The Dark Awakening
D.L. Blade
(Chosen Coven #1)
Publication date: October 2nd 2018
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Get ready for a new kind of witch—she’s about to save humanity.
Haunting secrets, witches, vampires, werewolves, love,
betrayal, & twists you won’t see coming!
Mercy’s life has devolved into a string of bad events. A
brutal beating that nearly stole her life, a dangerous stalker lurking in the
shadows, and a car accident, where the man who rescued her disappears right
before her eyes.
But this man who she thought was a hallucination, tracks
her down at a nearby cove, and claims they were once in love from another time.
Another century. But Mercy has no memory of this world he shares, and
instinctively doesn’t trust him. He also reveals to her a life-changing
secret—she’s an ancient witch, vampires are real, and she’s destined to destroy
them.
There’s also the troubling discovery that her blood is
lusted after by the undead, and a sadistic vampire leader sets his eyes on her,
and will stop at nothing until he takes Mercy as his own.
Mercy needs to fight. Fight for her life, fight to
discover the truth, fight to remember who—or what—she really is before it’s too
late.
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EXCERPT:
They were there in the shadows again. This was the third
time this week I had thought someone was watching me.
The last few weeks, I’d heard the rustling of leaves and
the crackling sound of old fallen branches beneath someone’s feet, or the hairs
at the back of my neck would stand straight because I knew someone stood
silently behind me. Last night wasn’t any different. I exited my car after an
exhausting day at work and heard what sounded like a low, deep exhale coming
from the forest next to Lily’s house. I swiftly turned around, fumbling with
the flashlight on my phone, but when the light pierced the darkness, the sound
stopped.
Tonight, it was a silhouette behind my aunt Lily’s fence
in the backyard. It wasn’t someone walking by with their dog or a neighbor
taking out their trash. They were standing there, staring, as I walked to the
sink to rinse my dinner bowl. I wasn’t going to tell her again. She’d just tell
me what she’d told me last time I brought it up. She’d say I was just seeing
things and that it was normal to feel this way after trauma.
“Your turn, Mercy,” Lily said. Her voice pulled my gaze
from the window.
“I’m coming,” I said, taking one last glance toward the
silhouette.
They were gone.
Author Bio:
D.L Blade grew up in southern California where she
studied at The California Healing Arts College for massage therapy, then
working as a Massage Practitioner for thirteen years. She now lives in
Colorado, where she worked in the real estate business for a time, before
deciding to focus on family and writing.
She has always loved writing, concentrating on poetry
rather than prose when she was younger. That changed however, when she had a
dream one night that inspired her debut novel, 'The Dark Awakening.'
In D.L. Blade's spare time, she enjoys a wide variety of
hobbies, including reading, attending rock concerts, playing pool, wine
tasting, and exploring new vegan restaurants in Denver.
In the future, she hopes to continue to write exciting
novels that will captivate her readers and bring them into the world that she
created using her imagination.
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