Spotlight The Magician's Ruins by Alexa Padgett

Title: The Magician's Ruins
Author: Alexa Padgett
Series: The Echo Series Book 2
Genre: Contemporary/ Fantasy/ with Paranormal and SciFi Elements
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Blurb/Synopsis:

She's the hope of the world … or its destruction.

The portals to the underworld are unguarded, and demons roam free in the Southwest. To return the world to balance Echo Maria Ruiz must survive enough trials to meet with the Magician in his ruined city and learn the secrets he holds. Secrets like the location of her best friend.

Alone and unprepared, Echo must trust Honani, her spirit guardian, and Zeke, the handsome, mysterious warrior who carries her on the back of his motorcycle, battling demons and monsters at her side. In her darkest moments in the Magician’s ruins, Echo discovers betrayal lurks, and her warrior may not be her hero after all.

Spotlight The Spirit Seducer by Alexa Padgett

Title: The Spirit Seducer
Author: Alexa Padgett
Series: The Echo Series Book 1
Genre: Contemporary/ Fantasy/ with Paranormal and SciFi Elements
Publisher: Sidecar Press, LLC
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Blurb/Synopsis:

The dream comes every night: A warrior clad in leather and wielding a
spear, fighting off demons with the heads of jackrabbits and pumas.
Defending her.
Echo Ruiz knows it’s ridiculous. There’s no one in Santa Fe less likely to need defending. Thanks to the migraines, she’s confined to her mother’s house.

Her Native American Studies classes are online, and she hasn’t made a new friend in a decade.

Until her twenty-first birthday party, when trickster Coyote himself shows up. An hour later, Echo is on the run from the power-hungry god. Her headaches are gone. Her mother is a hostage, and she’s been thrust into a mirror-world of deadly loveliness to fight or die.

Her dream warrior? He’s as real as the sweat on her skin. His name is Zeke, and he remembers a lot more about Echo than she does about him. So does her best friend, Layla, who has secrets Echo’s never guessed.

But if Echo wants to defeat Coyote—if she wants to survive—she’ll have to discover the way herself. Because that’s one ending the legends have never told…