NBtM Virtual Tour and Giveaway: The Starfolk Trilogy by Martha Dunlop

Welcome to my stop on the NBtM virtual tour for The Starfolk Trilogy by Martha Dunlop. This tour was organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. On my stop, I have an excerpt from the book as well as a great guest post from the author. There's also the tour wide giveaway for a chance to win a $25 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card. Be sure to visit the other stops on the tour for more content. Enjoy!

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Title: The Starfolk Arcana

Series: The Starfolk Trilogy #1

Author: Martha Dunlop

Publisher: TanLea Books

Publication Date: September 6th 2020

Print Length: 346 pages

Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance

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Destiny calls. Soulmates draw closer. One woman stands in the way.

Beth trusts her psychic senses. So when her birthday visit to a daytime TV talk show takes a weird turn, she knows something is wrong. Amelia, the celebrity on stage, is oddly fixated on Beth and the man with the microphone is hauntingly familiar. Things become even stranger when she buys a tarot deck, and they are all pictured in the cards.

Jonan has waited an eternity to be with the woman who haunts his dreams. When he finally sees her at the TV studio, he hopes life with his soulmate is within reach. But as Amelia refuses to let go of their past together, his hopes fade.

Amelia stands between Beth and Jonan. Spinning tales of supernatural threats to her adoring fan base, she builds a personality cult through fear of the paranormal. As her power grows, she does her best to scare Beth away from Jonan and plans to reclaim him for herself.

United by a destiny that spans lifetimes, Beth and Jonan are determined to stop Amelia’s fear-mongering. But Amelia has more than one card to play. Even though they are fated to be together, Amelia’s destructive nature may once again tear them apart.

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EXCERPT:

He heard Doriel walk down the narrow, wonky staircase that divided the storeroom from the shop’s reading and treatment room. The tiny bells stitched into the hem of her skirt tinkled as she swung her hips.

Jonan shook his head. He had no idea why she bothered with all this theatre. She was the real deal. She could have run a fabulous business in joggers and a T-shirt, but she insisted on playing to the audience. She wore flowing skirts, bells and long earrings. Her hennaed hair was braided into a loose French plait that reached her waist, sparkling with tiny crystals. She mimicked smoke and mirrors and delivered magic. She was a goddess hiding in plain sight as a walking cliché. The irony never failed to make her hoot with laughter.

The distant voice made Jonan freeze. ‘I’m looking for a reading. I was told you were good.’

He dropped back from his crouch to sit on the floor, heart pounding in his chest.

She had come.

He had told her to come to Doriel, but he had never expected it to be this easy. This was the woman he had incarnated for, the one he was here to wake up. He knew his goal, but somehow it didn’t feel anywhere near as important as just being in the same room as her. He had no idea how she would react to his world. She had been brought up with Earth amnesia and would probably think he was crazy. Everything he was, everything he said, was strange. Would she listen, or would she run? He had no way of knowing until he tried it.

A shiver ran down his spine.

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Title: Starfolk Falling

Series: The Starfolk Trilogy #2

Author: Martha Dunlop

Publisher: TanLea Books

Publication Date: October 26th 2021

Print Length: 308 pages

Genre: Urban Fantasy

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A woman destined to change the world. A timeless adversary determined to stop her. Only one will win.

Humiliated after the disastrous launch event for her protection racket, Amelia Faustus is furious and determined to punish those responsible. But her own support system is cracking and something new is haunting her home.

Beth and Jonan – finally together after lifetimes of searching for one another – have to stop Amelia’s attempts to prevent them fulfilling their destiny. But they find themselves under attack from all directions. Trolled by Amelia online, and targeted by her angry followers in real life, they fight to keep innocent people out of Amelia’s clutches. But Amelia has already started to hurt those closest to them to get what she wants.

As Amelia continues to terrorise their loved ones, Beth and Jonan are once again put on the defensive. They need to convince people to stand up to Amelia’s manipulations, but can they succeed when The Fear is already taking root?

An urban fantasy novel about destiny, reincarnation, tarot, and living with the paranormal.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Martha Dunlop is a dreamer and lover of stories who likes nothing better than spending her days getting to know the characters in her head. She is a tarot card reader and reiki master, and loves to chat reading, writing and all things mystical on social media, as well as posting pictures of her fellow pack-member, Bertie the Cavalier. A fiddle player, Martha fell in love with traditional music, particularly Irish, and is also teaching herself to play the Irish Bouzouki. She played her way through her English degree at York and remembers that time as much for the music as the books. 

Martha is the author of three books: The Starfolk Arcana, Starfolk Falling, and standalone Wild Shadow. She is currently working on Book 3 of The Starfolk Trilogy, Starfolk Rising.

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GUEST POST:

- If you could have any paranormal power, what would you choose and why?

If I could have one paranormal power, it would be the ability to heal.

Imagine if you knew you could keep yourself and your loved ones safe from illness, trauma and lasting injury? How different would your life look?

In my Starfolk Trilogy my antagonist, Amelia, is a celebrity with the power to manipulate people’s emotions through their energy. She spreads fear of supernatural attack, suggesting people will come to physical, mental and spiritual harm if they are not continually on alert, and tells them that only her protection will keep them safe.

When Amelia gets into people’s heads, they become fearful and hypervigilant. They change the way they dress to escape notice, their awareness of their environment alters, and their judgment becomes less acurate and healthy.

Whilst Amelia manipulates people’s energy in an attempt to control them and boost her own strength, Beth and Jonan, my main characters, seek to do the opposite. They work to heal people of Amelia’s manipulations, and to help them see through the fog of her interference. Both Beth and Jonan have healing abilities and work with energy in a similar way to a Reiki healer, although exaggerated. This gives them the ability to stand against Amelia, but they are not immune to her powers.

At different points, both Beth and Jonan fall prey to Amelia’s manipulation and she pulls each of them deep into their own darkness and traumas. In the end, their healing abilities mean they are able to pull each other back from these dark places, but it isn’t easy and once set, the triggers are there waiting to be activated again.

In real life, there are many people like Amelia, although they may not have her psychic powers. But the ability to get under people’s skin, trigger them and gain a personal boost from the process is something we all encounter in daily life over and over again.

There are so many ways to heal from these encounters, and things like energy healing, Reiki, mindfulness, acupuncture and more are great ways to do it. But just imagine if you had a paranormal superpower that was more comprehensive and all encompassing. Imagine if you could heal trauma, heal injury and illness in yourself and those you loved. Maybe that’s the closest to being untouchable that we could ever become?

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GIVEAWAY:

Martha Dunlop will be awarding a $25 Amazon or Barnes & Noble gift card to a randomly drawn winner via Rafflecopter. Good luck!

(All the Ups and Downs is not responsible for this giveaway, its entries, or the prize. Goddess Fish Promotions and the author assume all responsibility over this giveaway.)

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