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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series:</b> Share Me, #2</span></span><br />
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<span id="m_8087639293758210228freeText14438651549605541956"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LEXIE<br />I made a deal with the devil. A devil named Derek Drake. He makes my husband watch as he uses me to satisfy his carnal desires. I love it, and that terrifies me. Because this bargain only works if they are willing to share me. I don’t know what I’ll do when they decide they’ve had enough of our deal. I’m not sure I can choose between them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DEREK<br />Brian loves watching me pleasure his wife in ways he never could. But the beast inside me is tired of sharing my Goddess. I am the one who ignited the dark fire within her. I am the one she answers to. Alexandra is mine. I don’t see much use for the cuck anymore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bull’s Eye is a steamy, kinky MMF romance about a cuckold relationship gone awry. When the line between lust and love blurs, when the two men sharing her both lay their claim, Lexie will have to make the choice of her life: Derek or Brian. WARNING: this story is not for the faint of heart. It is a twisted tale of self-discovery about finding light in the darkest corners of the heart. It has hard BDSM and an open marriage where the boundaries are pushed to the breaking point. Read at your own risk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My readers and I are one in the same: we like it dark, and we like it dirty. If you like dominant men, strong-as-hell heroines, and heart-racing plots with lots of kink, then welcome to our wicked little club. My characters will take you on a wild ride as they give into their most forbidden desires, uncovering their truest selves along the way. Always steamy and extra sinful, my romances will have you embracing your dark side in no time.<br /><br />Evelyn lives in Brooklyn, and some might be so bold as to call her a *gasp* hipster. When she's not busy ordering a craft beer or drinking kombucha, she works part-time at a wellness center. No matter what she's doing, her mind lives full-time in smutland, always thinking of new ways to torture those hunky Alpha males and the ladies they love to play with.<br />Check out my website for updates, newsletter sign-ups, and giveaways!<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.evoxwrites.com&source=gmail&ust=1518492119036000&usg=AFQjCNH3NwyCtspxUS0l43IVT7BNln44zA" href="http://www.evoxwrites.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.evoxwrites.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t believe in fairy tales and I don’t waste time wishing for one. I learned long ago that luck smiles on the—well, lucky—and that the rest of us can just go to hell. So when my boyfriend ran off and left me with a bunch of debt, I knew better than to wish for a miracle. But then one came my way, in the form of four—count ’em four—hot, sexy men. But as luck would have it—or wouldn’t have it, in my case—I couldn’t have a single one of them.</span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7AQJ3Xjygo/WoEQYCUT4yI/AAAAAAAAHhE/qMIl0Jh8pxE2VrDkbp3bPrrZvik9OtL-QCLcBGAs/s1600/Mika_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="250" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z7AQJ3Xjygo/WoEQYCUT4yI/AAAAAAAAHhE/qMIl0Jh8pxE2VrDkbp3bPrrZvik9OtL-QCLcBGAs/s320/Mika_.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Writing has been a passion of Mika’s since a young age (her first book was "The Day I Ate the Milkyway"), but erotic romance is now what gives purpose to her days and nights. She lives in magical Northern California with her own handsome alpha dude, sometimes known as Mr. Mika Lane, and an evil cat named Bill. A devotee of the intelligent and beautiful, and lover of shiny things, she’s a yogi, hiker, traveler, thinker, observer, and book worm. She has been known to drink cheap champagne and has way too many shoes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You’re next,” Elliott says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What did I do to deserve waiting with this guy? “Yeah.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Can you really do it?” Elliott asks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Do what?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Live not knowing, not seeing what could be.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I could ask you the same question.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He’s puzzled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Let’s say you go through those doors and become an Unsound. And you get locked away from your family and friends for your entire life. Tell me you won't wonder what a normal life could be.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I nod. “My dad.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He turns his head away from me. “I’m sorry.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve always faced the same reaction. They think it’s sympathy, but it’s fear. As much as everyone talks about genetics not factoring in and your parents not determining your powers, having an Unsound in the family is mark of shame. Most don’t discuss it. The only person in my high school that knows is Aaron. After the torture thrown at me in middle school, the last thing I want to do is let anyone know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The exit door stands to my left. I want to bolt. Want to get out of this place. Something keeps me glued to my chair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Rose. I know you’re scared. But if you leave now, you won’t get another chance.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He’s right. With millions of kids involved, getting another appointment is near impossible. I would end up with the other Basics. I stare at the screen, willing the phoenix not to fly by again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Rose. Think about this.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You think I haven’t? It’s all I’ve thought for years. I’m not like you, or the other kids here. You sit there, blindly waiting for your number to be called, trusting everything will be—“</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You don't know me at all.” For the first time, there’s terror in Elliott’s face. He turns back to watch the screen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“So you’re scared too, then.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did he feel as helpless as I did?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Elliott takes a deep breath. “I can't control which system I was born in. I can only control how I cope with it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“That's the only power you think you have?” I ask.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’s the only power any of us have. Anything else is an illusion.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My heart jolts as the phoenix flies by and displays my number. The mechanical voice cuts through me. “Now serving A535. That's A535. Thank you.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m still. Trapped between two worlds. Somehow, none of the thinking, the planning or the debating have prepared me for this moment. Elliott stands and tries to nudge me out of my chair. I won’t move. I’ll wait here. If they want me so bad, they can drag me through those doors. A part of me wishes they would. The exit is a few steps away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Rose, please!” His blue eyes plead with me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Daniel Solomon Kaplan is a playwright turned author after much arm twisting from his wife. He currently has several novels in the works, including CATALYST, the next book of the Elevated Series, scheduled to debut before the end of the year.</span></span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-22468961423206824752015-02-27T00:45:00.000-06:002015-03-13T00:55:30.491-05:00Excerpt: The Token 9: Chet Sinclair by Marata Eros <div class="MsoNormal">
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Title: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Token 9: Chet Sinclair</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“No.” I stare down at Ax
from where's he perched on the beat-up futon—my bed. “We're not a team until we
get some shit straight.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ax's jet black eyebrow hops to his hairline. “Baby—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“No,” I say, waving a palm in his face like a railroad arm
coming down over a track. “Don't you<i> baby</i> me.” My eyes shoot sparks, and
he leans back with a grunt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You clobbered Chet.” I cross my arms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yeah-huh.” He gives his short hair a rough scrub. “And
Chump was deserving, Kik.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I stomp my high heel. “Maybe!” I stab the air with my
finger. “But you nailed him from behind, and now he's, I don't know, dead or
broken somewhere.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ax shakes his head. “I've looked into Chet-buddy, and his
rich ass can take care of its own self.” He wags a finger and leans back again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I pace as if the energy is pouring off me. I whirl and
point at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His eyes narrow on my hot pink nail tip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“You have a closet full of chick’s clothing,” I say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ax shrugs, giving my once-pristine outfit an eye rake. “I
see you made use of it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Why, Ax?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His expression is unreadable, not the open face I remember
so well. “The Crawl isn't my only business, Kik. I have some others.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“What do you mean?” I search his face, and a flicker
skates across his dark gaze. “Don't bullshit me, Ax. It won't work. I'm a
fucking hard-charging broad. You know this.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He grins, white teeth slashing across his face. “Oh, I <i>know</i>.
Damn, girl, do I know.” He chuckles. “This isn't where I normally hang. In
fact, this is just a little lily pad I hop on to sleep over once in a while.
Sometimes employees from my other businesses need somewhere to crash, and I
give them a boost.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“How much of a boost?” I'm aware my voice has just dipped
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Kik…” His eyes meet mine, and they're not remotely soft,
but hard as flint. “Why do I feel you're coming down hard on me when I've been
doing nothing but helping you? Let me count the ways of my awesome.” He winks,
ticking off his great points on his fingers. “I took you in when Chump was
admiring his own dick.” I roll my eyes, and he continues. “I haven't put the
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Marata Eros (a pen name for Tamara Rose Blodgett), is the NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestselling author of A Terrible Love. Marata has more than thirty-five titles in multiple genres including Dark Fantasy, Dark Romance as well as her highly successful Dark Erotica series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I'm a YA author with a penchant for the dark and strange. I primarily write speculative fiction but enjoy literary writing as well. I occasionally delve into adult genres too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm a musician and have a Master's degree in music, but I prefer writing strange stories, baking peanut butter cupcakes and playing with my shiba inu. </span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-44989632268514211472015-02-20T00:30:00.000-06:002015-03-13T00:44:27.350-05:00Excerpt:Sword by Amy Bai<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Title: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sword</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Publication: <o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">February 10th 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: <o:p></o:p></span></b><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Sword shall guide the hands of men . . .</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For over a thousand years the kingdom of Lardan has been at peace: isolated from the world, safe from the wars of its neighbors, slowly forgetting the wild and deadly magic of its origins. Now the deepest truths of the past and the darkest predictions for the future survive only in the verses of nursery rhymes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For over a thousand years, some of Lardan’s fractious provinces have been biding their time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kyali Corwynall is the daughter of the Lord General, a child of one of the royal Houses, and the court’s only sword-wielding girl. She has known for all of her sixteen years what the future holds for her–politics and duty, the management of a House, and protecting her best friend, the princess and presumed heir to the throne. But one day an old nursery rhyme begins to come true, an ancient magic wakes, and the future changes for everyone. In the space of a single night her entire life unravels into violence and chaos. Now Kyali must find a way to master the magic her people have left behind, or watch her world–and her closest friends–fall to a war older than the kingdom itself.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An arm reached out of the dark and
wrapped around her neck. <span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She saw it coming from the corner of
her eye, but only had time to twitch uselessly sideways. Another arm
immediately followed the first one, muffling her startled cry and stealing her
breath. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Too shocked to be afraid, she bit down.
