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The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One (Free Download 8/6-8/7)

by Jess Lourey

Aug 1, 2012

Hello! I'm an English teacher at a two-year college in Minnesota. I am also a book lover: a feel-like-you’re-losing-a-friend-when-you-turn-to-the-last-page-of-an-amazing-book, usually have more books on your to-be-read pile than items on your grocery list, know that the book will always be better than the movie (except, possibly, with the exception of Princess Bride) LOVE books book lover. I'm also a successful mystery writer, but somewhere in the midst of writing mysteries and reading every book that crossed my path, I had this thought: what if I could actually enter a book? I mean honest-to-goodness cross swords with Porthos, or go diving with Captain Nemo, or play ball with Scout and Jem, or build a raft with Huck Finn? WHAT IF?!? From that question grew the first in my new young adult series, called The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One, and it'll be a free download on Kindle next week Monday and Tuesday ([link removed]).

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Acclaimed mystery auth...See MoreHello! I'm an English teacher at a two-year college in Minnesota. I am also a book lover: a feel-like-you’re-losing-a-friend-when-you-turn-to-the-last-page-of-an-amazing-book, usually have more books on your to-be-read pile than items on your grocery list, know that the book will always be better than the movie (except, possibly, with the exception of Princess Bride) LOVE books book lover. I'm also a successful mystery writer, but somewhere in the midst of writing mysteries and reading every book that crossed my path, I had this thought: what if I could actually enter a book? I mean honest-to-goodness cross swords with Porthos, or go diving with Captain Nemo, or play ball with Scout and Jem, or build a raft with Huck Finn? WHAT IF?!? From that question grew the first in my new young adult series, called The Toadhouse Trilogy: Book One, and it'll be a free download on Kindle next week Monday and Tuesday ([link removed]).

Here’s a description:

Acclaimed mystery author Jess Lourey takes her writing in an exciting new direction with THE TOADHOUSE TRILOGY, Book One, an indie YA novel that hits bookshelves with a bang on August 1, 2012.

In the first installment of this trilogy, Aine (pronounced "Aw-nee") believes herself to be a regular teenager in 1930s Alabama, but when a blue-eyed monster named Biblos attacks, she discovers that the reclusive woman raising her isn't really her grandmother, that fairies are real, and that she's been living inside a book for the past five years. With her blind brother, Spenser, she flees the pages of the novel she's called home, one terrifying step ahead of Biblos' black magic. Her only chance at survival lies in beating him to the three objects that he desires more than life.

As they undertake their strange and dangerous odyssey in a race against time, Aine is forced to choose between a family she doesn’t remember and her growing attraction to a mysterious young man named Gilgamesh. Only by entering stories will they learn the truth of their heritage and restore the balance of the worlds...if they can stay alive.

With dangerous adventures into Wells’ THE TIME MACHINE, Stevenson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE, Dickens’ A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and the Indian saga THE RAMAYANA, this series aims to do for classic literature what the PERCY JACKSON series did for Greek mythology. In the words of Anthony and Agatha Award winning author Chris Grabenstein, “Lourey's wonderful way with words will whisk readers away to an amazing new world!”

You can find an excerpt here: [link removed].

Thank you for your time!

Jess Lourey

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