Tara Maya's Tales

  Excerpt from The Tree & the Egg Naya was frozen and trapped inside herself, and yet she was aware. At first all she could feel was a dull pain. But gradually, her mind sorted through the different layers of misery and distinguished bad to worst. The closest spell to her skin was metallic and hard. It was solid and immovable, but it wasn’t as painful as the other two layers. The next layer stung like touching your finger on a hot stove or being stung by a dozen wasps. It made her skin feel like it was swelling with pain and heat. It was a spell made out of fire: not warm fire in a fireplace or even a raging forest fire, but hellfire. Every time she felt she would get accustomed to it another spark would hit, and she would try to flinch away all over again, but she could not move because of the first spell. The third spell was not hot but cold, but it was an unearthly level of cold that burned as much as the fire. It was larger and surrounded her completely, and overtime ...

Bronwyn and Blayke are two strangers being drawn into the same war. Their world is facing invasion from the Third Realm. While they move unknowingly toward each other, they are watched, hunted, and sabotaged. When the Dragon God interferes, it seems their world, Talia, will succumb to the threat. Can they learn enough of the tricks of the Realms before it’s too late, or will everything they love be destroyed?

 The young Realmists’ journey pushes them away from all they’ve known, to walk in the shadows toward Vellonia, city of the dragons, where an even darker shadow awaits. Download Shadows of the Realm , the first book in the The Circle of Talia  series, on Amazon , Amazon UK , Barnes and Noble , iTunes and Smashwords . It's only 99 cents for the next two weeks!   Prologue In a lonely brick farmhouse a child named Blayke slept under cosy blankets. He dreamt of splashing in warm summer puddles. His nostrils filled with the scents of grass and earth. He reached...