The Seraphina Series, #1
by Sheena Hutchinson
Date of Publication: September
1st 2016
Publisher: Sheena
Hutchinson LLC
Cover Artist: Cover
Me Darling
Genre: Paranormal
Romance
Sometimes dreams are more than they appear
Blurb
For as long as she can remember,
Seraphina Cross has experienced these visions that made her feel like there was
more to life. It wasn’t until one moment, one accident that her life changed
forever.
She awakens the next day a new
person in more ways than one. With no recollection of past night’s events,
she’s forced to adapt to certain sensations she is experiencing all while
trying to piece together what exactly happened to her that fateful night.
Her strange, hectic life doesn’t
seem to make sense until she meets a handsome stranger. Only then does the
puzzle finally piece itself together. What she doesn’t expect is the new powers
she has developed attracting all kinds of unwanted attention.
Thrown into a world she never
truly believed existed she is forced to come to grips with who she is becoming
while staying out of trouble long enough to figure out what needs to be done to
fulfill her destiny.
Excerpt #2
Seraphina
The night is so dark, Sera can barely
see her hand in front of her face. The streetlights are either broken or
nonexistent. She wanders deeper through the city streets looking for the
blue-eyed stranger. There’s a chill in the air causing goose bumps to sprout up
along her bare shoulders.
Tin slams to the ground behind her
causing her to burst into a run. She dashes down the street and around the
corner before ducking into an open cast-iron gate. Sera slips low behind a bush
to make sure no one is following her. The street is silent, not even a car on
the road. It’s strange for New York City, she thinks. The stores across the
street are vacant, the apartments above are all void of movement. What is going
on?
That’s when she feels it. A breeze
tickles her skin from behind. She jerks up onto her feet, heart beating wildly
inside her chest.
The church looms high above, hiding
her in its ghostly shadow. The moon hides far behind it, lighting up only the
tips of the gothic spindles. The arched doorframes mimic the thick wooden doors
underneath. On each corner sits a stone gargoyle with a small round head and
paws like lions, but what really shakes her are those paper-thin wings, almost
like a bat. The statues look down upon Sera. They seem aware she’s intruding on
their territory, their eyes intense and locked on her, while their paws seem to
lean over the edge.
A growl breaks through the silent
night. That definitely wasn’t in her head—these gargoyles just made noise!
With one last glance above her, she
can see the wings along the backs of the gargoyles have spread and their eyes
are now glowing a luminous, ruby color. The stone of the church crumbles as
they break from their posts. Chunks of rock come tumbling down around her. She
whips around to the cast iron gate again. She closes it for good measure before
dashing across the vacant street. The gargoyles slink down to the ground like
shadows. Their ghostly figures thin to air, slipping between the spindles of
the gate. Slowly, their bodies form back to terrifying, demon-like stone
figures. Their paws move silently as they stalk toward Sera across the street.
The gargoyles have her right where they want her. Her eyes scan the silent
street for an escape. Something. Anything.
The deserted city offers no escape.
The closer they reach, the colder the air feels around her. The hairs on her
arm stand on end and a cloud of air puffs from her open mouth. It only
increases as she backs up into the dark alley across the street. Sera can’t
help but think this is it. This is how I’m going to die. My parents will be so
proud to find me shredded to pieces in a dark alley.
The alley soon fills with the scent of
old garbage. Her back finally hits the brick wall indicating the end of the
stone backstreet.
Pressing her lids closed, “Please God,
don’t let it end like this.” She offers up a quick prayer before opening her
eyes to the approaching shadows.
A thump comes from somewhere behind
the darkness. The ruby eyes growing larger and larger are all that encompass
the alley. Suddenly, a crack echoes the tight space and the red eyes of one of
the gargoyles grow bigger before it falls to the ground. The stone creature is
silent as it writhes there for a minute. Even its companion pauses in shock
until the shadow gargoyle vanishes.
A man comes into view dressed all in
black. With his long sword, he slices the head off the other gargoyle in front
of Sera. A scream echoes in the alley as it too, begins to writhe in pain. The
man glances up from the tip of his sword as the creature vanishes. The blue
eyes shine through the dark alley. I know those eyes—it’s my dream guy.
“Where did you come from?” Sera calls
across the alley. Strangely, the enclosed space is beginning to grow brighter
by the second. “What’s your name?”
The stranger loops his sword back into
his belt. He doesn’t seem at all concerned with her questions. His hair moves
from side to side as he glances up and down the street.
Sera’s legs finally snap out of their
trance and walk toward him. “What were those things?” she tries once more.
His eyes finally meet hers again. They
soften slightly at her ignorance and he offers her only one word. “Demons.”
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While God is currently still writing her love story, she continues to put all her effort into her writing as she is constantly getting new inspiration.
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