The Unknown Sun
Series: Destiny #1
Author: Cheryl
Mackey
Genre: YA Fantasy
Blurb
Seventeen-year-old Moira is haunted by the accidents
that claimed her parents and sisters. When a strange boy who seems to know too
much about her past attacks her, Moira fears death will come for her a third
time. She is rescued by twins Airi and Belamar, the winged heirs to the
throne in Skyfall, and taken to safety in their world.
But Skyfall is dying, and the gods who had created and
protected Airi and Belamar's world have been missing since the Great War. Moira, Airi, and Belamar must find a journal left by the twins' deceased
mother, Tanari, that tells of a prophecy that must be fulfilled to find the gods
known as The Unknown Sun so that Skyfall can be saved.
Deeper, darker, secrets unravel around the three
friends as a revolution threatens their quest and the boy who tried to destroy
Moira on Earth hunts them. Tanari knew more than she had let on, and within her
journal a story is more than it seems, the past foretells the future, and a
far-reaching plan is unveiled.
Why did Tanari reach across time and space to entrust
a simple human girl with saving Skyfall? Who are the mysterious “Four”
mentioned in the journal? And why does another god want her, and The Unknown Sun, dead?
Book Excerpts
Airi streaks out of the sky, touches down, and screams to a sliding halt, her wings flaring wide in a primitive airbrake. Water erupts in her wake as her feet skid on the smooth obsidian top of the pyramid. Bel doesn't slow down, and I gasp when his right arm reaches back and his hand clamps down on my upper arm. I instantly know what he is doing and it chills me far worse than the driving rain.
I relax my grip on his neck and let the talisman drop back to settle at my throat. It hums with power as the light brightens now that my fingers no longer block it.
“Go! Go!” Bel bellows as his hand drags me from his back. I lurch sideways as he spirals, snapping his pale wings shut at the last minute to avoid colliding with the stone floor and the portals. The force of the maneuver flings my slight weight out and away from him, and his hand releases me just as my feet brush the stone platform. Upright, I skid across the wet floor and collide with Airi in a rush of wind and water.
Bel vanishes in a snap of feathers, his lean muscles able to power him back into the air shockingly fast. He disappears into the stormy sky beyond the aura of the talisman, leaving me breathless and light-headed.
“Bel,” I cry into the teeming rain, and stumble away from Airi's strong grip. My knees threaten to fold beneath me. The pounding rain beating on my face melds with tears that burn my eyes. I need to go to him, but long, strong fingers hold me up and back.
“Moira, he's got to distract them. We have a job to do,” Airi screams over the steady roar of the rain, and shoves me back around toward the statues. I stumble to stand between them, and tear my gaze from the ominous clouds to the stone figures. blinking against the shards of rain pummeling me I search the sky one more time for any sign of Belamar. Far above, beyond the glow of my talisman, wraith-like shadows dive and race. Tears blur everything.
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Cheryl lives in Southern California with her husband and 2
sons. She is a Document Specialist with a mortgage company during the day and a
writer during the night!
She has a MFA in Creative Writing and enjoys games, reading
and, of course, writing. She currently
has a flash fiction story published online at The Prompt
Magazine.
Her favorite genres to write and read is YA Fantasy closely
followed by YA Paranormal and she would love to dabble in Steam Punk and
Dystopian.
Links
Author Website: http://www.writezalot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writezalot
Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/writezalot
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