Guest Post with Vivienne Malynn and Sean Kade Authors of Dawn of Angels!

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Title: The Dawn of Angles
Author: Vivieene Malynn & Sean Kade
Publisher: Sutherland Press (January 3, 2012)
Summary:

Left by her mother at a young age, Kyra has grown-up in the foster system, leaving her angry and hateful towards the world. The only person she can trust is Hammond, her case worker who has watched over her since the time her mother left. When Hammond places Kyra in a foster home located in a small town, strange things begin happening and Kyra starts unraveling the mystery of her past. When Kyra’s life is threatened, she is saved by an angel, her guardian angel, Ashur, who falls from heaven to save her. Together, Ashur and Kyra must figure out why her life is in danger and stop a strange cult from bringing about the end of days. 

Excerpt:

"I didn’t just fall from heaven to save your life…” Ashur pulls me in closer until my chest touches his. “…I came here because after all those years, I could not spend another moment of eternity knowing that you would not be there.”
He begins to sweep his head down toward mine. I know what’s coming and I can’t allow it. Turning away, I say, “I can’t.” My objection is not that I don’t love him, but that I can’t love him. He is an angel, I am a mortal. Two worlds that never have, and never will exist together. “You know as well as I do that this can never be. No matter how desperately we may want it. What will become of us?”
“I don’t know,” he says. “I don’t care.”
“Well, I do,” I say. “All this will end and you will have to go back. And I will be left here alone.”
“But…”
“No,” I say, sternly. “It’s better this way.”
Our eyes meet and I look away, but his eyes do not retreat as if they are holding me in place, preventing me from leaving.


About the Authors:  Vivienne Malynn and Sean Kade are the parents of five lively children and live in a rural suburb surrounded by eagles and coyotes. They spend their free time reading, writing, and playing make-believe with their children. In their not so free time, they teach.


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The Role of Guardian Angels in our Lives:

In our book, Dawn of Angels, the protagonist Kyra falls for her guardian angel and we guess you could say that her guardian angel literally falls for her. Though the book does not reflect any religious belief of our own, the question inevitably arises: do you believe in guardian angels? This is often expressed in a less forward way as, What are your thoughts on guardian angels?

The idea of a guardian angel is very interesting. It exists in almost every culture and religion in one form or another. The Buddhists call them deva; the Greeks, daemon. Whatever their name, they all represent the same thing. In the metaphorical sense and perhaps in a very real sense, no one can deny the fact that there are in our lives those who act as guardian angels to us—mothers, fathers, friends, associates, etc. There is at least one person we would hope in each of our lives that takes a personal interest in our affairs without any real drive toward self-interest.

But we suppose this is just one way that we escape the question, much like a parent who when confronted with the question of is there a Santa Claus says that they believe the spirit of Christmas exists in the sharing of love at the holidays. That’s well and good, but it does not answer the question. We imagine they mean it as so. They’re afraid to answer the question because they are afraid of taking responsibility for the implications of their answer. As hard as it may be to answer the question, we hope to give you the respect to answer the question at least in the sense that we have answered it for ourselves.

In the book Kyra struggles with issues of abandonment from a father she never knew and a mother who gave her up to the foster system. As each of us looks out across the vastness of the universe, we come to that unsettling realization that we are nothing but a spec in the interstellar void—no centers of anything. It’s hard not to feel a degree of abandonment in the universe, especially when we are subjected to the harsh realities of nature.

 In all the tragedies of life it is hard not to ask the question, Where is God in all of this? We think the idea of a guardian angel is man’s attempt to answer that question. When one asks Do I believe in guardian angels?, the real question is Do I believe that God has a personal role in my life? Does he take notice of me at all? That is a much deeper question, whether you’re religious or not.  To this question we have answered yes, though we have no means to prove that to anyone directly. However, life seems to have proved it sufficiently to us. We don’t know that there is any particular angel assigned to anyone. It doesn’t really matter to us. We only need to know that when we face life’s stern realities that in there somewhere is a loving being who has our interest at heart.

MARCH 2012

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			1 Reading It All	2 The Hollow Readers*
5 Singing and Reading in the Rain The Hollow Readers*	6 Adventures of Frugal Mom 4 the LUV of SANITY	7 The Hollow Readers* Asha Butterflys	8 Intriguing Reads Colorimetry	9 The Hollow Readers Sweet Southern Home
12 Rachel's Book Reviews The Hollow Readers*	13 Book Lover Stop	14 The Hollow Readers Catch the Lune!	15 Jenn's Book Blog Escape In Words	16 Reading by Kindle Fire The Hollow Readers*
19 The Blonde Who Reads	20 Stressed Rach Hollow Readers	21 WTF Are You Reading? Book Ruckus	22 Doctor's Notes The Hollow Readers	23 Little Library Muse Books and Beyond
26 It's All About Me  The Hollow Readers	27 Carabosse's Library Wakela Runen's World	28 Witches' Way Forget About TV, Grab A Book	29 Ali's Bookshelf Escape in Words	30 Guardian of the Crossroads Always a Booklover

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