The Mortal Paths Feature & Giveaway

Blog with Bite would like to extend a warm welcome to Dakota Banks the author of the hard hitting Mortal Path series (HarperCollins) and our week long feature.

 Dakota grew up in a converted turn-of-the-century funeral home (complete with blood gutters and a drain in the basement floor) and claims that it warped her mind and set her upon her macabre path.

 She lives on the western fringe of St. Louis, Missouri with her husband. She has two adopted sons that are both in college.You can find Ms. Banks online here: Web :: Blog :: Twitter :: Facebook

Ms. Banks has kindly offered up for the readers of Blog with Bite FIVE (5) copies of her books, Dark Time & Sacrifice. {details below}

Dark Time: Mortal Path Book 1

Susannah Layhem, a healer unjustly accused of witchcraft in the 17th century, is ripped from her husband's arms and thrown in jail. Abandoned by her husband and friends, she's tied to a stake and set afire. Her raging bitterness draws one of seven ancient Sumerian demons. The demon Rabishu pulls her from the flames, and she signs a contract to live forever—if she does his evil work. Susannah becomes the Black Ghost, an Ageless assassin gifted with otherworldly skills and superbly trained in martial arts.

She obeys Rabishu's orders and remains a beautiful young woman. Then she's given an assignment she can't bear to carry out. She chooses the mortal path instead, and emerges from three centuries of reluctant service as the demon's slave. Now Maliha Crayne, she discovers the fine print of her contract. If she balances lives taken with lives saved, she'll ascend to a paradise straight out of Sumerian legend. If she fails, she faces eternal torment at Rabishu's hands. The ticking clock? Every time she saves lives, she ages. The deck is stacked against her. She's got her own agenda, though. Payback time—killing Rabishu and his kin before he gets his punishing claws on her.

Intimately tangled with Maliha's yearning for personal redemption is her thrilling quest to stop a villain from selling America's security to the highest bidder. For both goals, she will need to relearn what it means to be mortal, to reach out in friendship, and to dare to believe she can love again.

DARK TIME is laced with ancient legends, a heady dash of the supernatural, and the warmth of awakening relationships.>> Read Chapter 1

Sacrifice: Mortal Path Book 2

A demon's enslaved executioner--a ravager of lives and souls--Maliha Crayne has been reborn, willing to sacrifice her immortality for a chance at freedom ... and salvation. Now she has an opportunity to prevent the death of thousands to help balance the countless lives she has obliterated over the centuries. To do so, she must locate and destroy an evil cabal of madmen in possession of a weapon of unspeakable power--and survive the immortal assassins who are now after her blood. But it means reverting to the old ways and surrendering once more to the darkness. >> Read First 50


For our readers: What would you sell your soul for? Money, Love, Revenge??? Or something all together different?

Contest Deets:

• Five (5) winners will receive a set of the Mortal Path series: Dark Time and Sacrifice 
• Commenting on this post will earn entry into this contest, but please answer the FOR OUR READERS question to be eligible. Not following directions will result in your comment not counting
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• Contest ends November 8th, 2010 11:59 CST

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