Dominique has conquered the evil within her, only to find her one true love now has to kill her. Desperate to save her friends and loved ones from sharing her fate, Dominique ditches her companions in an effort to protect them. With Trent left for dead in the past, she has no idea that Infiniti and Fleet have banded together, facing their own adversity as they struggle to find her.
Sure of nothing, and trusting someone from her first life who promises to be on her side, Dominique decides to set out on her own mission: kill before being killed. With time running out and her friends in hot pursuit, Dominique is hell bent on finishing what was started nine lives ago. Or finally face her final death.
Rose Garcia is a lawyer turned writer who's always been fascinated by science fiction and fantasy. From a very young age, she often had her nose buried in books about other-worlds, fantastical creatures, and life and death situations. More recently she's been intrigued by a blend of science fiction and reality, and the idea that some supernatural events are, indeed, very real. Fueled by her imagination, she created The Transhuman Chronicles--a series of books about people who have overcome human limitations.
Rose lives in Houston with her husband and two kids. You can visit Rose at www.rosegarciabooks.com
Implanted by Heather Letto (Ascension #2) Publication date: June 2015 Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Synopsis: After a narrow escape from
the city of Impervious, Fran’s heart aches for the ones she left behind.
Will her brother ever connect the dots? And, what about Pete? Could he,
along with the remaining Rebels, have survived the Council’s violent
oppression?
As Fran ponders the fate of her friends, an even more disturbing
revelation drops into her world—the knowledge that she, along with
anyone who had lived underground remains implanted with the sinister
presence of the Council. A fate rendering her powerless to save.
Yet one with pure blood, untouched by the Council’s defiling, lives
among them. Could he be the new lifeline of hope? Is salvation of the
city worth risking the life of this one-and-only?
Purchase book 1: In
keeping with the spirit of celebration--for reveal day only--all
IMPERVIOUS (Ascension Series Book 1) Kindle downloads will be .99! This
new edition of Impervious includes a Glossary of Terms and
thought-provoking Discussion Questions.
AUTHOR BIO:
I’m
a book-writing, selfie-taking, latte-drinking, social media gal. I’m
living a good life on the road as a full-fledged Bedouin (Well, except,
my tent is actually a fully-equipped RV.) Me and my partner-in-crime
(Benj) tend to hunker down wherever the skies are clear and the temps
stay in the 70’s. We call ourselves Gypsy Nerds because we aimlessly
wander the U.S. with glasses perched upon our noses and faces jammed
into computer screens (for the first half the day... The second half of
the day is typically devoted to playing because we’re also somewhat
immature.)
Like most authors, the characters I create are my
extended family. And like most readers, when the story ends, I get a
little sad. In real life, I have two handsome, hardworking, grown-up
boys who know how to make their Mama proud! *Waves to Joey and Mike!*
The Ascension Series is my debut into the world of YA fiction.
I am so
excited that AN EMBER IN THE ASHES
by Sabaa Tahir releases today and that I get to share the news, along with a
special introduction from Sabaa herself!
If you
haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Sabaa Tahir, be sure to
check out all the details below.
This blitz
also includes a giveaway for a signed copies of the book and some of those
awesome sword letter openers we’ve seen around courtesy of Sabaa, Penguin Teen,
and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the
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Letter from Sabaa Tahir:
Dear
Readers,
Today, my
“baby” AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is finally out in the world! From inception to pub
date, this journey took eight years. And what a journey it was: writing,
rewriting, revising, editing, querying, submitting; Meeting other debuts,
bloggers, booksellers and librarians, and hearing their thoughts on EMBER.
There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the radness.
And now, the
book is here! I am so excited to see it in the hands of readers. I hope you
enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. To celebrate release day, I’m
giving away two signed, first-edition hardcovers of the book. Details below!
Set in a
terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the Ashes is an epic fantasy
debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his
freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.
LAIA is a
Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her
brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the
empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel
Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
ELIAS is the
academy’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering
deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a
ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.
When Laia
and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more
intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change
the future of the empire itself.
Check out the book trailer!
About Sabaa:
Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s 18-room
motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her
brother’s comic book stash and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember
in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous
indie rock, garish socks and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San
Francisco Bay Area with her family.
Sixteen-year-old Allie isn’t like other girls. Instead of spending her summerbreak sitting around on the beach, she takes the epic vacation of a lifetime.
Tornado chasing.
And she’s not disappointed. Just a few miles from the town of Evansburg,Nebraska, Allie meets her dream of seeing a tornado. In person. She can’t waitto tell her friends back home. Never mind that her parents are going to killher.
But her dream soon turns into a nightmare, and a strange event leaves hershocked. Confused. When she returns home to Wisconsin, something’s…different.Allie now bears a curse so awful, it could destroy everyone and everythingshe’s ever known.
