Title: The Awakener
Series: The Watchers of Men
Author: Amanda Strong
Published: October
2013 by Clean Teen Publishing
Word Count: approx.
98,500
Genre: YA Mature Paranormal Romance
Content Warning: Some
violence and clean romance
Recommended Age: 14+
Synopsis:
Seeing Micah for the first time in years, fifteen year old
Eden wants nothing more than to run and hide, but instead in a moment of sheer
embarrassment, she throws her arms around his neck; unaware she just changed
her childhood friend forever.
With eyes’ opened to the realm of angels and demons, Micah discovers he has
become the Seer, called to save the world from an impending fire. Shy and awkward, Eden stumbles through high
school clueless her guardian angel shadows her every move, keeping her safe
while she unknowingly “awakens” others to their spiritual gifts. Micah will need those Eden touched to
complete his mission which began long ago in the ancient City of Enoch and its
secret underground temple.
With angels and demons fighting around them, both Eden and Micah must find
their own personal courage and faith in order to know what to do for the battle
that awaits them, one they must triumph or risk losing everyone they love.
About the Author:
Born
in Dekalb, Illinois, Amanda Strong has called Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Virginia
and now New Mexico home. Amanda has been spinning tales since she was a child.
Her family still remembers finding young Amanda with her bright pink glasses,
hiding in random corners of the house while scribbling away in one of her many
spiral-bound notebooks. You could say that some things never change since
Amanda is still writing today. Amanda began her writing career when she
uploaded The Awakener, her first full-length novel, on Wattpad where it
received over 430,000 reads in four weeks. She was blown away and humbled by
the reader support and feedback she received. Because of The Awakener’s success
as a non-published book, she was asked to talk on 1400 KSTAR about her story.
In
September 2013 Amanda Strong signed with Clean Teen Publishing for publication
of The Awakener, which is scheduled to release in late October of this year.
The Awakener is the first book in an all-new young adult paranormal romance
series called: The Watchers of Men.
When
Amanda isn’t writing, you can find her chasing her three rambunctious children
around the house and spending time with her wonderful and supportive husband.
On some occasions you can still find Amanda with her not-so-pink glasses,
hiding in a corner reading her favorite young adult fantasy novels or working
out only to blow her diet by eating ice cream.
Clean Teen Publishing Links:
Giveaway Details:
There is an international tour wide giveaway. Prizes include
the following:
·
GRAND PRIZE:
A Clean Teen Publishing eBook of the reader's choice, bookmark prize
pack, and a $10 Amazon gift card.
Excerpt # 3 from The Awakener from Amanda Strong:
Eden assumed she’d have good dreams, she had
been asked on her first date today, after-all, but she was
wrong. A dam of nightmares had
broken leaving her tossing and turning.
She dreamt of someone in her room, hiding in the dark corner,
waiting…watching.
It was so vivid and real, that when the furnace
clicked on, she bolted upright in bed, panting and covered in sweat. She took a deep breath and scanned her
surroundings. Everything seemed normal,
still the lingering dream made her uneasy.
She reached for her glasses on the nightstand, but knocked them to the
floor instead.
“Crap,” she muttered, not wanting to get out of her
warm bed to retrieve them. Why is it so cold in here, she wondered. I
can hear the heater blowing.
She sat back and pulled her blankets higher, trying
to settle her nerves. She heard a few
creaks and the scratching of branches hitting her window.
Those are
familiar sounds, she told herself, nothing to be jumpy about.
Something felt off.
She figured it was just being in that half-asleep
half-awake state where senses are in overdrive.
She strained to see better, still not wanting to uncover herself to retrieve
her glasses.
Why’s it
reek in here? I’m going to kill Brendon,
leaving another rotten sandwich in my room.
But it smells like eggs. He hates
eggs…
The sulfur-like smell grew stronger. Tugging her blanket over her nose she felt
something bump her bed. She froze.
Straining to hear anything in the profound silence,
she was completely paralyzed by fear, seeing only smeary black shadows. Don’t
panic, don’t panic.
Her bed rocked as something pushed on her mattress
from below. She screamed hysterically
but to her horror, no one came bursting through her door.
Is Brendon
playing some kind of sick practical joke?
Gritting her teeth, she threw the covers aside,
forcing her legs off the side of the bed determined to jump down.
An icy breath hissed on her bare skin from
below.
Shrieking, she pulled her legs in, burying herself
in the blankets. Someone was in her room, under her bed, and just like her
dream, that person was going to hurt her.
She bit her quilt as tears splattered down on her arms.
It was silent.
This
doesn’t make any sense. Am I still
dreaming? This is just a nightmare. I’m just imagining things, she
consoled herself. It’s
cold in my room, the mattress’s
springs are probably popping… she stopped short.
Something dragged across her carpet at the same time
her bed shook. A low, unmistakable growl came from underneath her; a wet,
gurgling sound. She screeched so hard
her throat felt raw.
A black silhouette rose beside her bed.
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