Product DescriptionCaspia Chastain is gifted (or plagued, if you ask her) with the ability to draw the future, usually at the worst possible times. Her parents are four years dead; everyday she watches her brother Logan fight his cancer diagnosis. When an outsider named Ethan appears, determined to protect Caspia and her brother from dangers he won’t explain, she's not sure what to think. She’s seen him before: in a drawing of a frightening future, surrounded by brilliant light, dark wings, and intense violence. It's a future she can only hope won't come true. But when Caspia finds herself in the middle of a supernatural war, she has no choice but to turn to her self-appointed guardian for help. Together they uncover long buried secrets involving her hometown and bloodline. In a place where Dark doesn't equal evil and Light isn't always good, Caspia and Ethan face strange alliances and even stranger sacrifices to save those they love. What others are saying: "It's beautiful and descriptive. She has a gift for choosing the right words. If you enjoy paranormal romance, I would definitely recommend that you read Gifts of the Blood." - Stacey Wallace Benefiel, author of Glimpse and Glimmer "This book was filled with romance, mystery, adventure. Whatever you are looking for- it's in there and you're sure to be satisfied after finishing it." - Jamie from Sparkling Reviews "She can turn a phrase like nobody’s business, giving her descriptions a lilting, poetic quality that’s telling of her background as a multi-degree student of literature.Coupled with that, there are some touches of pure genius. The town of Whitfield equals Stars Hollow (from Gilmore Girls) meets Hogwarts. Sound cool? It is." - V.J. Chambers, author of Breathless,Trembling and Tortured About the author: Vicki Keire grew up in a 19th C haunted house in the Deep South full of books, abandoned coal chutes, and plenty of places to get into trouble with her siblings. She teaches writing and literature at a large, football-obsessed university while slipping paranormal fiction in between the pages of her textbooks. Please stop by her website, www.vickikeire.com, to learn more about upcoming releases, check out free downloads, and connect with her online. She loves hearing from readers. Includes a preview of Book II in the Gifted Blood Trilogy: Darkness in the Blood, now available from Amazon, and an excerpt from the award winning novel Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan.

Product DescriptionFor Five Days Only - "Shadowed Ground" will be FREE! If you like "Shadowed Ground" you might also like these other FREE books:"Worlds Burn Through" A dark world unfolds in this urban fantasy thriller by VickiKeire.*"Shadow of a Dead Star" opens your eyes to a future of depravity, vice andconflict by Michael Shean.*"The Seventh Seal" The End of Days in this taut urban fantasy by J. Thorn.*"Sundered", A Zombie-ish Apocalypse; A novella with true bite by Shannon Mayer* "Taken" Love, magic and betrayal. Not everyone survives. By Charlotte Abel."The Chronicles of Nowhere is written in the style of a fan dance. Teasing, but never quite revealing everything, you're always left craving more. Like some kind of addict, I'm now awaiting the next instalment with baited breath. Ms. Vicki Keire is, quite simply, brilliant. The world that she has built, and the characters she has populated it with, are so rich."* - Ginny Lurcock, Pure Textuality"Shadowed Ground is the second book in the Chronicles of Nowhere series. Chloe Burke is desperately trying to come to grips with being burned and pursued by emotional vampire-like creatures called the Abandoned. Her guardian, Eliot Gray reveals details of their past that have been wiped from her memories. However, he does not want to say too much; so, he hands Chloe the diary left to her by her aunt. Only Chloe can open it. As she reads through the diary secrets that are sometimes better left unveiled are revealed and she is devastated. However, if she is to survive she cannot wallow in pity. She must be trained to protect herself as she and Eliot travel to the one place they will be safe, Gray's Landing." - Marsha Grigsby, Goodreads reviewerOverview:Shadowed Ground continues the Chronicles of Nowhere novella series, picking up from the cliff hanger ending of its predecessor, Worlds Burn Through. As she wakes from a poisoned sleep with silver scars across her neck and back, her aunt's diary may provide the only clues about the creatures of fire that hunt her. Through it, she learns of her own awakening powers, as well as more about Annwyn, the world of her childhood, now burned to ash. As the world around them becomes increasingly hostile, Chloe and Eliot turn more and more towards each other. As the bonds of trust grow, they must be careful not to tread upon time-honored boundaries: those forbidding Guardians to act on feelings for their Wards. To do so would break the bond, and would leave Chloe unprotected as the pair makes their way to Gray's Landing, and safety."The characters are fleshed out, real, the dialog spare but right on, the scene-setting effortless. The story telling is so good you forget there's an author. I've read Urban Fantasy by well-known writers who could take a lesson from Vicki Keire." - Julia Rachel, Goodreads Reviewer about Worlds Burn ThroughParanormal action and romance fans alike will love Shadowed Ground, and should also check out:The first instalment of The Chronicles of Nowhere, Worlds Burn Through.For the first Vicki's bestselling Angel's Edge paranormal romance series, search for Gifts of the BloodThe Angel's Edge series continues with Darkness in the BloodAnd for more excellent paranormal fiction from Curiosity Quills Press, this time with a Prattchet-esque twist of the gloriously absurd, search for Nina Post's Last Condo Board of the Apocalypse.