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Title: Sunbolt
Series: The Sunbolt Chronicles # 1
Author: Intisar Khanani
Publication Date: June 17, 2013
Publisher: Purple Monkey Press
Genre: YA Fantasy
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The winding streets and narrow alleys of Karolene hide many
secrets, and Hitomi is one of them. Orphaned at a young age, Hitomi has learned
to hide her magical aptitude and who her parents really were. Most of all, she
must conceal her role in the Shadow League, an underground movement working to
undermine the powerful and corrupt Archmage Wilhelm Blackflame.
When the League gets word that Blackflame intends to detain—and
execute—a leading political family, Hitomi volunteers to help the family
escape. But there are more secrets at play than Hitomi’s, and much worse fates
than execution. When Hitomi finds herself captured along with her charges, it
will take everything she can summon to escape with her life.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Intisar Khanani grew up a nomad and
world traveler. Born in Wisconsin, she has lived in five different states as
well as in Jeddah on the coast of the Red Sea. She first remembers seeing snow
on a wintry street in Zurich, Switzerland, and vaguely recollects having
breakfast with the orangutans at the Singapore Zoo when she was five.
Intisar currently resides in
Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband and two young daughters. Until recently, she
wrote grants and developed projects to address community health and infant
mortality with the Cincinnati Health Department—which was as close as she could
get to saving the world. Now she focuses her time on her two passions: raising
her family and writing fantasy.
Intisar’s latest projects include a
companion trilogy to her debut novel Thorn, featuring a new
heroine introduced in her free short story The Bone Knife
… and of course, she’s hard at work on the remaining installments of The Sunbolt Chronicles.
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EXCERPT
“Look what’s here,” the leader says, calling
the other soldiers’ attention to me. My steps falter as they veer towards me,
quickly closing the distance between us. “What do you think she is? A mutt or a
half-breed?”
A half-breed they
might not bother because those who are half-human and half-something-else often
have some strength or ability that could cause more trouble than these men are
looking for. Unfortunately for me, the secret I guard is fully human. I glance
sideways at the fish seller in the stall beside me, wondering if I can count on
her. She is young, no more than a handful of years past my own fifteen, her
eyes wide with panic. No help there. I swallow hard, trying to ease the fear
thrumming through my veins.
I begin to back
away, offering a hesitant smile to the soldiers. A smile? What am I doing? I
should run—
But it’s already
too late. Two of the soldiers have moved ahead of the others, circling past me.
I’m surrounded.
“Mutt,” says one
of the soldiers, taking in my features. I feel myself flush slightly. My
parents may have been from different lands, but a good number of islanders have
other blood in them, even if it dates back a few generations. How else did the
noble women come by their sleek hair? Their problem isn’t with my bloodline.
It’s with the fact that I visibly don’t belong, and I’m an easy target.
“Half-breed,” two
others posit, their boots sounding unnaturally loud in the quiet.
“Definitely a
mutt,” a soldier behind me says. He’s come to a stop a couple paces away, no doubt
waiting for his leader to make the first move.
“Well, girl, what
are you?” the leader asks.
I refuse to answer in the words
they’ve afforded me. “Human,” I say. “Sir.”
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