The hand over her face jerked away. Her elbow drove backwards and her heel went
up into a knee. The awful crack of bone that followed drew a pained groan from
behind her, and brought her panic in a thundering flood. Her attacker
staggered, pulling her with him. The dropped candle sputtered on the floor
beside them, throwing huge shadows everywhere. Spurred on by the thought that
she might have to finish this struggle in the dark, she shouted. It was a much
softer sound than she'd intended, but the floorboards above them creaked ominously,
the arms around her fell away, and he screamed, as though she had burned him. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leaving this mystery for later
consideration, Kyali flung herself at the steps and scrambled up, leaving the
back panel of her skirts in his fist. Her sword clattered on the floor as she
snatched at it. He came hard on her heels and, as she turned, drove himself
obligingly onto it for her. Stunned, she froze again. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her blood sang in her ears. By the look
on his face—a fair face, some much colder part of her noted, with the Western
short-beard—he was at least as surprised as she was. He drew a bubbling breath.
A dagger dropped from his hand and hit the floor between them. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They stared at one another. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He made an odd face then, and coughed a
gout of blood all over her. She blinked through the drops. She knew she had to
move—<i>not dead till they stop bleeding</i>, Father would say—but she
couldn't. For all her years of study, all the secrecy and swordplay, she had
never killed a man. She supposed, watching his face in a perversely distant
way, that she still hadn't quite managed it. But he fell forward onto her then,
going limp, and after the instinctive terror of having him land on her subsided
the sight of his glassy gaze, of her old practice sword sticking out of his
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blood dripped down her cheek. He didn't move. He seemed not to be bleeding
anymore, though with all the blood on him already how could one tell? She
didn’t intend to get closer to check. She couldn't hear anyone else in the
house. Through the haze of shock, she was grateful the soldiers weren't here to
witness this bizarrely personal moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Well," Kyali said, beginning
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Amy Bai has been, by order of neither chronology nor preference, a barista, a numbers-cruncher, a paper-pusher, and a farmhand. She likes thunderstorms, the enthusiasm of dogs, tall boots and long jackets, cinnamon basil, margaritas, and being surprised by the weirdness of her fellow humans. She lives in New England with her guitar-playing Russian husband and two very goofy sheepdogs.</span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-67894167865131195622015-02-17T23:51:00.001-06:002015-02-17T23:56:18.063-06:00Giveaway & Excerpt: Obsession by Bonnie Vanak <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Title: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Obsession</span><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></b></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: clear;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="background-color: clear;">He</span> comes to her in a dark dream promising sensual pleasure
– sexy, tempting and dangerous. Raphael is an obsessed wolf with one thing on
his mind. He wants Jessica naked beneath him, and nothing will stop him until
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<span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Jessica Tyrell is a Lupine with a mission – find her
missing brother, her only living blood relative. Now, with the help of magick
crystals, her dream can come true. All she needs is to hack into restricted
records at her friend Alexa’s ranch. The only thing standing in her way is
Raphael Amador, head of pack security. The wolf wants her with the same
ruthless intent he displays in protecting the pack. Jessica knows if she
surrenders to his sensual allure, she could lose her soul to Raphael.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Haunted by his tortured past and determined to never love again, Raphael
finds his passion awakened by the lovely redhead, who threatens his control. He
has vowed to seek revenge against the man who killed his intended mate and
scattered his pack. Can he experience a night of pleasure with the lovely
redhead and pursue his goal of revenge, or will Jessica capture his broken
heart?</span></span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Raphael shook his head. “Another time, little one. Perhaps one night I will
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His gaze became hooded. “With you, I would much rather share…things… at night.”</span></div>
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childhood. While cleaning a hall closet, she discovered her mother’s cache
of paperbacks and started reading. Thus began a passion for romance
and a lifelong dislike for housework.</span></span><br />
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After years of newspaper reporting, Bonnie became a writer for a
major international charity. She travels to destitute countries such as
Haiti to write about famine, disease and other issues affecting the
poor. When the emotional strains of her job demanded a diversion, she
turned to her childhood dream of writing romance novels.<br />
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She lives in Florida with her husband Frank and two dogs, where she
happily writes books amid an ever-growing collection of dust bunnies.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="background-color: clear; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis:</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 115%;"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color: clear; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: clear; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Four
years of honorably serving his country has left Simon, Cade’s younger brother,
damaged and trapped in wolf form. Little did he know the only person with the
ability to heal him completely would be found at home. <i>Literally</i>. Now
that he’s found her, he is desperate to claim her.</span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;">Rose
is a beautiful, voluptuous woman with limited experience with men. Although
she's confident, she still has reservations. Never having a family of her own,her
fear of abandonment has her fleeing romantic relationships, and doubting
herself.<br /> </span><span style="background-color: clear;"> </span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;">Travis
is insane. A deadly loose cannon that a secret organization hired to destroy
the Le Beau family by denying them their mates. Permanently. </span><span style="background-color: clear;">Simon’s dream will be
lost forever unless he is able to maintain human form.</span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;">Rose needs
unconditional love and a mate to create the family she’s always wanted.</span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;">Travis’s all-consuming
drive is to take Rose for himself.</span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Will
Simon ever be whole again,able to claim his mate, giving Rose the love and
family she so desperately craves? Or will Travis destroy them both?</span></span>
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Complete novel. No cliffhanger. Dual POV. Rated 18+ for language and strong sexual content.*</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: clear; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: clear; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the first book, <i>Cade</i>, we get a little taste of Simon's trauma. We all know being a solider in the middle east is difficult and it is even more so for Simon. Getting details about his experiences really makes you connect to his character. The things Simon has been through really allow him to be patient with Rose and to connect and understand her.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can tell that the events and suspense in this book are leading up to something bigger in the coming installments of this series. I know the next book is not about Rose but I want her and Simon to have babies. <i>wink, wink. </i></span><br />
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bestselling author of the Le Beau Brothers series, New Orleans wolf shifter
novels. A graduate of Saint Cloud University, she majored in marketing. Prior
to becoming a full time writer, she was a publicist to the authors, owning
Innovative Online Book Tours and ARC Author & Reader Con's (ARC NOLA) (ARC
Phoenix). Still is. The companies mesh so well together, much like PB&J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Minnesota native
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Her earliest reading
memories are from grade school. She had a major fixation with horses, and the
Black Stallion was a favorite. Then junior high came along and teenage hormones
kicked in. It became all about the Harlequin Romances. She has been hooked on
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://wantedreaders.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-excerpt-giveaway-cade-by-va-dold.html" target="_blank">My Review</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Title: </b>Room<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #1a222a;"><b>Author: </b>Emma Donoghue</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;">Narrators:</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> Michal Friedman, Ellen Archer, Robert Petkoff, Suzanne Toren<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #1a222a;"><b>Publisher: </b>Blackstone Audio</span><span style="color: #1a222a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;">Length:</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> 10 hrs 45 mins</span><span style="color: #1a222a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;">Publication:</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> November 16, 2010</span><span style="color: #1a222a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: clear;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Synopsis: </span></span></b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him. She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Told entirely in the language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, ROOM is a celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from one world to another.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>My Thoughts:</b> This is the heart breaking story of survival. Jack loves Room; it's all he knows. I have never thought about survival from the eyes of the smallest victim. I'm glad that with this read I got the opportunity to see it. All Jack knows is Room and as far as he can tell Room is safe. </span></span><span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The safety of room is only confirmed when Jack participates in his mother's plans to get him out of Room. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #1a222a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This read is not for the fain of heart. I shed many tears during this story. In my past life i worked with survivors everyday. But, I was only working toward a goal. I didn't take the time to learn about how they survived and how they were affected by the struggle to survive and how they felt about things outside of the their struggles. This book reminded me that my struggles are small and insignificant compared to others and to never take freedom for granted. This is a great read for mature readers. Just be prepared that the content is difficult to swallow. </span></div>
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Misdirection<br />The Rusty Diamond Trilogy</h1>
