The First Chapter of Dawn of Ash is now live! | Rebecca Ethington

The First Chapter of Dawn of Ash is now live!

by | Jan 12, 2016 | What's Ahead | 2 comments

Title: Dawn of Ash
Author: Rebecca Ethington
Genre: YA Paranormal
Expected Release Date: Feb. 23rd, 2016
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Tours

Blurb:  
Underneath the deep red barrier Edmund has placed over the city, Prague is in ruins… 

Vilỳ hide in the darkened alleys, waiting to attack anyone who passes, while Edmund’s men roam the blood-soaked streets, scouring every crumbling building in a mad attempt to flush out Ilyan and his men. 

Among the danger, Ilyan and Joclyn are trapped, unable to leave the city. trying to keep their people safe behind a powerful shield, unseen from Edmund and his scouts.

Wyn spends her days haunted by her daughter and watching Thom waste away from the mysterious curse slowly taking him.

Ryland has risen above his father’s control, ready to take his place as his brother’s second. However, Sain needs his help first for a simple assignment, or so he thinks.

Their safety is about to be shattered.

A mole behind those safe, Cathedral walls has begun whispering through the survivors that Joclyn is unstable, that her magic is an uncontainable force that will destroy them all in the end. 

Determined not to let the rumors affect her, Joclyn battles ahead, only to have reality and sight intersect in an explosion that shatters the walls between future, past, and present, leaving her imprisoned in a seamless existence she must learn to control … before Edmund and Ovailia control her.

Before Sain unfurls the plan he has been orchestrating for centuries.


Rebecca Ethington is an internationally bestselling author with almost 700,000 books sold. Her breakout debut, The Imdalind Series, has been featured on bestseller lists since its debut in 2012, reaching thousands of adoring fans worldwide and cited as “Interesting and Intense” by USA Today’s Happily Ever After Blog.From writing horror to romance and creating every sort of magical creature in be-tween, Rebecca’s imagination weaves vibrant worlds that transport readers into the pages of her books. Her writing has been described as fresh, original, and groundbreaking, with stories that bend genres and create fantastical worlds.

Born and raised under the lights of a stage, Rebecca has written stories by the ghost light, told them in whispers in dark corridors, and never stopped creating within the pages of a notebook.


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Chapter One – Ilyan

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Teeth clenched, chest heaving, I continued to fight, focusing on Joclyn’s magic, on her fear, knowing what I needed to do. It was the only way I could calm her.
“Joclyn!” I yelled aloud, letting my magic smother her as Edmund’s men kept coming, flowing through the streets, flooding the space that was growing smaller.
I smiled as my power grew through me like a warm water bottle of determination.
I was out of time.
With one powerful stream of magic, I turned, red and yellow light flying right into the broken foundation of the building that was threatening to collapse and, without warning, sending it to the ground.
Right on top of me.
Joclyn’s magic erupted as mine did, the two joining together in a powerful force that encompassed me in a barrier, so strong that, as I stood still, I could watch the tons of ancient architecture crumbling around me. The dust settled as I remained untouched, witnessing the fall of something that had once been beautiful standing in an upturned fish bowl.
My heart rate increased as Joclyn’s did, as images of her sight flashing before me, a battle eerily similar to the one I had ended replaying right before my very eyes.
“Wake up, můj navždy,” I said, my voice echoing through the shield as I surveyed the damage, making one last sweep for any life that might choose to follow me before taking off into the sky, the shielded globe ascending around me, dust falling away from my movement like the tail of a kite.
“Wake up!” I spoke aloud to my mate as the blood of her sight flowed over her, her heart rate so fast within me I was sure some monster was trying to break free from the inside of my chest as well as hers.
With a graceful step, I landed on the rooftop of the high point, the tall lookout building that I had told Risha to meet me at, my tension still high with fear of the possibility that she and the others might not have made it.
The shield fell away with the faintest pop, the solitary sound loud in the silence after the battle I had escaped.
It was only the faint red of the world, only the hot breeze that moved through my hair as I stood, heart pounding, on the high rooftop, looking over the city I was raised in, the city I was now trapped in. The city that had quickly become a prison.
Wake up, mi lasko! I tried again, this time sending the call right into her mind, grateful when her heart rate slowed, the heavy influx of her magic regulating.
I could still feel her fear, still feel her panic, but it was mixed with reality now, the uncertainty and anxiety of nightmares leaving. Still, she was silent, and even through the temporary calm, my heart rate picked up.
“Mi lasko?” I breathed, sending the words right into her mind as the fright left. “Are you all right?”
Ilyan, she finally replied, her voice a calm wave.
With one word, my heart relaxed, my soul calmed, and although I had escaped the literal destruction of yet another part of this beautiful city …
It was still home.
She made it that way.


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