Title: Enlightenment
Author: Liz Keel
Series: The Driel Trilogy
Publisher: Fire Quill Publishing
Release Date: 21ste April 2016
ISBN: 978-0-9969748-7-5
After losing everything, all seventeen-year-old Thea wanted was to be a normal teenager. Instead, she was attacked by a mysterious creature she thought only existed in fairy tales. Now thrown into the unknown realm of Faey, Thea is forced to determine the difference between reality and fantasy, in a world ruled by a dark elite and a society wracked by intolerance and prejudice.
With the support of her new friends and a mysterious dark haired, blue-eyed guardian watching her every move, Thea will discover that when it comes to Faey, nothing is what it seems. Will her courage and desire to save this new world from darkness be enough? Or will Thea be the next victim to fall to the dark whispers of fate…
Read below for an excerpt from Enlightenment:
“No!” I screamed. It had happened
again. This was the fourth night in a row I had woken up with a start, beads of
sweat dampening my forehead and a sick feeling swirling in my stomach. Rubbing
my face whilst trying to sit up I thought back to the same terrifying dream
that had been haunting me for weeks now. Not that I expected it to be any other
way. I mean, watching your parents die in a car crash will have that effect on
you. The difference was that I was supposed to have died. I know it sounds
crazy but there was no way I should have survived that; yet I had, and I was
sure that the only reason I was still alive was because of the bright light
that had emanated from my body.
We were supposed to have
been setting off on a three-month expedition around India, but only got as far
as our local town in Montana before it happened. One minute I was sitting in
the back of the car fiddling with my iPod and the next second I’d heard Mom
screaming. I’d looked up just in time to see a car skidding along on the road
before it hit us side-on, flipping us into a ditch. Even now the fear I’d felt
at the time – the fear of what was to come – still swallows me whole. Time had
seemed to slow down as I had watched my mom and dad being thrown around as the
car had turned upside down. Our screams had been overwhelming and I’d been
reaching my breaking point, when suddenly all went silent and
I had been engulfed in a bright, orange glow
that had blinded me. Everything after that was hazy. I remember smacking my
head on the window, which had been followed by an unbearable pain that had made
my skull feel as though it would explode. I put my hand to my forehead, feeling
a warm and sticky liquid trickling down the side of my face. Putting my hand
out in front of me, I saw it was blood, but my fuzzy brain couldn’t comprehend
what I was seeing. It was at that point black spots started to creep into my
vision, making everything seem blurry. Then, however much I tried to stay
awake, the darkness won and I slipped out of consciousness.
I awoke to an incessant
bleeping and hushed whispers of ‘So young’ and ‘Such a shame’ and it was at
that point I knew both of my parents were dead. Upon opening my eyes, a numb
feeling began to take over as I realised I was in the local hospital with
doctors giving me sympathetic looks and calling me sweetie whilst a nurse asked
me who they should contact. That was an easy answer: no one. My parents had
both been only children and their parents, my grandparents, had died when they
were young. There was no one else.
About the Author
I live in Surrey, England, a short walk from the beautiful Windsor Park, with my husband Richard and our two gorgeous children Noah and Olivia. For me, writing is nothing short of an addiction and I often find myself sneaking out to my writing shed for just a few minutes, which can often turn into hours of pure, unadulterated bliss catching up with my characters and continuing their story. In-between writing, I teach in a primary school where there’s never a dull moment! I will also often be found Kindle in hand, reading a wide variety of genres but with YA fantasy and paranormal romance at the forefront of my reading list.Although I’m currently writing the second book in the Driel trilogy, other characters involving all things fantasy, paranormal and YA romance are jockeying for position, wanting me to write their story next, so watch this space!
It is such a privilege to share my stories with you the reader. Thank you enough for taking the time to find out more about me.
To find out more about Liz, visit her website:
www.lizkeelauthor.com
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