Witches Be
Burned
Magic & Mayhem # 2
By: Stacey Kennedy
Releasing May 19th, 2015
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Blurb
In Stacey
Kennedy’s steamy paranormal romance novel, a rookie guardian sworn to combat
the undead risks life and love in a world of violence, witchcraft, and
seduction.
Nexi
Jones has lost her family, she’s been stripped of her guardian duties, and
she’s still learning the ins and outs of white magic. At least she has Kyden,
the smoldering hot elite guardian who’s been there for her every step of the way.
But just as Nexi completes her training, tragedy strikes the Otherworld when a
fellow guardian is murdered by a group of rogue vampires. Ready or not, she and
Kyden trek into the Earthworld to hunt down a killer—and Nexi alone will be put
to the ultimate test.
Although Kyden knows that Nexi must fight her own battles, his guardian
instincts are raging as he struggles to keep her close. The ruthlessness of
these vampires is like nothing he’s ever seen. And at their helm is the Black
Witch Astoria, a demon with one burning desire: to shed Nexi’s blood in the
name of vengeance. What troubles Kyden even more, though, is the warlock who
covets Nexi’s heart. Let the devil do his worst . . . all Kyden can do is love
and protect Nexi until his last breath.
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Excerpt:
“Thank all that is holy,” Haven exclaimed
the second she opened her front door. “You’re back.”
Standing outside of the modern-designed
apartment, Nexi raised her brows at Haven’s unruly hair and her bloodshot eyes.
Red-hot irritation rushed through their bond, sending Nexi spiraling into a
dizzy spell. Not once had Nexi ever seen Haven so flustered—she’d always been a
ball of sunshine.
Haven had been the first supernatural Nexi
met in the Otherworld. She knew why the Council had set that up—their soul-bond
had instantly brought comfort to Nexi, while Haven explained where Nexi was,
that her adoptive mortal parents were dead, and that Nexi was actually a
supernatural living in a mortal’s world.
Now she couldn’t quite imagine her life
without Haven. Their relationship wasn’t sisterly, it was similar to that of
what twins experienced—but possibly even closer than that. A connection of hearts
and souls.
The second supernatural to visit Nexi on her
first night in the Otherworld had been Drake, the guardian who gave her life,
and who had been a complete stranger to her. Nexi wished she had spent more
time getting to know him than the few months she had with him before he died
during the fight with Lazarus. Yet life was what it was, and there was no sense
hoping for a different outcome. Besides, she believed Drake felt that he
finally helped avenge his wife, the mother that Nexi had never met.
She ignored the pang in her heart, refusing
to return to that dark place of sadness that was still so fresh, turning her
attention back to her friend. “What in the world happened to you?”
“Your damn cat hasn’t shut up,” a low, angry
voice bit off.
Haven opened the door farther, showing off
her boyfriend and fellow guardian, Finn, sitting on the couch. The deep frown
on his slender face was so unlike him that Nexi’s brows rose higher. In all the
time she’d known him, he had never lost his cool—Finn was always the calm,
collected one. Now his crystal-blue eyes reflected grave annoyance, and his jaw
muscles were twitching.
Nexi slid her glance to the kitten sitting
on the armrest of the couch, staring and swatting at Finn. While she
appreciated that apparently the kitty had been bothering him, and perhaps was
driving him mad, she was also silent. “When did the meowing stop?”
“The moment you knocked on the door.” He
looked to the kitten with a viscous glare. “She’s here. Get out.”
The kitten glanced to the doorway and Nexi
swore the kitty smiled before jumping off the couch and trotting over. “Come
on, how can you hate her?” Nexi said, grinning at the kitty. “She’s so stinkin’
cute.”
“Easily,” Haven snipped, reaching for the
kitten. “You weren’t here for the past hour, listening to her cry and whine for
you.” Those trickles of annoyance increased through their bond as she shoved
the kitten in Nexi’s arms. “Have fun with that one.”
Haven began to shut the door, and Nexi
called, “Wait. You need to tell me about her—”
The door slammed shut.
Sighing, Nexi looked down at the kitten and
frowned. “You sure know how to make
friends. Guess you’re stuck with me, even if
I have no idea what you are.”
The kitten purred, rubbing her face into
Nexi’s neck. She laughed, turning away from
Haven and Finn’s apartment and strode along
the hallway in the Witches’ House, located in the west side of the Otherworld’s
castle. Each species had its special place in the medieval castle, or at least
that’s what it resembled.
From what she’d learned, the castle had been
built sometime in the 1700s after the two worlds merged and made the treaty.
The need for the Council meant they needed a headquarters, and no one had
renovated it since. Nexi didn’t mind so much; she thought the castle had charm,
and it reminded her of old Scotland—which she learned was where the leaders of
Earthborn supernaturals were located back in the 1700s.
While Nexi could stay in either the Witches’
House or Guardians’ House, because she was technically both, she had gravitated
to the Guardians’ House, since she had trained as a guardian first. But she
appreciated her witch magic just as much.
As a Spirit Witch, she was blessed with all
four elements: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. All other witches other than Sprit
Witches gained one element, like Haven, who exceled in the Earth element.
Through the training over the few months, Nexi had mastered Air and Fire, and
she had the feeling the other two elements were pretty much of no use to her.
Or they hadn’t been so far. The witches in the Otherworld coven had told her
through training that some Spirit Witches gained all the elements in the
beginning, and when the stronger elements developed, the others eventually
faded away.
Lucky for her, the elements she did
possess—conjuring Air and Fire without touch—were seriously kick-ass.
Holding the kitten in her arms and
continuing on down the hallway, she passed a couple witches who strode along
the hallway. One smiled. The other looked at Nexi with something close to
disdain, but Nexi let it roll off her back. She supposed she understood—she was
different from the other witches, being of two races, and she’d discovered that
while most accepted her, some of the older generation didn’t. She wasn’t normal,
but she couldn’t please everyone—and she didn’t try to.
Author Info
Stacey Kennedy is the USA
Today bestselling author of the Club Sin series. Growing up, Stacey’s mind
wandered the path less traveled, and that path most often led to love. She has
always broken rules and she continues to feed off emotion—always staying true
to her heart. Those traits are now the bones of her stories. She lives in
southwestern Ontario with her husband, who puts any of the heroes in her books
to shame, and their two young children. If she’s not on Mom duty or plugging
away at a new story, you’ll find Stacey camping in the summer, hibernating in
the winter, and obsessing over Penny Dreadful, Game of Thrones, and Sons of
Anarchy.
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