Fire & Flood
Mythverse (Book 1)
Gods, monsters, and magic school. Class will never be the same.
I thought that I was just a normal girl. Well, except for dealing with asthma and painful backaches. But then my family was lost in a tragic accident and the next thing I know Hermes is knocking at my door. Yeah, that Hermes - the Greek god.
He tells me I'm special and shows me how to partially shift to release the wings in my back. Suddenly the pain that's been there my whole life is gone...and I can fly!
Well sort of. I've got a lot to learn. So it's off to Mount Olympus Academy where my teachers are gods and my classmates are vampires, werewolves, and witches.
There's also...Val. He's a vampire, and I can't stop thinking about him even though interspecies dating is taboo. I think he might like me too...even though I did accidentally set him on fire the first time we met. Awkward!
It's not all fun and games, though. MOA has a darker side and the more time I spend here, the more secrets I uncover. And the worst secret of all just might be about me.
Fire & Flood is a young adult magic academy fantasy novel with non-stop action. It contains a spunky heroine, one best friend with the gift of sight...to see tomorrow's lunch menu, a mean-girl vampire roommate with a carnivorous plant, and a meet-cute with her roommate's hot twin brother that almost kills them both.
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Excerpt:
“Dad?” I ask. He doesn’t seem to hear me, too engrossed in whatever he’s typing into his phone.
Deciding to give him some space, I step out onto the balcony.
Grandma is already on the boardwalk with her friends. Even from the sixth floor she’s easy to spot with her bright orange sun hat.
“Hey!” I call out, waving to get their attention. One of her friends catches sight of me and nudges Grandma. Soon there’s five old people waving wildly.
I am still laughing when I see it.
My hands freeze in midair. Dogs in the condos all around us begin to bark madly. It’s like they can sense what’s coming.
A wall of water in the ocean.
“Grandma!” I scream. “Run!”
Sirens begin to wail. Grandma and her friends finally see what’s rolling in behind them and just stare in shock. Finally, they get moving, scrambling back toward the building. I lean over the balcony, watching as they disappear beneath the awning below.
From behind, strong arms wrap around me. My father pulls me away from the railing and yells, “We have to get higher up.” He jerks me back into the condo and then shuts the sliding glass door, flipping the flimsy lock—as if that will keep out what’s coming.
I can’t tear my eyes away from it. It’s a wave unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I could swear I see the shape of a person. A giant foamy head with leering mouth and two long arms reaching forward. I blink and shiver as two great watery hands slam against the beach.
The condo shudders.
We run to the condo doorway and I turn back in time to witness the wave’s face slam against the glass door. It shatters—shards of glass and water mixing as they tumble through the air—and time slows.
The glass flies toward me. I freeze, unable to move, once again proving Mavis’s theory that I’d be the first to die in a zombie movie. Closing my eyes, I scream; the sound burns and scrapes at my throat.
“Edie, c’mon,” Dad tugs at my hand.
I cough and a puff of smoke comes out of my mouth. The glass and water that had been flying at me are gone, leaving only wafts of steam.
I barely have time to process this as Dad grabs my shoulders and pulls me through the doorway. Water pools around our feet as we rush for the stairs. The sea rains down on us, the stairway becoming a river. The current is strong but Dad goes first to take the brunt of the force and I struggle behind him, using the railing to pull myself up.
When we reach the eighth floor, the water breaks—the wave must not have been this tall—and we tiredly make our way up to the top of the building and out onto the roof. The rooftop greenhouse gleams in the sunlight, but no one is inside. We’re the only ones up here. Are we the only ones who made it?
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