Release date: April 28, 2017
Subgenre: Epic fantasy
About The Goddess's Choice:
In a world where the corrupt church hides the truth about magic, the
fate of the joined kingdom falls on the shoulders of two young people
from opposite ends of the social hierarchy.
Crown Princess Samantha’s life begins to fall apart when she starts seeing strange colors around her potential suitors. She fears that she’s going insane--or worse that she’s defying the Goddess’s will. Robrek is a lowly farm boy with incredible magical powers. He has been biding his time waiting to get revenge on those who call him a demon.
Thrown together by chance, they must overcome their differences to fight their common enemy Duke Argblutal, who, with dark magic, is slowly poisoning the king’s mind and turning him against his own daughter. Time is running out for those chosen by the Goddess to prevent the power mad duke from usurping the throne and plunging the joined kingdoms into civil war.
Crown Princess Samantha’s life begins to fall apart when she starts seeing strange colors around her potential suitors. She fears that she’s going insane--or worse that she’s defying the Goddess’s will. Robrek is a lowly farm boy with incredible magical powers. He has been biding his time waiting to get revenge on those who call him a demon.
Thrown together by chance, they must overcome their differences to fight their common enemy Duke Argblutal, who, with dark magic, is slowly poisoning the king’s mind and turning him against his own daughter. Time is running out for those chosen by the Goddess to prevent the power mad duke from usurping the throne and plunging the joined kingdoms into civil war.
Excerpt:
He returned to the horses, loaded the supplies on
Wild Thing, and rode in silence to the abandoned stable. Robbie led the horse
inside. When he lit the lantern he kept there, he let out a whistle of
amazement. The horse was a bronze-colored mare that looked more like it was
forged out of metal than living flesh! But the horse’s impossible color wasn’t
the only thing that struck Robbie. Sores spotted the beast’s body; puss and
blood oozed from under the saddle. The horse’s coat was matted with dried
blood. Her ribs stood out in stark detail. How
could anyone neglect a horse so badly? “Where could you have come from, girl?” Robbie could feel a wail
building up inside the horse, so he hurried to take the armor and other
equipment off her back, unsaddled her, and removed her harness.
“I don’t
think you’re a demon. But I don’t know what you are. By the look of the armor
you must have been some knight’s lady. But what happened to him? Sores like
these don’t form overnight. If he’s still alive, he obviously doesn’t deserve a
lady like you. So how about it? Will you be my lady?” He paused at the sound of his own words. Milady. “I had a lady once. For one day, that is. My brother didn’t
approve—I’m sure he wouldn’t approve of you, either.”
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About Jamie Marchant:
Jamie began writing stories about the man from Mars when she was
six, and she never remembers wanting to be anything other than a writer.
Everyone told her she needed a back up plan, so she pursued a Ph.D. in
American literature, which she received in 1998. She started teaching
writing and literature at Auburn University. One day in the midst of
writing a piece of literary criticism, she realized she’d put her true
passion on the backburner and neglected her muse. The literary article
went in the trash, and she began the book that was to become her first novel. She writes about the fantastic . . . and the tortured soul. Her poor
characters have hard lives. She lives in Auburn, Alabama, with her
husband and four cats, which (or so she’s been told) officially makes
her a cat lady. She still teaches writing and literature at Auburn
University. She is the mother of a grown son.
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