The Eighth: Intro to The Alt-World Chronicles

By Sunshine Somerville

“I’m going to die tonight.”

Esme, the Order’s current alterni, wields magic she barely understands. This is not her world. These are not her people. Whenever she closes her eyes, she relives battles with a thousand malevolenci demons. And tonight, she knows this could be the end.

King Owen Lord is responsible for summoning Esme to this nightmare. It’s up to him to keep her alive. But deep down, he fears Esme is in over her head. They all are. The Order is losing this war, no matter how many cavali soldiers Owen leads against the demons.

When a malevolenci rift opens right on top of a treasured historic site, it triggers the worst battle of Owen and Esme’s partnership. Can Esme close the rift and stop the demons’ invasion? Or will Owen lose yet another alterni friend?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sunshine Somerville
• Release date: May 2, 2019
• ISBN: 9780463085448

Sunshine Somerville

Sunshine Somerville is a Science Fantasy author who loves blending genres. She has a degree in English Literature and self-published her first book at the ripe old age of nine. Originally from the beachy side of Michigan, she now lives in the Detroit area with her husband, two fur babies, and one human daughter.THE KOTA SERIES is a Science Fantasy epic based on youthful obsessions with X-Men, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia, Dark Angel, and A Wrinkle in Time.THE ALT-WORLD CHRONICLES is an Urban Fantasy series inspired by weird recurring dreams, a brainstorming session in the shower, and one ridiculously hot summer lived in Kansas City.A FAIRLY FAIRY TALE is Sunshine's first Middle Grade Fantasy book. She got the idea from her family's crest, which portrays a dragon shooting flames from both ends, and from a niece whose second favorite word is farts.See more at www.SunshineSomerville.com

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The Kota

The Ebonite and Her Earthling

Pharmakon

Zenith Prophecies

The Kota Series Companion Stories

The Woman of the Void

The Poet Heroic

The Alt-World Chronicles

The Eighth: Intro to The Alt-World Chronicles

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Malevolenci

Origini

A Fairly Fairy Tale

Hi, I’m Esme and I’m going to die tonight.

The guy hitting on me at the bar immediately regretted it. His gaze moved from my face and did a quick assessment of the rest of me, trying to decide if my hotness outweighed my crazy. He seemed to think my faded jeans and tank top, long dyed-blond hair, and thin frame (due to a recent diet of energy drinks and pure anxiety) tipped the hot/crazy scale in my favor. With a casual lean of his muscular arms on the stool beside me, he offered a humoring chuckle. 

If he tries a line about how beautiful my purple eyes are,