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Sunday, March 3, 2013
Blog Tour: Caris Roane's The Darkening (Guest Post/Excerpt/Giveaway)
Hi, wonderful readers!
And a special thanks to BOOK LOVIN’ MAMAS for having me here today!
I’ve been a writer for longer than I ever want to announce
publicly, lol! But it’s been a couple of
decades and I LOVE it! I wrote Regency
romance as Valerie King for 19 years, having published with Kensington under
the Zebra imprint. I had a wonderful
time living in my Regency world and in one of the novellas, many moons ago, I
added an entire vampire family for one of their Halloween collections.
So you could say that I’ve been connected to the paranormal
world long before it became an entirely new, exciting genre. When writers like Sherrilyn Kenyon, JR Ward
and Lara Adrian established the genre, I fell in love with the vampire warrior model
and built my Guardians of Ascension around big, hunky, oversized, and
super-sexy warrior-types!
I built my very epic series around ascending dimensional
earths and set it here in the Sonoran Desert where I live. Though I grew up in California, I’ve lived in
the Phoenix area for over two decades now.
My favorite thing about the desert is the light, how much sunlight you
get day in and day out. And our dusty
air makes for a fabulous sunset as well!
My latest novella, THE DARKENING, is based on my Guardians
of Ascension. I took a Militia Warrior,
Samuel, and saddled him with a terrible ‘dark’ power that threatens everyone
around him. Then I added his woman,
Vela, to the mix with her own emerging power called, you guessed it, ‘the darkening’,
in which she can travel between dimensional earths on a secret super-highway,
trafficked unfortunately by really bad guys with sawed-off shotguns! Neither Vela nor Samuel want a relationship,
so it’s ‘game on’ once a good friend of theirs gets kidnapped and only Vela
knows how to track him in the darkening.
The following excerpt comes from the first chapter of THE DARKENING. We’ve just met Vela and she’s trying hard to
leave her job without meeting any more hunky Militia Warriors. She’s just about to escape that terrible
fate, when her friends arrive with a new, last-day plan for her!
Chapter One
Vela folded to
the HQ landing platforms, on time as usual, and went to work, sitting in her
office and processing purchase orders for all kinds of weaponry, uniforms, and
electronic equipment. Over the past several weeks, the latter had become an
almost constant stream of acquisitions for Warrior Thorne, the Supreme High
Commander of the Allied Ascender Forces. He’d set up a working HQ, a Command
Center, at Madame Endelle’s palace during the time preceding the battle at
White Lake that saw Greaves’s defeat, and he’d continued building up his
operations since.
Now, apparently,
he had a new set of problems.
Vela always got
a headache thinking about the turn in the war. What had begun as a great
victory and celebrated throughout the world as a resounding defeat had already
taken on the shape of a nightmare. Three of Greaves’s generals, as a
contingency plan to his failure to win his mano-a-mano battle against Madame Endelle,
had essentially taken their master’s army, hiding over three-hundred-thousand
troops each, which added up to almost a million warriors, and had subsequently
begun launching guerilla-like attacks against Thorne’s AAF.
The body count
among the Thunder God Warriors had hit numbers that forced her to avoid certain
websites and newsfeeds.
She couldn’t get
away from all of this chaos soon enough.
She glanced at
her computer and saw that it was now ten-after-five. She was officially done
and could say adios to HQ forever.
Yes, a new life
awaited her and she chomped at the bit to get started.
Of course, she
only had three purchase orders left to process, and since she couldn’t stand
the thought of leaving the task undone, she kept working. What was twenty more
minutes?
But as she
prepared to print-out a hard copy of a particularly troublesome document, she
heard a familiar group-giggling sound and she smiled.
Her time was up.
“Shut it down,
Ascender Vela. You no longer work here.”
She looked up
and saw her three closest friends, looking young and chic, grouped in her
doorway. She loved her world that at least two of her friends were over a
hundred but didn’t look a day past thirty. Sweet.
As she did a
double-take, she realized each wore a silly grin.
Suspicion set
in.
