by Justine
Avery
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GENRE: Paranormal
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BLURB:
Only one obstacle stands in his way of enjoying a normal life. He
remembers—every life he's lived before.
Tres is
about to be born... with the biggest burden any has ever had to bear. He is
beginning again—as an ageless adult trapped in an infant body.
He and
his teenage mother face life filled with extraordinary challenges as they
strive to protect, nurture, and hide how truly different he is. But Tres alone
must solve the greatest mystery of all: who is he? The answer is linked to the
one question he's too afraid to ask: why am I?
In his
quest, Tres discovers that all is considerably more interconnected and dynamic
than he could ever imagine—and fraught with far more danger. He cannot hide
from the unseen threat stalking him since his birth.
Life as
he knows it—as all know it—is in peril. And Tres is the only one aware.
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EXCERPT
A casual knock pre-empted the arrival of an
attending nurse. Sancha heard the sounds of a metal cart rolled in, its wheels
locked in place at her bedside. She took a quick puff of air and released it as
the knuckles of her fists began to turn white.
She heard a rustling of linens, then Maria leaning
toward her from her chair on the opposite side of the bed.
Something heavy and warm was laid against Sancha’s
arm.
“Sancha...” Maria pleaded this time. “Please.”
Sancha squirmed against the uncomfortable pressure
on her arm.
“I can’t let you live the rest of your life,” Maria
whispered, “knowing you never even saw him.”
Sancha swallowed. Her breathing quickened. She
rolled her lips between her teeth. And she opened her eyes—as slowly as humanly
possible.
The brightest pair of crystalline blue eyes stared
back at her.
They blinked tenderly, giving away how new to
blinking they actually were. Their steady gaze pierced straight through to
something rooted within Sancha.
The eyes blinked again, temporarily cutting off the
intense connection before opening again to resume it. Sancha rested on her bed
in silence, mesmerized by the novice rhythm of blinking resembling Morse code.
Every muscle in her body relaxed. Her mouth began
to form an unthinkable smile. She couldn’t help herself.
The baby—her baby—beamed at her with his big, round
eyes and flooded her with the total contentment and perfect peace that wafts
only from brand-new life.
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I asked Justine: How do you do your
world building? Here is her answer:
My process is very simple: start
with a tiny story idea, the simpler and less-detailed, the better. Then, I start writing the story from
the beginning. I never know how my stories are going to end up—and for me,
that's the whole fun of it. That's why I write! Every story's an adventure, a
mystery, an experience waiting to unfold. That's the whole appeal for me.
And that is how each unique
world for each unique story is created.
My story idea may start in a place, and I see it, all around me,
perfectly vividly, like viewing your surroundings in a dream.
Or, I might begin with a character or a
situation and similarly, the world appears around them, in as much detail as
the story requires.
It’s as simple
as “seeing” it.
I guess I can
thank a very vivid imagination… probably built, itself, upon decades of global
travel, adventures, and reading!
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Justine
Avery is an award-winning author of stories large and small for all. Born in
the American Midwest and raised all over the world, she is inherently an
explorer, duly fascinated by everything around her and excitedly noting the
stories that abound all around. As an avid reader of all genres, she weaves her
own stories among them all. She has a predilection for writing speculative
fiction and story twists and surprises she can’t even predict herself.
Avery
has either lived in or explored all 50 states of the union, over 36 countries,
and all but one continent; she lost count after moving 30-some times before the
age of 20. She’s intentionally jumped out of airplanes and off the highest
bungee jump in New Zealand, scuba dived unintentionally with sharks, designed
websites, intranets, and technical manuals, bartered with indigenous
Panamanians, welded automobile frames, observed at the Bujinkan Hombu Dojo in
Noba, Japan, and masterminded prosperous internet businesses—to name a few
adventures. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree that life has never required,
and at age 28, she sold everything she owned and quit corporate life—and her
final “job”—to freelance and travel the world as she always dreamed of. And
she’s never looked back.
Aside from her native English, Avery
speaks a bit of Japanese and a bit more Spanish, her accent is an ever-evolving
mixture of Midwestern American with notes of the Deep South and indiscriminate
British vocabulary and rhythm, and she says “eh”—like the Kiwis, not the
Canadians. She currently lives near Los Angeles with her husband, British film
director Devon Avery, and their three adopted children: Becks, Sam, and Lia.
She writes from wherever her curiosity takes her.
Avery
loves to connect with fellow readers and creatives, explorers and imaginers,
and cordially invites you to say “hello”—or konnichiwa.
Twitter:
@Justine_Avery
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Justine
Avery will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN GC to a randomly drawn winner via
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