With her best friend, Tommy, Allie must return to the plains to find a way toreverse it. She enters a world that she had never imagined, where she becomes apawn in a fight to save the people of Evansburg from her fate…or to destroythem.
HollyHook is the author of the Destroyers Series, which consists of five young adultbooks about teens who are walking disasters...literally. She is also the authorof the Rita Morse series, a young adult fantasy series still in progress, andAfter These Messages, a short ya comedy. Currently she is writing Twisted, aspin-off of the Destroyers Series due out in December. When not writing, sheenjoys reading books for teens, especially ya fantasy and paranormal serieswith a unique twist.
April Landau thinks she has everything she’sever wanted. Her high school sweetheart, a house she can’t afford, her bipolartabby cat, and she’s all set to begin her Junior year of college. Justwhen she least expects it, her life gets thrown for a loop. When things betweenher and her long time boyfriend unravel, she becomes stuck in a downward spiralof emotion. Finally, opening her eyes to the fact that she may have given upmore than she ever could have imagined in this relationship. She finds herselfstruggling to keep her head above water.
EnterApril’s next door neighbor— JaredHoffman. He’s her complete opposite. A high school drop out who was forcedto take over his parent’s business after their untimely death. It’s no surprisethis tragedy affected him greatly, causing him to recede almost completely fromsociety.
Buthe has one secret. A secret he’s been carrying around for years.
Whathappens when their worlds collide? Can an old friendship be the one thing thatbrings these two back to life?
A new adult love story filledwith drama, sex, death, and the complications of all of the above.
Discovering April will be on Pre-Order sale for $0.99 until5/1/2015!
--Starting 4/27/2015 The Seraphina Series will also be onsale until 5/1 in honor of April’s release! Amazon
Starting 5/1 Discovering April will be enrolled in KindleUnlimited
Author Bio:
Sheena is a born and raised New Yorker, even her writingcan’t hide her hard sarcasm. She claims destiny lead her to writing again. Sheconstantly strives to be a positive role model and write stories that empowerand inspire.
Sheena always roots for the underdog, believes in love atfirst sight, and that everyone should have their happily ever after. While Godis currently writing her love story she continues to put all her time into herwriting as she is constantly getting new inspiration.
For more on Sheena and her books visit her website.
All her life, Barrie Watson has been a virtual prisoner in the house where she lives with her shut-in mother. When her mother dies, Barrie promises to put some mileage on her stiletto heels. But she finds a new kind of prison at her aunt’s South Carolina plantation instead--a prison guarded by an ancient spirit who long ago cursed one of the three founding families of Watson Island and gave the others magical gifts that became compulsions.
Stuck with the ghosts of a generations-old feud and hunted by forces she cannot see, Barrie must find a way to break free ofthe family legacy. With the help of sun-kissed Eight Beaufort, who knows what Barrie wants before she knows herself, the last Watson heir starts to unravel her family's twisted secrets. What she finds is dangerous: a love she never expected, a river that turns to fire at midnight, a gorgeous cousin who isn’t what she seems, and very real enemies who want both Eight and Barrie dead.
"Skillfully blends rich magic and folklore withadventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure . . . An impressive start tothe Heirs of Watson Island series." —Publishers Weekly
"Eight Beaufort is so swoon-worthy that it'sridiculous. Move over Four, Eight is here to stay!" —RT BookReviews, RT Editors Best Books of 2014
"Darkly romantic and steeped in Southern Gothiccharm, you'll be compelled to get lost in the Heirs of Watson Islandseries." —JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT, #1 New York Times bestsellingauthor
"A fresh twist on the Southern Gothic --haunting, atmospheric, and absorbing." —CLAUDIA GRAY, New YorkTimesbestselling author of A Thousand Pieces of You andthe Evernight and Spellcaster series
"A stunningly magical debut with a deliciousslow burn to be savored. I want to live in this story world!" —WENDYHIGGINS, USA Today and New York Times bestsellingauthor of the Sweet Evil trilogy
"Beautifully written, with vivid characters, a generations-oldfeud, and romance that leaps off the page, this Southern ghost story left melingering over every word, and yet wanting to race to the compelling finish. Compulsion isnot to be missed." —MEGAN SHEPHERD, author of The Madman'sDaughter
Book Two:
PERSUASION (HEIRSOF WATSON ISLAND,BOOK 2)
BeautifulCreatures meets Gone With the Wind
As reporterschasing rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold descend on Watson Island,Barrie Watson discovers more is buried at Colesworth Place than treasure. Amysterious, magical man claims the key to the Watson and Beaufort gifts and theColesworth curse also lies beneath the mansion, and Barrie has no option but tohelp him find it. While she and Eight Beaufort struggle to make sense of theescalating danger and their growing feelings for each other, Barrie must decidenot only whom to trust, but which gift is more reliable—Eight’s or her own. With the fate of the founding familiesat stake, she has to choose between what she feels deep in her heart and whatwill keep her loved ones safe.
