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Ragnarok - Book Tour and Giveaway

3/27/2019

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Ragnarok
Worlds Collide Book 1
by Michael Smorenburg
Genre: Fantasy, Romantic Suspense

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A secret NASA experiment gone wrong, the chaos that erupts, and one reporter seeking the truth who chases leads where she shouldn't.

On a flight from Paris to Los Angeles Tegan Mulholland is intrigued & charmed by Pete, the mysterious stranger sitting beside her. But when their plane almost falls from the sky and other jets in her vicinity wink from the radar, the official explanations that follow reek to Tegan's retired investigative journalist mind of cover up.

What is not declared:
A secret NASA experiment has warped a column of time instead of space, plucking with it the planes out of our era, and a band of Norse warriors from the Vinland colony millennia ago into our epoch.
Rowing eastward and back to Iceland, the contrail of Tegan's plane appearing after the strange aurora and moving westward high above, the Norsemen conclude are Odin's order to return to Vinland and unknowingly toward the modern day Canadian coast, where, just days--yet a thousand years before--the skraeling Indians had driven them out.

As news reports flood Tegan's living room of bloodshed and massacre, speculating about which gang of roughly dressed bearded marauders are responsible for mass-murder around the quiet Canadian coast, Tegan develops a hunch that there is more to the story than it seems. She quits her Hollywood Exec job and embarks on an odyssey that leads inexorably ever closer toward the Norsemen's hidden lair.

Only Pete, the Lockheed consultant she had steadily fallen in love with during the harrowing flight and since, has any hope of saving her.

If you enjoy intrigue, conspiracy and romantic suspense, Ragnarok will grip your imagination and not let go.



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​Viking LongShip, 35 Nautical Miles East of Newfoundland
Latitude: 47°37'14"N
Longitude: 51°45'52"W

Throughout the night, under the rash of stars, Raol conned his vessel ahead of the howling wind, preferring the tiller in his own experienced hand with the fast conditions.
The men tried to sleep as best they could to prepare for the coming confrontation with the skræling, but sleep eluded most.
It was not yet ten days ago that they had been routed and lost half their small civilization to the marauders.
And now Odin’s emphatic decree that they must return to do his will weighed heavily on each man.
The boat skipped ahead of the wind through the dead of night, and sheets of thrown water flew over them, icy and miserable with the chill factor of speed as they raced down the fronts of ocean swells.
And then a sight that set their nerves to jangle befell them.
Out of the far horizon, came a vast city of lights, row stacked upon row, level over level battering fast in their direction, nearly headlong into the wind. It was a mountain of lights that crossed their bows faster into the wind than they ran with it.
The heart of a monstrous beast throbbed within this vessel, the sound of its grumbling came to them through the soles of their feet. At the stern of the titan, boiled a violent turbulence.
As it went by, the monster blasted an angry horn of warning, “Baaaaaaaawwwwp…. Baaawwwp, Bawwwwwp…”, and then it was gone, stroking into the night.
When the ship was already nearly five leagues past, from its surging prow came a bow wave half as tall as their own mast.
Their dwarfed little vessel skipped gamely over the crosswise run of that wave.
The men knew it was some devious magic that the gods of the skræling had sent to head them off. But no threat would make them turn away from their oath now, and on they pressed, sleep impossible, the wind still at their backs.
 
Before dawn, the wind abated and land could be seen on the far horizon. They were heading for a large encampment, a watch fire at every tent. The terror of what they suddenly faced gripped Raol, making his mind explode with questions.
Could the savages have somehow multiplied in their short absence to have such an encampment in place? Why would they keep their fires burning all night?
They must be forewarned that we return, he thought with a terrible foreboding.
He pulled the steering oar towards himself, turning their boat north to run along the coast, avoiding the waiting skræling.
Finally, there was only the unlit blackness of the coast left, and then the first glow of dawn began to warm the sky.
There, low and squat was Vinland once more—a fine peninsula of land jutting out into the sea, a peninsula with a profile that Raol recognized when they’d first explored this coast.
With war now declared between their gods, each Norse warrior aboard was in silent contemplation and high alert as he pulled with all he had for a sanctuary around that headland.


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Michael Smorenburg (b. 1964) grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. An entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, in 1995 Michael moved to California where he founded a business consultancy and online media and marketing engine in the burgeoning internet. In 2003 he returned to South Africa where he launched a security company. In 2015 he divested of the business to write full time. Michael's greatest love is the ocean, keeping up with the latest breakthroughs in science, understanding the cosmos and sharing all he learns.


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44 Comments
Bea LaRocca
3/27/2019 03:03:14 am

An intriguing synopsis and excerpt. This sounds like a thrilling read.

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James Robert
3/27/2019 04:48:30 am

Great post and I appreciate getting to find out about another great book. Thanks for all you do and for the hard work you put into this. Greatly appreciated!

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June S.
3/27/2019 07:05:04 am

Another great Romantic Suspense novel good luck to you on the tour Michael.

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Janet W.
3/27/2019 07:13:20 am

Sounds action packed!! Great cover!

