Publisher:
Tate Publishing and Enterprises, LLC
Reading
Level: Adult
Genre:
Spiritual Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance
Content
Rating: PG
Available
Formats: releasing in paperback and ebook
Purchase
Links: coming soon
Cultural Assessment: Street Wraith Press (featuring original cover)
Book
Themes: dreams, curses, family, adoption, faith, fear,
love, death, wealth, intimacy, war, struggle, race, diversity, angels, demons,
good vs. bad, purpose, and hope.
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Book blurb provided by author
“You have plenty of time to change your mind. You
have not yet seen the monster I can be.”
-- Giovanni
Giovanni
has been waiting his whole life to meet someone like Mira, someone from the
outside world who might be able to help him. He wonders if there really is help
for him as he continues to hold tightly onto dark secrets and even darker
memories. Giovanni wants to be hopeful and he wants to accept Mira’s help, but
first he has to look himself in the mirror and face what he truly is- and that
is a reality no one is quite ready accept.
Searching
for new purpose and meaning in her life, Mira meets Giovanni online and an
exciting and, in some ways, scary friendship is developed. Mira decides one day
to meet Giovanni in person, at his secluded country home, in order to aid him
on his journey of self-discovery. What these two are able to discover will not
only test their strength and will, but it will stretch the limits of their
minds and catapult them into a world where earth, Heaven, and Hell collide.
Eternal
Curse: Giovanni’s Angel is the story of a man who may just be the answer to a
spiritual war swiftly heading his way- but for now, he just wants to be a man.
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Excerpt from Chapter 3: Expectations
It had
been one of those rare nights when Giovanni was tired enough to attempt
sleeping through the night. The night ended commonly enough with him being
tormented with twisted dreams instead. His sleep
never quite seemed to offer him the rest he sought, and, apparently, his body
didn’t need the rest very much, as he’d grown used to going days without
sleeping.
Like many
nights before, his body had become drenched in sweat as he lay beneath his
sheets. While he tossed and turned in his bed, he became entangled in the
fabric as it began to cling and stick to his body. As he dreamed of war,
Giovanni could feel the warmth of a slow burning fire growing all around him.
The intensity of the battle in his mind was so great that heat began to radiate
from his body as though he were actually in the line of fire and apart of the
battle.
In his
mind, Giovanni could see a battlefield suspended in the highest high of the
sky, engulfed in clouds, with mountains of flattened bodies stacked all around.
A smoky dust began to fill the air in the forefront of this nightmare, where
there stood a victorious warrior standing tall over his defeated foe. The
warrior’s body seemed to emit a golden glowing light as angelic pristine white
wings rose up, soaring from behind him. He was truly the epitomized image of
purity, majesty, and strength. The warrior angel clutched a sword in one hand
with diamond clusters for a blade and deeply dark onyx for the handle. In his
other hand, he toted a shield of shimmering gold and silver.
Giovanni
stretched out his neck and squinted his eyes, but he could not make out the
face of the angelic warrior. As the victor knelt down and placed his hand over
the head of his foe, Giovanni could see that he was looking down at the slain
face of a youth; a golden boy, curled up like a wheel with his head pressed
into his feet. His body was covered with a thousand crying eyes that now
remained forever shut behind their resting lids.
There
seemed to be a black smoke-like spirit fading away, almost seeping, from the
corpse as it disintegrated into ash. Giovanni was nearby struggling to break
free, as forces of anger and hatred held him down. He could not see this enemy,
this dark force that was digging its claws into his flesh, causing blood to
trickle painfully from his body. Giovanni so wanted to break away from his
adversary and fight the good fight face to face, but he couldn’t.
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