Martina Boone was born in Prague and spoke several languages before learning English. She fellin love with words and never stopped delighting in them.
She’s the founder of AdventuresInYAPublishing.com, a Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers site, and YASeriesInsiders.com, a site devoted to encouraging literacy and all this YA Series.
From her home in Virginia, where she lives with her husband, children, and Auggie the wonder dog, she enjoys writing contemporary fantasy set in the kinds of magical places she’d love to visit. When she isn’t writing, she’s addicted to travel, horses, skiing, chocolate flavored tea, and anything with Nutella on it.
White Raven by J.L. Weil
(Raven Series, #1)
Publication date: March 27th 2015
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
Synopsis:
DREADFUL LIES.
UNEXPECTED LOVE.
IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH.
It only took one heartbeat to change my life—one chilling phone call in the middle of the night.
And then, as if my life didn’t already suck, my dad sends my brother
and me to some idyllic island for the summer to live with a grandma we
never met. WTH. Naturally, I rebel. In the end, I find myself shipped
off to Raven Hallow…and bored to tears.
Until I get an eyeful of the mind-bendingly gorgeous Zane Hunter. The
dark-hair cutie makes my pulse go bonkers, and I think, maybe this
might not be so bad after all. Six feet of swoon inducing looks, with a
hint of Celtic charm in his voice, he was the type of guy that left a
string of broken hearts in his wake. And I had all the heartbreak I
could handle.
Yet, there is something uncanny, almost supernatural about Zane, and
it’s not just his devastating smirk. No matter how much distance I put
between us, Raven Hallow isn’t big enough, and the sparking tension
between is undeniable. Of course, the one person I want to avoid becomes
my salvation.
My past comes back to terrorize me. Someone wants me dead, and the
closer I get to the truth, the more I realize my whole life is a lie. I
am no longer sure what is more frightening—the attempts on my life or
the guy whose heart and soul are synchronized with mine.
Being in love. My boys. Raspberry Mochas. Twilight. Love Pink. The smell of the Ocean. Dark Chocolate. Books. Being married. Harry Potter. Bad Boys. Candles. The Green Bay Packers. Jensen Ackles (duh!). NKOTB. Punky Brewster. Libraries. The Walking Dead. American Eagle jeggings. Owls. Bonfires. Dancing. Libraries with a Starbucks inside. My cat, Kiki. Romance. Vampire Diaries. Ireland. Christmas. Country music. Movies. Motherhood. The sound of water. Sunsets. Sleep. Going out to dinner. Laughing. Shopping. Moonlight. Sex. Amaretto stone sour. My family. Musicals. My macbook. The stars. Reading. Freebies. Back rubs. Fireplaces. Eyes. Daydreaming. Video games. Singing. Twitter. Decorating. Grill outs. The beach. Swearing. Coco-cola. Writing. Madden shoes. Body piercings. Sightseeing. Pretty Little Liars. Purses. Vacations. Sleeping. Staying up late. Lazy afternoons. A clean house. Bubble baths. Home cooked meals. Trends. Cliches. Nora Roberts. Tattoos. Pink hair. Makeup. Magic & Witches. Sparkly things. Hugs. Walt Disney World. My hubby's steak (it was the first meal he ever made me). Kissing and stuff. My little sis. Brantley Gilbert. Wishes. My birthday. Surprises. Blogging. Anything Celtic. Snapping gum. Thunderstorms. Iced coffee. Donuts. Freckles. Perfume. Organization. Butterflies. Summertime. Sips & Sjin.
AUTHOR BIO:
Award-winning
and Bestselling author J.L. Weil writes Teen & New Adult Paranormal
Romances about spunky, smart mouth girls who always wind up in
dire situations. For every sassy girl, there is an equally
mouthwatering, overprotective guy. Of course there is lots of kissing.
And stuff.
Most of her books are for ages 16+. They usually have
what she considers the good stuff - sexual content (oh yeah) and
swearing. You have been warned ;)
An admitted addict to Love Pink
clothes, raspberry mochas from Starbucks, (yum!) and Jensen Ackles
(double yum!). She loves gushing about books and Supernatural with her
readers.
A few days ago, I was living the life of the privileged elite—now I may not live through the night…
In a dystopian world, far in the future, seventeen-year-old, Fenesia Thornbark, loses her home, her way of life, and most of her friends and family, all at the hands of people she once trusted. With her parents dead, Fenesia is now responsible for her younger sister’s life, as well as that of several other orphaned children they meet along the way, while trying to find the resistance group who is fighting the corrupt government. As she struggles to survive in a hostile environment that isunfamiliar to her, Fenesia is transformed into an unapologetic killer—something she had never imagined possible in her former privileged life.
