helping my little world and characters to find new readers.
A huge thank you, as always, to everyone who has read, reviewed, shared, commented and supported me in any way great and small, I’m forever grateful and you’re helping this indie author’s dream come true.
Thank you for reading and have a lovely weekend <3