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Waking the Ancients - Book Tour and Giveaway

4/24/2018

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Waking the Ancients
Nemesis of the Gods #2
by Catherine Cavendish
Genre: Horror

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Egypt, 1908
University student Lizzie Charters accompanies her mentor, Dr. Emeryk Quintillus, on the archeological dig to uncover Cleopatra’s tomb. Her presence is required for a ceremony conducted by the renowned professor to resurrect Cleopatra’s spirit—inside Lizzie’s body. Quintillus’s success is short-lived, as the Queen of the Nile dies soon after inhabiting her host, leaving Lizzie’s soul adrift . . .


Vienna, 2018
Paula Bancroft’s husband just leased Villa Dürnstein, an estate once owned by Dr. Quintillus. Within the mansion are several paintings and numerous volumes dedicated to Cleopatra. But the archeologist’s interest in the Egyptian empress deviated from scholarly into supernatural, infusing the very foundations of his home with his dark fanaticism. And as inexplicable manifestations rattle Paula’s senses, threatening her very sanity, she uncovers the link between the villa, Quintillus, and a woman named Lizzie Charters.


And a ritual of dark magic that will consume her soul . . .


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​  The man looked down at his scattered ashes. “I am growing tired of waiting. When will I be free of this prison?”
“Soon.” The woman moved away in that fluid, ethereal manner of hers. Her scarlet gown flowed around her. An armlet shaped in the goddess Isis’s symbol—a coiled cobra—gleamed. Heavy black kohl rimmed her eyes, emphasizing the deep violet of her irises, while her long, black hair, set in many tight braids, reached her waist. “You must be patient,” the woman said. “I told you I would help you get what you desire.”
“But that isn’t possible. She is back in her body. Back in her tomb.”
“All is possible. I have the power. Haven’t I proved it? Aren’t you the proof of it?”
“I still don’t live.”
“Your spirit lives.”
“My spirit cannot touch her.”
“But it can touch her spirit. Mate with her spirit if you so desire.”
“And why would you do this for me?”
“My revenge is incomplete. My murdering sister rests while I am forced to wander in spirit with no substance of my own.”
“And how will it be done? I am in your hands. This is not comfortable for me. I am always in control.”
The woman threw back her head and laughed, showing black, rotten teeth. Stinking, no doubt, if he could smell anything.
“You have not been in control for a long time. The god I serve is Set, and he is in control. He will come and he will work through me. More powerful this time, for Sekhmet will bring him.”
“And I will have my queen?”
“You will have her.”
“She will be in the one who is here now?”
“That is to be determined.”
“But this one is not of the blood.”
“She will not be possessed, but transformed. We do not need a blood relative.”
“That has been tried before. And failed.”
“The rules were not properly followed. You cannot possess all of her. You have seen that. The gods will not allow it. Her spirit must be divided. Some of it must remain with her body—and lie cold in her tomb. Waiting. Always waiting. In that way, the gods are appeased and my price is also exacted.”
“So part of my queen will still wander, looking for her lover, but enough of her spirit will be released to come to me.”
“Now you understand. You will have all that you desire, and my revenge will not be compromised.”
“And I can be with her. For all time.”
The woman didn’t answer. She gave the merest hint of a smile and passed on.
In his world of shadows, Dr. Emeryk Quintillus waited.

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Wrath of the Ancients
Nemesis of the Gods #1

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DESTINY IN DEATH

Egypt, 1908

Eminent archeologist Dr. Emeryk Quintillus has unearthed the burial chamber of Cleopatra. But this tomb raider’s obsession with the Queen of the Nile has nothing to do with preserving history. Stealing sacred and priceless relics, he murders his expedition crew, and flees—escaping the quake that swallows the site beneath the desert sands . . .

Vienna, 1913

Young widow Adeline Ogilvy has accepted employment at the mansion of Dr. Quintillus, transcribing the late professor’s memoirs. Within the pages of his journals, she discovers the ravings of a madman convinced he possessed the ability to reincarnate Cleopatra. Within the walls of his home, she is assailed by unexplained phenomena: strange sounds, shadowy figures, and apparitions of hieroglyphics.
 
Something pursued Dr. Quintillus from Egypt. Something dark, something hungry. Something tied to the fate and future of Adeline Ogilvy . . .



