Sunday 23 July 2017

Blog Tour & Giveaway - Wehr Wolff Castle by B. Bentley Summers

Title:  Wehr Wolff Castle
Series: The Wehr Wolff Chronicles, Book One
Author: B. Bentley Summers
Publisher:  NineStar Press
Release Date: 7/24/17
Heat Level: 2 - Fade to Black Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 120200
Genre: Paranormal/Horror, WW2, Alternate history, Lit/genre, fantasy/paranormal, horror, war, action, thriller, cisgender, abuse, military, experimentation, shifters, werewolves, spies, scientists

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Synopsis

During the rise of Nazi Germany, Hagen Messer joins the Royal Air Force as an American soldier who specializes in tracking. He’s attached to British commandos and given a seemingly simple mission—to find a captive and destroy a dam—but everything goes awry. Hagen’s plane crashes into Germany’s Wehr Forest and he has to use his extrasensory abilities to track the captive to nearby Wehr Wolff Castle, a secret Nazi base where vile experiments are being conducted. Hagen and his surviving team members must sneak into the castle and devise a way to destroy the experimental labs creating diabolical creatures. Hagen is horrified to find Nazis and scientists with no scruples, and at the most inconvenient time, he learns that he may be in love with one of his teammates, an Irishman named Liam. In order to protect his love and his friends, Hagen must feign nonchalance amidst pure degeneracy and suspicion. Hagen soon discovers, though, that he is in over his head. What may not only redeem him, but also save his lover and friends, is a childhood past and a darkness lurking deep inside him, just waiting to be engaged.

Excerpt

Wehr Wolff Castle B. Bentley Summers © 2017 All Rights Reserved Chapter One Hagen May 10, 1940 Somewhere over the border of Switzerland & Southern Nazi Germany The wind whistled through the shattered window and into the airplane’s cabin. The draft had a cold bite, the air a metallic smell. A tremble spasmed through Hagen, and he crossed his arms over his chest and shivered. On the row of seats facing him, blood spatter spread over the chairs and over the remaining wall. The engine nearest him sputtered. This time, it’ll surely stop. He rose from his seat and looked out through a nearby window to the wing. Black smoke poured from the spinning propeller but then cleared, and the engine roared back to life, setting into a steady thrum. He stared past the wing to the mountain range below. The plane passed through a heavy white cloud, and he sat back down in his seat. One recurrent thought plagued him. If we crash, will it hurt? Breathe. Just breathe. Raising his hands, he stared once again at the blood that had partially dried on them. Not his, thankfully. He wiped them on his shirt-front, which was soaked with blood, then reached for his forehead and winced as his fingertips dusted his wound. Shouting from the cockpit drew his attention. Lt. David sat in the one-man cockpit and turned so he could shout up to the white-haired pilot assistant, Alan Hodges. Hodges stood close to the pilot’s chair, holding onto a map and yelling down. Someone grabbed Hagen’s knee and shouted at him gruffly. He met Sgt. Collins’s gaze. The man’s short salt-and-pepper stubbled face had specks of blood in it. The large man sat back on his haunches, his belly protruding over his belt. He peered at Hagen’s forehead and nodded with approval. “Cheers, Kraut, received your first war wound.” Sgt. Collins leaned in and touched Hagen’s paratrooper jacket. “That blood yours?” Hagen shook his head, licked his lips, and then asked, “We on the right course, Sarge?” Sgt. Collins cupped his hand to his ear and furrowed his brow. “Are we on the right course?” Hagen shouted. Sgt. Collins glanced up at the front of the plane, where Lt. David and Officer Hodges argued, then brought his eyes back to Hagen. “Have no bloody idea, Kraut. All I know is that I hope we don’t land in Hitler’s front lawn.” Hagen nodded and clenched his fists. The sergeant shouted something else at him, but Hagen stared over his shoulder at the woman on the other side of the airplane. Roesia. He barely knew her, but it was comforting to see a survivor from the onslaught. So many had died. Her face was pasty white, and she had a vacant stare. Sgt. Collins snapped his fingers in front of Hagen’s face, gaining his attention once again. “Bloody hell, you’re completely out of it!” Sgt. Collins said, patting Hagen’s chest and sides, looking for any wounds. “Nothing. You’re lucky, Kraut.” Sgt. Collins stood, went toward the tail, and yelled down to the lower gun turret. “O’Malley, say something, you Irishman!” “Me arse is killing me, Sarge!” A smile formed on Hagen’s face at hearing his friend’s voice. The sergeant moved toward the tail and yelled up to the upper gun turret. “Kirby, keep your wits about you! If those bandits come at us, you take as many of them as you can.” Corporal Kirby yelled something unintelligible. Hagen shifted in his seat and stared down as a viscous red fluid ran across the floor. A photograph lay near his foot. Reaching down, he plucked it off the ground—the one of him and his father from a year or so ago. Except half of it was now bloodstained and he could only see himself. He studied the broad-shouldered striking nineteen-year-old with a full-face grin that made him radiant. The picture could easily have been of one of those Hollywood actors, but it was of himself. He leaned his head against the chair as his teeth chattered and his eyes became impossibly heavy. Seems like so much has happened since then. But I arrived in England just two days ago? That’s it? Just two days? A slap of metal caused his gaze to shift to the other side of the plane. A commando by the name of Commander Ford picked up the assault rifles and opened each ammo clip to check the bullets inside. Once satisfied, he laid them on top of a tarp that had turned a dark maroon from the blood-drenched floor. A second commando sat in a seat next to him, twirling a serrated knife in one hand. The spinning knife mesmerized Hagen and helped him ignore the macabre scene around him. Yes, it was. Two days ago, I rode into Shoreham Royal Air Force Base. A freshly trained paratrooper from America with no war experience. While my brother’s mortally wounded body lay in front of me years ago, it was nothing like this. Memories of the last couple of days reeled through his mind.

