Taunting Death

"so, are we friends then?"

"of course we are."

"always?"

"and maybe even forever."

this is the cover for the first book of my series, Chasing Ember, called Taunting Death. from left to right the characters are, Tori Haruno, Risa, and Kira Asakura. they are three of the many main characters in the book. i chose them because they are the three in who's point of view the book is being told from.

   some of you may know, but not a lot of you, that i have been interested in writing for a very long time now. i started writing the beginning of this book one night when i was away with my parents and i had already decided that i wanted to write a book sometime in my life. as l kept writing, the plot deepened and more and more characters appeared that i got attached to. i got pulled in to the writing and i couldn't seem to take my pencil off the paper. i have been working on this series for almost three years now. i would be done with the first book, but i decided that combining the first and the second book would make much more sense.

   the first book explains the plot of the series. four people across the world were sent strange dreams by a person who had long since been dead in the world they lived in. depictions of spirits, demons and mysterious temple were passed to them through sleep. when wanting rest from these tiring dreams, a girl, Kira Asakura, finds that all of the strange happenings around her seem to be leading to this place called The Temple of Ember. she and her newly found friend, Tori Haruno both set out in search of this place they know absolutely nothing about, to try and find the meaning behind these visions. when they arrive, they could have never guessed what awaited them there. New faces, old places, a lot of training, and a dark tale that foretells the coming rise of darkness and the death of the one who can stop it.