Things That Should Stay Buried by Casey L. Bond
Title: Things That Should Stay Buried
Author: Casey L. Bond
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy/Mythology
Editor: Stacy Sanford/ The Girl with the Red Pen
Cover & Trailer Designer: Melissa Stevens/ The Illustrated Author Design Services
Publication Date: August 28th, 2020
August 28, 2020
Thirteen is now twelve.
Awakened from a deep slumber that had lasted for thousands of eons, filled with
anger at the one who had caused it. Ready to take back the Earth, and its
people, they once ruled. The immortals are too powerful on which to wage war.
Life as we knew it, gone forever, but humankind will not go peacefully into the
night. Something happened during those long years the immortals
slept; humans were no longer so easily controlled.
Aries once believed that he and
the others were destroying the Earth with their cruelty to their people and
their thirst for greater power. He had meant for all of them to sleep, for all
eternity. Now he must face not only the wrath of the other immortals but find a
way to rule in peace alongside them, on Earth. Earth now divided into twelve
portions, each immortal ruled over those born under their zodiac sign,
separated from family and friends, humans were lost in this new kind of world.
Larken’s life had had a rough
beginning born two weeks after her fraternal twin, being too frail to support
life outside her mother’s womb so soon. It was Kestrel who was sick,
pampered and mean. He grew to hate his sister; she could see it in his eyes but
never understood why. Even so, she loved him, looked after him. Something
changed when he was 10 years old. He died, suddenly and just as suddenly
returned to life but, different.
The ending of high school is
supposed to be a happy time, a new beginning but for Larken it was a bad time.
She was to go to the prom with her boyfriend, but he dumped her a few short
weeks before prom night to date a freer spirit. On a track run just days before
prom night she fell and injured her ankle. Her brother Kes comes to her aid, as
he has since he was ten, and heals her broken bone. That night Kes
warns that he has seen a sign, a harbinger, that change is coming to their
world. He promises to protect her, for he fears the danger that is
coming. But from what or whom?
The immortals are rising, they
have been awakened. They will divide the Earth into the twelve portions and the
humans with it, those born under the signs of the Zodiac will be taken to live
under the rule of their immortal Zodia. Kes born under the sign of
Aries, will be separated from Larken who was born under Taurus, but Kes fears
if Larken is sent to Taurus he will exact revenge so, extracts a grudging
promise from Aries to take her into his realm and protect her with his life.
Kes has seen something in Larken.
She had kept the secret of his return to life, he had shared with her all those
years ago. There was something unique about her, there was a strength of
purpose that made him believe she would be the one to bring the immortals and
humans together, but first she will have to prevent Taurus and other immortals
from killing her. Aries found that same strength in Larken, a caring gentleness
for life that drew him to her. When Taurus realized that Aries was growing to
love Larken, not only did it enrage him, he feared the power that love of a
human might bring Aries. War was now inevitable, but it would first begin with
the immortals fighting each other.
Casey L. Bond offers us a
different look into the night sky when she brings the zodiac stars to Earth and
turns our world upside down. There is the good, the bad and the ugly. The
benevolence of the gods, clouds over as they realize humankind will not easily
bend to their will. There are some who believe change must come for all, but
with the power afforded the immortals, sitting down to the table to talk out the
problems isn’t going to happen. The gods and goddesses have a long history of
falling in love with humans and Casey intertwines a love story not only between
an immortal and a human but sibling and parental love as well. But grab a
tissue this battle won’t go down without some heartbreaking losses.
