Title: Dream Casters:
Light
Author: Adrienne Woods
Series: Dream Casters (Book 1)
Genre: YA Paranormal
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Release Date: May 28 2015
Edition/Formats Available In: eBook
Blurb/Synopsis:
Mr. Sandman, send me a dream, ta da da da.....Seventeen year
old Chasity Blake knows the Sandman is just a silly children's story parents
tell their children to get them to sleep. At least she thought it was, until
the day a mysterious, light golden sand appeared in her hands during a high
school prank that went horribly wrong. A sand that has the power to send anyone
it touches into a deep, sound sleep.
Fearing she had lost her mind, Chasity soon discovers the
shocking truth of her heritage- she is a Dream Caster. Chasity was never
supposed to be raised on the Domain, or what humans call Earth and she is
forced to return to her true birth place, Revera – the world of Dreams.
However, in Revera there is no balance between good, the
Light Casters, and darkness, the Shadow Casters, and Chasity is caught square
in the middle. She soon learns that there is no place for anyone containing
both the light and the darkness within them, and the shocking truth that if
anyone in Revera ever discovered her shadow self, Chasity would be thrown into
the Oblivion – the world of Nightmares.
Dreams are always more than they seem, and this time Chasity
is going to discover just how different they can be.
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Excerpt
TWO SETS OF FOOTSTEPS made barely a sound on the rough and
weathered wood as they walked across the bridge that led from Main Pacific to
the Glands. The streetlights were dimmed as dusk began to settle and last
vestiges of light from the setting sun were fading to night. The lumbering
clouds were moving in, blocking out any light from the two moons that shone
overhead, even the stars seemed less bright dotted across their velvet
backdrop. With his golden dust Graig Chen could conjure and wield anything by
simply believing in its reality. If he wanted it to be real, it would be.
The Reverse was the most painful thing either of them had
ever experienced, but Liam, a healer and Graig’s only confidant, had promised
him that they would be able to live in the Domain like normal Nomads, humans.
Graig and his pregnant fiancé, were fleeing from their home
world in secret, having no other choice if they desired a normal life for their
unborn child.
They knew neither of their families would ever understand,
even though it had been his grandmother who had always said, the heart wants, what the heart wants.
How could he have known that his heart would want a Shadow Caster, and not just
any ordinary Shadow Caster. She was special, or at least her family was. She
was expected to uphold the family line with her offspring, Graig knew that did
not include carrying the child of a Light Caster.
The two lovers could never live in peace, not since the
balance between good and evil inside Revera was thrown into upheaval. There
were only two choices for casters like them, either light or dark. The balance
could not accommodate a person containing both, so for his child’s sake they
had no choice but to leave Revera. Live like normal humans in the Domain, or
what humans would call reality. He’d found a perfect place, one he’d made sure
no one would ever find, not even his two best friends.
They knew about the relationship, they’d been there when
he’d first laid eyes on her, tried to talk him out of it, to forget the blonde bombshell
that would only cause him darkness and misery, but without her his life would
be spent in darkness and misery.
Her silver blonde hair and bright blue eyes had done him in,
if only he’d seen the bow that she’d aimed straight at his heart. If it hadn’t
been for his love when arrow hit, and for Liam, a healer, he wouldn’t be in his
current predicament; trying to get him and her off this dimential world that
most people would call make-believe, but Revera was far from that. It was the
world of dreams, and Graig was a Level Four Caster whose mission was to seek
out Selene, their only live Somnium. It was on one of these very missions that
he had met the love of his live, the one woman he couldn’t live without, and he
didn’t care if she had black dust, he didn’t care that she was a Shadow Caster,
or what some would call a nightmare wielder. Yes, those horrible dreams that
leave you paralyzed with fear are actually wielded by Caster’s, not some grave
impression of one’s subconscious. They are responsible for doubts and forgotten
dreams. She was his nightmare, and a nightmare he was prepared to die for.
He knew deep down that she would never survive living in
Revera and he was unable to cope with the Oblivion, wherever it was. Oblivion
was the realm of the Shadow Casters, created when Selene casted out Magdelena,
one of the first Shadow Casters, who was the third Somnium, as a consequence
for the death of her brother, Darius, the second Somnium. Magdelena had no
realm to call her own, so she created Oblivion by focusing her hatred toward
Selene, a world that could exist inside Revera, far from Selene’s sight. For
years, Selene tried to find it, but as long as the Sodivic bloodline flowed
through Shadow Caster’s vanes, Oblivion would never be found by a Light Caster.
Sodivic blood was the key to Oblivion’s secrecy, and
Magdalena’s family line. There were many Sodivic’s since the dawning of
Oblivion but Magdelena reigned over them all. Graig had met many Sodivic’s on
his quests, each meeting always ended up in a bloody mess, and in all the years
he had encountered them, not one had ever shown any kind of mercy or remorse.
They were sadistic and couldn’t be reasoned with. He had been taught from a
young age, if you see a Sodivic, you kill it. That was the number one rule
taught to the Level One Dream Casters.
His fiancé was the only one that proved his theory wrong.
Over the past century, their bloodline had been busy dying out, leaving her one
of the few powerful Shadow Casters left.
Graig would pay dearly for loving her if her father ever
found them, and he couldn’t even think about what would happen to the unborn
child she carried.
Craig squeezed the hand that was resting tightly inside his
own grip as they neared the end of the bridge.
“Were almost there, my love. Not much longer.”
“You’re sure nobody followed us?” Her eyes were wild,
searching everywhere in the darkness.
“I’m sure. Besides, they won’t be able to see us, remember.”
He opened his hand, just to make sure she hadn’t forgotten what he was, and
threw more golden sand into the air, shielding them from anything that tried to
followed them.
Then he heard it, a crunch. He stopped abruptly and she
slammed into him. One second of doubt was all it took to break the spell, and
before he could realize that doubt, they were surrounded by Nimgolians, the
biggest and wicket shadow hounds ever imagined. They were veil, and reminded
him of a Rottweiler that had chased him ones in the Domain.
Author Information
Adrienne Woods was
born and raised in South Africa, where she still lives with her husband and two
beautiful little girls. She always knew she was going to be a writer, but it
only started to really happen about four years ago. In her free time―if she
gets any because moms don’t really have free time―she loves to spend it with
friends, whether it’s a girl’s night out, or just watching a movie. She’s a
very chilled person. Her writing career started with Firebolt, book one in the
Dragonian series. There will be four books in total, including a further two to
three books, which will be stories that take place within the Dragonian series.
Her other series, Dream Casters, will be released mid-2015. She also writes in
different genres, and her woman’s fiction, The Pregnancy Diaries, will be
published under a pseudonym. And then, she has a paranormal series by the name
of the Aswang series, which will consist of about ten novels. And if that
wasn’t enough, there is another series, Guardians of Monsters, which will be
released in 2016.
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