Teaser Tuesday | Hunted #TheGuardianLegacy

Title:  Hunted

Series:  The Guardian Legacy [Book 3]

Length:  358 Pages

Genre:  YA Fantasy

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Frowning, I studied him. Would he say yes? Just because women did the asking didn’t necessarily mean men said yes. I’d never attended a pactus, the mating ceremony performed in the temple of Goddess Xenia in Xenith—the Guardians’ homeland. Nephlings weren’t allowed in Xenith, and since my grandmother was human, that meant Bran and I would not be mated there.

Not liking the direction of my thoughts, I glanced at Kim, who was sipping her slushy. “Thanks, Kim.”

She cocked her right brow. “For what?”

“Talking to me about Bran.”

She shrugged. “I didn’t say anything you don’t already know.”

“True.” We exchanged a smile. “But I’m happy you did anyway.”

She shrugged again.

“Well, I’m going to read in the cabana for a while.” I nodded toward the one set aside just for us Cardinals.

“Remember, we’re leaving in one hour,” she reminded me.

“I know.” I reached for the book in my tote bag, my hand brushing against the strap of my dagger’s belt. Even on vacation, we carried weapons just in case demons attacked. Not that they would dare come after us on The Island.

A shadow fell over me, the silhouette of the wings reaching Kim. Squinting, I looked up at Bran and fought a blush when he studied me with twinkling emerald eyes.

Water droplets glistened like diamonds on his tanned chest, the scar of the Guardian amulet light between his pecs. Funny, I once thought the scar marred the perfection of his golden skin. Now it was a reminder of how much he’d sacrificed to leave the demonic world and join us.

“Done showing off?” I asked, smiling.

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Teaser Tuesday | Betrayed #TheGuardianLegacy

Title:  Betrayed

Series:  The Guardian Legacy [Book 2]

Length:  343 Pages

Genre:  YA Fantasy

TEASER

Five of Valafar’s men, dressed all in black except for the gleaming ruby stones on the pins holding their cloaks and on their belt buckles, entered the room. Behind them came Kenta; he carried a black leather bag with strange writings, clasps, and more rubies. It was the same bag Valafar had had, when I first retrieved the Kris Dagger from the cave on Coronis Isle.

“I told Valafar—if you want something done right, you do it yourself,” Solange bragged. She gestured to Kenta. “Remove their weapons.”

“Traitor,” I snarled at Kenta.

He winced, but emptied my pockets, then moved to my boots. As our former trainer, he knew everything—where we hid weapons, our weaknesses and strengths, our favorite weapons. He touched the knife I hid inside a pouch in my right boot, but didn’t remove it.

Our gazes met – his apologetic, mine probably puzzled. Maybe he was regretting his decision, now that he knew Valafar had used him and he wouldn’t be my trainer, after all, or this was his way of redeeming himself after his betrayal. He had trained me for months and knew me. He patted my boot, as though to tell me to use the dagger, then moved on.

Kim kicked him, but he caught her booted leg.

“Don’t judge me, Kim,” he snarled.

“Don’t tell me what to do, you evil backstabber,” she retorted.

“I hope you rot in Tartarus,” Izzy hissed.

“Enough!” Solange yelled. “Finish and give me the bag, Kenta. My father wants the weapons kept with the dagger in the vault. No chance in Tartarus any of you are getting your hands on them again,” she taunted. “Come, starting with you, Lilith.”

I ground my teeth and walked forward. The hated hollow feeling settled in my stomach, and my heartbeat went into overdrive. The cramp on my side wasn’t going away, either. Where were Dante and Kael?

Eye to eye with her, I paused. “I escaped before, and will again.”

“You got lucky,” she snarled, and shoved me out the door.

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Jillian must enter Nadia's dreams to wake her from a mysterious coma. In Nadia's dreams, Jillian meets several versions of her sister, including the elegant Queen Elena, fierce Naidine, and heartbroken Nadie. Meanwhile, Danielle must save her friend Christy from making choices that could get them both killed.

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Up close, the chandelier looked like a bank of mini television screens, the sort you see when you walk into an electronics store. Only instead of playing one movie, each crystal flashed with a different set of scenes. I reached for the nearest crystal.

