This week's what if comes to us from CD Coffelt...
If given the chance to do magic, what would it be?
No gift is “all good”. So what would be the bad, unintended consequences of wielding that magic?
Mage Revealed
Book
Two of The Magic Withheld series
Struck with enough malevolent Spirit to turn him into a
raving beast of a man, Bert Reese fights to remain human. Alone, he walks a
slender path between sanity and madness. Then, an unlikely source enters his
life to help—one of the now-hated mages.
But Ashleigh is different and calms his butchered senses. Her
fierce nature is the only rock that stands between him and the crevasse that is
beast. In all ways, she walks beside him toward a new beginning. But at the end
of their journey lies the one who used Spirit against him. Questions arise; did
Tiarra, head of the Imperium, lose her magic, die, or simply give way to the
new order? Or, like a spider, does she wait for a mage to blunder into her web?
Forced on him without a care for his humanity, Bert is the
mage who should not exist, born with a different kind of magic.
And the gates of Hell are no match for the magic he wields.
Author C.D. Coffelt’s world of magic started in Wilder Mage with the words “The earthquake wasn't his fault. Not this
time.” It continues in Mage Revealed,
the second book of the three-part series. Watch the book trailer on YouTube.
Excerpt
from Mage Revealed
Energy slithered
around him, encased him and…
Bonded.
All the elements
slammed into him at once filling him like a bursting dam, sloshing into a
maelstrom of Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Spirit. Magic filled him, cascaded
into every pore of his skin until there was nothing left that was of his
essence.
He raised his
arms. “I am a wizard,” he said.
His words echoed,
like the roll of a bass drum in an empty coliseum.
From his
fingertips, fluid lightning forked and shot into the empty sky. A violent
whirlwind as tall as he wanted it to be caught up a whorl of leaves. A roar of
Fire sprang from the palms of his hands, crowned his head. And Spirit, the
silvery element waited for his command, to charge into any foray he so chose.
He turned to the
panting woman, frozen in the grip of panic and fright.
“I am a wizard,”
he said again.
C.D. Coffelt
lives outside Skidmore, Missouri with a bemused husband and way too many cats.
She is a member of the Missouri Writers Guild. But despite that bit of
conventionality, she adores all things fantasy with a special love for urban
and epic.
With a passion for good
writing and Doritos as companions, locating Middle-Earth on a dusty road in
rural Missouri wasn’t difficult. All it took was a little Magic, hours of
reading, and an overactive imagination.
She blogs as Huntress on www.spiritcalled.blogspot.com, Facebook, Twitter, and her writer’s critique
site, www.unicornbell.blogspot.com.
Find her books at Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble.
Seems like an interesting book for those that like that line of a story. I think if I was to do magic, I would do magic to get everyone to love each other.
ReplyDeletebetty
Okay I'll play 'what if': What if filling everyone with love left no room for any other emotions? If love was all, what about anger, ambition, regret. How can we judge what love is without seeing the opposite?
Delete(i do 'love' what ifs, *grin*)
Congrats to CD!!! I just read Wilder Mage - and it's a great book! I'm looking forward to Mage Revealed!
ReplyDeleteMe too.
DeleteBecause your entry won in Tara Tyler's Shelfies Blog Hop, Mage Revealed is winging its way to you right now!
DeleteEnjoy.
Sounds like a great book indeed. What would I do with magic? Put everybody to sleep for sometimes, so we do away with the complaining, the panic, the traffic. :)
ReplyDeleteOooh, that would be good.
Delete"What if" a fire broke out in a building where they were sleeping? What if they couldn't wake up due to the magic? How would the mage feel after learning he/she was the cause of many deaths?
DeleteCongratulations to CD. Mage Revealed sound an intriguing read!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Looking forward to writing the third and last in the series.
DeleteOoh, love that excerpt! Congratulations to CD!!
ReplyDeleteIt is a good one.
DeleteBert took over the storyline. He was the "Bob" character in Wilder, the one who helps with revealing the backstory. A prop, if you like. But he wasn't going for staying in the background.
DeleteAnd just because I talk (and answer) my characters, I. Am. Not. Crazy.
Hmmm.... I think if I were given the chance to do magic, I'd use it to clean my house!!! Sounds like a great book.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good one. I'd like a bit of that magic myself.
DeleteWhat if using magic to clean your house caused jealousy. What if people discovered your talent and pulled you away from your family "for your own good" so they could use you to 'clean' other areas. LIke waste dumps, (er, actually that's my house), oil spills, enemy tanks?
DeleteWhat if they used you for their own purposes?
Yeah, I'd like to be like Mrs. Weasely, with that clock and utensils that cook for you.
ReplyDeleteIf I were given a chance to do magic I think I'd have to go with the magical house cleaning too. We pulled everything out from the under the stairs storage and I'm completely overwhelmed!
ReplyDeleteIf I could do magic I would make Justin Bieber and the Khardassians disappear. The negative side to this?....um......thinking......nothing really:)
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