Friday, February 14, 2014

The Riddle of Prague Virtual Book Tour


The Riddle of Prague
by Laura DeBruce

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When 18-year-old Hana Silna travels to Prague to reclaim her family’s home, she discovers a riddle that may lead to a long-last flask.

The contents of that flask could change the fate of the world. When a ruthless enemy kidnaps her family Hana has to find the flask to rescue them. On her quest she meets a mysterious man with a penchant for poetry, a Gypsy girl with a haunting past, and Alex, an all-American boy who’s trying to save his sister from a crippling disease.   It’s hard to trust anyone when the stakes are this high — especially when surrounded by experts in deception.

There’s only one flask, and Hana desperately needs to find it.



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Excerpt Four:

The Nomad

The American girl arrives in Prague today. Finally! Finally things will happen. Everything will change.

I possess secrets—old and valuable secrets. Never mind, for now, who I am or what my name is. Those things have never mattered much. I am history’s silent witness and its victim. And I confess, here in the dark, that I am also a perpetrator of crimes. Ruthless, bloody crimes.

Straw into gold, water into wine, blood into life! I have long witnessed Prague’s obsession with alchemy. Now it is my turn! I shall become like quicksilver. I shall transform secrets into power and power into money.

The American girl arrives today, and soon terrible things will happen. At the end of it all, I will be free.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Laura DeBruce is a documentary filmmaker and writer. She grew up traveling all over the world thanks to her father’s work with the U.S. Embassy. She and her husband spent twelve years living in Europe including Prague, Paris, Amsterdam and London where she found inspiration to write The Quicksilver Legacy Series. In Prague she worked as a lawyer for the first private nationwide television station in the former Communist bloc.  It was there that she fell in love with the ancient city of Prague and its legends. 

She lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband and son and an unruly Golden Retriever. 

Website with blog and trailer:  http://theriddleofprague.com/

Amazon.com:  http://www.amazon.com/Riddle-Prague-QuickSilver-Legacy-ebook/dp/B00FFBNUVA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386523998&sr=8-1&keywords=riddle+prague

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRiddleofPrague

Twitter:   https://twitter.com/LauraDeBruce

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13 comments:

  1. Hi Dana, Thank you for hosting The Riddle of Prague!

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  2. This looks really fun!

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  3. This really sound exciting and somewhat frightening, but I loved the excerpt.

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  4. I really liked the excerpt, thanks so much for the giveaway :)

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  5. Thanks so much for this wonderful review. This book sounds great, can't wait to get my hands on it. You have a beautiful blog by the way, I just love the color theme it's so eye catching. Underrated Books

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  6. Thank you all for reading the excerpt! There are a few scary scenes but most of the younger readers -- middle school aged -- have said that The Riddle of Prague is not any more frightening than The Hunger Games.

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  7. This book has so many good qualities, especially the research, that I anticipate it being a winner ;)

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  8. I liked best the poetry of excerpt four. Esp. the 'straw into gold...' paragraph.

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  9. I am always interested in the author bio as it is always cool to read about who is behind the story

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  10. I alsp like the cover it is very unique and eye catching

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