Author: Cassy Campbell
A Favorite Autumn Treat: Candy corn is my favorite fall food.
Featured Book: A Despair of Demons
Blurb:
Liv is a cognitive neuroscientist and Traveler for the Department of Parallel and Otherdimensional Travel, a top-secret black-ops program run out of Area 51. In a parallel world she meets a mysterious Traveler named Elachai. He claims he’s running from demons, the obviously mythical denizens of a world so awful it’s called Hell. Then he wipes her memory and vanishes. Her team rushes to determine what Elachai did to her?and how. But even with her advanced knowledge, she finds no answers. And as or demons? There’s no proof they even exist. Then demons attack Liv’s team, and their existence is pretty thoroughly proved. The team learns the demons are on a warpath to conquer worlds, commanded by the leader they call the Wolf. Her team must stop them before they conquer all the multiverse. But it’s pretty hard to stop practically immortal beings who are impervious to bullets, especially when their leader knows more than he should about Home World’s allies. When they find out Home World is next, Liv and her team are frantic to learn how to stop the demons before they can invade. But confronting the Wolf is far more dangerous than they know, and to succeed, Liv will have to confront another kind of demon?one from her past?on his own ground: Hell.
Excerpt:
Liv slipped around a stack of boxes three times her height and caught movement out of the corner of her eye. She swung toward a shadow darting behind a lopsided stack of broken crates in the corner.
“Freeze! Come out where I can see you.” Scuffing noises came from the corner, and she hoped she hadn’t discovered whatever was responsible for the emptiness of this world. “Come out with your hands in the air.”
Out shuffled an ordinary-looking man with pale skin and black-and-blue streaked hair. His hands were up as ordered, and empty.
She held her gun on him with one hand and reached for her radio with the other, but barely got her finger on the button when he said, “Stop.”
She put her hand back on her gun and took a few steps forward, keeping it aimed at him.
Protocol in this situation dictated that any potential witness be immobilized and apprehended immediately.
“Stay back,” he said in a low voice.
Immediately, she took two steps backward and stopped.
“Drop your weapon,” he said.
Her fingers opened without her authority and her gun clattered to the floor.
She felt strange, but she stubbornly tried to stick to protocol. Maybe he would come with her voluntarily. “Come over here. I won’t hurt you,” she promised. “Where do you live?”
“My Home World is called Paradise.”
A Traveler? She stared, nonplussed. “If you’re a Traveler, why don’t you leave?”
“I am hiding.”
“From my team?”
“No. From demons.”
Liv nearly laughed. “Demons don’t exist. They’re a myth, perpetuated by teenagers trying to scare younger kids out on their first trips.”
“Demons took my family, ruined my home. I was forced to flee to draw them out of my world.”
“Come on. Everybody’s heard the stories about a friend’s brother’s girlfriend’s neighbor who accidentally Traveled to Hell and saw a demon. But nobody’s ever met anybody who’s been to Hell themselves, or seen a demon firsthand.”
“You have.”
“I have what?”
“You have met someone who has seen one himself. You have met someone who has been to Hell.”
What utter garbage! Liv laced her words with scorn. “You’ve been to Hell. The actual world. And seen demons.”
“Yes.”
“How do you know they were demons?”
He glared, all but snarling. “Because they looked like demons. They spoke like demons. They smelled like demons. And they killed. Like demons. The demons took my family, and I have been unable to rescue them. I barely escaped myself, and I am still attempting to elude pursuit.”
Maybe he was telling the truth. He certainly seemed sincere. If he was, she pitied him and his unknown family. The stories were beyond horrible, and if even some of them were true…
“Why would they hunt you? Why did they kidnap your family?”
“They are hunting me because I am Singular.”
Her skin prickled with a chill completely unrelated to the damp and creepy surroundings. It was impossible. No one was Singular.
Purchase Links:
Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Despair-Demons-Travelers-Book-ebook/dp/B00EGY3NR8
iBooks:
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Barnes and Noble:
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Author Bio
Cassy Campbell grew up in the frozen tundra of the Far North. Perhaps not surprisingly, the long dark winters encouraged her love affair with stories from an early age, and one of her favorite things is still curling up under a blanket with a book. Once she realized that she loved to write stories as much as read them, she realized the world was hers (at least the ones in her books). She wrote a book, and the rest is history. She currently lives in the much balmier climate of the Not As Far North where she is, at this moment, likely daydreaming her way through her next story.
Links:
Website: www.cassycampbell.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/cassycampbellbooks
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