BLURB:
In the blackest night, with the moon and stars to guide him, she would always be there waiting…
Cyrenna thought she died the day she watched Tynan and his brothers jump through the banishment portal in an act of solidarity with Rigor. Little did she know, it would be the first of many deaths she would experience in her quest to claim his heart. She would surrender not only her immortal soul, but a mortal one repeatedly. Through a deal with the great Oracle, she has multiple mortal lifetimes to change the direction of her future and have a chance with Tynan.
Her journey spans the ages from the GenPei War in Japan and the Silk Road west, to Cromwell, the Three Kingdoms and modern times, bringing her one step closer to forever until she makes a misstep. Then, the burden falls to Tynan. The only thing that is absolute is her fervent hope that he will come, but there’s one big problem.
Through it all, he doesn’t so much as know her name.
EXCERPT:
How many times can a man be broken? How many times can a man die and never have it be final? How many lost loves or lost chances at love will it take to undo any chance of ever becoming whole? In the purest sense…only one. Nothing I could imagine or ever endure would compete for the absolute punishing agony of her folding me into her arms to comfort me and hearing her whisper…
"I know."
Two words. Who knew that two words would be all that it would take to loose the storm? Hardly two words really, only five letters. Five little letters with extreme power. Five little letters to rob Zeus of his most lethal bolt, focus the strike, and rend me in pieces. The surge had pushed past my pride and leaves me sobbing for the loss I had yet to experience. A loss I knew would take my breath, but I cannot die. How cruelly ironic that death has become my sole wish now?
My internal emotional upheaval is a flash storm out of place beneath the cloudless sky. The cacophony of my noisy tears and transition scatter the small creatures for miles. I have no control and shift without grace. Rage and pain coalesce to an explosion, angst roaring as the internal battle is waged and the war lost before the call to arms is done sounding. My thunderous eruption screaming against the fading light, with a rising silvery moon and shimmering stars to bear witness to my destruction. The metamorphosis from man to beast is abrupt. I shift, not with the flexing of bone and the stretching of skin, but with the crack of a gun blast and a single pull to form. It is razor wire across my senses and I am bloodied raw without a trace to be found.
A testament to her, she stands still. Not frozen, but placated to let me render the fury that must come out as I cannot hold it in. The beast from within is enormous, but not big enough to hold so much. I warned her. I told her. I had made her aware almost cruelly that first time I let my inner wild out that this day might come…could come…would come and that it would be ushered in on an unseen tide that would sweep our perfect world away. I had wanted her to be afraid. She wasn’t. She had believed, but had also naively assured me that the day would be long into the future and we would enjoy the time until then.
She had been wrong. There was nothing to say now. ‘I’m sorry’ would be a hollow sentiment and ‘I was wrong’ would do nothing as the last thing I would want to hear and know about this was that I had been right.~~~~~~~~~~~~~
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
There is no simple description for Aedan Byrnes. Obsessive, dreamer, reclusive, compulsive, outdoorsman and wordsmith would be among the list if one were started. The displaced Gael lives in the upper Midwest with family between jaunts wherever the road takes him. A frequent traveler, he is as likely to be found rock climbing or spelunking as sitting fireside dreaming or aimlessly floating away.
A lifelong lover of words and writing, he claims a diverse reading appetite and his writing reflects the myriad influences. A self-proclaimed 'reader's writer', he looks for the emotional and the sensory in word combinations, not just the visceral comprehension of phrases in the stories he crafts and his love of all things literary shines through.
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INTERVIEW WITH AEDAN BRYNES
Thanks so much for taking the time to answer a few questions for us today and welcome to The Book Review!
1) Why did you decide to become a writer? How did get started?
I have always written as far back as I can recall. Before Quill & Scroll in secondary school, before editing newspaper, before anthology work in college, long before anyone knew my name…I was writing….for me. How did I start? I cannot recall or fathom, nor do I think I decided. I just did it.
2) How long have you been a writing professionally?
I don’t think I write professionally. I write, and have had great fortune in reaching a point where the writing is good enough to be published, but I far to go with my writing. I also do not write full time which is the other possible inference of professional writer.
3) What part do you love the most about your job?
What part do you dislike the most?
I presume you mean "job" as a writer/author…the best part is telling the stories and meeting people who come to love the tales as much as I do, and the ‘dislikes’ or less liked bits are everything else. After the whole editing, publicity, and technical aspects of being a writer have been experienced, I find that I have a greater appreciation for the writing. There is infinite peace in the long quiet moments creating. I find that I can submerge my thoughts with more clarity because I respect the balance required to bring the work to the public. I am perhaps an exception in this, but I find that given the choice, I prefer the quiet of writing over everything.
4) Would you encourage writing as a career?
I would encourage anyone and everyone to write. I don’t write as a primary career, so I can’t speak to that. I write for escape and happen to have spun a pretty good yarn that was good enough to publish and put out for others to enjoy.
5) What are the biggest challenges you face writing in the fantasy/paranormal genre?
I don’t know that there are genre specific challenges. I think writing challenges are pretty universal. I think that when you write you either understand the dynamics of the world you’re writing about/in or you don’t and the challenges are writing challenges not genre challenges.
6) Where can readers contact you? To connect with me you can find me at:
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7) What are working on now?
I’m working full steam on the next books in the Vengelys Series, Warrior’s Watchtower and Kingdom’s Fall, as well as plotting ahead for the series beyond book three. I’m afraid my plotting walls are getting a bit crowded.
8) Do you have a favorite quote you would like to share?
There are many quotes that I enjoy immensely. Many were adapted for the Pythian Scrolls in Oracle. One I am playing with now comes from Ray Manzarek from an interview in 1967;
"There are the things you know about and the things you don’t, the known and the unknown, and in between are the doors…"
The quote is widely attributed to Blake and Huxley though a thorough evaluation of both writer’s works do not find this combination of thoughts presented this way which makes it a fascinating adventure to ponder.
Thanks again for having me over.
You can purchase book I, Through the Oracle’s Mist through these sources:
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/379575
Barnes & Noble: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/through-the-oracles-mist-aedan-byrnes/1117497870?ean=2940045449298Aedan will be awarding to one randomly drawn commenter a journal from his CafePress storefront, a charm and leather bracelet made for the story and a custom cover shepherd hook style bookmark made by Stone Soup Designs for Through the Oracle's Mist. The bracelet leather colors and the journal cover may differ from the photo.
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