FAIRY KEEPER, by Amy Bearce
Genre: middle-grade fantasy
Publisher: Curiosity
Quills Press
Date of Re-Release: March 5, 2015
Cover Artist: Amalia
Chitulescu
Description:
Forget
cute fairies in pretty dresses. In the world of Aluvia, most fairies are more
like irritable, moody insects.
Almost
everyone in the world of Aluvia views the fairy keeper mark as a gift, but not fourteen-year-old
Sierra. She hates being a fairy keeper, but the birthmark is right there on the
back of her neck. It shows everyone she was born with the natural ability to
communicate, attract, and even control the tiny fairies whose nectar is amazingly
powerful.
Fairy
nectar can heal people, but it is also a key ingredient in synthesizing Flight,
an illegal elixir that produces dreaminess, apathy and hallucinations. She’s
forced to care for a whole hive of the bee-like beasties by her Flight-dealing,
dark alchemist father.
Then
one day, Sierra discovers the fairies of her hatch are mysteriously dead. The
fairy queen is missing. Her father’s Flight operation is halted, and he plans
to make up for the lost income by trading her little sister to be an elixir
runner for another dark alchemist, a dangerous thug. Desperate to protect her
sister, Sierra convinces her father she can retrieve the lost queen and get his
operation up and running.
The
problem? Sierra’s queen wasn’t the only queen to disappear. They’re all gone,
every single one, and getting them back will be deadly dangerous.
Sierra
journeys with her best friend and her worst enemy — assigned by her father to
dog her every step — to find the missing queens. Along the way, they learn that
more than just her sister’s life is at stake if they fail.
There
are secrets in the Skyclad Mountains where the last wild fairies were seen. The
magic Sierra finds there has the power to transform their world, but only if
she can first embrace her calling as a fairy keeper.
Amy Bearce
was an Army kid who moved 8 times before she graduated high school.
The one
constant in her life was books-particularly fantasy and science fiction-and
that hasn’t changed. Despite all the moves, Amy married her high school
sweetheart. They met in their junior English class in an American school in
Germany in 1991. They have two wonderful daughters and are carefully teaching
them to love fantasy and science fiction, too.
A former
English and reading elementary and middle school teacher, Amy has recently
completed her Masters of Library Science and is excited about a career field
with kids, teens, books and technology.
Amy is a
homebody with a serious addiction to personality tests, which is not uncommon
for an INFP (Myers-Briggs) such as herself. According to the DISC personality
test, she is also a perfectionist, a title she hated. She immediately retook
the test, changing some answers. When the results came up as Perfectionist
again, she took it a third time, changing more answers to get a better
result…not even seeing the irony until later.
And yes,
the result still came back as “Perfectionist.”
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