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Victoria
3/27/2019 10:46:36 am

Great cover!

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Rita Wray
3/27/2019 12:22:52 pm

Sounds like a good book.

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Elaine G
3/27/2019 01:41:50 pm

This sounds good. Thanks for sharing the excerpt.

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heather
3/27/2019 01:50:42 pm

This so sounds like my kind of book loved reading the excerpt and love the cover. Sounds like one that will keep me interested.

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Sara Zielinski
3/27/2019 01:58:50 pm

This book has a great cover

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Wendy Jensen
3/27/2019 02:13:32 pm

I like the contrasts of old and new on the book cover.

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wendy hutton
3/27/2019 02:45:55 pm

very nice cover, the book sounds great thanks

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Debbie P
3/27/2019 02:59:49 pm

This book sounds like an awesome read. Very cool cover!

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Kelly Nicholson
3/27/2019 09:37:44 pm

What do you think of the book or the cover?

vikings and flying machines..makes sense to me thanks

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Michael Smorenburg link
3/28/2019 03:47:20 am

It's quite a juxtapose - I'm rather shocked that the story came out as neatly as it did.

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Dale Wilken
3/27/2019 09:48:38 pm

The book sounds great the cover is great.

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Michael Smorenburg link
3/28/2019 03:46:35 am

Hello Folks
For 15 years I wanted to write this book - dropping a band of the most interesting folks from our history into our epoch to see how they and we would cope.
Trouble is - for a science guy - that is a horrible, hokey, C-grade concept. Just terrible.
But the story begged to be written.
I resisted as long and hard as I could.
Then, almost simultaneously, I came upon the fact(s) - look them up - that NASA are taking warp drive (manipulating spacetime) seriously and that a new state of matter called "time crystals" had not just been conceived but produced... time crystals repeat an atomic structure not just through physical space, but through time too.
Okay - wow.
So what if the NASA (top secret) warp drive backfired and anything (any atoms) caught in its energy path got converted into time crystals and would "bounce" back and forth through time.

Hmmmmm....

So I wrote the darned thing - and boy, was I happy with the result!

I hope you enjoy.

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Beyond Comps
3/28/2019 06:32:58 am

Great cover!

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Terri Quick
3/28/2019 11:18:52 am

Thanks for this giveaway

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Calvin
3/28/2019 12:16:58 pm

Got a lot of contrasting and history going on here, I couldn't leave a comment yesterday, so coming around again to say cheers

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Heather Mahley
3/30/2019 05:43:28 pm

Love the cover

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lynn clayton
3/30/2019 07:39:00 pm

love the cover looks like a great read thank you

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Lavender P.
3/31/2019 09:47:46 am

Hahaha I'm glad you were able to pen the book after all that time! The cover reminds me of Spartacus meets Vikings meets Black Hawk Down.

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Michael Smorenburg link
4/3/2019 03:30:59 pm

Truly.

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Marcy Meyer
3/31/2019 01:48:53 pm

Very interesting cover and story. Sounds like a good read.

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Michael Smorenburg link
4/3/2019 03:31:36 pm

It was fun to write, that I'll tell ya!

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Ann Fantom
3/31/2019 02:42:28 pm

I like the cover. It has great graphics

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Michael Smorenburg link
4/3/2019 03:32:00 pm

I'll pass it on to the artist. She'll be thrilled

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aaron reck
4/1/2019 07:23:03 pm

Why fight when the end is the same? But very interesting and something that I would read.

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Michael Smorenburg link
4/3/2019 03:32:35 pm

The journey surpasses the destination :-)

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Mary Cloud
4/1/2019 08:19:31 pm

No questions - the cover is interesting

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Amy F
4/5/2019 08:21:27 am

Love the action design of the cover!

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Kathy Cozzarelli
4/5/2019 11:08:37 pm

The story sounds very interesting and imaginative.

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Daniella Bonagura
4/8/2019 12:44:59 pm

Interesting book.

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Mood Reader
4/8/2019 09:46:12 pm

Sounds good!

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Jessie Redding
4/9/2019 02:11:42 am

LOVING the cover, so warrior-y !

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Denise Higgins
4/9/2019 04:41:52 am

Love the cover

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Robin Abrams
4/9/2019 11:00:31 am

The cover is nice looking

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Lisa Ellison
4/10/2019 04:09:52 pm

Very nice cover, looks interesting.

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lynn clayton
4/12/2019 09:54:07 pm

what a great cover

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Heather
4/15/2019 12:28:39 pm

The excerpt was interesting.

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Sassy Brit @ Alternative-Read.com link
4/16/2019 01:06:52 pm

OMG! This sounds totally out of this world! Love the viking theme!

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TAMMY HUDSON
4/18/2019 03:51:25 pm

This sounds like a great read. I love the cover. Thanks for the chance.

TIGHEFAN42 atgmaildotcom

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Daniel M
4/25/2019 06:44:38 pm

like the cover

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Jerry Marquardt
4/27/2019 11:50:14 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Ragnarok, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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