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Bio:
Jen Wylie resides in rural Ontario, Canada with her two boys, Australian shepherd and a disagreeable amount of wildlife. In a cosmic twist of fate she dislikes the snow and cold.
Before
settling down to raise a family, she attained a BA from Queens University and
worked in retail and sales.
Thanks
to her mother she acquired a love of books at an early age and began writing in
public school. She constantly has stories floating around in her head, and
finds it amazing most people don’t. Jennifer writes various forms of fantasy,
both novels and short stories.
My
blog: http://jlwylie.wordpress.com/
Twitter: @jen_wylie
Facebook fan
page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Wylie/151266004895266
Amazon
Author page: http://www.amazon.com/Jen-Wylie/e/B004HQ9XD8/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Details pertaining to Broken Aro
Broken Aro
Book One of The Broken Ones
By Jen Wylie
Published September 2012 by Untold Press (www.untoldpress.com)
Genre: YA/NA epic/adventure fantasy (mild romance)
WC: 70 640
Pages 264
ASIN: B009B37VQS
ISBN-10: 0615703364
ISBN-13: 978-0615703367
Blurb:
Open
your eyes to darkness. What do you see? Does the darkness frighten you? Now
imagine the darkness being the cargo hold of a slave ship. Your city has
fallen. Your family is most likely dead. You don’t know anyone around you, and
some of them aren’t even human. Giving up would be so easy to do, but not for
Arowyn Mason. Not after being raised in a military family with seven brothers.
Every great story should begin with a plan. Aro’s was to escape and to survive.
Escape
comes, but at a price. As they reach the shore, Aro and the other survivors
learn that freedom doesn’t mean safety. The slavers want their property back
and will do anything to get it. The party uses every ounce of their brute
strength, a hearty helping of cunning, and even ancient magics to keep
themselves alive. Sickness, danger, and even love surprise them at every turn.
Dealing with danger becomes their way of life, but none of them ever considered
that nothing can be quite as dangerous as a prophecy. Running turns into
another race altogether as her world falls to pieces again and again.
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Reviews:
“Reminiscent of the epic Lord of
the Ring trilogy, Broken Aro is the
first installment of a lively new series destined to enslave a new legion of
fans for its author, Jen Wylie. Filled with dragons and fey, mortals and
slavers, adventure and mythology, Broken Aro
is grand adventure in an epic style, a complete stand alone novel that also
leaves one eager for more!”
~
Rusty Fischer, author of Zombies Don’t
Cry
“A page-turning tale of
impossible love, unusual allies, betrayals, and
high adventure. I couldn’t put it down.”
high adventure. I couldn’t put it down.”
~J.A.
Campbell, author of Doc, Vampire-Hunting
Dog
Excerpts
Short:
Her eyes opened to darkness.
She
wasn't surprised. When bad things happened and you finally opened your eyes it
was always dark wasn't it? Because otherwise when you woke up you wouldn't be
scared, not right away, not until you remembered. Yet in darkness nothing else
could be seen but the memories of what had happened, it didn't matter if you
opened your eyes or kept them squeezed closed.
What
happened…
She
closed her eyes again, not against the memories, but the sudden tears and
choking sobs. Still, she tried to notremember, but her head hurt.
All of her hurt, but her head hurt the worst. She'd been hit by something, very
hard. She had no trouble remembering the pain. She remembered falling to the
ground, her brothers screaming her name over the insane loudness of the
fighting and everything fading to nothing as darkness claimed her.
She
sucked in a deep breath. The fighting. Yes, the city had been attacked. The
walls had been breached. There had been fighting in the streets. She had
been fighting. Her brothers had been trying to get her out. They had been so
close. Had they?
She
shifted and froze, terror creeping up her throat and choking her at the same
time until nothing but a strangled gurgle came out.
They
had not.
She
knew because she felt the cold metal shackles around each wrist, felt the
weight of the chain between them. The same fetters bound her ankles. Dirty
straw prickled her cheek and the other smells of her surroundings overcame her.
They overwhelmed her and made her gag. The rank scents of piss, shit and vomit
almost covered the stale reek of sweat and the tang of salt.
Salt.
She'd
thought her head had just been spinning, but no, everything moved, lurching and
swaying. She was at sea.
At sea
in chains meant only one thing. The rumors had been true. The Gelanians had
allied with the Franuan Slavers. Beneath the combined attack, Kingsport had
fallen and the Frans had taken their cut, citizens to sell as slaves. She was a
slave.
Well that sucks.
The
idea terrified her, and left her cold and shaking. Squeezing her eyes closed,
she fought to push away the horrifying images suddenly assaulting her.
Breathing slowly helped a little. The shaking stopped and finally she could
breathe again.
She
opened her eyes, straining them against the darkness. Had night fallen?
Could that be why it was so dark?Her eyes slowly adjusted until she could
make out vague shapes; the bars of the cell in the ships hold and darker shapes
of people sitting before her in the small cell.
She concentrated,
squinting her eyes and counting. Six others shared the cell. Her
brothers? "Paul?" The creak of the ship and the murmurs,
curses, and sobs of the other captives in the hold almost drowned out her small
voice.
"Boy's
awake," one of the shapes said. Definitely not one of her brothers.
She
stiffened. They'd called her boy. Even after all she'd been through, it was
quite a blow to her self-esteem. She frowned in confusion for a moment, until
she remembered. Her brothers had dressed her in their old clothes, old bits of
armor that sort of fit. They'd even hacked off her long hair…
She
cursed them under her breath again for that. Then she almost smiled,
remembering Sammy's face when he'd done it. Her brothers were such morons. They
always had been. Yet they'd been stuck with raising her, and what did they know
of girls? Her mother had died when she was four, and losing her hadn't been
easy on any of them.
Father
had been a regiment Commander and away a lot. They'd all managed to take care
of her somehow, the younger of her brothers watching over her until eventually
they'd all joined the army. But she'd been twelve by the time the youngest of
them had enlisted. She'd been able to take care of the house while they served
their time on the border. They didn't worry about her much. The army wives had
helped, keeping an eye on her for them.
However,
father had died two years ago at Demet's Pass. It had been hard, losing him.
Harder than when mother had died because she hadn't been old enough then to
know what it meant. Not seeing him at the head of their big old table, with his
gentle smile, had been tough on all of them. It still was. It had been harder
this past spring when her brothers had all ridden out again. Because death had
become something real, she knew they might not come back.
She
was fifteen now. Not really a child anymore. So she had faked a smile and waved
goodbye to them all when really fear had made her want to scream instead. They
had all come home, but with an enemy army at their heels. They'd been afraid
then, afraid for her. They knew things she didn't, things like what would
happen to a young girl if the city fell. However, she wasn't a woman yet, not
in appearance at any rate. Tall and gangly with no figure whatsoever. No wonder
she could pass for a boy.
"Boy."
The
man who had spoken before broke her thoughts. She must have been hit in the
head hard for her mind to wander back into the past. She managed to croak an
incoherent sound indicating she'd heard him.
"You
alive over there?"
"Yes,"
she lied and waited. No one else spoke. No one came rushing to her side. Panic
quickened her breath as fear sped her heart. Her brothers weren't here. If they
had been they'd have harassed everyone to find out where she was. At least…
they weren't on this boat. Unfortunately, the slavers had a
whole fleet. They must be on another boat. She had to believe that. She closed
her eyes tightly again. Yes, they'd been placed on another boat.
Because
if they weren't then they were all dead.
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