Naidine intercepted my hand just before it would touch. “Your energy is not at a peak right now. Are you certain you wish to face this truth now?”

I stared back at her as steadily as I could, though my hand now

trembled. “Yes.” I barely managed the one-word answer.

Naidine blinked and withdrew her hand.

The crystal felt cool and smooth in my hand, but as soon as I held it firmly, I found myself in a dark, damp, smelly room listening to a child’s weak, heartbreaking sobs. Startled, I dropped the crystal and appeared back in the throne room. The crystal hovered between Naidine and I, showing its grim scene over and over.

I watched in stunned silence as a child dug up a worm and ate it. I looked to Naidine, my expression simultaneously begging to know more and to completely drive the scene from my memory.

A gentle gesture from Naidine sent the crystal floating up to its place in the chandelier. “Almost eleven years ago, Dakarai was kidnapped from his home in Zimbabwe. Slavers smuggled him into Canada and then took him to a house in New York. You need know little more than that they locked him in a shed with a rotting floor. He supplemented his meager meals with earthworms, and he died almost alone but not afraid.”

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Naidine struggled hard not to cry and partially succeeded. Two fat teardrops fell, hung in midair for a moment, then floated up and were absorbed into the crystal I’d so recently held.

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Goodreads Thursday | On Thin Ice by PJ Sharon

Title:  On Thin Ice
Author:  PJ Sharon

Length:  82,000 Words

Genre:  Contemporary YA

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Seventeen year old figure skater Penny Trudeau is a liar. She knows it, hates it, and can’t help herself. The truth is too hard and ugly. Her mother is dying of cancer, her father treats her as if she’s invisible, and she is starving—for food, for love, for acceptance, and mostly for the perfection that is just beyond her reach. When she finds comfort in the arms of Carter McCray, a hockey hunk a few years too old for her, the lies begin a chain of events that have dire consequences, not the least of which are a rape she can’t remember and a pregnancy she can’t ignore. If she reveals her secrets, will the shock and disappointment mean the end for her mother? Or has her mother been keeping the biggest secret of all?

EXCERPT

Miss Montgomery sat up and put her feet on the floor, rolling her chair in behind the desk as she leaned toward me. She folded her hands and rested them on her desk as if she were going to say a prayer or maybe send me to the principal’s office, that thing that adults do when they expect you to listen up and pay attention. Her gray eyes peered at me hard. “Anything you say to me is confidential, you know that, right?”

“Okay.” I folded my arms across my middle and leaned back further in my chair, studying the stacks of files on her desk.

“I want to help you, Penny, but I need you to be honest with me. Can you do that?” She had blue-gray eyes that seemed ancient and wise, the kind you wanted to trust.

I hesitated. “I’ll try.” Since lying hadn’t served me well recently, maybe some truth wasn’t a bad idea.

“Good. Do you know why you’re suffering from bulimia?”

Her words hit me like a slap. My heart raced and my stomach flopped over like a landed fish. “What do you mean?”

Her sad smile returned and she sighed. “You know what I mean. You are rail thin and you have scars on the backs of your knuckles from forcing yourself to vomit.”

“I don’t…” My fists curled and I wanted to crawl under the desk.

“Do you want me to tell you what I think?”

Speechless and as scared as I’d ever been, I hesitated and then slowly nodded. The truth was I didn’t know why for sure. There were all the usual suspects. My skating coach telling me I was fat, my mother putting all the expectation of her unfulfilled dreams on my shoulders, my father not ever having told me he loved me, blah, blah, blah. But down deep, I didn’t know why I couldn’t be strong enough to fight against all those things and simply choose to be healthy and normal. It wasn’t like I didn’t know what I was doing, but stopping now seemed like a failure somehow. I thought I had it all under control…but…maybe…

“I think that you don’t believe you deserve to be alive, to be happy and healthy.”

My breath caught in my throat and I stayed very still, letting her words sink in, trying them on like a new skin. In that one sentence, I realized that she’d spoken the truth in a nutshell. No lie could cover it. I couldn’t argue or smile my way out of it. Whatever line of defense that remained in place crumbled.

