Real Magic Dusted With Life

– That’s what you’ll read when you visit Kade’s Facebook Author page. How’s that for a tempting lead-in?
I met Kade at the recent Metro Book Festival, a charming and friendly lady that writes supernatural fantasy novels. The Scribbler is most fortunate to have Kade as out guest this week. She has agreed to a 4Q Interview and to sharing a brief excerpt from one of her novels.
Kade Cook is a major fantasy fangirl. Her love of Twilight, The Mortal Instruments and A Court of Thorns and Roses inspired her to write her own fantasy book series, The Covenant of Shadows.
Book one, GREY, was a finalist for the 2017 Emerging Writer's Prize for Canada's best new books in Speculative Fiction.
Born and raised as a 'Maritimer' through and through, Kade will always be at home around good times and kind hearts, proud to be a daydreamer with a story to tell.
4Q: Your series is titled The Covenant of Shadows. Tell us about the series and what inspired it.
Her world is not only changing and becoming unstable, but she can’t even return to the life she knew before. She is now awakening to the real world around her, one filled with Magik, Supernaturals and maybe even a dash of romance.
It is a journey of discovery, of finding hope in the darkest hours, and of internal importance.
These books were inspired by the desire to find myself when life had decided to put a label on me that didn’t quite fit right.
4Q: Please tell us about your writing journey, when did it start and what do you love about it?

The entire writing process from start to finish is a journey that engages my entire existence and brings my soul to life with each and every word I am granted with. Though I had never seen myself as an Author, I can now happily say that I cannot imagine myself being anything but. No longer do I search for who I am, I’ve met me, within the pages of my books.
4Q: Please share a childhood memory or anecdote.
KC: I’ve never fit in as a child, not like everyone else. I’ve always danced to the beat of a different drum, once which sometimes had caused people to either truly love being around me or quite quickly shy away as I will admit to anyone, that I am weird.

Now I write stories that bring the darkness goodness, turning what I feared most into a place of peace and protection, aka Shadow Walker Guardians in my series.
4Q: Most creative people have a “special spot” where they perform their magic. Tell us about yours.

