When her neighbors
accuse Belladonna of Satanism and making them age years to days, she must find
who is behind it or face a modern day witch hunt. Her mysterious enemy knows
where to strike to cause the most damage: Belladonna's only friend is losing his
life-force; the garden that feeds her is dying; and her house ghost goes
poltergeist. To save her neighbors and friends and prove her innocence, she must
travel to the Otherworld where butterflies have razor wings and where her worst
fears will come to life.
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********* EXCERPT ********
The mob on the other
side of the wrought iron fence wore no tri-cornered hats or starched bonnets.
They didn’t brandish pitchforks or flaming torches. Hell, they didn’t even
bring a preacher to drive the Devil out. Still, they had come to flush out a
witch and the witch was me.
They were thirty all
together, gathered outside my gate under the two California live oaks that shade
the sidewalk in midday. I had to squint into the still hot mid-October sun to
study their unfamiliar faces. The mob included several dwarves. The youngest
dwarf must have been in her forties, a tiny woman that for some reason wore a
yellow, red and blue Snow White dress with an appliquéd picture of Snow White on
the chest. She didn’t look like a typical dwarf: no classically high forehead
and her arms and legs were proportionate. She was holding a fluffy purple teddy
bear by a front paw and sucking her thumb.
In the sun my forehead
sweated under the straw hat. A mocking bird’s harsh chirrup burst from the oak
on the right, piercing as a car horn. I flinched.
I don’t much like or
trust people in large groups - doing time in Greenville State Prison for Women
had taught me that. In prison the exercise yard is the most dangerous place to
be: too many inmates in one area, too many chances to be stabbed with a shiv
made from a sharpened toothbrush handle or from melted and hardened Styrofoam
cups.
Larisa Walk, a native Russian, lives in California with her
husband and two formerly homeless cats. She writes paranormal fiction that is
more often than not populated by characters from the Russian fairy world. Her
short fiction appeared in several anthologies and magazines. She has published a
historic fantasy novel, A Handful of Earth, and a modern paranormal novel, A
Witch Without Magic. See her quirky blog posts here: http://www.larisawalk.com
******** GIVEAWAY ********
Larisa will be awarding a $10 Amazon Gift Certificate to five randomly drawn
commenters during the tour.
So please make sure you leave your email address in case you are one of the lucky winners. Also for more chances to enter you can follow the tour HERE
18 comments:
A Witch Without Magic looks like a good read. I'll put it on my to be read list. Thanks for the giveaway!
Forgot my email:
Stephelaine @ gmail dot com
it looks like a great book i have to get
Thanks for sharing the blurb and the excerpt! I love the sounds of it...seems like a blend of a modern paranormal fantasy and a fairy tale!
andralynn7 AT gmail DOT com
Thanks for such a lovely welcome! My heroine Belladonna is having an anxiety attack from shaking so many hands, but then she is a little agoraphobic. Don't tell her, though.
Hope you enjoy it, Stephanie.
Larisa
Hope you like it. Warmly,
Larisa
Thanks for the giveaway! Really excited to buy the book if I win! lol!
~Kate~
hense1kk AT cmich DOT edu
Looks good; adding it to my wish list!
Looks like a great read :)
Storm821@yahoo.com
Must add it to my bookshelf.
dr11435@aol.com
This is not a genre I normally read, but I must say, your story sounds very good. Thanks for the excerpt and giveaway.
kareninnc at gmail dot com
Nice excerpt
bn100candg at hotmail dot com
Thanks, dear Kate.
Hope you like it. Blessings!
Thanks. Warmly,
Larisa
Happy reading, Diana.
Thanks:)
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