Rebecca Ethington is a bestselling author from The United States, who is known to have sold almost 700,000 printed copies of her books so far. Ethington likes to write romance and horror books, in which she loves to create magical creatures. Author Ethington’s breakout debut series, Imdalind, has featured on numerous bestseller lists since it made its debut in the year 2012. The series has reached out to thousands of eager fans throughout the world. It has been cited by the USA Today as ‘Intense and Interesting’ on its blog. Author Ethington has a particular interest in developing horror and romance stories. With the help of her distinct imaginative powers, she weaves magical creatures and creates vibrant worlds which transport the readers into her books’ pages. The writing of author Ethington has been praised as original, groundbreaking, and fresh. Her stories are described as having the power to bend genres as well as create interesting fantastical worlds. As author Ethington was born and brought up under the stage lights, she has inherited the art of writing stories by ghost light and telling them in the dark corridors in whispers. She has not stopped her pen from writing such stories since the day she began her writing career. Author Ethington has been involved in telling stories for a very long time. Initially, she used to write crude scripts and then followed it by writing for the stage based on her theatrical performance experience of numerous years. Ethington knocked into the literary writing world with the her Imdalind series. As far her as her personal life is concerned, author Ethington in happily married to the man with whom she shared a close friendship for more than 14 years. She is blessed with a couple of lovely kids.
Ethington considers herself lucky to have been born and raised around the Salt Lake City mountains. She has grown too fond of the beautiful location of her hometown, so much so that she has not yet found the desire of leaving the place. A normal day in the life of author Ethington is spent writing, reading, running, and spending some cherishing moments with her adorable family. Ethington’s birth into a family of theater performers helped her get a close look into the world of stage actors. She spent her initial years growing up backstage, sleeping in the theater streets, and watching numerous rehearsals. Ethington had accepted theater as her life, however, she knew that her life was not limited to performing. She wanted to become someone else so that she could imagine worlds beyond her own. It was in the 5th grade that author Ethington attempted to write her first story. Since then, she used to give out all her stories to her grandmother, who would feel very proud in reading them out. Ethington hoped that someday she would contribute to the bookstore of her grandmother. It was when her grandmother became extremely ill that Ethington started taking writing seriously. However, her first attempt did not prove fruitful. So, she had to wait for a few years for another story to develop in her head and when she finally got it, Ethington was able to complete her debut novel titled Kiss of Fire. This book had to pass through 5 drafts before it was finally published. Author Ethington has no intention of giving a halt to her literary career. In fact, she is working on the idea of developing 5 more novel series, whose initial ideas have knocked her imagination. Currently, author Ethington is writing one more novel series, called Through Glass, along with her Imdalind series. This series is also quite famous among her fans.
The Imdalind series written by Rebecca Ethington is comprised of 8 books in total, which were released between the years 2012 and 2017. Each and every novel of this series features the lead character in the role of Joclyn Despain. The first book of this series is entitled ‘Kiss of Fire’. This book was released by the Imdalind Press in the year 2012. At the start of the book, Joclyn Despain is shown as having been marred by mark on her body. She does not know how the brand mark appeared on the back of her neck. Joclyn doesn’t want the mark to be seen by anyone, not even her best friend named Ryland. He seems to have every other knowledge about Joclyn. Because of the mark, Joclyn keeps her body covered in baggy clothes. She even tries to hide her urge to kiss Ryland, no matter how desperately she wants to do it. Later, Joclyn Despain begins to get hunted and does not know why. It is only after some time she realizes that it is because of the scar mark. She had received a stone from her estranged dad on the occasion of her 16th birthday and did not know that it was cursed. Also, Joclyn didn’t realize the stone would trigger changes in her. Out of nowhere, Joclyn has acquired the strength of throwing away her school bully 10 feet in air. Everyone seems to be stunned at her miraculous power. A tall man begins to stalk Joclyn Despain and when she senses it, she tries to keep herself out of sight of the stalker. A lot questions arise in Joclyn’s head, whose answers she tries to find out. She even tries to gather the courage to listen to what her heart says. It is only when Ryland notices the scar of Joclyn’s body that she gets an idea of how to get rid of it. Ryland informs her that he knows the hidden meaning of the scar and who is the one trying to kill her for it.
The next book released in the series is called ‘Eyes of Ember’. It was also published by Imdalind Press in 2013. At the beginning of the story, it is depicted that Joclyn Despain is still being hunted by her love interest, because of which she has gone into hiding. Ryland’s mind has been erased, which has resulted in the loss of all the memories of Joclyn. He seems to have been possessed by a black-eyed monster, who attempts to kill Joclyn repeatedly. And she can do nothing except hope for a better tomorrow. A man named Ilyan comes Joclyn’s rescue. He used to stalk her once, but has now become her protector. He keeps the killers away from Joclyn and keeps her safe. Ilyan also teaches and trains her so that she could get prepared for avenging Ryland. Another important man in Joclyn’s life is her father, who has never come out to help her and is somehow responsible for all that is happening in her life.
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