About THE DARKNESS OF THE DAY: Book Two of the Spirit Guild Series by Janeen O’Kerry:
Available for $0.99 through July 8.
This novel is Book Two in the first-contact adventure SF series THE SPIRIT GUILD.
Two former U.S. Army Rangers have been forced out of the military for the crime of witnessing – and surviving – a vicious alien attack. With little left to lose, Rik and Vik go in search of a mysterious group said to deal with mythical, paranormal, and otherwise unnatural creatures such as the ones that killed their fellow soldiers.
Rik and Vik find the woman called Thea living in a well-equipped castle in Ireland, along with some highly specialized companions: a brilliant scientist, a man with grafted wings, a huge immortal Scotsman, and a merrow who can speak and sometimes walk on land.
They are the Spirit Guild and are accustomed to dealing with troubled ghosts and mythical beings. But now, as an unknown spaceship approaches Earth from the far side of the sun, all kinds of dangerous creatures both natural and unnatural seem to be waking up and looking in the direction of that spaceship.
To meet this threat, Rik, Vik, and the Spirit Guild will have to find common ground and learn to work together to save not only themselves but the Earth itself.
Books One through Three of this series are available now. Look for the final volume, The Center of All Things, later in 2024.
Note: No part of this work was generated using artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind. There is some battlefield violence and a few frightening scenes involving alien creatures and vengeful spirits.
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Author Bio:
Like many who end up being writers, I’ve worked at many different jobs: riding instructor, horse trainer, computer programmer, and medical transcriptionist.
I began my writing career in the early 1980s with articles for several national and regional horse magazines. My friend Hazel wanted to break into writing novels, so together we wrote three: A *Star Trek* novel; a steamy romance; and, finally a sweet romance called *April’s Christmas.*
April got us started when Avalon published that book in 1994. After that I sold my own first novel, the historical romance *Lady of Fire,* to Dorchester Publishing in 1995. That was the start of the eleven-volume *Celtic Journeys* series, each of which is a romance set in ancient Ireland and tells a complete story.
Today I am a full-time novelist, ghostwriter, and copy editor, and I never use artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind when creating my books. I can often be found doing workshops and panels at writers’ events and conventions.