Published: January 24th, 2014
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Vivian Maylor is trying to hold it together. But her attempts to build a life with the man she loves seem doomed by the dragon inside her yearning to break free. Vivian is a dreamshifter, the last line of defense between reality and the dreamworld, and the only one of her kind.
Weston Jennings also believes he is the only one of his kind. He fears his powers as a dreamshifter, and resists learning to control them. After suffering a tragic loss, Weston heads deep into the woods of the Pacific Northwest to embrace a safe life of solitude. But when a terrible mistake leads to an innocent’s death, his guilt drives him to his former home, where he encounters what he never thought he would find: another shifter.
Now Vivian and Weston must work together to defeat a new threat to the dreamworld.
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Lost Magic – Found. Why We Read Fantasy
I think we’re all searching for a little bit of magic in our lives.
When we are small children, everything is magical. We haven’t learned yet about batteries and electricity and the logistics of the solar system. Every time the moon comes up or the stars come out we react with wonder. Even something mundane to an adult - a flashlight, a laser, a battery operated toy - brings out the wide eyes and the great delight. If you’ve forgotten how that feels, watch a small child for a bit, and see how they experience the world.
Remember that sense of wonder? Taste it on your tongue. Let yourself feel the shiver of delight.
Santa Clause can deliver toys to all the good kids all around the world in one night. The tooth fairy can fly into our rooms while we are sleeping and pay us for lost teeth. A genie might just be lurking in a bottle somewhere, and if we happen to find it and let it out - we get wishes! There are faeries flitting around in the woods and we can almost see them in the dusk, if we squint our eyes just right. And yes, there are monsters in the closet and maybe under the bed, and even though they are terrifying, they too are wonderful.
And then we go to school, and are taught about gravity and cells and electricity. We learn certain harsh realities about paying bills and work and responsibility. Somebody tells us about Santa Clause, we take a trip to the dentist, we stop believing there are faeries hiding in the woods.
We even stop believing in the monsters under the bed.
This is necessary, I suppose, and yet the world is darker for it. We all feel the loss and try to fill it in different ways.
Although they’d never admit it, I believe some folks keep looking for the magic by searching for creatures like Big Foot or the Loch Ness Monster. Some subscribe to aliens and UFOs. Some look for magic in alcohol or recreational drugs.
And some of us read fantasy. Open the pages of a good fantasy novel, and you can lose yourself in a world where all of the magic is still possible. Wizards and faeries and hobbits and dragons. Vampires and werewolves. Kingdoms and worlds where the rules are different, not bound by the conventions that hold us captive. Beautiful and lovely things. Dark and twisted and evil things. All magic. All possible.
This is why I read fantasy. What about you?
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About the author:
Kerry Schafer is licensed both as a Mental Health Professional and an RN, and spends most of her daylight hours helping people–usually even with a smile. In books, she gets to blow stuff up, preferably with something more interesting than a bomb. Dragons are good; exploding giant slime toads are even better. She has published two novels with Ace Books: BETWEEN, which was released in January 2013, and WAKEWORLD, slated to hit stores in January 2014. She is also the author of THE DREAM WARS novellas, available where electronic books are sold.
Kerry and her Viking live in Colville, Washington, in a little house surrounded by rocks, trees, and gangs of deer and wild turkeys.
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