Author @CiaraBallintyne ‘Stalking the Demon’ Released #highfantasy #adult

Stalking the Demon by Ciara Ballintyne
(Website, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads)on October 31, 2014
Genres: Adult, High Fantasy
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Alloran lost his hand to thwart his renegade friend–but the world is still going to hell.

Six months after Ladanyon’s defeat, Gisayne is fading away from a baffling illness. Alloran is desperate for a cure, but he has a secret–the seven circles of hell are unstable. His worst fear is that the terrible mirror spell cast upon Gisayne has wrought some connection between her and the demon dimensions.

As everything Alloran loves races toward destruction, he does the unthinkable and refuses to obey the council of wizards. The only people who can help him are the two research assistants assigned by the council–but he knows he can’t trust them.

All the answers are locked away in the last place anyone wants to go: hell.

~Enjoy this excellent excerpt from Stalking the Demon~

Alloran rushed through the citadel halls, heedless of the thick carpets trampled beneath his feet. Gisayne hung limp in his arms, her black hair trailing over his elbow. A few people watched him pass; none offered assistance. Over the past six months, Gisayne had suffered enough collapses to blunt the urgency and the panic, and the faces turning to follow him bore only mild curiosity, oblivious that this time was different.

Gisayne’s chest barely rose and fell beneath the thin cream silk of her night gown and robe, and blue tinged the edges of her bee-stung lips. Seven hells, was she dying? As he raced onward, he clutched her against him, and the cold skin of her arm pressed against his one hand. With no left hand, he had no way to check for a pulse. A choked-back scream of desperate frustration tightened his chest until it squeezed the breath from his lungs.

He fumbled at the latch on the door to the citadel’s hospice while juggling Gisayne. Hells damn his missing hand. The door gave, and he shouldered it open, backing into a long room lined with severely made beds. The few occupied by sick or injured had curtains drawn for privacy. Breidmar, dressed in the red-trimmed white robes of a citadel doctor, bustled over at their entrance.

Orange brows pinched with concern over her violet eyes. ‘Again?’

Alloran nodded, the lump in his throat choking him. ‘She’s—’ He swallowed hard. ‘She’s hardly breathing.’

‘This way.’ With a wave of one hand, Breidmar indicated an empty bed and called out as she strode to a door at the far end. Before the doctor crossed halfway back, an unfamiliar girl in acolyte’s white appeared in the doorway.

Alloran placed Gisayne on the bed with gentle care. She rolled from his arms, her body limp and her skin pale. Her eyelids fluttered as he released her, but did not open. Nausea knotted his gut. The last times she’d fainted but recovered quickly. Now she looked as if death hovered over her, waiting for the moment to snip the thread of her life.

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Stalking the Demon has been released into the eager hands of anyone who loves amazing writing, and you can purchase it here on Amazon.

You might have missed the first book in The Seven Circles of Hell series, Confronting the Demon, and I’d be remiss not to include information on it as well. Giveaway includes a copy of the new release, Stalking the Demon and Confronting the Demon, so one lucky winner will get a double dose of adult high fantasy.

Take a look at the book cover, trailer, synopsis and praise for Confronting the Demon…

You won’t want to miss out on reading Confronting the Demon, so get your copy on Amazon here.

Now for the wickedly fabulous book trailer for Confronting the Demon…

~Click to open to PDF and read the Synposis and Praise for Confronting the Demon~

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