Cassie Scot is the
ungifted daughter of powerful sorcerers, born between worlds but belonging to
neither. At 21, all she wants is to find a place for herself, but earning a
living as a private investigator in the shadow of her family’s reputation isn’t
easy. When she is pulled into a paranormal investigation, and tempted by a
powerful and handsome sorcerer, she will have to decide where she truly
belongs.
********* EXCERPT **********
At random, I picked up
a bottle of perfume from the top shelf and read: “Induces powerful lust. Spray
on your intended and make sure you are the first person they see. Lasts about an
hour.”
The thing you have to
understand about any magic is that there are good ways to use it, and bad ways
to use it. The concept of black magic is a hotly debated topic among sorcerers.
Even death, in self defense, is a shade of gray. As I stood there, reading the
functions of the various love potions, I thought of all the innocent and harmful
ways they could be used. A couple in a committed relationship might have a lot
of fun with a spray of lust. On the other hand, using it on an unwilling
victim...
I shuddered as I
replaced the bottle and accidentally knocked one of the neighboring bottles of
perfume to the ground. It shattered, splashing perfume all over my open-toed
sandals.
“Crap.”
“What happened?” Evan
asked, his voice hard and alert. I could hear him moving
closer.
“Stop! I don't want to
see you right now.”
“Which potion was
that?” Evan asked, still in that hard-edged voice of command.
I pointed to the row
of similar bottles on the top shelf. “Lust.”
One of the little
bottles floated away from the shelf, but I did not turn around to see what Evan
was doing with it. Instead, I started looking through my purse for a pack of
tissues to clean the mess off my feet.
“Cassie, I have some
bad news for you.”
“Worse, you
mean?”
“This potion doesn't
take affect until you actually look at someone. Your hour starts
then.”
Award-winning author
Christine Amsden has written stories since she was eight, always with a touch of
the strange or unusual. She became a “serious” writer in 2003, after attending a
boot camp with Orson Scott Card. She finished Touch of Fate shortly afterward,
then penned The Immortality Virus, which won two awards. Expect many more titles
by this up-and-coming author.
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5 comments:
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Uh Oh! I think Cassie's got some lust coming to her if this excerpt is any indication!
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Nice excerpt
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Congratulations on the publication of Cassie Scot! Cassie sounds like a very interesting detective. Thanks for sharing the great excerpt.
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