Smoke and Mirrors by Jess Haines - Book Tour
Young Adult / New Adult Fantasy
Date Published: May 1, 2016
A girl who uses her illusions to fool the world into thinking she's just like all the other magi.
A dragon who sees through her lies.
Together they just might survive a world that wants to control or destroy them both.
Kimberly
may wield ultimate cosmic power, but even a mage has to pay the rent.
No one will hire her for her magic talents until she's got the
credentials, so she’s stuck in a crappy rent controlled apartment with
her mother, yearning for treats she can't afford at her part time job in
a café, counting down the days until she graduates the secret
Blackhollow Academy school for magi. Only then will she have the
certificate she needs to land her dream job in a coven.
The problem? She needs a familiar to graduate.
As
an illusionist, she doesn't have the ability to summon or create a
familiar of her own. Her only option is to convince a supernatural
creature to let her bind it instead. Since having a powerful Other at
her beck and call would guarantee her a place in a coven after she
graduates—and legendary treasure hoards are an added bonus—she thinks
binding a dragon as her familiar will solve all her problems...
Because sometimes a girl needs a dragon, not a knight.
Excerpt
Blackhollow Academy – Book 1
By Jess Haines
The notion that the thing she’d seen on the rooftop last night wouldn’t be found at street-level skittered through her thoughts, and she glanced up.
All she caught was a glimpse. A monster easily the size of a two-seater plane, but with an unmistakably serpentine form. Wide, sickle-like wings were limned with sunlight and lightning-like flickers of energy that traveled over the outline of the massive beast in the air above her.
Dragon, her mind gibbered.
By Jess Haines
The notion that the thing she’d seen on the rooftop last night wouldn’t be found at street-level skittered through her thoughts, and she glanced up.
All she caught was a glimpse. A monster easily the size of a two-seater plane, but with an unmistakably serpentine form. Wide, sickle-like wings were limned with sunlight and lightning-like flickers of energy that traveled over the outline of the massive beast in the air above her.
Dragon, her mind gibbered.
I'm
a displaced New Yorker with a penchant for the silly, the obscure, and
the fantastical. These days, you can find me in the Tampa area. I'm
currently working on the H&W Investigations urban fantasy series and
the Blackhollow Academy young adult/new adult contemporary fantasy
series. Find out more about my books, drop me a line, or join my mailing
list at www.jesshaines.com!
Contact Information
Website: www.JessHaines.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/jess_haines
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