Devri
Walls is the best-selling author of six YA fantasy novels. She is a theater
major with a flare for the dramatic and wishes more than anything for a magic
wand. Devri is from Boise Idaho where she lives with her husband, two kids and
the cutest mutt of a dog the world has ever seen. When she’s not writing she
can be found teaching voice lessons, trying to resist the urge to sell her two
beautiful children to the circus, and cooking. Because…. food. Mmmmmmm.
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"Six
years ago, Grey Malteer was attacked by creatures he thought couldn’t possibly
exist. They repeated a word, calling him a name he’d never heard
before…Venator. Since then, his life has been a hellhole of secrecy—hiding old
pain alongside strange new abilities.
Rune
Jenkins has an itch, as she calls it, but it’s more than that. It’s an anger
that builds up like the inside of a boiler whenever she’s around anything
remotely supernatural. The pressure is growing steadily worse and she can’t
understand why. All she knows is—her control is slipping.
By
order of an unknown council Grey and Rune are pulled through a portal in the
St. Louis arch, landing them in an alternate dimension where creatures of myth
and legend exist. A realm that calls them, Venators.
Made
up of centuries old fae, vampires, werewolves, elves and succubi the council’s
corrupt nature becomes obvious as they seek to wield the newly returned
Venators as weapons. Wedged in an impossible position, Grey and Rune must
decide their fate—do they go against the council’s wishes and help the
innocents of this unforgiving land, or face the possibility of execution by the
council."
Snippets:
Being stalked by the
most terrifying thing he’d ever seen, Grey realized a glaring fault in his
romanticized dreams—the ones where Tate returned to rescue him. This wasn’t a
dream…it was a nightmare.
“Rune, stay back.” Grey
gripped the dagger—it gave him all the confidence of trying to take down a
polar bear with a toothpick.
The wolf was so close
now. All he could see was a giant snarling mouth, glittering brown eyes, and
the deliberate movement of the shoulders as it stalked its prey.
The thing leapt, and
dinner-plate sized paws punched into his chest like sledgehammers, knocking him
flat on his back and pinning his arms to the ground. Grey struggled, trying to
defend himself, but a few hundred pounds of wolf kept him immobilized.
A deep rumble rolled
through the werewolf’s chest, a very human-like chuckle. There was a devious
glint in the eyes and it leaned closer, jaw opening wide. The stench of its
breath was overwhelmingly foul but played second fiddle to the palatable flavor
of death that overrode Grey’s senses
He turned his head away,
the only defense against watching his own demise.
There was a blur of legs
and shoes, and then Rune barreled into the side of the beast, shoving her
shoulder into its ribs like a linebacker, knocking him sideways and clear of
Grey. The werewolf snarled, rolling immediately to its feet. Rune scrambled
backwards onto her heels and the palms of her hands, looking around for
anything she could use to defend herself—there was nothing but grass.
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