Title: Moonburner
Author: Claire Luana
Publication Date: June 14th, 2016
Publisher: Soul Fire Press
When
17-year old Kai is exposed as a female sorceress—a moonburner, she knows the
punishment is death. Despite the odds against her, Kai escapes her fate and
undertakes a harrowing journey to a land where moonburners are revered and
trained as warriors.
But
the moonburner citadel is not the place of refuge and learning that Kai
imagined. The ongoing war against the male sorcerers, or sunburners, has led
the citadel leadership down a dark path that could spell the end of all magic.
Armed with a secret from her past and a handsome but dangerous ally in the
sunburner prince, Kai may be the only one able to prevent the destruction of
her people.
He stood before the small basin of water,
resting on a rickety table on the other side of the cabin and unwrapped their
daughter. She was so beautiful. Even red and wrinkled, he could tell she had
her mother’s fine hands, delicate but strong. She had his square jawbone. He
wondered whether she would be as stubborn as he was in his youth. But he was
delaying.
He plunged her into the water and held her
there, his own heart hammering in his chest like a wild beast desperate to be
set free. He began counting. Ten. She flailed under the water, her tiny limbs
no match for his strong calloused hands. Thirty. At sixty, he could let her up.
And try to save her. Fifty. Relief and hope began to well in him.
And then a bright white light exploded from his
daughter. He stumbled back, throwing an arm over his eyes. She illuminated the
cabin, shining silver light into cobwebbed corners and dusty crevices.
After a few seconds, the light died and his
daughter was herself again. Tiny, pink, floating on top of the water
peacefully. He and Hanae locked eyes. She had turned over and was half sitting
up on her cot. The look of helpless horror on her face was mirrored on his own.
“I knew she would be,” Hanae said softly. “A moonburner. And a strong
one.”
Claire
Luana grew up in Edmonds, Washington, reading everything she could get her
hands on and writing every chance she could get. Eventually, adulthood won out
and she turned her writing talents to more scholarly pursuits, graduating from
University of Washington School of Law and going to work as a commercial
litigation attorney at a mid-sized law firm.
While
continuing to practice law, Claire decided to return to her roots and try her
hand once again at creative writing. Her first novel, Moonburner, will be
published in 2016 with Soul Fire Press, an imprint of Christopher Matthews
Publishing. She is currently working on the sequel, Sunburner. In her (little)
remaining spare time, she loves to hike, travel, run, play with her two dogs,
and of course, fall into a good book.
Check
her out on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/claireluana/
- A copy of Moonburner, a free e-copy of Burning Fate, the prequel to Moonburner (only available in electronic form), and a $50 Amazon gift card (INT)
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