About the Book:
Title: TRIAL OF THREE (Power of
Five #3)
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub. Date: September 26, 2018
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 192
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Four cords
of power. Three trials. Two soul-crushing secrets.
For Lera, training has never been so hard. With the males’ power roaring in her
veins and River’s cold demand that she master the magic before the third trial,
something has to give. Worse still, River is keeping something from her.
Something about his past and Lunos’s future.
For River and Coal, the past must stay buried. Though one male’s nightmare sits
on a throne and the other’s hides in his soul, they are equally unprepared for
Lera’s startling determination to undress the truth.
But when Mors’s Emperor Jawrar makes a play for Lunos, neither Lera’s fledgling
magic nor the males’ old wounds can remain untouched—not if their world is to
survive.
TRIAL OF THREE is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel, third in the
Amazon bestselling, KU-All Star POWER OF FIVE series.
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Shade
“Throwing
apples?” Shade says, picking up the fallen fruit and holding it out toward me.
When I
reach for it, he pulls the apple up and out of my reach, a corner of his mouth
lifting. “Much better,” he murmurs. “I’d forgotten just how short you really—”
My toes
push me up of their own accord, my head tipping back to meet Shade’s lowering
mouth. Large, soft lips cover mine as muscled arms brush my shoulders, my arms,
my—
I squeak
as Shade tosses the apple into Sprite’s stall and grips my hips. Lifting me
easily, the male brings my face even with his and deepens the kiss. With no
ground beneath my feet, I wrap my legs around Shade’s hard waist, feeling his
low growl all the way through my core.
The smell
of earth fresh from rain fills me, soothing the jagged, stinging wounds in my
heart. Mate. Shade’s wolf is my mate, and the two of us . . . My body folds
perfectly into his, alive and fulfilled in a way that only the shifter can
offer.
Coal
This isn’t
what I came here for. Isn’t something I should like. Isn’t right.
“I will
count to three.” Coal swallows, his arms now trembling with the effort of
holding rock-still above me. “And by the time I’m done, you are going to be out
of this room. If you are not . . . then I imagine you will be a great deal more
sore in the morning. Because I am a breath away from showing you exactly what
happens when my control falters. And we both know that is not what you want.”
Stars.
What do I want? I can’t think. Can barely breathe. I should get out of this
room, run as fast as I can. Never look back. My body pulses, the throbbing in
my chest sliding lower with each dizzying breath. My thighs quiver. My body
defying my mind, as I defy Coal’s words.
“One,”
Coal says.
I draw a
breath, my gaze skittering across him. Large and powerful and dark. Raw.
“In case
you’ve not worked it out, my room is warded to contain sound. No one will hear
your screams.” Coal’s words are cold and hard.
My sex
aches. My mind searches for escape. I brace my hands on the bed—the path to the
door is wide open to me. Not for long, but for now.
Coal
follows my gaze, nodding approvingly. Yes, his flashing eyes tell me. Yes, go.
Leave. RUN. “Two.”
Tye
I wrap my
hands around my shoulders, snuggling into Tye’s pine-and-citrus scent. “I don’t
know why it feels so different from Shade,” I confess before catching myself.
Between coupling with Shade and now with Coal, I’m not sure where I stand with
Tye.
“Of course
it feels different.” Tye snorts. “You’d likely feel uncomfortable walking into
the supper hall naked, though that little seems a problem at other times, aye?”
My cheeks
flush and Tye chuckles softly, running a knuckle down my cheek in a way that
sends a blaze of heat down to my toes. Maybe he does want me. Between all the
teasing and lack of follow-up, the confusion is starting to eat at me. Ask. I
should just ask. I make my voice light despite my suddenly pounding heart. “If
you are maneuvering to drag me into a bedchamber for the sake of testing
Autumn’s theory, you should just confess now.”
The male
stiffens, the sudden hurt flashing in his face almost too quick to catch. “I
never confess to anything, lass,” he says with a wink. “It’s safer for me that
way.”
I catch
Tye’s arm before he can pull away, the humor leaving my voice. “What did I
say?”
“Nothing.”
“Tye.” I
pause, an unwelcome feeling now burning in the pit of my stomach. “Do you . . .
do you not want me that way?” I ask quietly.