Author Bio
N. J. Paige lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children. One of her favorite motto is "Life is a journey and must be taken one step at a time." And she enjoys hiking through her local forest, where she gets inspiration from forest Sprites and other woodland creatures.
Beyond the Sea by Emily Goodwin (Beyond the Sea #1) Publication date: April 28th 2015 Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Synopsis:
Stay away from the surface. Remain hidden at all times. Never fall in love with a human…but rules are meant to be broken.
After the brutal murder of her sister, Melia is forced to flee from
the only place she’s ever called home, the Pacific Ocean, leaving her
life as a merrow behind and pretending to be human.
Peter Anderson is just trying to get through college when Melia walks
into his life. He knows there is something different about her, and
it’s not just that she lives alone in a mansion overlooking the ocean,
spending all her time with Jamie Forester, the only goth girl in the
sunny town of San Morado.
Worlds collide when Melia must make a life or death decision, and
risk being seen in order to save Peter from drowning. Knowing that
falling in love with a human is forbidden, Melia resists her attraction
to Peter, but soon she finds herself in love with him…and in danger.
Melia knows love might not be enough to protect them from the dangers that lurk in the deep waters she once called home.
They say love knows no boundaries, but can it survive the darkest depths of the ocean?
Emily
Goodwin is the author of the award winning Contagium Series published
by Permuted Press as well as many independently published novels,
including the internationally bestselling novel, STAY. Emily writes in a
wide variety of genres, from horror to romance. She holds multiple
degrees in psychology and nursing and has worked in mental health and
general healthcare. Emily resides in Indiana with her husband, daughter,
and German Shepherd named Vader. Along with writing, Emily enjoys
riding her horse, designing and making costumes, and Cosplay.
A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a scorned bride can.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
As she slams the improvised stake into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment. Turning around to face them, Elle discovers that Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life falls apart.
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Excerpt
The ballroom was packed. More people had arrived while we were getting dressed. Women in sequined dresses and men in tuxedos sat around almost all the tables. Some of them were even eating. Couples crowded the dance floor. The band was indeed very good--they were playing a version of “You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to” and the lead singer, a tall woman in a slinky black dress, had a deep, smoky-sounding voice.
It would be easy to be charmed by this setting, by all the elegance that surrounded me.
Of course, all the vampires that surrounded me weren’t quite so charming. They were terrifying.
And in a room full of people, I discovered that it was easy to tell which ones were vampires and which ones weren’t. Some of the humans were easy to spot--the ones who were eating food were easy to pick out as humans, of course, and many of them had bandages or fresh wounds on various parts of their bodies. The parts where the veins ran close to the surface: the neck, the crook of the elbow, the wrist.
There were other humans there, too, though, humans who weren’t eating and who didn’t have any visible blood-donation marks. But they were clearly human, just as some of the other people moving around the room were clearly vampires. The vampires tended toward pallor, of course. And occasionally one flashed a fang here or there, particularly when they laughed--an effect that I found chilling. They were mostly extraordinarily beautiful, but then, so were the humans. Deirdre seemed to like surrounding herself with beauty.
It had something to do with the energy the vampires projected, I guess. They seemed strangely brittle, yet almost vibrating with a nervous vitality. I’ve seen a similar thing with people who were on the verge of an emotional breakdown but attempting to hide it. I’ve also seen it in people with bipolar disorder. It’s a sort of forced, manic gaiety verging on hysteria.
But that energy was combined with an indolence of movement. They swayed through the room slowly, languorously, all the while virtually quivering with some suppressed power.
All in all, it was just about the creepiest thing I’d ever seen--toward the top of the list, anyway, right after “Seeing My Beloved Eaten.”
I recognized now some of that same energy in Greg himself. It wasn’t as pronounced, but it was there all the same. Perhaps it grew with age.
That meant that I was in a room full of old--perhaps very old--vampires.
God. I was in big trouble.
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Character Profile
Greg Parham
Age: 25
Physical description from the book: Greg’s eyes were open, but not seeing anything. There was blood everywhere--on the front of the man’s suit, smeared across his face, trickling down Greg’s side, dripping onto the carpet below the spot where Greg’s feet barely brushed back and forth as he swung from the man’s grip.
Quote that fits his personality: “Did you think I wouldn’t recognize you? You might look different, but you smell exactly the same.”
Best quality: He’s committed to his career as an attorney.
Worst quality: He thinks that the best way to get ahead in his career is to become a bloodsucking fiend of a vampire. _____________________________________________
Margo Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels, including Sanguinary, Waking Up Dead, Taming the Country Star, Bound by Blood, Legally Undead, and Fairy, Texas. She lives in Texas with her husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches college-level English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
