Blurb Blitz: Entheophage

                                                              

 Entheóphage 

by Drema Deòraich 

 

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GENRE: Medical Mystery/Ecofiction 

 

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BLURB: 

 

Dr. Isobel Fallon thinks she's found a treatment that will help her son and others suffering from Milani Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder.  What she doesn't realize is that harvesting the source of this treatment in the only accessible place on earth it grows, a coral reef in the Nlaan Islands, is going to have consequences far beyond the disruption of the fragile ecosystem on one small reef. 

 

CDC researcher Nadine Parker and her team are baffled.  Lukas Behn’s daughter Kyndra has contracted a bizarre new virus that leaves her screaming in pain.  But they can't identify any physical, biological source for that pain, not in Kyndra, nor in the dozens, then hundreds, and finally millions of children worldwide succumbing to the same virus.  And no one seems to have made a connection between what's happening with the infected children and the events on a small coral reef in the South Pacific. 

 

Eventually, Nadine has to face the unlikely truth, and the enormous implications of it.  The children aren't sick. They're changing.  But will anyone else believe her? 

 

 

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Excerpt: 

 

“Come on, sweetheart. Daddy’s here.” 

 

Luk murmured comfort as much for himself as for Kyndra. Her seizure lingered for what seemed like an hour. By the time the siren approached, she’d calmed, but not awakened. Luk pulled her now limp form into his embrace and rocked her. 

 

“It’s okay, Kyn. Help’s coming. It’s all right.” 

 

Paramedics gently pried him away from Kyn. One of them shone a light in each of her eyes. No response in her pupils. Spittle still traced a sticky trail down her skin. 

 

Luk described the seizure, his voice halting, aquiver. “Kyn, honey, can you hear me?” 

 

Nothing. Her chest rose and fell in a shallow but steady rhythm. Thank the gods she was still breathing. 

 

A medic placed his fingers against Kyndra’s limp palm. “Kyn, if you can hear me, squeeze my fingers.” 

 

She lay still, so still. Like this morning. Luk’s breath caught. This had to be related, didn’t it? Oh, he should have taken her to a doctor right then. “Is she—” 

 

The medic shook his head. “We need to get her to the hospital.” 

 

Luk’s tears came harder. “What is it? Will she be okay? What’s—” 

 

“The doctors will figure that out. Are you her parent?” 

 

“Yes,” Luk said. She wasn’t moving. “Lukas Behn.” 

 

“Is this the first time she’s had a seizure?” 

 

“Yes.” He gasped out the word, bit off the sob that threatened to follow. 

 

“Sir, I need your permission to take her in for treatment.” 

 

“Yes. Yes.” Luk rubbed his mouth. “Do what you need to do.” 

 

 

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AUTHOR Bio and Links: 

 

Drema Deòraich is a writer of speculative fiction that asks big questions. Her short stories have been published in numerous online journals, as well as a few semi-professional zines. Her debut novel “Entheóphage,” a medical mystery/climate fiction novel released in October of 2022, has been nominated for the 2023 Ursula Le Guin prize. Drema is still hard at work on her science fantasy trilogy, “The Founder’s Seed,” with plans to release book one in late 2023.  

 

When she isn't writing, Drema helps her legal-eagle boss to save the world one case at a time, pets her husband's cats, watches the starlings mob her birdfeeders, or spends time in Nature, surrounded by flora and fauna. 

 

Buy Entheóphage here: 

Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Entheóphage-Drema-Deòraich/dp/1958461008  

 

Or read free on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/Entheóphage-Drema-Deòraich-ebook/dp/B0BHH7SDQR  

 

Visit Drema’s websites at: 

www.dremadeoraich.com 

www.niveymarts.com 

 

Follow Drema on: 

Twitter: @dremadeoraich 

IG: dremadeoraich 

FB: NiveymArtsLLC 

 

 

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