The Mark of Noba by G.L. Tomas.
Sterling Wayfairer has one goal for his senior year: make his mark. He’s been slipping into the background his whole high school career—distracted by his mother’s mental health, unsettled by the vivid dreams that haunt him at night, and overshadowed by the athletic accomplishments of his popular best friends. But this year is going to be different. He’s going to break a few rules, have some fun, and maybe even work up the nerve to ask his crush out on a date.
But things don’t go exactly as planned. Students are disappearing, Sterling starts losing time, and it all seems to center around Tetra, a girl no one else seems to notice but him. When he finally tracks her down for answers, they aren’t what he expects: He and Tetra hail from a world called Noba, and they’re being hunted by a Naga, a malevolent shapeshifter that’s marked them for destruction.
Tetra and Sterling have distinct abilities that can help them fight back, but their power depends heavily on the strength of their bond, a connection that transcends friendship, transcends romance. Years apart have left their bond weak. Jumpstarting it will require Sterling to open his heart and his mind and put his full trust in the mysterious Tetra.
If he doesn’t, neither of them will survive.
About the Sterling Wayfairer Series author, G. L. Tomas:
Guinevere and Libertad go by many superhero aliases. Whether you know them by G.L. Tomas, the Twinjas, or the Rebellious Valkyries, their mission is always the same: spreading awareness of diversity in books. Oh, and trying to figure out the use for pocketless pants! They host other allies and champions of diversity in their secret lair in Connecticut.
George Eccles left London in 1994 to move to Russia and Central Asia during the tumultuous period that followed the breakup of the Soviet Union. His work involved extensive travel throughout Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It often to places with restricted access to foreigners. During his time there, he advised a number of real-life oligarchs how best to take advantage of the opportunities that became available as regulation crumbled and government became increasingly corrupt. Against this background, while his novels are fiction, many of its anecdotes and scenes are inspired by actual events.
Kenny S. Rich, known simply as Kennyrich, is a Cameroonian-born American author and motivational speaker. He graduated from the University of Houston with a BA in PR & Advertising, and recently earned his global MBA from Hult International Business School. Kennyrich has authored three books to date: ‘The Glass,’ ‘The Black Plagues,’ and his debut novel, ‘The One-Eyed King,’ which marks his first foray into the adventurous world of Science Fiction & Fantasy. He currently works as an entrepreneur, running his own online creative writing platform, Enrich by Kennyrich.
Candi Sary graduated from the University of California, Irvine. She has been in the finals of several writing competitions. Including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition, the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and the Dahlonega Literary Festival Novel Contest. Her novel ‘Black Crow White Lie’ won Reader Views Literary Award for the West-Pacific region. It also won first place in the Dante Rosseti Awards, and was named first runner-up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award for fiction. The novel was also adapted into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. She lives in Southern California with her husband and two children.