“Maybe I don’t,” I whispered. I leaned forward and lowered my head into my hands. When I looked up, my eyes found hers, “My mother is dying. What am I supposed to do?”

“Do you want to die too?” Her face had lost any hint of amusement and I thought how she looked like an avenging angel at that moment, serious and on a mission. Her golden hair flowed in waves over her tanned shoulders, those ancient blue-gray eyes seeing past my flesh and into my soul.

“I…I don’t know. Maybe it would be easier.” My head dropped down again and my forehead rested on my palms. Tears dripped onto the carpet below me, as steady as a leaky faucet. The knot in my stomach loosened—such a small release. The truth shall set you free. The words rang clear and true in my head like a lighthouse bell clanging in the fog. I’d been a prisoner, living in a cell where the four walls were made up of darkness and lies. And she had opened a door. A tiny crack of light seeped through. I had the sense that I simply had to step through to the other side to find the light that would lead me to safety.

Fear reached up from deep inside me and gripped my heart, choking my words, and trying to keep me locked in that dark room. I knew then that if I stayed there, I would die. I lifted my head from my hands and said with as much conviction as I could, “No. I don’t want to die.”

About the Author
PJ Sharon is the award winning author of several independently published, contemporary young adult novels, including HEAVEN IS FOR HEROES, ON THIN ICE, and SAVAGE CINDERELLA, winner of the 2013 HOLT Medallion Award for outstanding literary talent and the 2013 National Excellence in Romance Fiction Award. She is excitedly working on The Chronicles of Lily Carmichael, a YA Dystopian trilogy. WANING MOON, Book One in the trilogy, was a finalist in the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards and the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence. Book Two, Western Desert released in June of 2013.

Writing young adult fiction for the past eight years and following her destiny to write romantic and hopeful stories for teens, PJ is a member of Romance Writers of America, CTRWA, and YARWA. She is mother to two grown sons and lives with her husband in the Berkshire Hills of Western MA. 

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I have been a HUGE fan of Ednah for several years now. Ednah has written so many book series that I have totally fallen in love with. Runes fell quickly into that same category. Ednah Walters has a gift of writing a story that pulls you in and won't let you go. I highly suggest you check out not only her Runes series but all the other series out there.

 

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Here a message to my readers

First, I want to thank you, the fans, for your amazing support: the shout-outs on social media, the endless e-mails asking for the next book, reviews (good and angry ones), word-of-mouth PR, and posts about the Runes series. The response has been amazing and the support heartwarming.

You, my loyal fans, have made this series successful. Because of you, Torin was nominated for the YA Crush Tourney a month after the release of Runes and did amazingly well for a new book crush. I hope you enjoyed meeting Echo in Grimnirs. He's definitely giving Torin a run for his money.

When I started this series last year I did it out of a dare to finish a book in 4 weeks during the Nano month. Runes was fun and flirty. I giggled as I wrote most of the scenes and fell in love with all the characters.

The first book was all about Torin and Raine finding each other and love, and of course, Raine learning some cool things about herself. This is going to be a long journey for her. Book 2, Immortals, did not lack in the love department because these two have a love that comes once in a lifetime but they have to fight to be together. But Immortals is also about Raine coming to terms with what she will one day become. She is more important than anyone imagines and the choices she makes are going to have some huge consequences. Nothing will be what it seems, friends will be more than what they are on the surface, and enemies will surprise you, but don't get angry because things always work out when dealing with true love.

The things I have planned for this series are big and exciting, and I can't wait to share them with you. SEERESS, (book #3-Raine and Torin’s story continues), will be out in spring of 2014. (add your name to the linky below to participate in the cover reveal) In between the installments in the Raine and Torin’s saga, I will write a book focusing on a secondary character. I call them my guilty pleasures. These will be full-length romance novels like Grimnirs-Cora’s story. Just like Echo, there’s so much about these guys we don’t know about (I’m serious. They only reveal things to me when I write about them). I still have stories to write for Blaine, Eirik, Viggo (this arrogant god needs to be humbled by a mere Mortal methink), Ingrid, and of course, Andris .