Book Giveaway For Burden of the Soul

[close] Burden of the Soul is a young adult novel that explores the abstract, and sometimes dark, strands of spirituality woven through our histories in a modernized and approachable way. It combines the different aspects of a textured life – love, loss, humor, fear, risk – to map a story where one young woman finds that the greatest power and strength imaginable is found within herself.

Clara never asked to be special. She was perfectly happy e-stalking her crush’s blog, avoiding the attention of the Bronze Brigade clique at school, awaiting the next visit from her avant-garde Aunt Grace, and dreaming of a strange young man ... who feels too real to be only a dream. But then her world literally separates at the seams, as a blinding light rips her mother away right before her eyes. In one, inexplicable moment, Clara loses the life and family she had known and is thrown into a transcendental battle being fought between Fallen Souls and Guardians. The Guardians have protected her from the shadows while waiting for her to awaken and remember a promise she made in another world.

When Clara learns what is expected of her, and the price she must pay to restore order, she can only hope that the still dormant ancient soul that lives inside of her is truly fighting on the side of Good. Burden of the Soul grapples not only with the battle between Good and Evil, and Action and Complacency, but pits its unlikely heroine squarely against herself. Half of Clara is an ancient soul who made a promise to fight a war, the other half is an adolescent girl who never asked to be special.

"Urban Fantasy at it’s finest, Kate brings the world of the dead and old souls into New York City to play." -reviewer Alli Sanders [close]