4Q: Anything else you’d like to add?
KC: I just want to say to all the readers out there who keep believing in us, and dreaming right along with us in our stories, Thank You!
An Excerpt from GREY
(Copyright is held by the author. Used with permission)
This is at the point Gabrian Shadwell, my main character is having some major issues with her new world and being introduced to some of the Elders of the Magical Realm she is now a part of. Let’s just say she isn’t exactly handling it well…
Now seated across from her unwelcomed guests,
Gabrian listens quietly as Rachael begins to introduce them one by one.
“Gabrian, I would like for you to meet Ariah,
Elder to the Fellowship of Vindere,” Rachael says, pointing toward the smaller
woman that holds resemblance to herself. “In common English, the Reincarnate
Fellowship. This is the fellowship that I belong to.”
Fellowship?
Belong to? Is she in some kind of cult or strange group that I was unaware of? Gabrian ponders, silently
deciding that she is going to make it a point to monitor her future employee’s
extracurricular activities a little more closely—not to mention screen her
choice in friends.
“You already know Orroryn, or Mr. Redmond, as we
call him.” As she continues, Gabrian notices that Rachael’s face flushes
slightly as she speaks of Mr. Redmond. “He is the Elder to the Fellowship of
Schaeduwe or the Shadows Fellowship better known as Shadow Walkers.”
Ah, what did
she just say? Shadow What? Gabrian’s legs begin to tremble as she feels the angst
building within. Her fingers have shifted from a warm tingling sensation to a
full-blown burn. She hears Rachael still talking in the background, but
Gabrian’s mind focuses on trying to decipher what a Shadow Walker might be. All
she catches is the word ‘Air’.
“Excuse me, I didn’t catch that last part.”
Gabrian giggles unwillingly. The comic book creations that her delusional best
friend is trying to feed to her are a bit distracting. “All I heard was something
about air.” Gabrian closes her eyes and presses firmly against the bridge of
her nose, reaching for reasoning while trying to sort through all the deranged
details piling up inside of her mind. She hungers for some type of
understanding of how any of this could make sense.
Vaeda interjects when it comes time for her
portion of the introductions in a sultry voice. “I am Vaeda, the Elder to the
Fellowship of Zephyr. We are the Air Fellowship as we are one with the wind.”
Not knowing what to say to that, Gabrian just
raises her eyebrows and nods her head slowly.
“Gabrian, we are friends of your parents,
Sarapheane and Jarrison. Ariah, Vaeda, and I have known them all our lives for
they too are people of the Realm from the Schaeduwe Fellowship like me. We have
existed in each other’s presence for eons, training in the ways of the
Schaeduwe. Our ancestors are descendants of the ancients and act as the
Guardians to the Covenant.”
Gabrian freezes, the small rapport she had built
with this man has now been obliterated by the words spewing out of his mouth. He seemed so normal. She shifts her view
to Rachael. She seemed so normal too.
She sits in a stupefied state, playing a tennis match with her eyes as she
looks back and forth between them all, completely at a loss. She becomes
brutally aware she is in a room surrounded by strangers who are absolutely,
undeniably off their rockers.
Gabrian chews on her bottom lip as she
contemplates how she ended up in this situation—youngest Valedictorian in her
graduating class to date, undisputable ability to detect those in need of help
in the reality department, and an obsessive need to be in control of all
aspects in her life to a fault. How was Rachael able to fly under the radar and
get close enough to her that she was able to put Gabrian in a situation this
deranged—and possibly psychopathically dangerous?
Unsure of what else to do, Gabrian slowly stands
up. Smiling her best I-need-to-get-me-the-Hell-out-of-here smile, she studies
her route of escape and hopes to make it to the door of her apartment before
any type of violent reaction breaks out with these people.
Rachael, having witnessed every altering
mood-swing since the time she met Gabrian, senses her escalating anxiety. She
takes note of how Gabrian’s new, permanent grey aura, swirls and whips itself
around her like a veil of protection and realizes what may come next—she is
going to try and make a break for it.
“She is going to run!” Rachael yells just as
Gabrian quickly darts toward the door.
Flying full speed across the room, she reaches for
the doorknob and fumbles with it but manages to open it. With the door wide
open, and the small glimpse of freedom in front of her, Gabrian bursts forward
and tries to run through the open frame. In the same instant, Vaeda speaks in
Zephyr tongue and curls her fingers gently inward.
“Claustra solidus,” she whispers, and Gabrian
slams into an invisible wall manifested by the will of Vaeda’s words, knocking
her backward onto the floor. Panicked and running on pure adrenaline, Gabrian
picks herself back up for another try at escape.
“Silozan Dvarah!” Vaeda continues and the door of
Gabrian’s apartment slams shut before she can reach it. As the door closes,
Orroryn instinctively reaches for the hem of the shadow beside him and pulls it
across his massive body. Almost instantaneously, he expels himself out of the
darkened contour of the entry leading to the door. He thrusts his hand outward
and twists the knob on the straight bolt before Gabrian can stand, halting her
exit plans.

If she can take out three people without even
trying, she can conjure up whatever is in her to slow down these crazies.
Thank you Kade, for being our special guest this week.
For you readers that want to discover more about Kade and her writing, please follow these links:
Join me on my journey as I attempt to pull you into my magical world filled with Vampires, Shadow Walkers and Mages...and maybe even a few ‘Monsters’ along the way. (KC)
Amazon links: https://www.amazon.com/Kade-Cook/e/B01M64VACI/
Wordpress: https://kadecookbooks.wordpress.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kade.cook/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CovOfShadows/
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/kade-cook
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/AuthorKadeCook/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/Kade_cook