Shadow of Wrath (Sins of the 7, Book #1)
Author: L.W. Patricks
Genre: YA Dystopian
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Description:
If survival meant murdering an innocent person in cold blood every week, could you do it? Are you able to stick the knife into your opponent's heart while they look at you with fear in their eyes? Life in the Arena turns everyone into sinners.
A homeless boy is kidnapped from the streets and finds himself imprisoned in a far more horrifying place: The Arena, a place where teenage boys fight to the death for the pleasure of various lowlifes.
The Arena is the brainchild of Ryker, an ex-convict addicted to alcohol, gladiatorial-esque combats, and money. When not devising new ways for boys to kill each other, he’s ruling his small empire with a ruthless fist, rewarding his guards with sex slaves and punishing those who oppose him with barbaric executions.
Renamed Dog, the boy from the street proves to be an excellent fighter and finds himself surviving week after week, but as he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, the ghosts of slain boys haunt him and the violence threatens to wake a beast inside him.
Allegra, a slave girl in the Arena and a victim of Ryker's constant abuse, is his only key to salvation. She has lost everything already -- her family, her innocence, and her dignity -- while her will to live hangs on by a thin thread. Can she save Dog's humanity before she too succumbs to the horrors of the Arena?
Seeking to defy Ryker as Dog rises to power as his champion, the stage is set for something to give in this murderous world of young combatants.
A tale about survival, tragedy, and human perseverance, the Complete SHADOW OF WRATH is the first book in the Sins of the 7 series.
Crush’s wounds were easier to manage and he would survive. Stink was a different story. His fever was running at high temperatures and they were having trouble bringing it down. The infection had casted the long shadow of death over him.
“He can’t fight tomorrow,” Maria said. “Look at him.”
It was true. Stink was dehydrated and sweating profusely from the fever. He looked half awake and half in a dream.
“What do we do?” Maria asked. “He will die if we send him out like this.”
Allegra looked at Stink who stared back at her with glossy eyes. He spoke, but not to her; ghosts perhaps.
“Wait for me,” Stink whispered. “I’m still here.”
Allegra found herself crying and she wiped away the tears streaming down her cheeks. She ran her hand through Stink’s thin black hair, oily from the sweat, as he continued to look through her and into a world of fevered dreams.
“Don’t leave me behind again,” he said. “I’m sorry. I’ll be good. Just don’t leave me.”
“What do we do?” Maria asked again.
Allegra shook her head and clenched the wet cloth in her hand tightly. She felt the anger boil inside her. She wanted to save Stink from the fights tomorrow, but the truth of the matter was there was nothing she could do. Stink was too weak to fight and she was too weak to protect him from Ryker’s bloodlust.
“This boy was dead the moment he was kidnapped and brought here,” Allegra said with a heavy heart. “We keep him alive and whether or not he survives the fight is up to God.”
“What kind of God allows this to happen?” Maria spat. Allegra had no answer for her.
His short fiction works has been published by Crow Toes Quarterly Magazine, Fiction and Verse literary magazine, and upcoming Denizens of the Dark. He enjoys writing contemporary fantasy with an emphasis on creating urban mythology for his stories.
Though he calls Toronto his home, L.W. Patricks has a passion for exploration and has travelled all over the world including Germany, Netherlands, Italy, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, United Kingdom, Thailand, Hong Kong, Cambodia just to name a few. His diverse experience amongst other cultures provides inspiration for his stories.
He currently lives in Toronto with his wife where he enjoys the scorching summer days and the icy winter nights while masquerading as a Word Samurai. He claims to be the offspring of a typewriting chimp and a literary ninja.
You can visit him at his website at www.lwpatricks.com
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