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by Austin Williams</h2>
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<b>Genre:</b> Mystery, Suspense, Thriller
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<b>Published by:</b> Diversion Books
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<b>Publication Date:</b> June 24, 2014
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<b>Number of Pages:</b> 266
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<b>Series:</b> 1st in The Rusty Diamond Trilogy
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<b>ISBN:</b> 9781626813557
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My Thoughts: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rusty has been hiding in his home town for the past year. All that changes when his landlord turns up dead and he becomes the main suspect. What Rusty does when faced with this is surprising. I love that Rusty has hidden demons and I was anxious to keep reading to find them all out. His quick critical thinking and skills as an illusionist have the tendency to get him in trouble. The suspense and action begins with the first page and continues to the very last. I look forward to seeing what is in store for Rusty in forthcoming books. </span></span></h2>
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Synopsis:</h2>
A street magician needs more than sleight-of- hand to survive getting embroiled in a murder case in this blistering novel of suspense, perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and George Pelecanos.<br />
After years of chasing fame and hedonistic excess in the bright lights of Las Vegas, Rusty "The Raven" Diamond has returned home to Ocean City to piece his life back together. When he finds himself an innocent suspect in his landlord's brutal murder, Rusty abandons all hope of maintaining a tranquil existence. Acting on impulse, he digs into the investigation just enough to anger both the police and a local drug cartel.<br />
As the unsolved case grows more complex, claiming new victims and inciting widespread panic, Rusty feels galvanized by the adrenaline he's been missing for too long. But his newfound excitement threatens to become an addiction, leading him headfirst into an underworld he's been desperately trying to escape.<br />
Austin Williams creates an unforgettable protagonist in Rusty, a flawed but relatable master of illusion in very real danger. As the suspense builds to an explosively orchestrated climax, Williams paints a riveting portrait of both a city—and a man—on the edge.<br />
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The bloodstain was shaped like Florida. Rusty didn’t know much about geography, probably couldn’t point out more than a handful of states on a map. But he knew what Florida looked like, even though he’d never been there. And the mass of drying blood stretching across the hardwood floor, coming to a rounded tip a few inches from his leather boots (this tip just slightly darker than the wide stream comprising most of the stain) was a dead ringer for the Sunshine State.<br />
He knew it was a strange thing to consider, given the circumstances. Hardly an appropriate mental response to such an intensely disturbing situation. He wasn’t in shock, exactly, but he had no idea what to do with himself. There was nothing he could do until the police arrived. Which should be any minute now. In fact, he was starting to wonder what the hell was taking so long.<br />
Rusty wasn’t sure of how much confidence to place in the Ocean City Police Department. When it came to traffic stops and busts for disorderly conduct, open containers, public nudity and the like, the OCPD was surely qualified.<br />
But murder? That had to fall well outside the parameters of what the local law was accustomed to handling on a regular basis. Or so Rusty mused, mainly to occupy his mind and not keep checking his wristwatch every ten seconds.<br />
Rusty stared at the bloodstain’s surface congealing in the reflection of an overhead lamp. About two feet in width at the center, it grew wider near its source. That source was the throat of a frail silver-haired woman who lay crumpled on the floor. The upper half of her body reached into the living room while her legs protruded onto the dull yellow linoleum of the kitchen. One orthopedic shoe lay on its side next to the stove, the other still on her left foot.<br />
Two more minutes and I’m calling 911 again, he told himself.<br />
This house in which he was currently the sole occupant—not counting its recently deceased owner—wasn’t technically located in OC proper but in a remote enclave called Ocean Pines, separated from the main town by eight miles of salty bay water. A quiet upscale community, Rusty had a fairly complete knowledge of its character, having spent the first eighteen years of his life here and moving back ten months ago. <br />
Next Thursday would be his thirty-sixth birthday. He had little awareness of that fact, and less interest in it.<br />
For all Rusty knew, this was the first murder to darken the Pines’ suburban pastoral facade since the town was incorporated in 1958. And it definitely was murder, of that he had no doubt. No one could conceivably take their own life in such a manner, and certainly not a frail seventy-eight-year-old spinster. <br />
The opening in Ms. Garrett’s throat was not long, maybe three inches at most. It looked like more of a gouge than a slash. There was no knife or sharp implement anywhere in the room, and Rusty didn’t dare step over the body to take a look in the kitchen. <br />
The skin around the gash didn’t appear to have been torn with a blade, but hacked away by a cruder implement.<br />
Fingernails? Teeth? <br />
Rusty shuddered as he pondered the options, and forced himself to stop thinking about it.<br />
The hum of a car’s engine and pebbles crunching underneath a set of tires claimed his attention. He walked to the front door, pulling aside a sash by the adjacent window to look outside into the hazy afternoon light. <br />
Finally. <br />
An Ocean City Police Department patrol unit sat in the driveway, engine idling. Rusty saw the door swing open, and a powerfully built officer stepped out. He grimaced. The cop didn’t appear to be much older than a high schooler. Probably fresh out of the Academy with plenty to prove behind the badge. <br />
Why didn’t they send a detective, Rusty wondered, unlatching the door and opening it slowly so as not to make a surprise appearance on the front porch. Well, it was possible the OCPD’s homicide unit didn’t keep more than one ranking detective on any given shift. They probably didn’t need more than that.<br />
The young patrol cop was taking purposeful strides toward the house, fleshy face set tight as he spoke into a shoulder mic, confirming with a dispatcher his arrival at the location. His eyes widened just slightly before narrowing as he made a quick appraisal of Rusty Diamond.<br />
“You’re the one who made the call?”<br />
Rusty nodded.<br />
“She’s in there,” he said, stepping aside to let the patrol officer enter the house. <br />
The cop had not taken two full steps into the living room when he stopped abruptly, one hand falling onto the service revolver holstered on his right hip.<br />
“Jesus Christ.” <br />
“Yeah,” Rusty said. “That was pretty much my reaction.”<br />
For a moment they stood there, two tall male shapes looming over a plump female form in a spattered floral dress.<br />
“Found her just like this?”<br />
“That’s right. I didn’t touch anything.”<br />
“How long?”<br />
“Can’t be much more than fifteen minutes. I called right away.”<br />
“You know her?”<br />
“Her name’s Thelma Garrett. She’s my landlord.”<br />
The sound of that didn’t sit right with Rusty; it was too removed and devoid of any kind of feeling. He almost added something like, 'She was kind to me', but figured that was bound to come out wrong.<br />
The cop finally looked up from the old woman’s body, seeming to peel his eyes away by an act of will.<br />
“You live here?”<br />
“No. She owns … owned a second house not far from here, on Echo Run. I’ve been renting it.”<br />
Those words brought on a sudden rush of memory. Rusty could see with total clarity in his mind’s eye the day he first met Ms. Garrett. Just over ten months ago, on a frigid January morning. The meeting didn’t happen here but at the rental house he’d occupied ever since. <br />
At the time Rusty was so disoriented at finding himself back in Ocean Pines after such a prolonged absence that he had some difficulty maintaining a conversation with the chatty spinster. He agreed to her proposed rental fee, which seemed low for a three-bedroom furnished property overlooking Isle of Wight Bay. Location alone must have made the house a highly desirable piece of real estate, and he couldn’t figure why she was willing to rent it out for such a reasonable sum. <br />
Speaking in the kindly, crinkly voice he’d come to associate with her in all moods, Ms. Garrett replied she had no use for the property or a large boost in income. Once shared with her husband and the scene of many festive gatherings, it was too big for her current needs. And too lonely. Living as a childless widow in a modest two-bedroom tract house on nearby Heron Lane was much more comfortable. <br />
Thelma (she’d insisted Rusty use her first name) didn’t want to go through the hassle of trying to sell the larger house in a lackluster market, and was glad to simply know it would be occupied after many dormant years. It depressed her to think of the house where she and her family had shared so many good occasions sitting dark and forlorn all this time. Rusty signed the lease, feeling halfway guilty for paying so little. <br />
“How’d you happen to find her?” the patrol officer said, yanking Rusty back from his reverie. <br />
A slight whiff of something Rusty didn’t like crept into the cop’s voice. A taunt, almost, most likely the by-product of youth and rattled nerves. He scanned the badge pinned to the kid’s chest.<br />
“Tell you what, Officer Neely. Why don’t we go through the whole thing when a detective gets here. Someone’s on the way, right?”<br />
“I’m the one you need to talk to now.”<br />
“Officer, trust me. I’m going to give my full cooperation. Whoever did this needs to …”<br />
He stopped. The cop was looking at him with a new kind of scrutiny. Now that the initial shock of seeing the dead woman was fading, he seemed to take a full view of Rusty for the first time. The expression on his face didn’t make much of an effort to hide a sense of disgust. <br />
Rusty suddenly wished he’d kept his leather jacket on, but the living room had become stifling as he stood here waiting for the cavalry to arrive. The jacket lay draped on a sofa and he was wearing a black tank top, leaving his shoulders and arms open to easy view. Perusal would be more accurate, given the snaking tracks of words and symbols tattooed across much of his upper torso, coiling around the back of his neck and splitting into two vines that reached down both arms almost to the wrists.<br />
“Latin, for the most part,” he said with a self-deprecating shrug. “Just for looks, really. I don’t know what half of it means myself.” <br />
Officer Neely’s posture tensed visibly. His fingers once again found a place to rest on his gun.<br />
“Turn around slowly, and show me your hands.”<br />
Rusty tried to pretend he’d misheard.<br />
“Sorry, what?”<br />
“Come on, do it.”<br />
“You’re going to cuff me? I’m the one who called this in, remember?”<br />
“Just turn around. We’ll keep you nice and snug till backup gets here.”<br />
“Look, I’m as freaked out as you are. But I didn’t do anything to this poor woman.”<br />
“You’re resisting? I said let’s see those hands.”<br />
He unsnapped the button on top of his holster. It seemed like a good moment to do something. <br />
“For the last time, turn around!”<br />
Rusty knew he could disarm this uniformed frat boy in just about 2.7 seconds. The task wouldn’t present much of a challenge. He could easily divert Neely’s eyeline with a lateral, non-aggressive movement of his left arm.
