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Welcome to The Wormhole and my day on the tour.
It is my pleasure to feature Amber Polo and
The Shapeshifters' Library: Retrieved.
Guest post from Amber Polo:
Mysteries in our Backyard
We all love mysteries. Being a writer allows me to
solve mysteries. Being a fantasy writer allows me to make up solutions to
mysteries.
The ancient world has always fascinated me. I was
told Egypt and Greece held our oldest history and Columbus “discovered”
America.
All the mystery lay in exotic countries far away
from anything our pristine new country held.
Later I learned about Machu Picchu and the studied
the pyramids of South America and ancient cultures of the East.
Exotic romantic and distant, I wanted to know all
about them.
When I heard stories of Atlantis, a mysterious
continent, I believed, if found, it would certainly hold all the answers.
I grew up in Wisconsin and was told there were
“burial mounds” scattered around. I lived in Ohio and heard little of its many mounds.
Curious, I studied “alternative” history, the history my textbooks ignored.
I discovered Cahokia, near St. Louis, whose Monks
Mound boasted a ten-story earthwork with a base larger than that of the Great
Pyramid.
Moving the southwest I saw there was more than Mesa
Verde and a few pueblo style housing built into the sides of mountains. There
were signs everywhere. When visitors talk of coming to the West to see the
Grand Canyon, I tell them that the Canyon is a natural wonder, but if I had a
choice I’d visit Chaco Canyon and wonder at the mysteries of its civilization.
In Book 2 of The
Shapeshifters’ Library I created a fictional mound in southern Ohio similar
to real ones and invented a shifter fantasy history to explain its origins. In
Book 3 I’ll explore more of my fantasy world and explain connections to
Wisconsin’s Effigy Mounds and Illinois’ Cahokia. And lead my characters west
to, where else, Chaco Canyon.
If I can’t know the answers, at least I can make
them up.
About the Author:
A love of books drew Amber Polo into a career
as a librarian. A greater love turned her into a writer. The Shapeshifters’ Library series
is an urban fantasy filled with books, librarians and dogs and a library
everyone will love.
The Shapeshifters' Library: Retrived by Amber Polo
Blurb:
Dog-shifters once again face the
book-burning werewolves of Shipsfeather in this charming second installment of
The Shapeshifters’ Library series.
Godiva Anglesey, Chocolate Labrador, and the ruggedly handsome English Mastiff Cynerik are forced to team up against power-hungry werewolves when Cynerik discovers an ancient Ohio mound that may hold answers to their shifter history. Knowing the mound’s secrets could benefit the dog-shifters in the ongoing contest for power, ambitious werewolf pack Alpha Sybilla challenges timid Godiva to a battle for the territory. Already faced with a malicious book-worm infestation and a censorship threat to ban all anthropomorphic books in her library, Godiva, who has no interest in battling anyone, must turn from running her small town library to train for a challenge she believes she has no chance of winning. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, Godiva’s mother announces that family tradition dictates that Godiva must be married by Summer Solstice… to a Druid. Godiva doesn’t even know any Druids.
Godiva wants to run her library, retrieve books for library patrons, and keep people happy. She’s no hero. She doesn’t have what it takes to face down werewolves or save the world. Cynerik, however, believes differently. Together they must defeat the werewolves, save the town and its library, protect the most important archeological discovery in dog-shifter history… and, just maybe, find love along the way.
Godiva Anglesey, Chocolate Labrador, and the ruggedly handsome English Mastiff Cynerik are forced to team up against power-hungry werewolves when Cynerik discovers an ancient Ohio mound that may hold answers to their shifter history. Knowing the mound’s secrets could benefit the dog-shifters in the ongoing contest for power, ambitious werewolf pack Alpha Sybilla challenges timid Godiva to a battle for the territory. Already faced with a malicious book-worm infestation and a censorship threat to ban all anthropomorphic books in her library, Godiva, who has no interest in battling anyone, must turn from running her small town library to train for a challenge she believes she has no chance of winning. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, Godiva’s mother announces that family tradition dictates that Godiva must be married by Summer Solstice… to a Druid. Godiva doesn’t even know any Druids.
Godiva wants to run her library, retrieve books for library patrons, and keep people happy. She’s no hero. She doesn’t have what it takes to face down werewolves or save the world. Cynerik, however, believes differently. Together they must defeat the werewolves, save the town and its library, protect the most important archeological discovery in dog-shifter history… and, just maybe, find love along the way.
Where to find Amber:
Buy Links for Retrieved, Book
two:
Buy Links for Released, Book
One:
***Review to post this afternoon ~ stop back and check it out***
Giveaway:
A Shapeshifter Public Library canvas book bag.
A print copy of "Retrieved," dog biscuits, and a tuft of genuine wolf
fur. This giveaway tour wide and is open
only to US/Canada residents.
