Lumina by Paddy Tyrrell

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Five Things We Might Not Know About Paddy Tyrrell

While most parents like to show off their children’s graduation photos, my mother hid mine in the bottom of a drawer! It was taken in the late 60’s and my dress was so skimpy and the skirt so short that the weight of the graduation gown threatened to lift it up to a cheeky level. So I had to hold the gown down with one hand while clamping the other hand on the mortarboard to stop it slipping off my long hair. A couple of years ago my husband found the photo and now has it as his avatar!

I attended the premiere of the Rocky Horror Show which was held at midnight at the Royal Court Theatre in London and loved it but when I recommended it to an American colleague he and his wife were thoroughly shocked by the experience. The following year it premiered in Los Angeles but it took a good few years to achieve the cult status that the film version has now.

My dad was in a tank regiment in Europe towards the end of World War 2 and responsible for signals. I have the original radio text he received announcing that a representative of the German High Command had signed the unconditional surrender of all German land, sea and air forces in Europe. It’s an emotional read even today – it must have been overwhelming for the soldiers at that time.

I was checking out of a hotel in Cairo in the early hours of the morning when the building rocked and the chandeliers above me swayed. By the time I realized it wasn’t a hangover but an earthquake the danger was over but half the management team were in the foyer in their pajamas.

I’m writing this on International Women’s Day and it made me remember that when I started work I wasn’t paid as much as a man, couldn’t do the same jobs as a man and wasn’t allowed on the male career path. But later I became Vice-President of a world-wide hotel chain and when I retired was on the Board of a hotel technology company. How much life for women has changed but sadly we still have so far to go.

A generation designed by sorcery to destroy your people. Two races mired in conflict. Can a pair of outcasts unite them against an enemy who would enslave them all?

The birth of ‘bronzite’ babies in Lumina heralds the onset of war. The people take fright at the golden children and banish them from the land. A dangerous move. King Zheldar, commander of the black dragon, is attacking Luman borders. If he wins bronzite support for his army of monsters, Lumina is lost.

Davron Berates cannot share his people’s hatred of the children and, on discovering he has a bronzite brother, sets out to find him. At his side travels Chrystala. A bronzite, she has twice his strength and three times his determination.

When the black dragon kidnaps Chrystala, Davron is faced with a terrible choice: save his friend or save his nation.

Read an Excerpt

She ducked her head to protect herself – in the nick of time. Black clouds erupted from the dragonrock, awakened by their arrival. A host of vampire bats swooped in a blur upon the convoy, webbed fingers acting as wings. In their thousands, they streamed towards the Kuhlans. Courtiers and servants alike screamed in terror and ran for cover. The bats swarmed after them. They landed on heads and shoulders and hair, and clung with their claws. They spread their wings across the faces of their prey and blocked every orifice in a suffocating grip. The victims thrashed and struggled and gasped for breath. When their strength failed they collapsed onto the sand. With tiny teeth, sharp as spear points, the bats tore at Kuhlan skin and lapped up Kuhlan blood until they were satiated.

Salazai jumped down from Argentia and crouched against her flank, searching frantically for shelter. Bodies were strewn over the sand, and carts turned on their sides, dragged over by the horses in their panic to escape.

So that was how it would end. She would die here in the desert, her blood sucked dry. She shielded her face with her hands and peeked through her fingers, unable to stop herself from watching the slaughter. Lord Cantrek stood alone amidst the destruction and, arms outstretched, he chanted words of magic, his voice pounding the sands in time to the beat of her heart. Transfixed, she watched a twisting funnel of wind appear in answer to his call, sucking up sand and dust as it whirled over the desert.

About the Author

I was raised in Kent, the garden of England, and lived in an Oast House whose round rooms were once used for drying hops. Must be why I’ve enjoyed a drink ever since!

At university, I fell in love with medieval French writing, discovered The Gormenghast Trilogy, and became hooked on fantasy.

I have sailed down the Yangste, survived an earthquake in Cairo, and picnicked in the Serengeti. My travels for work and pleasure have inspired my fantasy world. I now live in France with a naughty Australian Labradoodle, a jealous cat and a squash mad husband. Our two huskies, Ice and Sapphire, are sadly now gone but are transformed into wolves and immortalised in my book. Lumina is my debut novel and the first in a trilogy.

The book is $0.99 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/LUMINA-Dragonlite-Legacy-Paddy-Tyrrell-ebook/dp/B0827TDXQM
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