“All right,
what’s going on?” she called out. She closed the last file and signed off.
Despite that her friends were clearly up to something, a deep sigh of relief
left her. Her tour of duty at Militia Warrior HQ was officially over.
She stood up and
grabbed her purse.
“Well, we’re
definitely taking you out for drinks,” Donna said. “But first, have we got a
surprise for you.”
* * * * * * * * *
I hope you enjoyed
this excerpt from THE DARKENING. To
learn more about Warrior Samuel go to: http://www.carisroane.com/the-darkening/
THE DARKENING, by
Caris Roane
A novella of the
Guardians of Ascension
49,800 words plus
Ascension Terminology
A tortured warrior and
a peace-loving counselor battle to protect Second Earth against a powerful dark
force…
He thwarted
connection of any kind…
Fearing that his newly emerged grayle power will kill innocent ascenders, Samuel Daman struggles
to keep his distance from beautiful Vela Stillwell. But the breh-hedden
has struck and her light floral scent tears at his restraint. When the enemy draws them both into the
darkening, a place of secret travel for Third ascenders, will Samuel learn to
control his power, or will he destroy what he desires most?
She hid from grief…
Vela Stillwell wanted a new life, away from Militia
Headquarters, away from the reminder of all she’d lost when her husband died
five years earlier. Seeking a more
reclusive occupation, she finishes her last day of work only to have Samuel
Daman and the infamous breh-hedden sweep
through her life. Though trying to
disconnect from her new emerging power and from Samuel, the call of the
darkening pulls Vela into an adventure that both terrifies her, yet reveals the
truth about her deepest desires. Will
she succumb to the breh-hedden, or
will her fears prevent her from living life to the fullest?
Purchase from:
BIO: Caris Roane has published nine paranormal novels and novellas
and writing as Valerie King, fifty Regency works. In 2005, Romantic Times gave her a Career
Achievement award in Regency Romance. As
Caris Roane, she currently writes paranormal romance for St. Martin’s Press and
also self-publishes the continuing stories for her Guardians of Ascension
series as well as stories set in other worlds.
THE
DARKENING
Blog Tour
Schedule
02/24 -
03/11
02/27 -
Caris is giving away an eBook of THE DARKENING at
every tour stop. To enter please fill out the rafflecopter below and also check out the grand prize info and enter that one too!
Caris Roane Grand Prize Giveaway:
One lucky winner will
receive:
·
A $10
e-Card to Amazon or Barnes & Noble
·
a
signed copy of ASCENSION
·
an
e-copy of THE DARKENING
·
Caris
Roane sticky notes, note cards, notepad, versatile calendar, RTC cards!!!
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Monday, January 28, 2013
Blog Tour: :Vampire Collection: Brink of Eternity/Embrace the Dark" by Caris Roane
Two vampire novellas from two very
different series, in the same ebook called:
THE VAMPIRE COLLECTION.
The first novella, BRINK OF ETERNITY, belongs to the
Guardians of Ascension series featuring winged vampires in a world of ascending
dimensional earths. The second novella, EMBRACE THE DARK, is the first story in
my Blood Rose series. Both novellas
explore the sexy mystique of the warrior vampire, each over-burdened by the
responsibilities of his job and in need of the love of a good woman.
* * * * * *
* * *
BRINK
OF ETERNITY
Discover powerful winged vampire warriors, the Guardians of Ascension,
and the women they’re sworn to protect!
Warrior Gideon swore he would never
see Elise Jordan again even though they’d been passionate lovers for two
years. Her human nature couldn’t survive
in his ascended vampire world; she would be vulnerable to attack on every front
if he tried to continue a relationship with her. But when Elise starts having visions of the
future of Gideon’s sister hunted by death vampires, Gideon can no longer ignore
that Elise is in her Call to Ascension, her call to become a vampire. Though determined to keep her at bay, the
infamous breh-hedden, an
all-consuming vampire bonding ritual, wraps him up tight and demands that he
protect Elise. As he strives to keep her
alive during her Rite of Ascension, love threatens to overwhelm his carefully
ordered, war-weary world.
