I’ve got a secret to share! One I’ve been holding onto for about a year now. Today I get to spill the beans. I have a new book to do a cover reveal for! One that people who know me thought was long dead and buried. Confused? Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.

Back in 2013, my writing friend, Amy Miles and I were ready to release a book into the world that we co-authored. We had spent about a year or so, working on making this book work. Not easy to do when you live several states away. We were determined to do it though. We had an idea. She wrote fantasy then and I wrote romance. Could the two worlds collide? Could a human fall in love with a fantasy character? Why not? The story was born.

About a year later, we had everything set to release. Some of you probably remember reading about said book way back then. It was during a Facebook release party when we were approached by an agent. They wanted to represent our book, but only if we pulled it from release. Apparently, publishing houses don’t want to release a book that is already out. Go figure! So with three days before our release, Amy and I had some tough choices to make.

In the end, we opted to pull our release and give the agent a try. After all, we wanted to dream a little. Fast forward several years and even more re-writes, (7th times a charm?) we thought the book was dead in the water. We both left the agency and so the title reverted back to us.

Then, last year, we thought maybe we should give it one last go. I mean, we had a finished novel. It seemed silly to just let it sit there unpunished.

20170223_121911 — Hard at work? Or hardly working?

Remember when Amy came to Maine for a week to ‘visit me’ in February? We were working on Netherworld, though we didn’t want to reveal it just then. (This was before that ugly couch and coffee table were carried away screaming into the night.) That magical piece of paper Amy is holding was our outline. The sanity that kept two very different minds on track.)

Today, we are thrilled to show you the cover reveal of the new and improved: NETHERWORLD: The Hallowed Realms Book 1.

Blurb

Taryn

Flatline. The moment when one life ends and the next begins. That’s my cue. And I hate it. Being a banshee is a right pain in the arse. When I’m not ferrying manky old blokes or mental cat ladies through the veil between Earth and Netherworld, I’m training in secret for a war our King denies is coming. But I know better. An army of Lorcan monsters stands ready to breach the walls. If they succeed, the destruction they seek will not be contained to just our world, but to the human world beyond. My only hope is to rely on the aid of a cocky prince with his own agenda. But after a human man captures my interest, will I be able to accept the terms of the prince’s aid?

Devlin

Our paths were never meant to cross. I’m meant to live my human life, unaware of the world that exists beyond the veil. I know about death, sure. My own sister’s life hangs in the balance, holding my own happiness with it. But when Taryn and I collide, my world flips upside down. Nothing makes sense anymore. There are things I shouldn’t be able to see but now can’t escape from. Logic tells me to run as far as I can from Taryn and the horrors of her world but my heart screams at me to follow her to the literal ends of the earth. Even if it means my own damnation.

Links

(As of this posting, the only live pre-order link is on ibooks, but have patience. More platforms are on the way!)

Netherworld is releasing in October!

iBooks- http://bit.ly/NetherworldPreOrder

Amy and I are busting but to have these to the printer for our signing at Penned Con. If there are some left, I’ll bring some to Books in Vacationland. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until October to read our labor of love.

Once Netherworld is live, Amy and I will be hard at work writing Book 2. The last two books have already been outlined. Now we just need to write them. That’s the easy part! Haha

If you wanna find out more about Amy and what she writes, you can find out more about her here.

You can follow me on the blog or find me on social media to discover teasers and other fun things leading up to the release in October.

Until then, I’m Danielle Bannister, author, and cover reveal surpriser