Ancient Enemy by Mark Lukens Book Tour and Giveaway :)
Ancient
Enemy
Ancient
Enemy Series Book 1
by
Mark Lukens
Genre:
Horror
Ancient
Enemy - it wants things . . . you have to give it what it
wants.
Seven
hundred years ago the Anasazi people built massive cities in what is
now the southwestern United States . . . and then they
vanished.
Stella,
an archaeologist specializing in Anasazi culture, and David, a
mysterious Navajo boy, are on the run from something terrifying. As
they flee up into the snowy mountains of Colorado, they are carjacked
by criminals escaping a botched bank robbery. Caught in a blizzard,
they must take refuge in what they believe is an abandoned cabin.
It's at this cabin where they will face horrors beyond their
imagination.
Darkwind
Ancient
Enemy Series Book 2
After
a rancher finds ten mutilated bodies at a dig site on the Navajo
Reservation, both Captain Begay of the Navajo Tribal Police and
Special Agent Palmer of the FBI become involved ... but the case
leads Palmer back up to Colorado where five more mutilated bodies and
Stella's vehicle have been discovered at a burning cabin.
Cole,
Stella, and David escape the cabin on a snowmobile, heading south to
get David back down to the Navajo lands. Now that Stella believes
that David is a natural-born shaman, she knows that their only hope
of David ever defeating the Ancient Enemy is to find a reclusive
shaman named Joe Blackhorn who can help train David.
But
with Agent Palmer and Captain Begay hot on their trail, Cole and
Stella must find Joe Blackhorn and the secrets he possesses before
the Ancient Enemy destroys them all.
Hope's
End
Ancient
Enemy Series Book 3
In
1891, in the badlands of northern Arizona, Jed Cartwright, a bounty
hunter and U.S. Marshal, transports a dangerous prisoner back to the
town of Smith Junction. As they travel through the woods, they are
attacked by what they believe are skinwalkers.
As
Jed flees the woods, he finds a house where a family has been
slaughtered - the only survivor is an eight-year-old Navajo boy, a
boy traumatized by the horrors he has seen.
As
Jed and the Navajo boy make their way north to Smith Junction, a
sudden sandstorm diverts them to the small town of Hope's End. They
take refuge from the storm in the saloon with some of the
townspeople. But hours later, when the storm is over, they discover
what has happened to the rest of the people in Hope's End . . . and
the terror is only beginning, everything leading up to a shocking
twist at the end.
Evil
Spirits
Ancient
Enemy Series Book 4
It
has been seven years since David sent the Ancient Enemy back to its
world in the ghost town that was once the town of Hope's End.
Cole
and Stella have lived in Costa Rica for the last seven years. They
wanted to believe that it was really over . . . but there were always
doubts. And when Stella sees a horrifying vision in the jungle, she's
certain that the Ancient Enemy has returned.
David,
living at his aunt's house in New Mexico, knows the Ancient Enemy is
back; he can feel it. And now nightmares about a serial killer
possessed by the Ancient Enemy plague him, a killer who will stop at
nothing, a killer who is coming for David. With Joe Blackhorn dead
now, the only person David can turn to is Begay, the former captain
of the Navajo Tribal Police.
Former
FBI agent Palmer's nightmares have returned, and when he's called in
as a consultant on the recent copycat murders - re-creations of the
massacre at the archaeological dig site seven years ago - he knows
that the ancient evil is back.
Together,
they are drawn into one last stand against the Ancient Enemy . . .
but this time the battle will be fought in the Ancient Enemy's world.
Mark
Lukens has been writing since the second grade when his teacher
called his parents in for a conference because the ghost story he'd
written had her a little concerned.
Since
then he's had several stories published and four screenplays optioned
by producers in Hollywood. One script is in development to be
produced. He is the author of many bestselling books including:
Ancient Enemy, Darkwind: Ancient Enemy 2, Descendants of Magic, The
Summoning, Night Terrors, Sightings, The Exorcist's Apprentice, What
Lies Below, Devil's Island, The Darwin Effect, Ghost Town: a novella,
and A Dark Collection: 12 Scary Stories. He is a member of The Horror
Writers Association.
