I'm so happy to be spreading the word about my friend Devika Fernando's latest romance, Playing With Fire, book 1 in the 4 Elements of Love Series.
Blurb
If you’re playing with fire,
prepare to get burned – or to fall in love.
Sparks fly when Felicia and
Joshua meet. Discovering her inner fire and unleashing unimaginable powers
makes her realize that all her life, she has been hiding her true self. When
buildings burn and people are in danger, the tempting game of playing with fire
becomes serious. Will their love and desperate struggle for control save her
life, or will the fire magic turn itself against its mistress?
Excerpt
There was a wall of fire
blocking her exit.
She knew she could escape it
unharmed, but what about the child clinging to her, coughing and crying,
choking and trembling so hard her own body shook along with the movement?
She turned to the window,
biting her lip.
To jump or not to jump?
By now, the air was filled
with dense, coiling smoke and unrelenting heat melting the wallpaper. The
child’s screams had stopped, leaving behind a frightening silence, cloaking the
fire’s rage and for the first time making her afraid.
What happened next was a
blur, a succession of movement that seemed to involve somebody else and not
her.
Shielding the child, a
lifeless lump with its weight doubled, she faced the flames. All of a sudden,
she knew what to do.
Raising herself to her full
height and thinking of her dragon, she stared into the fire and whispered a
fierce command.
“Let me through.”
For a moment, there was no
reaction, and she bit her lip again, so hard that the salty, metallic taste of
blood mingled with the smoke. She squared her shoulders, exerted pressure to
radiate her own wild heat, drew a deep breath and shouted, “Let me through!”
The impossible happened.
The flames withdrew on
themselves ever so slightly, parting with obvious reluctance to create a small
opening in the curtain of fire. Within moments, she had hurled herself through
and along the passage, nearly tripping while navigating the half-burned-away
staircase. To her right and left, flames touched her arms and legs, but no
other wall of fire blocked her way. She shot out of the gaping, fire-filled
hole that had once been a solid, locked front door, like a bullet from the
mouth of a (more than) smoking gun.
Her legs carried her farther
and farther, and then no more.
Everything went blissfully
blank.
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Author Bio
Almost as soon as Devika Fernando could write, she
imagined stories and poems. After finishing her education in Germany and
returning to her roots in Sri Lanka, she got a chance to turn her passion into
her profession. Having lived in Germany and in Sri Lanka with her husband has made
her experience the best (and the worst) of two totally different worlds –
something that influences her writing. Her trademark is writing sweet, yet
deeply emotional romance stories where the characters actually fall in love
instead of merely falling in lust. What she loves most about being an author is
the chance to create new worlds and send her protagonists on a journey full of
ups and downs that will leave them changed. She draws inspiration from everyone
and everything in life. Besides being a romance novel author, she works as a
self-employed German web content writer, as a translator, and as a faithful
servant to all the cats, dogs, fish and birds in her home. When she’s not
writing, she’s reading or thinking about writing.
Author Links
https://twitter.com/Author_Devika
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7980006.Devika_Fernando
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