Hinder
by Kristin
Ping
GENRE: New
Adult Paranormal
BLURB:
Ethan SUTCLIFF is no
normal seventeen-year-old, but he tries to be really hard. He is what witches
call a Guardian, or a the easier term will be a Bender. Benders are crucial to
elemental witches as they have the ability to bend their witches’ gifts. In
Alex's case he is one of the rarest, an Earth Bender, but his witch is either
dead or deep in hiding and Ethan needs to find whoever they are otherwise the
witching race might be in danger.
Excerpt:
Awe filled me as I watched Ethan
playing in the garden. Though only ten years old and scrawny, he was… a wonder.
The farm was the safest place for
him. A few miles from the city and its prying eyes. Less danger here.
His hands lightly stroked the
rosebushes as he walked past them.
It wasn’t time for them to bloom
yet, but at Ethan’s tender touch, pink and white rosebuds opened and expanded
into the most beautiful roses I’d ever seen.
“Ethan,” I called from the porch,
warning in my tone.
His blond head snapped toward me. He
pulled his hand to his chest. “Sorry, Dad.”
“Be careful.” I spoke as if he was
pulling the cat’s tail—not lending nature a hand.
With one flutter of the newspaper, I
pretended to return to reading. After a few seconds scowling at the small black
letters, I peeked over the top of the page and stared back at Ethan.
Natalie his mother, never let him
explore. She worried about the others. That they would see.
Ethan walked over to the willow
sapling Natalie had planted a few weeks ago. It wasn’t tall; the top barely
reached Ethan’s waistline. He stumbled and fell with hands first—diving right
into the willow.
It started to grow… and grow. In a
matter of seconds, it was a full-grown tree. Slender, silver-green leaves
swayed in the lazy breeze.
The newspaper fluttered as I set it
aside and stood, mouth agape. Not many could do that at his age.
Surprise galloped on the heels of
awe, followed by a dash of fear—okay, more than a dash— as Ethan stood and
brushed himself off.
So this was what Natalie felt most
of the time
My eyes darted this way and that.
What if anyone saw?
Everything was exactly as it had
been a few moments ago, except for the mature willow in the middle of the yard,
its graceful branches lazily stroking the earth. A few cows grazed serenely in
the green pasture. The chickens clucked in their pen. The ginger tomcat lay on
the opposite chair to mine.
Behind me, the door opened. Natalie
gasped. She smacked my shoulder with a dish cloth—hard. I scrambled back from
her wrath.
“I told you to watch him!” she
hissed. She ran down the steps with huge eyes and long strides. She reached him
and crouched down in front of him, almost pulling the boy down with her,
scowling.
Rubbing my shoulder, I watched the
expression on my son’s face. He hadn’t meant to do it. It was an accident.
Ethan never asked to be born into our family of Benders.
Ever since he got a taste of his
element, well, he’d just been so damn curious.
He would need to find his match: an
earth Wielder.
Earth Wielders rarely reached their
fifteenth birthdays. And because of what Ethan would become one day, his life
was in mortal danger.
Benders were born to protect
Wielders. The payoff was being able to manipulate the Wielder’s element. To use
it to their advantage. To, well, bend it into whatever they wanted the element
to do. Whether it was to make a tree grow or a fire burn or the wind blow…
Wielders could start the process, but the Benders performed the magic. They
told the flame how to crackle, or the earth how to quake, or the gale how to
waft.
Without a Bender, Wielders would
cause chaos.
If a water Wielder or an earth
Wielder had no Bender, then a tsunami was inevitable.
Wielders and Benders were a
mechanism, an interdependent team that functioned as one. They benefited
mutually from one another and kept each other safe.
It had always been this way since
Wielders were labeled as Witches. Now they had plenty of names—alchemists,
spellbinders, and shifters, to name a few.
AUTHOR Bio
and Links:
Kristin
resides in South Africa with her husband, two beautiful girls and two bulldogs
that tries to eat her house. She has been writing for the past eight years and
her first debut novel, Hinder: A Bender's novel will be published 2018 by Fire
Quill Publishing.
When
she isn't writing, she is spending her time with her family, or trying to teach
her two bulldogs to not eat her house. You can find more about Kristin at
www.authorkristinping.com
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INTRODUCING
THE PING CRATE
The
Ping Crate is a crate filled with goodies for readers. It’s built around the
theme of the Guardian of Monster Series. The first few boxes will be built
around witches. Think journals, cups, books, novelty jewelry, swag and
something electronic that will push the worth of the crate up to $700 and more.
All
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in this lovely giveaway.
It’s
a box full of reader goodies and a surprise. Sometimes it will be a gift card
if there isn’t any electronics.
Believe
me it will be worth your time.
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2 comments:
You had me at witches.
Love The Cover.
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