* * * * * * * * *
EMBRACE THE DARK
Enter a world of
blood-starved mastyr vampires and the rare women who can satisfy their deepest
needs…
Gerrod, mastyr vampire of the Merhaine Realm, never thought
to have his blood-needs satisfied by a mere human. But Abigail of Arizona is no ordinary
woman. She stuns him with her telepathy
as well as the richness of her blood.
However, her human DNA makes
her an unacceptable mate. Yet how can
Gerrod turn her away when she alone has satisfied his blood-starvation for the
first time in a hundred-and-fifty-years?
When the dreaded enemy of all realm-folk, the Invictus,
attacks at a fae wedding, Abigail’s simple human life gets turned upside
down. She doesn’t know if she has the
courage to pursue a path that means giving herself body and soul to a mastyr
vampire. Will she return to her normal
existence in Flagstaff, Arizona? Or will
she embrace the dark…
My Review of Brink of Eternity
As far as vampire romances go, this is a new favorite series for me! I've just recently started reading these books but I've become addicted in no time. Once I started that first book I just could not stop reading them! There's just something about a hunky vampire warrior with wings that captures my attention!!!
Caris' World of Ascension is a fascinating new take on vampires for me! It's hard these days to find something new and fresh and this series is both of those for me. This being a novella the story was pretty short and there was a lot that happened in such a short time that it might not be too believable to some but for me there was the perfect amount of information, action and romance to keep me happy and entertained! She explains things pretty well, what with the complicated different world and the Call to Ascension, that I don't think you really need to read the other books but I would recommend you read them anyways, just because they are really good. :)
I absolutely love the characters, especially Endelle! She is a hoot! She's always saying things that make me laugh out loud and making my husband think I'm crazy! LOL The mixture of seriousness and humor is a great thing, it really takes the heat off those intense moments and this book had a few of those! Gideon and Elise steamed up the pages pretty good too, so that break for some sexy love scenes was nice too! And can I just say, I wish I could fold my clothes on and off at will! That's a pretty cool power to have and darn convenient!!!
All in all I really enjoyed this read! It has the perfect mixture of action and romance, humor and seriousness and it's a very different and interesting take on vampires that all of you vampire lovers out there don't want to miss! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a good paranormal romance!!!
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I was ten
when I first watched an old movie version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and loved
it! Movies led to books, which led to
writing and after a good long while, publishing. I wrote sweet Regency romance for Kensington
for 19 years and recently fell in love with paranormal, although I’ve always
had a thing for vampires. I currently write
paranormal romance for St. Martin’s Press but I self-publish as well. Building an online platform has been an
enormous but rewarding challenge. I
think all the changes in publishing will alter how authors approach the
business going forward and I for one am thrilled to have so many options.
Caris Roane has published over fifty Regency romance novels
and novellas under the pen name, Valerie King.
In 2005, Romantic Times gave her a Career Achievement award in Regency
Romance. Having had a long-time love
affair with vampires, Caris tackled the paranormal genre and built a unique
vampire world based on ascending dimensional earths. Her series is called Guardians of Ascension.
Her most recent self-published project, The Blood Rose Novella Series,
launched in May of 2012 with the first title: Embrace the Dark.
Currently, Caris is working on a new vampire series set to
launch in the Fall of 2013: WARRIORS
IN CHAINS with the first novel, BORN
IN CHAINS.
Caris lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her two cats, Sebastien
and Gizzy.
Caris Roane Links:
Website: http://carisroane.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/carisroane
Everyone who purchases The Vampire Collection: The Brink of Eternity and Embrace the Dark will receive a free arc of the next book in the series "The Darkening"! " Simply email your Proof of purchase of "Vampire Collection: Brink of Eternity and Embrace the Dark" to Caris and she will send you a free arc of "The Darkening". Here is her E-mail carisroane@gmail.com . Caris would love to see your reviews posted on Amazon for both "Vampire Collection: Brink of Eternity and Embrace the Dark" and "The Darkening" once you have a chance to enjoy them.
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