Divide and Conquer
Champions of Elonia, Book 1
Carmen Fox
Genre: Urban
Fantasy with romance elements
Publisher:
Champagne Books
Date of
Publication: March 2, 2015
ISBN:
978-1-77155-175-5 * ASIN: B00U0W2BIM
Number of pages:
377 print pages * Word Count: 97k
Cover Artist: Ellie
Smith
Book Description:
Two women. One
prophecy. Zero places to hide.
Flung from her
mundane Seattle existence into a world of magic, scientist Lea struggles to
make sense of a destiny she doesn’t want. The moment she finds comfort in the
arms of a man who appreciates her inner nerd, a new magic sweeps the realms.
Nieve, Lea’s
instructor, may be seasoned in the art of war, but she’s clueless when it comes
to romance. To save her world, she allies herself with her enemy, a kindred
warrior soul, who leaves no doubt he’s after more than her cooperation.
As each tick of the
clock swallows another person’s memory, Lea and Nieve will do anything to hang
on to theirs, but betrayal drives a wedge in their friendship. Can they
reconcile and rally the troops before the magic wipes out their pasts?
Video
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"Urban Fantasy doesn't get better than DIVIDE
& CONQUER. Action, excitement, and 2
kick-ass heroines to root for fill this rich, complex and dynamic world. Carmen
Fox does not disappoint!"
~National & USA Today Bestselling author Anna J
Stewart
Excerpt:
NIEVE
I dropped my magical
defenses, allowing my luster to envelop me in a powerful light. Without the
sun’s ready supply of energy, that meant using some of my precious resources.
“Holy crap.” Lea jumped
out of her bed and squeezed against the far wall of the room.
Finally, some reaction.
“It’s called luster.” I twirled to prove I wasn’t hiding a flashlight behind my
back. “It’s a by-product of an Elonian’s affinity with light. Anyone sensitive
to magic can see it unless I suppress it.”
In my mind, rows of thick
bricks piled one on top of another around me, extinguishing my luster.
“A-are you an angel?” Her
airless voice barely traveled the distance between us.
I kinked back my head and
laughed. “Definitely not.”
She unglued herself from
the wall and took a few steps toward her bed. “You said I’m an Elonian. Why
don’t I shine?”
“You can’t see your own
luster, but it’s there. Without the training to suppress it, you’re a living
flame to the Shades. It’s the reason they call us Sparks. It’s also how they’ll
identify you. You know, before they kill you.”
Lea picked up a sweater
from the floor. Her focus went distant, no longer in this world. Something I’d
said must have triggered a switch in her brain. Not a day too soon.
I trotted to the corner
by the window and picked a collection of stuffed animals off the armchair. From
the deep V between Lea’s brows, I concluded her thought processes weren't going
anywhere fast. Once the toys occupied the windowsill, neatly arranged by
height, I sat.
With her dark lashes, a
tiny nose and a sprinkling of freckles, she looked so young and so…Kindred.
Unexpected sadness ripped through my chest. The misery pressed onto my
diaphragm, making me feel like I was an evil monster come to chop up her
innocence like next week’s firewood.
Even though she was
predicted to be my ally through the dark days, she was still a total stranger.
Yet her pale, elfin face stirred something in me, some glimmer of recognition,
of familiarity even. My childhood friend Belinda had a similar innocence about
her. She’d chew the end of her pen for hours while pondering her words. Her
poems were meant to bring joy to a war-torn land. They burned with her when
Galleo invaded her village.
Lea would not share
Belinda’s fate. I’d see to that. By the end of her training, she’d be able to
take on a whole battalion of Shades by herself. I squinted at her short stature
and took a sobering breath. If not a battalion, then a group of ten.
********
About the Author:
Carmen Fox is an
Amazon no. 1 bestselling author in the vampire and werewolf mystery categories
for her book Guarded (The Silverton Chronicles). Guarded was also the Amazon
no. 1 urban fantasy novel in Australia.
She lives in the
south of England with her beloved tea maker and a stuffed sheep called Fergus.
An avid reader since childhood, she caught the writing bug when her Nana asked
her to write a story. She also has a law degree, studied physics for a few
years, dabbled in marketing and human resources, and speaks native-level German
and fluent Geek. Her preferred niches of geekdom are tabletop games, comics,
sci-fi and fantasy.
Website: http://www.carmen-fox.com
Book page: www.carmen-fox.com/dac
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Divide and Conquer e-book
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