Momentarily distracted, the cop would never see the fingers of Rusty’s right hand extracting a one-inch smoke pellet from a customized hidden pocket in his jeans. Pinched at the proper angle, the pellet would explode in a blinding flash followed by a plume of gray smoke. Utterly harmless but highly effective for misdirection.<br />
The span of time Officer Neely would need to recover from his surprise would offer Rusty ample opportunity to relieve him of the gun. Using his fingertips, he’d grab the wrist and isolate pressure points causing Neely’s hand to open involuntarily. From there, Rusty would simply reposition his body at a 45-degree angle and use his left hand to retrieve a sterling set of monogrammed handcuffs tucked in a different hidden pocket. One more second would be sufficient to cuff the young patrolman to a column of the bannister directly behind him.<br />
They were only trick cuffs, but Officer Neely didn’t know that. And unless he could perform with great precision, the sequence of twisting wrist movements needed to unlatch them, the knowledge wouldn’t do him any good.
So, yes, the maneuver would surely come off. Just as successfully as it had in a thousand performances, even if those all occurred some time ago and Rusty’s reflexes were no longer quite what they used to be. <br />
But what would any of that accomplish other than to greatly amplify a sense of suspicion for his role in a brutal murder he had absolutely nothing to do with? Plus bring on a raft of other charges for failing to comply with orders, impeding police business, assault, et cetera. Obviously it was a bad play all around, however tempting.<br />
So Rusty slowly turned 180 degrees and lowered his hands. Audibly relieved, Officer Neely stepped forward and bound them with a pair of un-monogrammed OCPD handcuffs. They closed around his wrists more tightly then necessary, pinching hard on the skin.<br />
Hearing the cuffs snap shut, Rusty glanced up and was startled by his reflection in a mirror above the sofa. He’d deliberately removed all mirrors from his own residence the day he moved in, and hadn’t gotten a good look at his face in many months.<br />
Given his appearance today, he could hardly fault this overeager junior lawman for wanting to lock him in restraints. For a guy who’d once placed such a premium on maintaining a well-cultivated exterior, it was shocking to see just how unkempt he was. Had he really let himself go that much in the past year? Evidently, if the mirror was to be believed.<br />
His long black hair, once treated daily by a personal stylist, was now a ratty mane. The two-pointed devil’s goatee, formerly a key visual hallmark of his stagecraft, looked no more than an uneven graying scrub. And all that ink: pentagrams, death’s head skulls and weird incantations etched up and down his sinewy arms. <br />
Hell, anyone with a working pair of eyes would find Rusty Diamond a more than credible murder suspect.</div>
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Author Bio:</h2>
<img align="left" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cOMMjnlcWQs/U9O9XlWty_I/AAAAAAAAZoQ/4lJKiNnmYeU/s1600/A_Williams_color.jpg" height="300" style="margin-right: 5px;" width="200" />The new thriller by Austin Williams, Misdirection, is now available from Diversion Books. It is the first novel of The Rusty Diamond Trilogy.<br />
Williams is the author of the acclaimed suspense novels Crimson Orgy and The Platinum Loop. He is the co-author (with Erik Quisling) of Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip. <br />
He lives in Los Angeles.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-1689630117040228822014-10-09T00:00:00.000-05:002014-10-09T00:00:01.514-05:00Hexed by Kevin Hearne<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u5feKO6uK34/VDQ2dQWAV0I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/U49-xyhuQ9c/s1600/Kevin%2BHearne%2B-%2BHexed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u5feKO6uK34/VDQ2dQWAV0I/AAAAAAAAAcQ/U49-xyhuQ9c/s1600/Kevin%2BHearne%2B-%2BHexed.jpg" height="320" width="195" /></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Author: </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kevin Hearne</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Title:</b> Hexed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publication:</b> June 7, 20<span style="font-size: small;">11</span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Genre: </b>Urban Fantasy<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Audience:</b> 18 and up<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rating: </b>5 out of 5<b> </b><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis (from the cover): </b></span><span id="freeText7748650732798758539">Atticus O’Sullivan, last
of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make
nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial
nonaggression treaty—when suddenly the witch population in modern-day
Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just
bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World
War II.<br /><br />With a fallen angel feasting on local high school
students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special
brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire
vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch
hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor’s rocket-propelled
grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep
the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.</span><br />
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I love this series. My husband and I are going to a book reading and signing to see Kevin Hearne, and three other authors at the end of this month. I'm trying to read them all before then, so I may review them all before then. Please bear with me.<br />
Atticus is at it again. This time he has two weirdos following him, a coven of witches out to kill him, and a group of Bacchus worshipers ready to burn down the town. All the while he is trying to grow back his ear, please the Morrigan and Flidais, train his padawan, and run his bookstore. However, Mr. O'Sullivan cannot stay out of trouble, even after he defeated Aengus Og. Even the trickster Coyote ropes him into helping him with a demon problem. There is plenty of humor mixed in. There are so many shenanigans he gets into. I love his Irish Wolfhound, Oberon- he is the best comedic relief as is his neighbor the Widow MacDonagh. She had me rolling in the scene where Atticus is attacked by two witches at her house. There is a enough drama, comedy, and action to keep you from putting this book down. Seriously, if you love to laugh, love urban fantasy- check this book out NOW!<b> </b>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-77416362421940054892014-10-08T00:00:00.000-05:002014-10-08T00:00:00.739-05:00Finder by Pepper Thorn<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gELxZsgBEbs/VDQpqW7ZzHI/AAAAAAAAAcA/xqbB0mrII0E/s1600/index.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gELxZsgBEbs/VDQpqW7ZzHI/AAAAAAAAAcA/xqbB0mrII0E/s1600/index.jpg" /></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Author: </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pepper Thorn</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Title:</b> Finder</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publication:</b> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">March 24</span></span>, 20<span style="font-size: small;">14</span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Genre: </b>Fairy Tale, Young Adult<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Audience:</b> 13 and up<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rating: </b>4.5 out of 5<b> </b><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis (from the cover): </b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText13397645216359780973">All Sara wanted was her family, back again,but Faery bargains always come with a price, <br />and what you look for is not always what you seek. <br /><br />Ever
since she can remember, Sara McAlister has had a knack for finding
things. What she has not had for the last year is a family. <br /><br />Since
the accident that stole her dad and little sister, Sara has been living
a lie, pretending that everything was fine, and that she and her mom
were moving on. But when Queen Titania summons her into the beautiful
and treacherous Faery, Sara gets a chance to make her lies
reality. <br /><br />The Holy Grail has disappeared, and King Oberon with
it. Sara's knack may be the key to saving them … and getting her life
back. But there are more powers at play than even Queen Titania is aware
of. <br /><br />Can Sara use her increasingly unreliable gift to complete a
quest that has claimed the lives and sanity of Faery’s finest knights</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I found out about this indie author and book from a small convention I went to called the Alabama Phoenix Festival. Pepper Thorn was a panelist in a panel I attended. She of course promoted her book. I had mentioned wanting it after spotting it in the Dealer's Room and reading the synopsis. My husband had bought it for me while I was at the panel. I went back to get it signed. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">This is a fairy tale...you have the Fairy Queen, Titania, and the King, Oberon. For me personally, it took a little while to get into. I think it really hit its stride around page 100. However, I was reading it each day for about 30 minutes at work, and I had just changed from night shift to day shift...so I was dealing with lack of sleep and other kinds of issues. It could have been me, not the book. I did have a problem with Sara just jumping into the fairy realm without thinking. I felt there were some things left untethered. Like how did Sara learn about her gift? How did the fairies know about Sara and her gift? Why did Nuthelm follow Sara through out her life? At the end Sara is given another gift in the fairy realm, but when she comes back to the human realm, there is no trace of it, so what happened to her gift? Why happened to the twin guards? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Also, this is the second novel that I have read that uses Rock City as a meeting ground. This first was <i>American Gods </i>by Neil Gaiman. I thought it was kind of neat especially since that is where I went for my honeymoon, and I know the landscape a bit. Sara goes into the fairy realm on Monte Sano Mountain, which is really close to my home town. To me, that was really cool. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I thought the book was great. It follows Sara who is on an fairy quest and pretty much learns how to deal with her grief and guilt along the way. There are many creatures from unicorns to tiny tree people. It stays pretty action packed, except for the walking/vision scenes. I found those a little slow, but I think they are imperative to the story. I put young adult for the suggested reading age, but I would suggest 13 and up for this story. It is a fantastic novel filled with all sorts of fairy creatures, villains, and heroes. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-74735526939934467042014-09-30T00:00:00.000-05:002014-09-30T00:00:04.493-05:00Audio Review: Don't Breathe A Word by Jennifer McMahon<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;">Narrator:</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> Lily Rains<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: #1a222a;">Publication:</span></b><span style="color: #1a222a;"> May 17, 2011</span><span style="color: #1a222a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Synopsis: </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">On a soft summer night in Vermont, twelve-year-old Lisa went into the woods behind her house and never came out again. Before she disappeared, she told her little brother, Sam, about a door that led to a magical place where she would meet the King of the Fairies and become his queen.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Fifteen years later, Phoebe is in love with Sam, a practical, sensible man who doesn't fear the dark and doesn't have bad dreams--who, in fact, helps Phoebe ignore her own. But suddenly the couple is faced with a series of eerie, unexplained occurrences that challenge Sam's hardheaded, realistic view of the world. As they question their reality, a terrible promise Sam made years ago is revealed--a promise that could destroy them all.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a single voiced unabridged audio performed by Lily Rains. The original material works wonderfully as on audio presentation. Lily does an excellent job differentiating between characters. She uses tone, inflection, and accent. Gender differences are also clear. Lily adds that extra suspense to the book and breathes life into each character. Pace is maintained throughout the production and plot flows without interruption. During the opening music is used and creates the creepy atmosphere appropriate to the book. I enjoyed Lily's narration and look forward to listening to her again. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Synopsis: </span></span></b><b><span style="color: #1a222a;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims' dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBI's Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientist's knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevie's possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was surprised by how much I loved this book. Chevie Savano is a tough girl just trying to become a "real" FBI agent. She is taking her small role seriously. Riley is just trying to survive day to day in late 1890's England. This is a test within it self not to mention Riley is training to be an assassin and his teacher is one scary dude. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During the story we learn how each main character came to be in their current situation and the motivations for their actions. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's easy to see why Agent Orange's father hid the time keys. Perhaps he should have moonlighted in another area or time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is an entertaining read. It's clear there is a need for a second book but this could have easily been a standalone. I'm excited to see where the next book takes Chevie and Riley I'm positive adventure is in their future. </span><br />
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Track Presius Series, Books 1 & 2</h1>
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Chimeras</h1>
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by E.E. Giorgi</h2>
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<b>Genre:</b> Mystery/Thriller
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<b>Published by:</b> Quemazon Publishing
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<b>Publication Date:</b> April 5 2014
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<b>Number of Pages:</b> 406
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<b>ISBN:</b> 978-0996045100
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Haunted by the girl he couldn't save in his youth, and the murder he committed to avenge her, Detective Track Presius has a unique gift: the vision and sense of smell of a predator. When a series of apparently unrelated murders reel him into the depths of genetic research, Track feels more than a call to duty. Children are dying -- children who, like himself, could have been healthy, and yet something, at some point, went terribly wrong. For Track, saving the innocent becomes a quest for redemption. The only way he can come to terms with his dark past is to understand his true nature.<br />
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Chimeras is now a Reader's Favorite 2014 Book Award Finalist!! Check it out here: <a href="https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/30437">Reader's Favorite</a>.
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It was one of those hot summer afternoons, with air made of cobwebs and a glare as sharp as pencils.<br />
“Something’s wrong today,” I said.<br />
“It’s L.A.,” my partner replied. “Something’s always wrong in L.A.”<br />
A few hours later Johnny Carmelo was dead, his brains skewered by the whistling path of one of my bullets. He collapsed on the pavement, a red trickle of blood weeping down his face. They told me they weren’t going to clear me back to duty until the investigation was over. I left the next day. I drove up to the Sierras, camped in my truck, and hunted at night.<br />
There are days I long to disappear in the wild, go back to the predator life I was meant to have. Kill the prey or be killed: it’s in my genes.<br />
A chimera, that's what I am. And this is my story.</div>
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Mosaics</h1>
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<b>Genre:</b> Mystery/Thriller
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<b>Published by:</b> Quemazon Publishing
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<b>Publication Date:</b> 9/2014
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<b>Number of Pages:</b> ~410
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<b>ISBN:</b> 978-0-9960451-1-7
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Dubbed the Byzantine Strangler because of the mysterious mosaic tiles he leaves at the crime scene, a new serial killer is stalking the streets of Los Angeles. Racing to decipher the code encrypted in the tiles before the killer strikes again, Detective Track Presius faces a new challenge: the "awakened" genes that make his vision and olfactory sense so sharp are now taking a toll on his life. When a new set of tiles appears in his own backyard, Track makes a chilling realization: those very same genes that are threatening his life are drawing the Byzantine Strangler closer and closer. The line between hunter and hunted has suddenly blurred. Will Track be the next piece of the mosaic puzzle?<br />
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MOSAICS – excerpt
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A dark hallway with no windows opened to the right of the foyer. The smells changed—the staleness of a vacant place and the victim’s scent—feminine, ambitious, seductive. The wall displayed wrought iron sconces and a collection of photos of Amy—Amy in her graduation gown, Amy with friends, Amy with her cat. A pretty face, I noticed, whose beauty didn’t distract from an underlining drive for determination.
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Her bedroom was orderly. There was a half-empty birth control kit in her nightstand drawer, but no boyfriend in her life, according to the friends and relatives interviewed, only an ex-husband who now lived in Oregon. Toiletries on her vanity table, regular clothes in her closet, a few garments in her drawers that told me she was no nun, but no distinctive masculine scent anywhere. If she shared her bed with somebody, she’d done a good job at hiding it. The sheets smelled clean and freshly washed.
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The next door let to her home office, a small carpeted room with a couple of white bookcases, a table with a desktop and printer, a metal chair, and, on the opposite side, a futon, a laundry basket, and an ironing table folded against the wall. Through the window, the hills of Montecito glowed against the evening sky, a wavy fabric of glimmering lights.
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I inhaled. The bookshelves were crammed with medical books, the desk buried under stacks of papers.
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The sweet, foul smell of the tiles…
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I sat at the desk, opened the drawers, sniffed the keyboard, then the computer screen.
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Not here. Close, though.
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The papers. He went through the pile of papers.
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I rummaged through the folders not knowing what to look for, just tailgating a smell. Gloved fingers had brushed through printouts and graphs, tables, essays, research proposals…
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Did he find what he was looking for? And if so, what?
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Article after article of scientific jargon, each title some random permutation of the words immunodeficiency, vaccine, study design, therapy, antiretroviral.