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Following a varied career in sales, advertising and career guidance, Catherine Cavendish is now the full-time author of a number of paranormal, ghostly and Gothic horror novels, novellas and short stories. She was the 2013 joint winner of the Samhain Gothic Horror Anthology Competition, with Linden Manor, which was featured in the anthology What Waits in the Shadows. Cat’s novels include The Pendle Curse, Saving Grace Devine, and Dark Avenging Angel. She lives with her long-suffering husband and black (trainee) cat. They divide their time between Liverpool and a 260-year-old haunted apartment in North Wales.


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Sekhmet - The Goddess Who Was No Pussy-Cat

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In my latest novel, Waking the Ancients, the lioness-headed goddess Sekhmet is invoked. Cats were revered in ancient Egypt and there is more than one cat goddess. Bast, or Bastet, is the Goddess of the East and Sekhmet of the West –both represented war and destruction. Neither would be likely to jump on your lap and start purring anytime soon.

Sekhmet was both sister and wife of Ptah (god of craftsmen and architects) and was created by the fire in Re’s eye. Re was the all-powerful god, born of a great, shining egg. Sekhmet’s role was to punish mankind for their wicked ways and for disobedience to Re. She was terrifying - the most powerful of all the goddesses - and men fled from her in terror. She rejoiced in mass slaughter and pursued all those who had scorned her father, leaving the Nile red with their blood for days. But it was not always to be so.
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Re saw the destruction and killing and decided to end it, but Sekhmet was too powerful. No one could stem her bloodlust, so he resorted to trickery. He summoned swift messengers to bring red ochre from Elephantine Island and instructed the women to brew thousands of gallons of beer. When the beer was strongly fermented, he ordered the red ochre be added until the beer looked like blood. He then ordered the seven thousand jars of beer to be poured over the fields to a depth of nine inches.

When Sekhmet arrived to begin her next day’s slaughter, she saw the flooded fields and immediately believed it to be the blood of her enemies. She roared with delight like a lioness hungry for prey, before drinking deep from the fields until she was quite intoxicated. By the end of the day, she was reeling and had killed no one. Re declared that her killing spree was over. From now on she would be known as Hathor and would kill no more. She would lay low men and women only with the power of love and kindness.
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And so was mankind saved. Each year though, Sekhmet’s priestesses would drink beer, coloured with red ochre in her honour.

Of course, Hathor really has no place in a horror novel, so Sekhmet remains. Powerful, terrifying…

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16 Comments
Lisa Brown
4/24/2018 03:22:34 am

I enjoyed getting to know your book; congrats on the tour, I hope it is a fun one for you, and thanks for the chance to win :)

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:51:17 am

Thank you, Lisa. Good luck!

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James Robert
4/24/2018 03:43:57 am

Congrats on the tour and I appreciate the excerpt and the great giveaway as well. Love the tours, I get to find books and share with my sisters the ones I know they would enjoy reading and they both love to read. Thank you!

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:52:15 am

Thank you for the lovely comments

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Bea LaRocca
4/24/2018 08:17:07 am

Congratulations on the book and the tour. This sounds like a wonderful story and series.

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:52:50 am

Much appreciated. Thank you!

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Calvin
4/24/2018 01:56:33 pm

Stunning ancient ruins come back alive, nice!

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:53:32 am

Thank you!

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Rita Wray
4/24/2018 05:18:06 pm

Sounds like a good book.

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:54:05 am

Thank you, Rita

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Linda Fast
4/25/2018 10:10:50 pm

Sounds like a fantastic read. I love reading about the ancients, especially when they come back to life. I'm in my late 50s and I love this stuff since I was a kid watching black and white mummy movies.

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Catherine Cavendish link
4/27/2018 10:54:55 am

You can't beat those old movies, can you? Thanks, Linda

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Marisela Zuniga
5/1/2018 09:07:19 pm

sounds very interesting. cool cover

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Catherine Cavendish link
5/2/2018 05:18:27 am

Thank you, Marisela :)

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Sarah L
5/20/2018 08:16:52 pm

Looks like an interesting book.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Catherine Cavendish link
5/21/2018 08:08:45 am

Thank you, Sarah! :)

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