Magic Born (The Guardian Series, #2)
by Rayanne Haines
Publication date: June 6th, 2018
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Maria Del Voscova is a powerful witch with a past. When she’s asked to become a member of the elite Guardians she knows she can’t risk sharing the truth about her messed-up family. But we don’t always get what we want. Sometimes, we don’t always know what we want.
Though Mar absolutely knows she doesn’t want Neeren, King of the Parthen. She alone sees the darkness in him and it reminds her too much of the past. She knows better than to fall for his stoic, tortured soul façade.
She’s training to be a Guardian, a shadow; tasked with keeping the balance between good and evil in the world. It’s what she wants — to be better than her family was.
But the past has a way of catching up to Mar and the future has a morbid sense of humor. On her first mission, she’s kidnapped by the enemy she’s been running from her entire life. Thankfully the guardians look after their own. As it turns out, so does Neeren.
As Mar finds herself caught between the past and the future; between blood and bond; between the light and the dark, she realizes her only chance at surviving may be in trusting a man who is the most dangerous of them all.
1)
What gave
you the inspiration for the storyline?
Magic Born
is book two in my Guardian Series so it does feed off the first. I was inspired
by the chemistry I felt between these two characters in book one and knew they
needed their own book. I also wanted to play with mixing different magical
elements. My hero is a shifter and has control over the water element. My
heroine is a kick-ass human witch with no interest in becoming immortal.
2) Are there any hidden themes in the book that you hope
readers will discover?
I think ultimately, I’m hoping I’ve done a good enough
job that readers will walk away understanding that even though I’ve written
about shifters and other immortals, at the core of the book is the search for
our humanity.
3) Are any of the characters based on real people you
know?
Every character is based on bits of pieces of people I
know. I can’t say that one person fits one character. Although the bulldog in
the book is directly based on my own bulldog J
4) Who has influenced you most as a writer?
My mom – I know it’s corny but it’s her love of reading
and her strength as a woman that has most influenced almost everything I do.
5)
If you
could have any three literary characters over to your place for game night, who
would you invite, what would you play, what would you serve, and why?
Margaret
Atwood, J.R. Ward and J.K. Rowling, we’d play Clue, I’d serve Rum, Bengal Spice
Tea, Lasagna and cheesecake for desert. Because each woman has crafted my
favorite books of all time and I want to just be in their presence. Clue
because I want to learn more about how their brains work. And the meal because
you should always have non-alcohol options and cheesecake.
6) Do you feel that you can ever have too many books?
Never, ever, ever.
Author Bio:Rayanne Haines grew up on a small horse ranch in Alberta. She spent most of her youth re-enacting scenes from Anne of Green Gables to attentive audiences that included pygmy goats and roan stallions. The horses were thrilled. Her father could never figure out why it took her three hours to clean the barn.
Her mother is an avid reader and instilled a love of literature in her at a young age. She has always been fascinated with learning people’s stories.
She has a fondness for mountains and rivers and all the creatures that live within them.
She believes in magic and the search for great love. She loves to write about strong women who will accept nothing less.
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