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“What are you gonna see in the dark?” By the office door, Satish flipped the light switch.
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“Smells.”
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“On paper?”
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“Yeah. And patterns, too,” I said. I sniffed the top right corner. I could follow the gloved fingers searching through the pile of papers, most likely a left thumb holding up the top ones so he could read the titles, and a right index flipping through. Until the trace stopped.
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He found what he was looking for. Probably took it with him.
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I inhaled and gave one last look around. Everything else seemed untouched.
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“What did Gomez have to say?”
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Satish shook his head sideways. “Autopsy’s scheduled for Thursday morning. Just got an invitation. Wanna join the party?” He smiled. Waited.
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Amy Liu smiled too, from a silver frame on her desk, a man’s hand draping her shoulder, and a strand of black hair blowing over her face.
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“Fine,” I said, walking past him out of the room. “I’ll keep you company on Thursday, but—”
He switched the lights off and followed me back to the foyer. “Uh-uh, Track. First things first. Tomorrow you pee in a cup and get your LAPD badge back.”
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“I pee in a what?”
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We locked the house, replaced the yellow crime scene tape. The air was tainted with a hint of humidity and the scent of jacaranda blooms. A handful of pale stars dotted the sky, the glow of downtown beneath them like a disoriented dawn. A broken streetlight strobed from farther down the street. The Latino music persisted. Yo sufrí mucho por ti, mi corazon…
Satish unlocked the car and slid behind the wheel. “Union mandated drug test. Your leave of absence from the department was longer than ninety days. Welcome back to regulations, Detective Presius.”
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I made a face.
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“Look at it this way. Whoever handles those cups has it way worse than you.” He started the engine and backed out of the driveway. “Shit happens, Track. Never forget that.”
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“Hard to forget on days like this.”
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I rolled down the window and let cool air blow in my face. The freeway droned in the distance, as another night descended upon L.A. Another murder, another killer on the loose.
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It was June 2009, the beginning of summer.
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Killing season had just started.
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<img align="left" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r2WJasY9idw/U4NYC5CeFKI/AAAAAAAAYu4/8j406sEVw0U/s320/Chimeras-Mosiacs-E-E-Giorgi-author.jpg" height="200" style="margin-right: 5px;" width="189" />E.E. Giorgi is a scientist, a writer, and a photographer. She spends her days analyzing genetic data, her evenings chasing sunsets, and her nights pretending she's somebody else. On her blog, E.E. discusses science for the inquiring mind, especially the kind that sparks fantastic premises and engaging stories. Her detective thriller CHIMERAS, a hard-boiled police procedural with a genetic twist, is now available on Amazon.
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Author: </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Stephanie Evanovich</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>Narrator:<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Katie Schorr</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Title:</b>Big Girl Panties</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Publication: </b>July 9, 2013 <b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Genre: </b>Chick Lit, Romance<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Pages: </b>368</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Length: </b>9.5 hours</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Audience:</b> 18 and up<b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Rating: </b>3<b> </b>out of 5<b> </b><b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Synopsis (from the cover):</b> Holly didn't expect to be a widow at thirty two. She also didn't expect to be so big. After her husband's death, food was the one thing she could always count on. Now, those extra pounds make flying coach feel like medieval torture- especially when she's squished next to Logan Montgomery. A personal trainer to famous pro athletes, her seatmate is so hot that he makes Holly sweat in all the right (and so embarrassingly wrong!) places.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Logan finds himself intrigues by Holly's sharp wit and keen insights, so he impulsively offers to get her back in shape. Holly turns out to be a natural in the gym, slimming down into a bona fide looker with killer curves- and a new kind of hunger. Before either of them can stop it, the easy intimacy of their training sessions leads to even more steamy workouts away from the gym. But can a man whose whole life depends on looks commit himself to a woman who doesn't fit his ideal? Now that Holly's turning other men's heads, does she even need Logan anymore? Are they a couple built to last...or destined to fizzle? <b> </b><b><br /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">I'm still a little unsure about this book. It seemed to do a lot of fat shaming. In my mind Holly was never obese. She was just overweight. From other reviews I read that was the main problem a lot of people had with the book. The author just did not portray overweight people properly. Some people are overweight, but are otherwise healthy people. And some people just do not care and are happy with themselves, I fall into this group. So I had a hard time sympathizing with Logan's view of Holly and sometimes Holly as well. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Another problem that arose from the novel was the randomly changing view points. The author would flip from Logan to Holly to Amanda to Chase to Natalie to Tina except shuffle that up a bit. I didn't have a huge problem with it because the narrator, Katie Schorr did a great job of doing a distinct voice for each character. My husband listened to a little of the book with me and we both think she sounds like Rebecca Soler who narrated <i>Cinder</i> and <i>Scarlet</i>. They are both great narrators in my book.<b> </b></span></div>
Even though this book had some flaws there was something about Logan and Holly's relationship that really pulled at my heart strings and made me care about the characters and even dislike a few.<br />
Overall, this book is just a short sweet romance novel. I enjoyed it and if you are more into romance than I am, I'm sure you'll enjoy it too!<b><br /></b>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author:</b> John Green </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Narrator:</b> Jeff Woodman </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Title:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><b> </b> </span>An Abundance
of Katherines</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication:</b> September 1, 2006</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher:</b> Brilliance Audio</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Genre:</b> Young Adult</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 272</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Length: </b>6 hours and 48 minutes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Audience: </b>16 and up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Rating:</b> 1 out of 5 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Source:</b> Public Library</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Synopsis (from Goodreads):</b> Katherine V thought boys were
gross</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Katherine X just wanted to be friends</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Katherine XVIII dumped him in an e-mail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">K-19 broke his heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When it comes to relationships, Colin Singleton's type
happens to be girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named
Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy,
washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty
feral hog on his trail, and an overweight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding
shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of
Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of
any relationship, avenge Dumpees everywhere, and finally win him the girl.
Love, friendship, and a dead Austro-Hungarian archduke add up to surprising and
heart-changing conclusions in this ingeniously layered comic novel about
reinventing oneself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>My thoughts:</b> I have heard a lot about John Green and I have
purchased <i>Fault in Our Stars</i>, but it is currently on my bookshelf collecting
dust while I’m reading six other books. So I thought I would go with an
audiobook at the time because I had nothing else better to listen to and I
really wanted to try a John Green book. I guess I should have not gone with <i>An
Abundance of Katherines</i>, but our library is so underfunded, that this
was my only John Green option. I kept listening to it, hoping it would get
better. By the end of it I was tired of Colin Singleton, the term “fug” in any
format, anagrams, and math terminology. At one point, I was almost certain that
Colin had Asperger’s Syndrome. The
book never mentioned it so I guess he didn't. This entire book was about him and his wants and obsessions. He
never seemed to care about other people. It was annoying. However, his friend
Hasan was the comedic relief, but even he got annoying at times. The other main characters were uncertain about what they wanted as well. So it was full of coming of age angst. The book was a
good book about being yourself and coming of age novel. However, there was too
much stupid love drama with the Katherines, whining from Colin, anagrams, and
math for my taste. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The narrator, Jeff Woodman does a great job. He does a different voice for each character. His southern accent for Hollis and Lindsay and the other residents of Gutshot is over the top, but it works. Some people really do sound the way he narrated them. I think he did a fantastic job. You can tell when Hasan is speaking or Colin or one of the many Katherines. He is a wonderful narrator, but the book was kind of poop for me. If you love John Green I suggest giving it a try, but if you
are not a John Green fan, or have never read any of his books I was told to try<i> Looking
for Alaska. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author: </b>Kevin Hearne</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Title:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hounded
(The Iron Druid Chronicles #1)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication:</b> May 3, 2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher:</b> Del Ray</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Genre: </b>Adult, Urban Fantasy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages: </b>320</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Audience:</b> 17 and up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Rating: </b>5 out of 5<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Source: </b>Purchased</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Synopsis (from Goodreads): </b><span id="freeText3872835878788348375">Atticus O'Sullivan, last
of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop
and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound.
