Assaie's
Gift
by Dawn Howard
Book blurb: Kia Deering is a normal teenage girl looking
forward to celebrating her 18th birthday in style. What she didn't anticipate
was the revelation that would change her life beyond recognition.
The Goddess Assaie fell for a human and gave up everything, including her
identity, to be with him, sacrificing everything she ever knew in the name of
true love.
When Kia discovered she was a descendant of the Goddess she had a year to
embrace all that it meant or to turn her back on her destiny forever.
Kia had always believed herself to be ordinary but now she was extraordinary
she had no idea if she could handle the potential of the power within her.
Perhaps the handsome young man she meets in a nightclub could be the
distraction she needed, or perhaps he will open up a whole new set of questions
himself.
“A pantheonic love story with several
twists on the theme, I can highly recommend this first novel by this author”
“Amazing book from start to end”
“I shall be recommending it to my friends”
Events from the past come together, in this fantastical romance, to change the
present and nothing will ever be the same again, for any of them.
Read D E Howard's début novel Assaie's
Gift and follow a love that began in another era.
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Author info:D
E Howard was born and raised in the small seaside town of Southport where she
still resides. Enjoying writing for most of her adult life she only recently
decided to turn her ideas into books. Part time gardener (just at home!), part
time dog walker (for a crazy cairn terrier) and part time author she still has
time for a full time job. Work pays the bills but writing feeds the soul. Her
second book “Spirit of the Book” will be out soon.
Egg-cerpt:
While Sofia
fumbled in her bag for her mobile phone Kia raced around to the front of the
car. From the back seat she hadn't been able to see the other vehicle which it
appeared they had hit side on, crushing both the driver's door and the front of
the taxi. The driver, and sole occupant,
of the other vehicle was motionless, blood covering his face as it ran freely
from a large cut in his forehead.
“Are you all
right?” She shouted, the driver's eyes flickering open in acknowledgement.
“It's okay, we've called an ambulance... just stay where you are.”
Racing around
to the driver's side of the taxi Kia stopped dead, the taxi driver was sprawled
across the road before the car, his leg at a painfully unnatural angle, his
body bloodied from the many cuts he sustained from the windscreen's glass. The
thing that made Kia stop and take a deep breath however were his eyes, they
were now wide open and staring up at the sky unblinking, they showed no sign of
life.
Approaching him
slowly Kia took some deep steadying breaths, she had taken a few first aid
courses in college but nothing could have prepared her for this.
“Hello?” She
said as she crouched down beside him. “Hello can you hear me?”
Getting no
reaction Kia reached out a hand and gently shook the taxi driver's shoulder.
“Hello?” She
said again, already knowing that it was too late for him to ever hear her again
but unable to stop trying. “Please be all right... hello?”
Kneeling down
closer to the driver Kia leaned over, holding her hair back, as she tried to
listen for any sounds of breath but there were none, his eyes still stared
lifelessly at the sky.
“What do I do?”
Kia said quietly to herself as tears began to fill her eyes. This was not the
way her birthday was supposed to end and she was certain that the taxi driver
hadn't anticipated such a final end to his evening either.
Unable to do
anything else Kia took hold of the driver's hand gently and closed her eyes. It
didn't seem right to just leave him.
She didn't
notice the burning sensation in her palm at first as her body was already full
of aches from the collision but after a few minutes it was impossible to ignore
and her eyes shot open to look down at the hand that held onto that of the
driver. Kia wasn't certain but she thought she could see a strange white glow
around their hands and then, as quickly as it started, the pain faded away and
seconds later so did the glow.
Shaking her
head to clear her thoughts Kia decided she was imagining things due to the
stress of the accident.
Then the driver
began to cough.
“What
happened?” He asked, rubbing his free hand over his face as he straightened the
leg that moments ago had seemed irrevocably broken.
“Accident,” Kia
said, unable to form any more coherent words than that, relief flooding her
body at the sound of the ambulance sirens rapidly approaching.
Time to get to
know a little more about Kia Deering with this questionnaire:
1.
Nickname: My name is a little short to
do much with, but friends do sometimes just call me “K”
2. Job: I'm currently a student, I was going to get a part time job to help out
but mum wouldn't hear of it.
3. Level of schooling, or self-taught: That's still ongoing!
4. Birthdate: August 19th -
summer birthdays are the best
5. Birthplace: A little town you wouldn't have heard of – nowhere very exciting
I'm afraid
6. Currently residing in: Still living at home with my mum
7. Favourite type of pet: I don't have one myself, but who can resist a puppy?
I have to have a cuddle any
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