Blog Tour Stop including Excerpt, Author Interview & Giveaway – Anchored in Stone by Meraki P. Lhyne

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Author Name: Meraki P. Lyhne

Book Name: Anchored In Stone

Series: Chronicles of an Earned

Book: One

Release Date: November 1st, 2015

Blurb:

The easiest heist in Alex Rhoden’s career is also the most dangerous of all.

As a child, Alex Rhoden’s talent as a thief was recognized by a rich art collector. He has since then been schooled and trained to become one of the best art thieves in the world. While on the easiest heist of his career he finds himself running with the artefact in his possession, followed by an unknown adversary. But they are not the only ones interested in the artefact—so is an ancient race of demigods called Earned. Cornered and out of options, Alex has to make a difficult decision that will turn his life upside down no matter what he chooses.

The young demigod, Kaleb, is reborn into servitude, but he is a freak amongst his own kind—the forbidden unity between an Earned and a witch. Other than finding himself, learning to control his powers, and balance high school as a senior, Kaleb must earn the trust of his pack and family. But Alex is in danger and the young demigod struggles to keep up.

Pages or Words: 373 pages, 106,985 words

Categories: Contemporary, Erotica, M/M Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy

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Excerpt:

Alex made his way down the corridors, watching out for the guard. This one he found leafing through a magazine with his feet up and his back turned to the staircase. Alex stopped, breathed in deeply, and let it out slowly, reminding himself that a fat guard’s dumb luck was what caught his cat burglar mentor. No matter how carefully one builds a card house, a gust of wind can bring it all down.

So Alex took his time and focused all his expertise on getting past this guard as if he were from the agency itself. Finally in the basement, he made his way to the crate, pushed it open, and sought out the stone first. He found it and put it in a bag, which he in turn put in his thigh pocket, before stuffing another bag with whatever his pricey education had told him was worth the most on the black market.

Happy with his find, he turned, but something seemed to have a hold on the pocket with the stone in. He turned and found himself face to face with a big, mean-looking ghost. He gasped and clasped his left hand over his mouth to catch the scream he couldn’t stop, and clutched the stone with his right.

And then he ran. He didn’t even care if the guard saw him. He made it past the guard, who was nowhere in sight, and exited through the service entrance.

Alex didn’t stop until his body threatened to vomit out his heart. He stopped and by sheer exhaustion, his body chose to empty his stomach anyway. He took the stone out and stared at it. It felt almost as if fine electricity danced between it and where it touched his skin.

“What the hell did you have me steal, Mr. Henry?”

 

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Author Interview:


purple-question-mark-clip-art-yTkeBkkLcToday I’m very lucky to be interviewing Meraki P. Lyhne author of Anchored in Stone.

Hi Meraki, thank you for agreeing to this interview. Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and your current book.

Trivial stuff, sure. I’m a Danish woman at 36. I’m a mom, a wife, a coffeeholic. I’m a black smith by trade, but I switched out the hammer and anvil for a keyboard to make the constant run of a character stop. It didn’t work out as well as planned because that just made room for more. When I moved into MM I made up this Pseudonym. That’s what the P. stands for. I’ve been published in Denmark and a publisher there once told me that readers can relate two genres pr. Author name. MM is so far from what I’ve written so far, so I made up Meraki to write MM.

Q:  Describe your book to us.

A:  Oddly enough this has always been the most difficult part. The blurb just doesn’t cut it. Other than being an existential journey for the characters, it’s also a playground that allows for hints to esoteric teachings through the centuries. Though a character driven plot, theories of theological aspects, legends, myths, mythologies, ancient religions, and history are juggled to not teach, but awaken curiosity to the grey zones of the world and times long forgotten or twisted by the ones not initiated to the keys to understand it. But by no means does it have a boring text book kind of feel to it. But to describe the book, then the sub text needs to be described as well.

Q:  Have you ever read something that made you think differently about your genre? Can you tell us what it was?

A:  Paranormal is a new genre to read (tv and movies were my only feed up until a year ago). MM outside fan fic is also new (a year ago, since the genre is non-existing in Denmark). I ended up in the MM genre as a challenge to evolve as an author. What other aspects, as described in the first, was not something I thought could be incorporated into the genre.

One of the first MM paranormals I read was THIRDS by Charlie Cochet, and she certainly showed a diversity as she crossed paranormal with a sci fi subgenre (alternate history), but she also opened my eyes to shifters. Adding MM to an action filled paranormal/sci fi and balancing it so it wasn’t just sex to make the genre, but necessary for character development was an eye opener that stripped some misconceptions about a genre I didn’t really know anything about before I took the challenge of writing MM.

Q:  Tell us about your character’s family life?

A:  Alex doesn’t have family. He was bought for the value of a coin he had stolen from Pritchard, and his dad gambled the ancient coin away in a poker game. All he has is Pritchard and Mr. Henry.

Kaleb on the other hand has a huge family! Over 50 brothers and a pack of about twenty men. His older brother hates or fears him because he’s a half-breed, but his dad loves him and fights hard to make him feel accepted. They have quite a bit to work out.

Q:  Compare yourself to your main character.

A:  Alex and I have almost nothing in common, except that we’re both geeks who really like textbooks. We like delving into a subject and extract everything there is to know. We don’t even have the same taste in men.

Q:  Describe your past week as a type of landscape or a weather forecast.

A:  As a landscape it would be flat, lush, and close to the ocean. Flat because there aren’t a lot of surprises, lush because my life is flourishing, and close to the ocean because so much undiscovered (stories) lie on the horizon.

Q:  Give us a to-do list for one of your characters.

A:  Kaleb:

  • Remember to do the laundry (Thursday)
  • Don’t spontaneously combust around mortals
  • Do your homework

 

Meet the author:

Meraki P. Lyhne is a Danish author with a love for the paranormal and space opera. She has been writing space opera since 2007, but paranormal erotic romance is a newer love. Closing the door to her writing-den, she delves into elaborate stories and research ancient religions, mythologies, and arts of the world to be inspired, so she can create new creatures of the paranormal.

Where to find the author:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007309787353

Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/Meraki-P-Lyhne-1550012798597078/

Twitter: @MerakiPLyhne

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/merakiplyhne/

Other: https://merakisworld.wordpress.com/

 

 

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14588017.Meraki_P_Lyhne

Publisher: Extasy Books

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Cover Artist: Carmen Waters

 

 

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Tour Dates & Stops:

11-Jan: The Hat Party, MM Good Book Reviews, Fangirl Moments and My Two Cents

18-Jan: Wicked Faerie’s Tales and Reviews, Molly Lolly, Happily Ever Chapter

25-Jan: Elisa – My Reviews and Ramblings, Wake Up Your Wild Side, Love Bytes

1-Feb: Book Lovers 4Ever, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

8-Feb: A.M. Leibowitz, Cheekypee Reads and Reviews, BFD Book Blog

15-Feb: Boys on the Brink Reviews, Inked Rainbow Reads, Alpha Book Club

22-Feb: Prism Book Alliance, Divine Magazine, Bayou Book Junkie

29-Feb: Multitasking Mommas, Velvet Panic, Havan Fellows

 

Final

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One Response to Blog Tour Stop including Excerpt, Author Interview & Giveaway – Anchored in Stone by Meraki P. Lhyne

  1. H.B. says:

    Congrats on the new release! Thank you for the interview =)