His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish
dude is about twenty-one years old--when in actuality, he's twenty-one
"centuries" old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth,
possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as
Fragarach, the Answerer. <br />Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god
wants that sword, and he's hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the
determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his
power--plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and
werewolf team of attorneys, a bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and
some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish--to kick some Celtic arse and
deliver himself from evil.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>My thoughts:</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My husband pestered me until I picked up the first book and read through it. I
really could not put this book down or stop laughing at it. The characters are
well rounded and develop really well in this first book of the series. The main
character Atticus O’Sullivan is the last of his kind. He is a real life druid
and is really old…over 2000 years old in fact. He can speak to his dog, the
Irish Wolfhound, Oberon, who is hilarious! There is of course Atticus’s
neighbors who had a dash of humor. Oh and his lawyers, one is a vampire and the
other is a werewolf. They are able to work together because they both hate Thor
(I do too. He is such a drunken jerk, we aren’t talking about the Marvel Thor
either.). There is plenty of laughter, drama, and mystery. If you are a fan of paranormal,
urban fantasies this is a MUST read! I am trying to squeeze in time to read the
next novel, <i>Hexed</i>, which I may do after I finish writing this. I also want to
add a word about the author, Kevin Hearne. This dude is amazing. My husband
reached out to him on Facebook and Kevin Hearne actually wrote him a response
and thanked him for being a fan. He is so kind and he gives you information on
his website on how to contact him. We have a trip planned in October to see him
in Georgia for a day. I cannot wait, but now I have to read all seven of the
books before then!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author: </b>Holly Black</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Title:</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Valiant (Modern Faeries Tales #2)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication:</b> October<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1, 2006</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher:</b> Margaret K.
McElderry Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Genre:</b> Young Adult, Faerie Tale</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages:</b> 320</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Audience: </b>15 and up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Rating:</b> 3 out of 5 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Source:</b> Public Library</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Synopsis (fromGoodreads):</b> When
seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a
life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with
a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But there's something eerily
beguiling about Val's new friends.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And when one talks Val into
tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature with whom they are all
involved, Val finds herself torn between her newfound affection for an
honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>My thoughts: </b>I have no idea how
this book relates to <i>Tithe</i>, but I guess I will find out when I read <i>Ironside</i>.
Unfortunately, the experience of the book was lessened as some jerk had
censored the book. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This book is full of
drama and twists and turns at every corner. You don’t expect the bad guys until
it is too late. Val is a strong female character who runs away after finding
out the truth about her boyfriend. So she jumps on a train and heads to New
York on a date by herself…except she decides to stay in New York for a while. Val
and her new street friends Lolli, Dave, and Luis aren’t exactly angels. They
use fairy glamor, which they call Never to get high. They then have fairy
powers to glamor people. Never is very much like heroin and has withdrawal
symptoms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Val runs into some trouble and
indentures herself to a fairy to repay for the trouble she and Lolli caused.
However, there is some major drama going on amongst the fairies and you don’t
know who you can trust. It is a gritty, dirty story, but it is part of the
series and it wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t fantastic either.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/185/C4AA97806FADC781585D2415AA00A376.png" style="border: 0px none ! important;" /></a> </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-77895790021816150642014-09-04T00:00:00.000-05:002014-09-09T21:41:44.177-05:00The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author: </b>Neil Gaiman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Title:</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication:</b> June 3, 2014</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher:</b> William Murrow<b> </b></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Genre: </b>Adult, Modern Fantasy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Pages: </b>181</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Audience:</b> 17 and up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Rating: </b>4 out of 5<b> </b></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Source: </b>Purchased</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Synopsis (from the cover): </b><span id="freeText9037413170198425120">Sussex, England. A
middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral.
Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at
the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most
remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He
hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a
pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old
farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past
too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone,
let alone a small boy.<br /><br />Forty years earlier, a man committed
suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse
on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable
ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly
incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise
beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.<br /><br />A groundbreaking work from a master, <i>The Ocean at the End of the Lane</i>
is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows
the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside
and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a
butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>My thoughts: </b>I love Neil
Gaiman and thought he would be the perfect author to read after a rough patch
and dry reading spell in my life. It was kind of hard for me to get into this
book. I spent a while trying to get into it wondering if I was going to give up
on it. I’m glad I didn’t. This book has stuck with me in ways I could not have
imagined. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are times I am by myself and think of the evil Ursla Monkton
and how she invaded the little narrator. I went to a panel with horror writers
at a convention. One of the writers asked the audience “What was horror to us?”
Someone said to them horror was when something got in other their skin and
stayed with them. I can honestly say there was a horrifying chapter with a worm
that has not left me since I read it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The narrator, he is never named gets on
my nerves at times, but the Hempstock women, especially Lettie redeem him and
make the book worth the read. Oh and that little cat at the Hempstock house it
so precious! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a book about growing
up, stories, fear, bravery, grief, and all the things that make us human. It
was a fantastic read that will stick with you for a while.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/185/C4AA97806FADC781585D2415AA00A376.png" style="border: 0px none ! important;" /></a> </span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-58840387467808962242014-08-22T02:01:00.000-05:002014-08-22T02:08:31.570-05:00Excerpt & Giveaway: Pandora Boxed Set <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pandora Boxed Set</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Publication date: August 5th 2014<br />Genres: Paranormal</span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">by Kelly Anne
Blount<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Blood dripped down my forehead and
blurred my vision. I swallowed hard as I wiped it out of my eyes and on to my
tattered dress. Trying to control my breathing, I focused on the dark alley
head of me. I knew he was out there, but I didn’t know where.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The hair stood
up on the back of my neck as I pressed my body against a cool brick wall. How
did this go so wrong? A door slamming caused my heart to take off like a
cheetah chasing a gazelle. I crouched down and frantically looked for a
makeshift weapon. Finally, my hands came across a broken metal pipe. I picked
it up and clutched it to my chest.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">With my
fingers trembling, I took a step into the deserted alleyway. Trying to stay
close to the wall, I sprinted as quietly as possible. A mixture of blood and
tears dripped down my forehead as the pavement pounded under my feet. Every
inch of my being wanted to scream, but I held it in. Just make it out of this
alley! Then you can scream!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A deep
rumbling voice echoed off the walls and sent chills through my core, “You can
run, but I’ll always find you, Abriana.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I couldn’t
tell which direction it originated from and I didn’t stop to find out. Instead,
I propelled my legs forward faster than I thought humanly possible. I chanted a
one-word mantra the entire time. Survive. Survive. Survive!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">A cool breeze
whipped between the buildings and sent shivers down my damp neck. I could see a
street in front of me. It was late, but a few people were still out and driving
around.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">My chest ached
and my lungs felt like they were about to burst into flames at any moment. I
sucked in as much air as they would hold and pushed my body’s limits.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there! Just a few more feet!<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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felt fingernails dig into my shoulder and pull my body backward. The change in
momentum caused me to fall flat on my back, knocking the air out of my lungs in
the process.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taste in my mouth and an ache in the back of my head were the last things I
remembered before everything went black…<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by, “Tsk, tsk, tsk.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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open my eyes, but panicked when I saw nothing but darkness. Goosebumps
instantly covered my arms. Why can’t I see? Where am I? I wiggled back and
forth, bumping into a low ceiling and carpeted walls.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“You shouldn’t
have run away from me,” came the nefarious voice belonging to the man in the
dark alleyway. He gave a wicked laugh. “You know who I am and you know what I
look like. The blindfold is so you don’t know where we’re going.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to tremble and my eyes filled with tears, but I forced them to stay at bay.
Struggling, I tried to bring my hands to my face, but couldn’t. My wrists
burned as a rope rubbed against my skin.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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another laugh that left me chilled to the core. “I can’t risk you trying to run
away again, now, can I?”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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through my body and a cold sinking feeling spread through my core. “Why are you
doing this to me?”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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his lips turned up into a wicked smile. “Because I love you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%;">by DelSheree
Gladden</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">Without warning, catching my breath
seems impossible. I don’t know if I can handle the thought that someone might
actively be trying to hurt Mason. Before I can stop myself, I feel tears begin
sliding down my cheeks. I’m not the only one who feels them. Mason reaches up
and touches my face, seeming startled when he realizes I am crying. Not that I
can blame him. I’m about as much of a crier as he is.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Oh, Ollie,”
he says softly. His strong, but gentle arms easily pull me out from behind him
and nestle me against his body. I curl against him as I try to shut out the
fear that is quickly swallowing me up.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mason, I
can’t bear the thought of losing you,” I whisper against his chest.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
His arms press me against him so tightly there is no space left between us.
