Thursday 17 October 2013

Kris Austen Radcliffe Book Spotlight



Set in the open spaces of America, the Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon series takes Rysa and Ladon—and Ladon’s companion beast, Dragon—through a landscape punctuated by unfamiliar creatures:  Fates with the ability to see past, present, and future.  Ghouls called Burners who devour with fire and acid.  Shifters who shape much more than their bodies.  And two dragons who speak with color and pattern.

                       
Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon
Trilogy One:  Activation

The
Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon
Series

Trilogy One:  Activation

Three Prelude Stories of Fates Fire Shifters and Dragons.

It’s not a good love story until something explodes.

A Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon novella of binding and compulsion.

All Shifters understand fury.  Now they learn rupture.

FIFTH OF BLOOD #3
February 2014

Silence #3.5
Gavin and Daisy’s story.
Spring 2014


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Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon crosses genre boundaries, mixing Romance with the New Adult themes of transitioning away from school and parents into an adult life, all within an Urban Fantasy framework.  Action packed, the series also carries touches of Science Fiction and Thriller—with a heist or two thrown in. 




Contains Adult Sexual Content and some violent imagery.

Rysa Torres misses information.  Loses concentration.  Her attention problems randomize her life but she pushes forward anyway, doing the best she can—until monsters activate a part of her she didn’t know she had. 

As visions of the future whip inside her head, Rysa realizes the truth:  She’s a Fate. 

And she will set fire to the world.

All her options explode.  Her family ripped away, what little control she had destroyed, Rysa is left with one choice:  Will she die to stop the coming flames, or will she allow the man and the dragon she loves to die in her place?

Games of Fate begins Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon, a New Adult Urban Fantasy series with Strong Romantic Elements by Kris Austen Radcliffe.  Set in the open spaces of America, the series takes Rysa and Ladon—and Ladon’s companion beast, Dragon—through a landscape punctuated by unfamiliar creatures:  Fates with the ability to see past, present, and future.  Ghouls called Burners who devour with fire and acid.  Shifters who shape much more than their bodies.  And two dragons who speak with color and pattern.

It starts here, now, with one young woman’s fight against a burning future—and against the death of the man she loves.



Contains Adult Sexual Content and some violent imagery.

Flux of Skin, book two of the Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon series, picks up Ladon and Rysa’s story four hours after the events of book one, Games of Fate.

How many loves must Ladon watch die?

Ladon thought he controlled the rage.  He thought he left his past—and his violence—behind.  But the Shifters take Rysa and now no one is safe…

Ladon wanted a gentle life.  But century after century, the call to battle malicious Fates, Shifters, and Burners always won.  The world needed him.  So he fought.
War took its toll and now, sometimes, his scars show.  When it happens, Ladon ruptures—body, mind, and soul.  And the world pays.
But he’s found a new way:  a modern life with his beloved Rysa.  He won’t give her up.  Not because of family strife.  Not because of the issues twisting her life into a raging cyclone.  And definitely not because of war—until a new group of Shifters rain death onto everyone he loves.

Every Shifter understands fury.  Now they learn rupture.

Flux of Skin, book 2 of the Fate ~ Fire ~ Shifter ~ Dragon series, a New Adult Urban Fantasy series with Strong Romantic Elements by Kris Austen Radcliffe, continues the story of Rysa and Ladon.  Set in the open spaces of America, the series takes Rysa and Ladon—and Ladon’s companion beast, Dragon—through a landscape punctuated by unfamiliar creatures:  Fates with the ability to see past, present, and future.  Ghouls called Burners who devour with fire and acid.  Shifters who shape much more than their bodies.  And two dragons who speak with color and pattern.

Bio:

As a child, Kris took down a pack of hungry wolves with only a hardcover copy of The Dragonriders of Pern and a sharpened toothbrush. That fateful day set her on a path traversing many storytelling worlds—dabbles in film and comic books, time as a talent agent and a textbook photo coordinator, and a foray into nonfiction. But she craved narrative and a richly-textured world of Fates, Shifters, and Dragons—and unexpected, true love.
Kris lives in Minnesota with her husband, two daughters, Handsome Cat, and an entire menagerie of suburban wildlife bent on destroying her house. That battered-but-true copy of “Dragonriders”? She found it yesterday. It’s time to pay a visit to the woodpeckers.

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The Kris Austen Radcliffe Street Team:
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She has a Twitter account, but it’s the least reliable way to contact her: @KrisRadcliffe


What inspired you to write your current WIP or current published work?

My heroine has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, plus an assortment of other anxiety issues.  It’s not a characteristic you see often in fiction.  But it’s a real issue for many young women, including someone I love dearly.  I wrote “Games of Fate” for her.
“Flux of Skin”, book two of the series (available now) touches on another issue important to me:  Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  In this book, my hero’s past is beginning to ooze up through his floorboards. 
So, as a whole, the series is for everyone who has struggled with pain and anxiety.  I’m giving them characters who are dealing—and I’ve wrapped it in a nice high-action candy-coating of Shifters and Dragons.


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