E.J. Dawson both credits and blames her mother—by reading The Lord of the Rings aloud to E.J. twice—for her complete absorption with the world of fiction. Growing up in a haunted mansion sandwiched between an abandoned mine and an endless pine plantation should have been all the fuel E.J.’s imagination needed, but her parents filled her life with stories: about themselves, their lives, and the ones they had found through the pages of books.
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Writing all through her early years and completing her first book at sixteen years old, E.J. let a wonderful pastime fall into a vague hobby. When she turned thirty, and doctors told E.J. she might not be able to have children, she had to find meaning in life again. Her sole focus turned to the one thing that made her happy: writing.
When E.J. is not writing or working in a small country town on council permits, she’s walking her two rescue special needs dogs, spending time with her husband, or curled up with a book. E.J. has several books currently out in The Last Prophecy series. You can connect with her at www.ejdawson.com and twitter@ejdawsonauthor.
Echo of the Evercry
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The cost of magic has never been clearer.
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Larissa’s inability to kill is a disgrace to her absent mother, Sword Matriarch of the Fair Lady's order, a sisterhood whose purpose is to hunt down sorcerers corrupted by the Evercry and slay them. But Larissa hides an even more sinful secret: she is drawn toward magic, and it grows stronger in her every day.
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Larissa keeps a stranglehold on her gift until the day of her graduation test, when her misuse of magic leads her to failure. Prepared to be cast out of the sisterhood, she is instead brought into the scorned caste of the darkkins, those who study and wield magic in the fight against the Evercry. In their halls she discovers that her proclivity for magic makes her powerful, and a little dangerous.
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Gone for years, her mother suddenly sends word that she needs help to defeat a formidable sorcerer, help only Larissa can give. Larissa will do anything to save her mother, even travel with the girl who bullied her all through school. But as they battle monsters and mercenaries, Larissa must grapple with dark truths about the sisterhood and her heritage, and decide who she can really trust with her mother’s fate…and her own.
Behind the Veil
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Can she keep the secrets of her past to rescue a girl tormented by a ghost?
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In 1920s Los Angeles, Letitia Hawking reads the veil between life and death. A scrying bowl allows her to experience the final moments of the deceased. She brings closure to grief-stricken war widows and mourning families.
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For Letitia, it is a penance. She knows no such peace.
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For Alasdair Driscoll, it may be the only way to save his niece, Finola, from her growing night terrors. But when Letitia sees a shadowy figure attached to the household, it rouses old fears of her unspeakable past in England.
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When a man comes to her about his missing daughter, the third girl to go missing in as many months, Letitia can’t help him when she can’t see who’s taken them.
As a darkness haunts Letitia’s vision, she may not be given a choice in helping the determined Mr Driscoll, or stop herself falling in love with him. But to do so risks a part of herself she locked away, and to release it may cost Letitia her sanity and her heart.
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