“I’ve already lost one family. I won’t lose you, too.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">The night
quiets as we lay in each other’s arms. Slowly, Mason’s breathing calms. As he
relaxes, my own fears begin to calm as well. They don’t disappear, but they
come down to a manageable enough level that I can think and ask the question
lingering in both of our minds.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mason, what
do we do now?”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He sighs. His
fingers stroke my hair softly. “I don’t know. I’m not sure how to get more
information out of Robin without telling her the truth.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“We can’t tell
her the truth. We have no idea who she’s really involved with. It’s too big of
a risk.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“I know, but
we have to stay close to her, too. If she is a threat, we can’t be blind to
it.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">I know he’s
right, but I don’t like to think about Mason being so close to someone who
could potentially hurt him. But what choice do we have? I look up at Mason and
find him already staring down at me with a look of concern. Something about the
moment makes my heart lurch. It takes me a few seconds to gather my thoughts.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Mason, we’ll
figure this out,” I promise.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">As his fingers
brush against my cheek, that strange sensation flashes again, but I am too
anxious to pay it much attention.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Out of
everything Robin told us today, do you know what hurt the most?” Mason asks,
surprising me by his change in topic. He doesn’t wait for me to answer. “Robin
said something like sometimes it’s hard to remember ‘I wasn’t human,’ that I
was sent here to be raised by Caretakers. Do you realize what that means? Not
only am I not human, my family isn’t even my real family. All of the sudden,
I’ve lost another family, one I never knew, maybe one that didn’t even want me
to begin with.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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answers, Mason.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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not much as far as comfort goes, but I don’t know what else to say. I have no
idea why anyone would give up someone as wonderful as Mason. If his biological
parents didn’t want him, their stupidity was our gain. I can’t imagine my life
without Mason.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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what time it is, but weariness begins to creep over me. My eyes are starting to
close when Mason asks one last question.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robin is right about me not being human?”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stretches my jaw before I can answer. “I don’t know. Maybe. You are invisible.”<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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more of a twitch as sleeps tries to steal me away. “Why would it? I love you no
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treating the rapidly warming serpent mark with more Cruor blood, Ophelia spun
toward the open door. Ethan sat between the frame, his strong shoulders resting
back, his face turned<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>to the
field where a small red fox burrowed in the dirt. The night breeze wisped
through his hair. She set the blankets on the end of the bed and walked over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“No.” He
cleared his throat but didn’t look up at her. “Sorry. For a human, it’s very
far, but it won’t be for us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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bunched her fingers together in front of her stomach. “Same as we got ‘ere
then?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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around, outside, and kneeled in the grass across from him, resting her hands in
her lap. “Ethan, if something is wrong . . . ”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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you,” he replied, lifting his gaze from a long piece of grass he’d been
slipping between his fingers. Moonlight paled his tan complexion and darkened
the shade of his jaw, making him appear more defeated than he had hours ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mentioned earlier is in the Americas. She’s not expecting us.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thought—”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Please trust
me.” He stood and dusted off his pants, then leaned his shoulder against the
doorjamb.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a smile and busied herself attempting to prop up a wildflower that was wilting
among the yellow grass.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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looked up, Ethan’s expression was gentle. His gaze moved from the small flower
to her eyes. There was a brief moment where she wondered if he, like Lady
Karina, found her bright, ice-blue eyes alarming. But his express was soft, and
her fears quickly melted. He walked behind her, crouched down, and covered her
hand with his, his fingertips touching the flower. It revived before her very
eyes, and Ophelia leaned her head against Ethan’s shoulder as she stared at the
flower in awe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she whispered, wishing she had been destined to be one of the Ankou—to be one
of the elementals who revived life and put an end to evil, rather than bring
death.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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as much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and she turned around to face him. He was standing now, holding his hand out to
her.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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me,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">He took her
hand and they fell through darkness just as they had when he’d taken her to the
cabin. When she could see again, her stomach suddenly jolted. She hunched
forward, heaving, but this time she did not vomit. She held her midsection
until the feeling passed, then dried the moisture from her eyes.<br />
Ethan smoothed his hand across her shoulder blades. “Traveling will get easier
with time. By your third or fourth time you shouldn’t feel anything.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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keep happening?” she demanded. She could hardly think straight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“When we
travel this way, we are in the in-between. You are suspended from such things
as time and space and then thrust immediately back into it. Your system is
forced to catch up instantly on arrival. If not for the magic the Ankou are
granted, it could kill you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sighed, nodding. “Where are we?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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her toward a small house and pressed his fingers to his lips.<br />
He led her along the outer walls of the house until they reached a window.
Inside, a man and a woman held each other, crying. Ophelia peered around the
room, trying to make sense of what she was searching for. She found her answer
on the floor. A young man sat, collapsed to his knees, covered in blood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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‘appened?” Ophelia whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #141823; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">“The young man
just watched his comrades kill his sister.” Ethan’s voice was tight and his
tone clipped. “He was unable to act to save her. He’s returned home to tell
their parents.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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away, shaking her head. When Ethan approached, she pounded her fist against his
chest. “Why would ye show me such a thing?”<br />
Ethan didn’t move, even as Ophelia tried once again to push him away. “The
young girl who lost her life was a dual-breed. She was only killed because of
what she is, and for no greater reason. This . . . this is what we’re fighting
for. It is not that I want you in harm’s way, or that I wish for you to become
a creature you detest. If I could do this for you, protect you from your
calling, I would. But I cannot let my feelings for you sway our responsibility.
I am confident you are capable, that you can do this to save the innocents in
this world.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tried, she could not summon a response. She covered her mouth with hand, her
entire body trembling. Could she live with herself, knowing all this, if she
didn’t try to help?</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f8;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: clear;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Synopsis: </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sara Crewe leads a lavish lifestyle at Miss Minchin's boarding school. But when Sara's father dies, leaving her a poor orphan, Miss Minchin forces her to work very hard to earn her stay in a dingy attic. Her vivid imagination, strong will, and fierce determination help Sara to escape her dreadful life in the attic. See how Sara overcomes her hardships and finds happiness!</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Teaser: </b>"Soldiers do not complain, am not going to do it. I will pretend that his is part of a war. I am a prisoner in the enemy's camp"</span></span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8411026981838656087.post-25792511725678381202014-08-15T14:53:00.000-05:002014-08-15T14:53:18.008-05:00Excerpt & Giveaway: The Silver Siren by Chanda Hahn <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Title: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Silver Siren</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Author: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Chanda Hahn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>Series:</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Iron Butterfly Series #3</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Publication: <o:p></o:p></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">May 25th 2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Genre: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Fantasy, Young Adult</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Silver-Siren-Iron-Butterfly-Volume/dp/0996104801/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407429880&sr=8-1&keywords=Chanda+Hahn+siren" target="_blank">Amazon</a>|<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-silver-siren-chanda-hahn/1119129343?ean=9780996104807" target="_blank">B&N</a>|<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17715868-the-silver-siren?ac=1" target="_blank">Goodreads</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;">Synopsis: </span></b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Every journey has an end.</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unable to find the answers she sought in Skyfell, Thalia, Joss, and Kael travel to Haven with a prisoner in tow. An attack on the road waylays their plans, and Thalia finds herself traveling alone with Kael to the hidden sanctuary of the SwordBrothers.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But war is on the horizon and the Raven is amassing his army. This time, the target is not Calandry, but the Sirens of Sinnedor. When family ties are revealed, Thalia must choose sides. Desperate to break the final seal on her power and save those she loves, will Thalia willingly taste the bitter pain of the iron butterfly machine one final time?</span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #181818; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Excerpt:</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Someone yanked the sack off of my head. I’d been so lost in thought that I didn’t hear him come over. My eyes flew open and I saw a young man with pimples. He grimaced when he looked into my eyes. He had pulled off his red robe and had it tucked under his arm. I had yet to see my eyes, so I could only imagine what they looked like to send such fear into him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“See? She’s alive,” he yelled over his shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Quick, someone’s coming. Knock her out so she doesn’t warn anyone.” The now familiar voice yelled into the darkness. The young pimple-faced Septori grabbed my head, pinched my nose, and poured a draft into my mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The taste was different. I was actually shocked to realize they’d switched tactics. It was a sleeping draft. I fought against my eyelids as huge weights seemed to tug them down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The young man jumped up and moved into the shadows of the cave, blade in hand. A few moments later, I saw the familiar outline of Kael at the entrance to the cave. Walking right into a trap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Wait!” I tried to whisper, fighting against the sleeping draft.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I heard swords being drawn behind him. The Septori closed in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He was outnumbered and cornered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chanda is a bestselling and award winning author of the <strong>UnEnchanted: An Unfortunate Fairy Tale</strong> series and the<strong> Iron Butterfly</strong> series. She’s been a bestseller in five countries and was named one of Amazon’s top 100 customer favorite author. She uses her experience as a children’s pastor, children’s librarian and bookseller to write compelling and popular fiction for teens. She was born in Seattle, WA, grew up in Nebraska and currently resides in Portland, Oregon with her husband and their twin children.</span></div>
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