He
grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida. But after many travels and
adventures, he settled down near Tampa, Florida with his wonderful
wife and son ... and a stray cat they adopted.
WHERE
WERE YOU BORN/GREW UP AT?
I
was born in New Jersey, but I was only there for six months. We
traveled the world when I was young because my dad was in the
military. When I was six years old my dad left the military and we
moved to Daytona Beach, Florida. I grew up there in a huge trailer
park. We didn’t have a lot of money (no cable TV, no VCR, only an
old Atari with a handful of games) so there wasn’t a lot to do
inside; we were outside with our friends a lot. But we always had
books; my parents were both avid readers. I left home when I turned
eighteen and moved to Orlando to work construction. I traveled around
quite a bit, backpacking across northern Europe when I was nineteen
years old, working in mid-town Manhattan hanging wallpaper in the
Marriott when I was twenty years old, and working construction jobs
in Connecticut and Boston. But no matter where I traveled, I always
came back to Florida. Now I live near Tampa with my wonderful and
very supportive wife.
HOW
DO YOU FIND TIME TO WRITE AS A PARENT?
Finding
time to write can be tough enough, but when you’re a parent it can
be even tougher. You want to pursue your passion for writing (or do
your job if writing is what you do for a living), but you don’t
want to take too much time away from your kids—you can’t ever get
those years back. Our son is an adult now, married, and lives in his
own apartment with his wife, but when he was younger I still tried to
find time to write in the evenings and on the weekends. I would even
bring a notebook with me in the car, and if my wife had to run into
the store I would use those few minutes to jot some things down. With
the apps on cell phones now, you could even dictate things you want
to write and print them out later. I’ve heard of some authors
getting up an hour earlier just to get some writing done before the
rest of the family wakes up, or writing an hour or two before bed
after everyone else goes to sleep. There are only twenty-four hours
in a day, and there are always distractions, but it’s a good idea
to take an honest look at how you spend your time. How much time do
you really spend watching TV or scrolling through social media? If
writing is truly your passion, perhaps you can squeeze an hour or two
in a day to 2
devote
to it. Even two hours is enough time to get a few thousand words
done. I’m not saying it’s easy, but it’s possible. I used to
work a sixty hours a week when my son was younger and still living at
home, but I still managed to find the time to write on Sundays and an
hour here and there. I didn’t get the amount of work done a week
then as I do now, but I got something done.
WHEN
DID YOU FIRST CONSIDER YOURSELF A WRITER?
I’ve
always been a writer because I’ve always loved to write, but I
guess I first considered myself a professional writer when I optioned
my first screenplay. Even though none of my scripts were ever made
into movies (at least not yet), it still gave me a thrill that
complete strangers in Hollywood felt that my writing was good enough
to be made into a film, and production companies were considering
investing huge sums of money on stories that had just popped into my
head. After a few years of pursuing my screenwriting dream, my dad
and my best friend both told me I should look into self-publishing on
Amazon/Kindle. So I did. I’d been working a regular job for years,
and by that time my wife and I had saved up some money. I told her
that I wanted to quit my job and really pursue writing one hundred
percent for the first time in my life. I told her I would give it six
months, and if it didn’t work out I could always find another job.
Up until that point I felt that I had only been giving my writing
part of my time and not taking it seriously, treating it more like a
hobby, hoping for a lucky break. It was scary to quit my job and pour
everything into my passion, but my wife agreed immediately that I
should try it—she knew how much writing meant to me. I turned one
of my screenplays, Ancient
Enemy, into
a novel and put it on Amazon near the end of 2013, and to my surprise
it took off in a few months. Complete strangers were buying and
reading my book. I felt that same thrill I had when I had optioned
those four screenplays, but this was even better—it was finally a
dream come true for me.
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