The Dangerous Legacy
A Pirate's Calling Book 1
Author: Darren Simon
Genre: YA Historical Fantasy
Thin, pale, awkward, bullied, Sam Every is a thirteen-year-old who finds comfort among his friends and his days at the beach. The ocean beckons to him. It is where he feels safest. Fitting in no longer matters when he is near the Pacific’s rolling waves. Gazing toward the endless blue where it touches the horizon, he imagines the ports he might someday reach and ponders his future.
Little does he know an apparition—a hauntingly beautiful girl from the sea—will lead him farther from his home than he could ever dream, for destiny has given him a dangerous legacy
Amazon * B&N
Deadly Waters
A Pirate's Calling Book 2
Thirteen-year-old Sam Every has traveled back in time to the Golden Age of Piracy to face Captain Jem Slayer, master of the dark arts. Deceived into handing Slayer the ultimate weapon, the Sword of Zel-Kar, Sam has lost his hands, sliced off in his first clash with the evil pirate.
But all is not lost.
Add to Goodreads
Amazon * B&N
Deadly
Waters
Come on, you
bastard. Show yourself!
He’d had
enough of this world pushing him around. Enough of Slayer. Enough death. Enough
of being scared of the next threat. No more! The time had come to start kicking
some ass. Closing his eyes, he concentrated on the magic within him. He had to
figure a way to control his powers. To command them to life… now.
Think, Sam!
Words flashed though his mind. Ancient words. An incantation. Atamou Runfora
Tananou. He knew what the words meant. Serve me now. His arms and wrists
vibrated. His eyes shot open. A crimson glow surrounded his stumps. Yes!
“Captain,
three points off bow,” a young crewman shouted from the bow. “Looks like
mountains rising from the sea.”
“What say
you?” Rackham whipped out his spyglass and held it to his eye. He climbed atop
a railing, grasping a shroud with one hand. “Hell’s bells. I’ve never seen the
like. Devil boy, you best see this. Me thinks this be our destination.”
Sam joined
Rackham at the bow. The glow around his stumps vanished. The pirate captain
leaped from the railing and held the spyglass up to Sam’s eye. Peering through
the telescope, Sam gaped at the discovery.
Actually,
stone pillars— maybe ten in all— towered over the sea, like rows of skyscrapers
along a city block. How was such a thing possible in the middle of the ocean
with no shore— no island— visible in any direction? The pillars shouldn’t be
there, but they were. As if by magic. “That’s where we have to go.” Sam again
thought of the incantation. His stumps ignited. “Get us there, Captain. Leave
the beast to me.”
A terrible
roar bellowed, rocking the ship to the starboard side.
Sam stumbled
against a chest. The icy touch of fear rose up his back, threatening to steal
his courage. Men around him grabbed onto lines, the long guns— anything to keep
from falling. When the ship righted itself, he crossed to the port side. No way
was he going to cower.
This
showdown was going to happen. “I’m waiting for you.”
The monster
rose from the deep off the port side. A massive serpent with two reptilian
heads. A serpentine body, covered with diamond-shaped scales towered over the
ship’s sails. Two necks branched off, each with a dragon head and snout filled
with dagger-length teeth. A line of spikes stretched from the top of each head
like Mohawks.
Sam’s chest
burned. His heart beat like a horse’s hooves charging over a dirt road. “Come
on, you filthy snake. You want me. Here I am. Come and get me.”
Darren Simon is a former longtime newspaper journalist who now works in government affairs on California water issues and teaches college English. In his spare time, he is a freelance magazine writer. Guardian’s Nightmare is his first novel. The second book in the series is also under contract with Divertir Publishing. He resides in California’s desert southwest with his wife, two sons and two crazy dogs.
Follow
the tour HERE
for exclusive content and a giveaway!
No comments:
Post a Comment