Blog Tour: Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway Joanna Chambers – The Dream Alchemist ( Somnus 1)

Today we have author Joanna Chambers stopping by Love Bytes with her blog tour of The Dream Alchemist
her new release.
She shares with us an exclusive excerpt to this new novel and there is also a giveaway to participate in

Welcome Joanna!

 

“The Dream Alchemist” by Joanna Chambers

Publisher:               Samhain

Release Date:        December 2, 2014

Blurb:

When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares.  Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely exhausted, strung out on too much caffeine and too little sleep. Sleep means descent into Somnus—an alternate reality constructed of the combined dreaming consciousness of ordinary humans. A place he’d rather avoid. Trouble is, his powers don’t include the ability to go without sleep indefinitely. At some point his eyes close…and his nightmare begins. As a teen, the treatment that cured Laszlo Grimm’s sleep disorder stole his dreams—and his ability to feel emotion. Petrified of needing more “treatment”, he clings to familiar rituals and habits. But lately his nightly terror has returned, and when he meets Bryn in the real world, the man seems hauntingly familiar. Not only that, Bryn awakens feelings in Laszlo for the first time in years… Slowly Bryn and Laszlo realize they are both unknowing pawns in a plan of unspeakable evil. And that their powerful attraction could release the destinies locked within them—or be the instrument of their doom.

Purchase Links:    

Samhain Publishing

Amazon

Amazon.UK

The contrast between the lush green woods behind Bryn and the scrubby dust fields before him couldn’t be starker. As stark as life and death. And in the midst of all that dusty death, in the far distance, right in the middle of that vast field of nothing, was the thing that made Bryn’s gut twist with dread. The thing he shifted a little closer to every time he was pulled here.

A tower. An ancient-looking tower, one that didn’t so much stand as stoop, like an old man leaning on a stick.

The warped structure was surrounded by a swarm of Cyhyraeth, or Shades—spectres from nightmares—that gloved it in a grey, cobwebby miasma.

Just then, a sudden noise drew Bryn’s attention away from the tower. Footsteps, heavy and uneven. He turned his head sharply to see the drone he’d spied the last time he was here, but much closer now, perhaps just twenty yards away. He was coming round the bend in the tree line—patrolling his creation.

Like any drone, he walked clumsily. Unlike dreamwalkers, drones were unable to fully control their sleeping forms and were largely unresponsive to their surroundings. So, although this drone was close, he was unaware of Bryn and likely to remain so. Whilst there were a few drones who could engage with dreamwalkers to a limited extent, most couldn’t see beyond the end of their own noses. Their sleeping vision was limited and myopic. Even if this drone was one of the more able ones, one who could see a dreamwalker, maybe even communicate, he would be slow and uncoordinated compared to Bryn.

Confident in that certain knowledge, Bryn made no attempt to move away from the drone, but merely stood and watched as he trudged closer. It was, after all, no hardship to do so. Despite his zombielike gait and unfocused gaze, the drone was a gorgeous human being. Not movie-star handsome, but compelling and powerful looking. Tall, broad- shouldered, lean hipped. Black hair and pale gold skin. A hard edge to his features and a slightly aggressive thrust to his jaw. A tiny frown that drew his well-shaped brows together. Bryn tilted his head and wondered what it would feel like to press his fingertips into that little knot of worried flesh and smooth it out. Kiss the annoyance off that handsome face. Find out if there might be humour there, a smile to be coaxed.

Chances were the drone would be straight, of course, but a man could dream, and where better to dream than Somnus, after all?

Bryn sighed.

And in that moment, something impossible happened.

The drone’s head snapped up. He looked at Bryn, and his eyes widened. They were startlingly blue and sharp. Aware. Entirely undrone-like.

He was seeing Bryn.

The drone was awake, as awake as any dreamwalker.

 

 

Joanna Chambers always wanted to write but she didn’t find her muse until she rediscovered her love of romance novels after the birth of her first child. These days, Joanna lives in the UK with her family and finds time to write by eschewing sleep and popular culture. You can find Joanna at her website, www.joannachambers.com, friend her on Facebook, follow her on Twitter @ChambersJoanna and connect with her on Goodreads

 

Website: http://joannachambers.com/

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3080608.Joanna_Chambers

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/joanna.chambers.58?fref=ts

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/ChambersJoanna

 

 

 

There is a giveaway that will be available throughout all blog tour stops.  The prize is an ebook copy of “The Dream Alchemist” and a $25 Giftcard to your book retailer of choice.

 

Leave a comment on each of the blog tour stops! A winner will be chosen at random among all commenters.

TOUR DATES:

Monday, Dec 1:

The Blogger Girls

The Kimi-Chan Experience

Tuesday, Dec 2:

Prism Book Alliance

Love Bytes

Wednesday, Dec 3:

Boys in our Books

Hearts on Fire

Thursday, Dec 4:

The Novel Approach

MM Good Book Reviews

Friday, Dec 5:

The Jeep Diva

Monday, Dec 8:

Joyfully Jay

 

Read Dan’s review HERE!