Witches are real
by Eva Lefoy
I have a lot of
fun on Dawn Roberto’s Yahoo! group, Love Romances Café, so when I saw she had
blog post space available, I knew I had to come visit!
For those of you
that don’t know, Dawn does a great job organizing a rather large, unwieldy
group that sometimes has a life of its own. I’m one of those authors that posts
on her group and I love the opportunity to get my work in front of readers and
network with other authors that she provides.
Today, I’d like to
start off by saying witches are real. Just as real as werewolves, and I know
readers believe in those! Besides, don’t we all know someone we secretly think
of as a witchy woman? Someone who sorely tries our temper and makes us want to
banish her from our sight forever? I sure do! Unfortunately I work with one or
two of them five days a week! So is it any wonder I’ve written a bad witch in Darkest Magic? Here’s more about
Petrina:
Inspiration for
Petrina came from the Game of Thrones character, Melisandre.
(See, she’s evil already!)
Like Melisandre,
Petrina’s signature color is red. She’s a wolf shifter with a reddish coat and
malachite-green eyes.
She silently
exerts an evil control over Eli, the alpha wolf of the pack and her mate. A
little like Anne Boleyn, she wants her child to be ruler, not
Eli’s daughter from his previous mate. She’s determined to cement her place in
the pack by any means necessary, even murder!
Like Melisandre,
Petrina has hidden depths. We only scratch the surface of her story in Darkest
Magic, but I have a feeling there’s a lot more to Petrina than the evil we see
on the surface. As with any evil character, within her lurks a mystery of WHY
she’s become evil. As the saying goes, it’s better to be on the wrong side of a saint then the right side of a devil. Have you heard
that one before? In my opinion, it means once you’ve gone to the devil – or the dark side as Luke Skywalker’s father would say! –
you’re lost. WHY did Petrina choose the dark side? What horrible events in her
past led her to become the witch she is today? Perhaps we will find out in
another book.
In the meantime, here’s
an excerpt from Darkest Magic, out now from Decadent Publishing:
“Nikko,” Eli soothed, using his favorite
diminutive for him—a name he hated.
“We need to talk, and I thought it best we do so out here.”
None of the other wolves sat. All remained
at attention. The hairs on his neck didn’t just stand, they marched. Every
nerve he possessed readied for a fight. His wolf clamored to get out. He kept
his eyes low, his speech careful. “What’s up? Is the pack in trouble?”
“Trouble?” Eli threw his head backward and
his massive chest out and laughed. “There’s no trouble. In fact everything’s
perfect.” He motioned toward the smaller, red-coated wolf beside him.
“Petrina’s pregnant.”
The only sound he heard was his own long
inhale. None of the other wolves moved or twitched. Why was it a big secret? “Congratulations. I’m happy for you.”
Eli nodded and smiled as he closed the
distance between them. “And it’s time for you to go.”
“Go? Go where?”
“You’re done, Nikko. I don’t need you
anymore.”
He flinched at the hand clapped on his
shoulder. Though they’d been close as brothers while the alpha’s first mate was
alive, things had deteriorated steadily since her death. This was probably the
first time he had simply touched him and not hit him in over two years. It
struck him as weirdly unreal.
“You’re out of the pack. Get your things
and go.”
His brain went into freefall. This makes no sense. “But…I’m your
beta.”
“Were.
I don’t need a second anymore, Nikko. Petrina’s child will be my successor. He
will rule by my side.”
A pack without a beta? Who had heard of
such a thing? Or did Eli fear he’d one day try and take control, if things got
bad enough with the Eli and Petrina circus? Oh
hell, that’s it. He’s worried about
maintaining his power. He knew in his heart the alpha was right. If he had
the balls, he’d challenge the alpha and get it done and over with. An even more
insane Eli was the biggest threat the pack faced. They’d unravel bit by bit
from the inside, not be done in by an attack from a neighboring pack. Still, he
found himself shaking his head, his loyalty as a beta too ingrained to simply
let go, his allegiance to the pack too solid to let him up and walk away.
Besides, he was a born follower, not a leader. He had no ambition to run the
pack himself. Eli had to listen to
reason. “He’s not even born yet. Without a full-grown second, the pack will be
vulnerable, unstable. You need me—now more than ever.”
“Untrue. Petrina has assured me we will be
safe, and these men have already sworn allegiance to my son. I’ve got it
covered, bro.”
A
slippery feeling crept up his spine as he risked a glance at her malachite wolf
eyes. The change in their leader had started when he’d mated her two years ago,
bringing her into the pack suddenly and unannounced. An outsider, no one knew
of her or the pack she claimed to hail from. Though her unknown origins weren’t
a serious problem, her demeanor had always made him wary. He trusted her about
as much as a knife at his throat.
***
I hope you’ve
enjoyed this brief look at the trouble witches can cause. Of course, it only
gets worse for our poor Beta hero Nik from here on out!
See you around the
Yahoo! loop!
Eva
Buy Links:
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All Romance
Ebooks: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-darkestmagic-1576859-143.html
Author Bio and Contact:
Eva Lefoy writes and reads all kinds
of romance, and is a certified Trekkie. She’s also terribly addicted to
chocolate, tea, and hiking. One of these days, she’ll figure out the meaning of
life, quit her job, and go travel the galaxy. Until then, she’s writing down
all her dirty thoughts for the sake of future explorers.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Eva_Lefoy
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