He pulls
his arm back, his hands going into his pockets. His usually sparkling green
eyes are opaque, the angles of his beautiful face carefully expressionless. “If
by that way you mean as a curiosity or a training aid or a bloody toy, then no,
lass. I don’t.”
My breath
catches. I open my mouth to protest, but Tye shakes his head. For a split
second I see a whole new male behind the forever-amused mask, a whole life and
past that I know nothing about. For a split second, Tye seems all of his five
centuries old.
Leaning
forward, he brushes a soft kiss over my lips. “We’ll know when it’s time,
lass,” he whispers into my ear. “And it isn’t just yet.” The mask of mischief
is back on his face before I can respond, and he pokes my newly healed ribs.
“Let’s get back to the suite. Autumn was cleaning when I left, and if there is
a greater sign of trouble than that, I’ve yet to learn it.”
River
“While I am
offering confessions,” River says, his gray eyes flashing, focusing on mine
with thunderous intensity. “There is one other lie that I feel the need to
correct.” Without waiting for a response, River lowers his mouth to mine, his
fresh scent drifting around my body in a caress. As one warm palm moves to cup
the back of my head, his tongue opens my lips.
I gasp as
River claims my mouth, pressing into me so thoroughly that I feel the pounding
of his heart echo through my flesh. His tongue dances and twists against mine,
marking its territory with a visceral need that leaves no room for doubt of
what he wants. Of how much he wants it.
My heart
jumps. I press back against River’s kiss, the pressure of his lips waking my
body, pulling a moan from me before I can stop it. River growls against my
mouth, the hand on the back of my head tangling in my hair until I can no more
escape his kiss than I can give up breathing.
And stars,
I do not want to escape it. Not with my thighs tingling, an ache starting low
in my belly. When River pulls away, leaving my lips swollen and empty, my
breath hitches from the loss. “What was”—I struggle to remember the start of
this conversation—“what was the other lie?”
“When I
asked to couple with you,” River says quietly. “I said I wanted you for
prudence’s sake. That wasn’t true.” He leans down, biting my lip and groaning
softly at my gasp of arousal. His hardness presses into me. “I want you because
I want you. And I want to prove it.”
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About Book
2:
Title: MISTAKE OF MAGIC (Power Of Five
#2)
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub. Date: June 29, 2018
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 193
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Three
trials stand between Lera and exile. Unless the training kills her first.
Quint magic has never chosen a human before, and the Elders Council is
convinced Lera is a mistake.
When the quint refuses to be cleaved apart, the enraged elders give them a
choice: exile from Lunos or demotion to the lowest of trainees. Subject again
to the humiliations and deadly trials they endured centuries ago, the males now
face a new challenge—training Lera to survive.
River, Shade, Coal, and Tye will do whatever it takes to keep Lera safe. But
Lera will do whatever she must to keep them together—even if it means putting
herself in mortal danger.
About Book
1:
Title: POWER OF FIVE
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub. Date: May 4, 2018
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 312
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Four elite
fae warriors. One mortal female. A magical bond they can’t allow—or
resist.
Orphaned and sold to a harsh master, Lera’s life is about mucking stalls,
avoiding her master’s advances, and steering clear of the mystical forest
separating the mortal and fae worlds. Only fools venture into the immortal
realms, and only dark rumors come out... Until four powerful fae warriors appear
at Lera’s barn.
River, Coal, Tye, and Shade have waited a decade for their new fifth to be
chosen, the wounds from their quint brother’s loss still raw. But the magic has
played a cruel trick, bonding the four immortal warriors to... a female. A mortal
female.
Distractingly beautiful and dangerously frail, Lera can only be one thing—a
mistake. Yet as the males bring Lera back to the fae lands to sever the bond,
they discover that she holds more power over their souls than is safe for
anyone... especially for Lera herself.
Power of Five is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel.
About Alex:
Alex Lidell is the
Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin,
2013). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey player, and an ice-cream
addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in elementary school, where a
thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA in Alex’s hands.
In addition to becoming the first English book Alex read for fun, ALANNA started
Alex’s life long love for YA fantasy books. Alex is represented by Leigh
Feldman of Leigh Feldman Literary. She lives in Washington, DC.
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