Gethyon - A YA Science Fiction Novel
His father died. His mother abandoned him. In the depths of space, darkness seeks him.
Abandoned by his
mother after his father’s death, Gethyon Rees feels at odds with his world and
longs to travel the stars. But discovering he has the power to do so leaves him
scarred for life. Worse, it alerts the Siah-dhu—a dark entity that seeks his
kind for their special abilities—to his existence, and sets a bounty hunter on
his trail.
When those same alien powers lead Gethyon to commit a terrible act, they also aid his escape. Marooned on the sea-world of Ulto Marinos, Gethyon and his twin sister must work off their debt to the Seagrafter captain who rescued them while Gethyon puzzles over their transportation. How has he done this? And what more is he capable of?
Before he can learn any answers, the Wardens arrive to arrest him for his crime. Can his powers save him now? And where will he end up next?
Excerpt
A cold wind blasted his back and Gethyon turned his head, glancing over his left shoulder. Darkness seethed into the tunnel behind, a billowing, writhing mass of shadow tinged with sullen red and lurid purple in his heightened vision.
He couldn’t move. His feet seemed pinned to the floor, his muscles locked into rigid immobility. The Siah-dhu howled at him, their voice leeching all will and all power from him. Despite the sparks of power within him, the darkness writhed through his gut, gnawing with jagged teeth as it twisted though his mind. It was hunger magnified a thousand times, as if the vacuum of space had opened up inside him. He fell to his knees.
Gethyon. Not quite a voice, not quite any sound he had ever heard, the Siah-dhu called his name. The roiling mass drew closer. A chill gale blasted over him and snatched all the breath and warmth from him, sucking the life out of him.
“No.” The single word snatched him back from the edge. He hadn’t come so far or lost so much to surrender. As the Siah-dhu pulsed toward him intent on his consumption, he forced himself up again and turned his back on the shadows. It was the hardest thing he had ever done, to resist that pull into oblivion. The edges of the black cloud twined around him, incorporeal fingers striving to grasp him, seething forward to swallow him…
The world disappeared.
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About Pippa Jay
A stay-at-home mum of three who spent twelve
years working as an Analytical Chemist in a Metals and Minerals laboratory,
Pippa Jay bases her stories on a lifetime addiction to science-fiction books
and films. Somewhere along the line a touch of romance crept into her work and
refused to leave. Between torturing her characters, she spends the odd free
moments trying to learn guitar, indulging in freestyle street dance and
drinking high-caffeine coffee. Although happily settled in historical Colchester
in the UK with her husband of 20 years, she continues to roam the rest of the
Universe in her head. Her works have won a SFR Galaxy Award, and finaled in the
Readers Favorite Award Contest and the Gulf Coast RWA Chapter Silken Sands
Self-Published Star Award.
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Thanks for hosting me, Diane!
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure, Pippa. I love your cover and the excerpt sounds like a very interesting story.
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