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Wehr Wolff Castle by B. Bentley Summers
Thoughts on The Writing Process
Since childhood I was a proliferous reader. But I must have developed reader’s block somewhere along the line, because reading rarely happens now. Writing though fills all of my extra spaces of time. I have discovered the writing journey is quite time consuming which actually cuts out time for any reading. I do know diving into a book gives me ideas, but these days I’m reliant on films. And in the end, I prefer to be in the helm where I control what will happen next.
In historical times a story was shared through an oral narrative. I like to think that the residuals of this tradition has continued to do this day– as it’s customary for children to be read bed time stories by their families. I recall my favorite bedtime narratives, Where the Sidewalk Ends and Dr. Seuss. In these I discovered plots could take infinite turns that could lead to the most imaginative scenario conceived. The most fun and practical of stories was The Bernstein Bears – that book was a big deal in my house especially with my dad who like to relate his own goofiness to Papa Q. Bear.
But my first memories of truly breaking away from reality as I was reading was when I was eleven or twelve. I started reading Stephen King. I experienced all the gambit of emotions one could possibly experience. I even recall once throwing my novel across the room when a young character (I think it was in Salem’s Lot) committed suicide. Narratives I discovered had the power to not just hold your attention but the potential to leave some emotional mark on you that could leave you longing for more and wishing you could read just a bit more. 
I imagine somewhere there in my teens I had this persistent thought… “Only if I could pull off leaving someone breathless, tearful, laughing out loud, or angered; that would be a great feat. Only if...”

Meet the Author

Bryce is a psychologist, gay author, and the founder of Queer Sense Theory. Not sure what he wanted to do in life, Bryce spent his 20s exploring different jobs and landed one job in Bangkok, Thailand, which has yet to be topped. Deciding it was time to get a career, Bryce completed his doctorate degree in psychology at the University of Houston. Upon graduation he worked for the Department of Veteran Affairs for six years before becoming a contract psychologist who provides examinations to veterans, helping them get their disability and pension entitlements. Bryce writes popular fiction genres that fall in the areas of Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Supernatural, Suspense or a blend all of them, and he has a passion for gay fiction. He has self-published several gay fiction short stories and a novel that follow the character, Daemon the Demon Boy. He also published YA Post-Apocalyptic novels, Amen to Rot series as well as The Zombie Squad. The Zombie Squad was a finalist for the 2016 Readers Favorite in YA Horror. Rotville is a self-published Sci-Fi Thriller/ Horror that has been self-published was a finalist for the 2016 US Book News Contest. He is also the founder of Queer Sense theory which provides a theoretical model on how people form attitudes towards LGBTQ+ individuals and shape one’s gender and sexual orientation identity. The theory looks closely at the interaction between social models, language, and attachment, or human connections, affect one’s feelings and thereby influence attitudes. Queer Sense is currently under review by a literary agency and will hopefully be published soon. A new middle-grade werewolf book as well as a gay erotic urban fantasy book are in the pre-publishing phase. Wehr Wolff Castle is the first installment of The Wehr Wolff Chronicles.

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