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.
(short) EXCERPT: SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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.
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!
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ReplyDeleteLove the idea of this. Total sucker for dragons in fiction. :D
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