Moonburner by Claire Luana
Release Date: June 14,
2016
Publisher: Soul Fire Press
When 17-year old Kai is exposed as a
female sorceress—a moonburner, she knows the punishment is death.
Despite the odds against her, Kai escapes her fate and undertakes a
harrowing journey to a land where moonburners are revered and trained
as warriors.
But the moonburner citadel is not the
place of refuge and learning that Kai imagined. The ongoing war
against the male sorcerers, or sunburners, has led the citadel
leadership down a dark path that could spell the end of all magic.
Armed with a secret from her past and a handsome but dangerous ally
in the sunburner prince, Kai may be the only one able to prevent the
destruction of her people.
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***EXCERPT***
The other
rider! She scrambled to her feet and looked around the tangle of
bushes. She saw him still on the ground, helmet thrown from him. He
rolled to the side, holding his head. His mount was alive, but
struggling to get to its feet. She ran over to him, feeling as if she
was moving through stiff molasses. Her head still spun. She had lost
the daggers in her belt in the crash, but she pulled the
jade-pommeled knife from its holder on her arm. She threw herself
onto him, knees pinning his arms down, knife pressed hard into his
throat.
She
looked into his face and her eyes widened. His widened too.
“We
have to stop meeting like this,” he said with a crooked grin.
Despite
herself and the severity of the situation, she grinned back. It was
the man with the long golden hair, who had spared her on her way to
the citadel.
She bit
her lip. She should have already killed him. It was bright morning
now—he could burn, she could not. Even with her knife to his
throat, he could kill her at any moment. But he wasn’t. And he
hadn’t.
She
looked into his startling green eyes and her eyes traced his strong
jaw, fine nose, and full lips. She couldn't do it. Not because he was
the most handsome man she had ever seen. But because she wasn't a
killer. Not like this.
*************
Claire Luana grew up in Edmonds,
Washington, reading everything she could get her hands
on and writing
every chance she could get. Eventually, adulthood won out and she
turned her writing talents to more scholarly pursuits, graduating
from University of Washington School of Law and going to work as a
commercial litigation attorney at a mid-sized law firm.
While continuing to practice law,
Claire decided to return to her roots and try her hand once again at
creative writing. Her first novel, Moonburner, will be published in
2016 with Soul Fire Press, an imprint of Christopher Matthews
Publishing. She is currently working on the sequel, Sunburner. In her
(little) remaining spare time, she loves to hike, travel, run, play
with her two dogs, and of course, fall into a good book.
Giveaway
Information: Contest ends August 5, 2016
One
(1) winner will receive a copy of Moonburner, a free e-copy of
Burning Fate, the prequel to Moonburner (only available in
electronic form), and a $50 Amazon gift card (INT)
