The Virus of Beauty Series
by C.B. Lyall
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GENRE: YA Fantasy
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BLURB:
The
Virus of Beauty – Book 1
Ugliness is power, and
the Virus of Beauty is spreading causing panic throughout the witch population.
Wilf Gilvary is a teenage
wizard who is terrified of using magic. When his father dies under mysterious
circumstances, the same day the Mages Crystal shatters, Wilf is plunged into
the middle of a political struggle between the witches and wizards in the
Magical Realm. He’d rather play soccer than practice magic, but he’s forced to
make a choice between the life of a normal Hong Kong teen and one of wizardry
after a powerful virus begins to decimate the witch community. The cure is
spellbound in a journal Wilf inherited from his father and when his friend
Katryna contracts the virus, Wilf understands that he must overcome his fear of
magic to unlock the journal’s secrets – but will it be too late to save her?
The Veil of Corruption
– The Virus of Beauty Book 2
Witches and magic are
taking over Wilf's life.
After being thrust into
a long-standing conflict between the witches and wizards that has destabilized
the Magical Realm and finding the antidote for the Virus of Beauty, Wilf would
like to return to his normal soccer playing teenage life. But he can’t rest
until his stepsister, Myra, is caught and brought to justice. It’s been three
days since Myra took to the skies above Hong Kong and disappeared. Now Wilf is
accused of corrupting the Veil, a defensive barrier between the witch and
wizard cities. As the spell expands throughout the magical realm it is
attacking witches and wizards. But Wilf would rather embrace his witch friend,
Katryna, than his wizard powers. When evil forces have other plans and they
kidnap Katryna, Wilf realizes that he’d do anything to save her and the Magical
Realm, even if it means risking his own life by connecting to the primary
source of all magic.
The Vassal of Magic –
The Virus of Beauty Book 3
Wilf Gilvary is a slave
to the magic he hates.
Yet his powers seem a
solution for saving the Magical Realm and Katryna, the girl he loves. If only
he could figure out how to tap his magic’s full potential.
As factions of witches
and wizards vie for control of the Magical Realm, Wilf embarks on a harrowing
journey that plunges him into the realm’s ancient secrets. At first, Wilf
begins to doubt everything. His affection for Katryna might be the remnants of
a broken love spell. And he still struggles to control his magic.
But Wilf risks his life
to learn more about his powers and his destiny. It leaves him facing an
impossible choice: forever abandon his dreams of life as a Normal in Hong Kong,
or allow magic and the Magical Realm to perish from the world.
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Excerpt One:
The Virus of Beauty – Book 1
“Wilf, is that you?” Reginald’s shout was followed by a
creaking sound from the basement stairs.
Wilf bolted for the front door. His shoes crunched on the
broken glass. He jerked open the door and the bell gave a traitorous jingle. He
shot out of the store and back into their living quarters. He barged into the
kitchen.
“What happened?” Myra asked, putting down the bread knife.
He threw himself onto a chair, poured cornflakes and milk into
a bowl, and shoveled a spoonful into his mouth.
“Wilf,” Myra said, taking on the adult tone she’d started
using two years ago, when she’d turned eighteen. “I take it you didn’t find
your card in the store.”
“It wasn’t me,” he mumbled through his mouthful of cereal.
“But I’ll be blamed. Tell him I was here, having breakfast.”
“Why am I covering for you again?” She folded her arms and
tried to look more imposing than her five-foot, two-inch height would allow.
Wilf’s spoon leaped from his hand and splashed into the bowl
with the first heavy footstep on the stairs. The faucet stopped dripping and
the clock held its next tick. The small kitchen in the Gilvarys’ Hong Kong
apartment held its breath.
The kitchen door flew open, and revealed his father, shaking
with rage. After a moment, Reginald thrust his hands into his pants pockets.
“You’ve shattered the Mages Crystal.” His lips formed a thin
line on his angular face. “It’s been in our family for generations.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Carolyn Lyall
was born in Stockton-On-Tees, United Kingdom. As a child Carolyn growing up in
Northern England in the sixties Carolyn loved sports, reading and amateur
dramatics. She joined a renaissance group, practiced the broadsword and dreamed
of visiting other worlds. Her
passion for
what could be drove her forward when faced with everyday struggles. Her first
memorable skirmish with gender inequality came at nine-years old when she was
told that only boys were allowed to play soccer. In response, she simply
refused to do any classwork until
they changed
their old-fashioned policies. She won that battle.
At the age of
18, she took a role as typist for a nursing school in Middlesbrough. She then
moved to London and enrolled in night school. She was quickly recognized for
her ability to fit in anywhere and for not being afraid to push back on the
predominantly male leadership. She
eventually
became a project manager in software development and micro-computers, bridging
the gap between computer programmers and management.
Her dream to
travel was finally realized in 1990 when she moved to New York City, USA with
her husband and the first of three sons. This was the steppingstone to a
lifelong adventure that has taken her and her family to India, Belgium and Hong
Kong.
Raising her
family in multiple countries around the world, she saw that each move, while a
shock, was an opportunity for her sons to redefine themselves against new
challenges and different cultural norms. Now, that her sons have left home,
Carolyn has used her passion for
the fantastic
to create a world where every day gender inequalities are at the forefront of a
world ending conflict. She shares this story through the eyes of a young man
who is suddenly thrust into this new world along with all of his own woes and
prejudices. The introduction to this world
is in Carolyn’s
debut YA fantasy novel, “The Virus of Beauty,” due to be released July 31, 2019
under C B Lyall.
Carolyn has
published two short stories in an annual anthology by 25 Servings of Soop. She
wrote a number of articles for the American Women’s Associates Magazine. Fueled
by her love of the works of Terry Pratchett, Sarah J Maas, Cassandra Clare,
Brandon Sanderson and
others, Carolyn
has completed a number of writing courses, which included a Master
Fantasy/Science Fiction writers course with Gotham Writers’ Workshop, a YA
Voice class and Advance Novel Writing course at Sarah Lawrence College’s
Writing Institute.
Website:
cblyall.com
Facebook:
@CarolynBLyall
Twitter:
@cblyall
Instagram:
@carolynlyall
Amazon buy
link:
Book 1:
https://www.amazon.com/Virus-Beauty-Book-1-ebook/dp/B08NF1L94T/ref=sr_1_1
Book 2:
https://www.amazon.com/Veil-Corruption-Virus-Beauty-Book-ebook/dp/B08LW57DXQ/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2QEJZOZM75KKV
Book 3:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09WZJ18R5?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_2&storeType=ebooks
Series Link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08NGNYQL3?ref_=dbs_p_mng_rwt_ser_shvlr&storeType=ebooks
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