Author: Annabell Cadiz
Well, for eighteen-year-old Zahara Faraday, she doesn’t have to wonder. You see she comes from a lineage of Light Witches, those who have chosen to help protect and serve between the supernatural world and the human world. The only problem is Zahara, like her father Solomon, is as human as a human being can be whereas her mother, Mia, and her Aunt Catalina, were born as Light Witches. As a family they hunt down rogue supernaturals—creatures who harm humans or who have committed an act against their kingdom.
Zahara’s hunting skills are usually kept dormant since her parents would prefer she live life as a normal human girl without knowledge of the supernatural world. She plans on doing just that—except when she finds a couple being attacked by fairies, she has no choice but to step in. Before she can return to pretending to be blissfully ignorant, Zahara encounters a problem she isn’t the least equip to handle: Bryan Hamilton, the good looking new co-worker she has to help train. In a heartbeat, her best friend, Becca King, has set her up on a double date with herself and her new crush, Rekesh Saint-Louis, who happens to be the most powerful leader of the biggest Imago Coven in South Florida –supernatural creatures with the ability to control water . . . and suck out human souls.
Zahara has no time to focus on how she’s going to explain her double date with her best friend and the enemy they have a tentative truce with to her parents because soon one of the members of Mia and Catalina’s coven is found murdered with a strange tattoo of a snake with wings carved into his arm.
Zahara is then thrown into a whirlwind battle with an angel determined to have revenge against God, an Imago coven she doesn’t think they should trust, and slew of dream-eating fairies and powerful Nephilims, hybrid children of angels and humans, more than happy to rip her to shreds.
Normal just got a deadlier definition.
SNEAK PEEK
“Is that
blood?” Zahara asked eyeing the ground a few steps in front of them.
Becca looked
down toward the ground and moved closer to the gloopy stain of red. She bent
down and tilted her head to the side. “Looks like blood.”
Zahara kneeled
down beside the blood and looked down the hall on the left, which led outside
to where all the dumpsters where found. “There’s more down that way,” she
directed with a thrust of her chin.
“Oh no, you
don’t!” Becca said grabbing onto Zahara’s arm.
“Becks, we have
to check out what it is; someone could be hurt.”
Becca was
already shaking her head no. “Are you stupid? Follow the path of blood down the
dark hallway into the back alley where there can possibly be a body and some
killer. It’s too cliché horror movie for my taste. We are not those stupid
girls. Let’s go get your parents.” She yanked Zahara back toward the food
court, but Zahara pulled her back.
“By the time we
get to my parents, explain what we found and they come to investigate, the
person in the back alley could be dead and it’ll be our fault for not helping
when we could.” Zahara turned around and started walking down the hallway,
taking out the dagger from her back pocket. She unclipped the can of pepper
spray from the keychain clipped to her pants and tossed it to Becca. “You
coming or am I going in alone?”
“Stupid best
friend is gonna follow the stupid trail of blood down the stupid hallway with a
stupid can of pepper spray and a stupid dagger and she expects us not to get
killed,” Becca mumbled through tight teeth as she followed Zahara.
They walked
slowly, sticking to the wall so as not to step on the blood. The door leading
out to the dumpsters was shut. Zahara leaned back against it and looked at
Becca. Becca swallowed hard and gave her a quick nod, shaking the can of pepper
spray. Zahara threw the door open and twisted around on her heel as fast as she
could. Becca ran outside with the can of pepper spray held high, but they found
nothing more than blood on the ground.
Zahara tiptoed
around the drops of blood on the ground, walking farther back into the alleyway
and stopped as she heard voices.
“Tell us where
you’ve hidden it!” a man snapped. Skin slapped against skin and another man
cried out.
“I told you, we
do not have it!”
Zahara felt her
heart bang against her ribcage. She recognized that voice. She moved closer,
staying beside one of the dumpsters, and knelt. Becca knelt beside her and took
a deep breath.
“That sounds
like Eric,” Becca whispered.
“You have one
last chance to tell us where you’ve hidden the arrow, Jacobson,” the same male
voice threatened.
Zahara had no
doubt he meant what he said. She knew she would probably regret this later, but
she jumped up and ran around the dumpster, hearing Becca’s faint curse as she
did. Three sets of eyes turned to look at her. Eric, one of the members of Mia
and Catalina’s coven, was on his knees, arms bound by the grip of another man
standing behind him.
He was tall and
slender, enough muscle to show he wasn’t lazy, but he didn’t look strong enough
to be able to hold down Eric’s six-foot, four-inch frame, which was nothing but
toned, hard muscle. Eric, on the other hand, looked to be in pain. He had
slices across his face and his bottom lip was split open. Blood slithered from
the open wounds onto the ground.
“Let him go,
now!” Zahara demanded. She gripped the dagger handle more tightly, holding it
pressed against her thigh.
About the Author
Annabell Cadiz was born in the sweltering heat of South Florida. She was raised surrounded
by Puerto Rican chefs and band of siblings that weren’t all related to her. A self-proclaimed nerd and book-a-holic (her room does hold much evidence to prove her claims are justifiable), she created TeamNerd Reviews to showcase her EXTREME love for novels where, along with her best friend, Bridget Strahin, she hosts book reviews, interviews, giveaways and much more. She also had the pleasure of being published in three separate issue of Suspense Magazine. She is currently attending Trinity International University to attain her B.A. in Psychology. She also adores Cinnamon Teddy Grahams, has an addiction to Minute Maid Orange juice, and is a proud Jesus Freak. Her debut novel, LUCIFER (SONS OF OLD TRILOGY, #1) was published January 2013 and the second book, MICHAEL, will be out Fall/Winter 2013 and the third book, NEPHILIM, will be out Spring 2014.
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