About Awen Rising, A Near-Future Pre-Apocalyptic Urban Fantasy by O. J. Barré
FREE from 10/21 thru 10/25/21
A secret society of Druids.
An ancient Reptilian foe.
Earth teeters in the balance.
Bankrupt and broken, Emily would give anything for a safe place to hide from the witch Shalane. But when her long-lost Druid family tracks Emily down and offers her haven, she balks at the “Must Save Earth” clause. As fate in the guise of crappy luck reveals her to her witchy stalker, Emily is forced to accept the Druids’ proposition despite its blatantly outrageous terms.
At their headquarters in Atlanta, Emily learns several shocking secrets. She was kidnapped by the mother who raised her on the run. Her real father and his Druid followers believe Emily is Earth’s only hope. And a dark, forgotten foe lurks beneath Humanity’s feet.
As these Reptilians engineer a plan to breach Earth’s unsuspecting borders, Emily desperately seeks to unleash the powers the Druids swear she possesses. Can a sexy druid priest, his teenage nephew, and their animal Elders tilt the odds in Emily’s favor?
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Author Bio:
O.J. Barré hails from the lushly forested, red-clay hills near Atlanta, Georgia. From birth, O.J. was a force of nature. Barefoot and freckled, headstrong and gifted; she was, and is, sensitive to a fault. Books became her refuge as a young child, allowing O.J. to escape the confines of her turbulent alcoholic home on adventures to untold places and times. Her daddy’s mother was a Willoughby, making O.J. a direct descendant of William the Conqueror. Her Awen series is a love letter to that distant past.
Many of O.J.’s favorite novels are those with animal characters. In the early 2000s, Terry Brooks’ Magic Kingdom for Sale/Sold leapt off the racks of her local Barnes & Noble and into her hands, changing O.J.’s life forever. With its quirky dog-scribe Abernathy and the other talking animal and earth characters, this series became one of O.J.’s favorites. Brooks’ juxtaposition of a fantastical world within our day-to-day one directly influenced the creation of the Awen trilogy. O.J.’s love of meditation, natural healing, nature, and cinema can also be found in the pages of her novels.