A Bloodline’s Echo
The Avadi Series, #1
by M. R. Pilot
Date of Publication: December 29th
2017
Cover
Artist: Illustration - JDSarte
Typography
- Rebeca
Genre:
Young Adult Fantasy/Romance
Tagline:
A missing father. A handsome stranger. A
feud within the Avadi. Cori will find out who she is in this tale of romance
and adventure.
BLURB
Eighteen-year-old Cori has been
tucked into a corner of Verbena her entire life. With no memory of a father and
an abusive mother, her escape came in the form of living and working in her
town’s inn, a place that happens to be owned by her best friend. Cori was all
but resigned to the uneventful and dutiful life as a barkeep.
That is, until a hooded stranger
showed up—just in time to witness an incident Cori herself cannot believe—and
changed everything. Now Cori must leave Sagebrush, the only place she has ever
known, setting off to discover love, adventure, heartbreak, and more about
herself and the world she lives in than she could have ever imagined.
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Excerpt
Moonlight
peeking through branches illuminates his face, allowing me to examine his
features. I thought it was odd that he kept his hood up, even inside the Oak
Hand. Aside from hardened lines drawn by worry, his face holds youth. He can’t
be much older than I am.
He looks
to the side as if considering his response, his hood falling back a bit. He has
light freckles splashed across his cheekbones, long fair eyelashes and a
square, chiseled jawbone. When his hazel eyes return to me, they flicker with
amusement.
“Am I
following you? Hmm. I don’t think so. Is the moth’s intent to follow the flame?
I don’t know that either. But I can understand why the moth is drawn in by the
flame. It’s intriguing, isn’t it? How something with the potential for such
destruction can dance around with the innocence of a child?” he asks, his eyes
lighting up and widening. “From the looks of it, you’re trying to run away from
your discovery. You can’t—you carry it with you. May I ask where you’re headed?”
By now
his hood has fallen to his shoulders and, even in the dark, I can tell his hair
is a short, untamed crimson. This strange encounter is not what I expected from
this still nameless, shadowy figure.
Resigned,
I shake my head and sigh. “I’m looking for something I lost long ago, something
that went in this direction. Who are you?”
He
doesn’t bear an emblem, but I hadn’t pegged him for a trader anyway. He smiles
and reaches out a hand in greeting. “I’m Rylo. Corinth, right? Although the
dark-haired gentleman, perhaps your male counterpart, called you something
else. What did you lose, a pet? I’m good with animals. I can help you find it.”
I grip
Rylo’s hand. We both pause momentarily, assessing the situation. The contact
generates heat far too quickly, and I break the connection.
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Author
Info
M. R. Pilot is an avid reader,
coffee-drinker and animal lover. When she’s not cleaning teeth, she’s partaking
in Alaskan hikes, watching anime, relentless page-turning and/or keyboard
clicking. She loves to talk about any of those things for an indiscriminate
amount of time—feel free to reach out if you do, too.
What
are some of your writing/publishing goals for this year?
I’m a couple of weeks out from typing “THE
END” on my side project manuscript—an urban fantasy titled The Curse of Luma. I
have fully plotted and started the second installment of The Avadi Series, so
writing-wise I’m rooting for myself to have that drafted, edited and published before
2019. My permanent writing goal is to never be discouraged and always find joy
in it. It’s the most fulfilling kind of fun I’ve ever had.
Do you
feel that writing is an ingrained process or just something that flows
naturally for you?
A bit of both, if that makes any sense. Sitting
myself down and concentrating on getting it into words can be challenging. But once
I get into it, the day passes in a blink. The story continuously develops in my
head; from the moment of conception, my characters to feel real to me. I don’t
feel like I made them up, or that they have anything to do with me at all, only
that I discovered them. But editing…editing is a trial in self-discipline.
If you
could spend one-week with 5 fictional characters, who would they be?
FIVE?! That’s so generous, but somehow not
enough! Hmm… to start off, Auri from The Name of the Wind, if we could convince
her to come along. Might as well bring Elodin from the same world. Solembum
from The Inheritance Cycle. I’d pull a couple from a favorite anime: Luffy and
Nami from One Piece; Luffy because he’d make everything fun—I bet Auri would
like him—and Nami because one of my dogs is named after her. Now all these
other characters are pouting in my head, but I’ll be here all day if I give in.
Where
would you spend one full year, if you could go ANYWhere? What would you do with
this time?
I want to move to Japan SO badly, so I’d
go there. I’d climb Mt Fuji, I’d take trains everywhere, I’d go to every anime
convention, I’d soak it all in and let it inspire me. I’d write when I wasn’t
adventuring. 😊
M. R. Pilot
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