This morning, in our book spotlight, we are featuring the Y'Keta, the first book in Sandra Hurst's epic fantasy series, The Sky Road Trilogy. Check out Y'Keta, meet the author and enter for a chance to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card in the book tour giveaway at the end of this post!
Y'keta
The
Sky Road Trilogy Book 1
by
Sandra Hurst
Genre:
Epic Fantasy
Banished.
Cast out. Powerless. Y’keta is exiled to the small village of
Esquialt as his father's punishment for his rebellious spirit.
Village tradition gives him one Cycle, from spring to spring, to earn
the right to stay.
The
villagers have a legend about mighty beings called the Waki'tani,
mythical lords of the wind and lightning who can shapeshift into
human form. Y'keta knows the truth behind these stories. Could there
be more to them than just tales shared around the campfire?
If
Y'keta reveals what he knows to the villagers, it will tear their
history and traditions apart...but sharing his secrets may be their
only hope for survival when Esquialt is threatened by the brutal,
ferociously destructive Utlaak.
Loosely
based on the Thunderbird of North American legend, Y'keta is an epic
fantasy set in an ancient world where legends walk and the Sky Road
offers a way to the stars.
Hi,
my name is Sandra Hurst, the author of the Sky Road fantasy
series.
As a child growing up in England stories and legends
surrounded me, I learned how important imagination was. When I was 8,
we moved to northern Canada and the legends changed. Stories of the
Fae and the little people were replaced by legends of the Thunderbird
and stories of the woodlands. I never stood a chance. What could I be
but a writer?
Growing
up in Northern Alberta gave me a great love and respect for the wild
lands and indigenous cultures which made its way into the worlds I
create. A
mythmaker at heart, I started writing poetry in middle school and
graduated to epic fantasy.
Myths
give us a way to interpret the world past our normal experience. To
ask questions and explore answers in a larger-than-life game of ‘what
if.’ We need to make room for myths and mythmakers in our fact
driven world. To give space for worlds that are brighter and clearer
than our own. For it is in doing so, that we have room to become more
fully human.
My
first book, Y’keta,
is loosely based on the
Thunderbird of North American legend, Y'keta is a Young Adult, high
fantasy set in an ancient world where legends walk and the Sky Road
offers a way to the stars.
I
now live in Calgary, Alberta with my husband and son, both of whom I
love dearly, and have put for sale on e-bay when their behaviour
demanded it. My day to day life is a balance between my outside life
as a paralegal counsellor and my inner life as an author/poet. In
between, I work on courses to improve my writing, learning the Cree
Language, book reviews and blogging on my website, and studying
mythologies from around the world.
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the tour HERE!
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