Hailey Edwards (Author of Everlong)

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I guest blogged today over at Ex Libris. I’m talking about where my love of fantasy began. I think it must have started somewhere around the Bog of Eternal Stench…

Oh, and there’s a giveaway.

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Books by Hailey Edwards

Average rating: 3.95 · 166 ratings · 54 reviews · 6 distinct works

	Everlong (Daughters of Askara #1) 3.80 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	A Hint of Frost (Araneae Nation, #1) 4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Evermine (Daughters of Askara #2) 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Eversworn (Daughters of Askara #3) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Born Of Fire 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:
	From The Ashes 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Series by Hailey Edwards

Daughters of Askara (3 books)
by Hailey Edwards (Goodreads Author)

3.91 avg rating — 98 ratings

Araneae Nation (1 book)
by Hailey Edwards (Goodreads Author)

4.02 avg rating — 63 ratings

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Hailey's Writing

A Hint of Frost (Romance)

1 chapters — updated May 06, 2012 06:41pm

Description: Hope dangles by a silken thread. When the head of the Araneidae clan is found poisoned in her nest, her eldest daughter, Lourdes, becomes their clan’s new maven. If her clan is to survive, she has but one choice: she must marry before her nest is seized. All she needs is a warrior fierce enough to protect her city and safeguard her clansmen. Such a male is Rhys the Cold. Born the youngest son of an impoverished maven, the only things Rhys has to his name are his sword and his mercenary reputation. His clan is starving, but their fondness for the flesh of fellow Araneaeans makes them unwelcome dinner guests. Torn between loyalty to his clan and fascination with his future bride, Rhys’s first taste of Lourdes threatens to melt the cold encasing his heart. Amid the chaos of battle, Lourdes’s sister disappears and is feared captured. Lourdes and Rhys pursue their enemies into the southlands, where they discover an odd plague ravaging southern clans as it travels north, to Erania. Determined to survive, Lourdes will discover whether she’s worth her silk or if she’s spun the thread by which her clan will hang. Warning: This book contains one mercenary hero with a biting fetish, one determined heroine who gets nibbled, and an answer to the age-old question, “What does dragon taste like?” Matricide and sibling rivalry are available upon request. The house special is revenge, best served cold.

Eversworn (Romance)

1 chapters — updated May 06, 2012 06:39pm

Description: Steal the salt. Bind the grimoire. Escape the male. When an exchange of stolen goods in the Feriana marketplace turns sour, Isabeau stumbles from the encounter bruised and laden with new orders to complete an even larger heist. With her child’s life at stake, there’s no room for error—or allies. Armed with a lethal book of spells, she strikes a dangerous bargain with Roland Bernhard. Steal a shipment of salt from the Feriana colony, and she’ll have her freedom—and her daughter. It’s all she’s ever wanted. At least it was…until she runs into Dillon Preston. Dillon is out of commission after a mine explosion, and itching for a distraction. He gets it when the female who saved his leg arrives at the colony with nothing but flimsy excuses and even flimsier attire. She’s after something, but is it him—or the salt? Trapped in a desperate bid to gain true freedom, Isabeau is willing to sacrifice her life for her daughter’s, but Dillon has other plans. He wants a package deal, and he’s not willing to lose either female, even if it means the future king of Sere’s head will roll. Warning: This title contains a heroine desperate to save her daughter and a hero determined to make them a family. It also includes wings, horns and other assorted appendages.

Evermine (Romance)

1 chapters — updated Oct 10, 2011 12:21pm

Description: He can be a slave to his past…or allow her love to free him. There’s such a thing as too much change. Emma’s sister is mated. Revolution is brewing in her home realm. The last straw: her would-be mate is back from the dead and back under her skin—yet when it comes to the last five years, he’s not talking. Desperate for a chance to start her own life, she answers the queen’s call to ensure equality for all of Askara’s newly freed slaves. It’s the perfect opportunity to escape a heartbreak in the making named Harper. Harper loses a piece of his fractured soul when Emma walks away. His lies were meant to protect her from torturous years that drove him to the point of madness. Instead, when he comes to her a year later to help avert a crisis in a freed-slave community, the wedge those lies drove between them is firmly in place. As their new lives collide with old wounds, they race to stop a threat that could not only destroy the queen, but send Harper back to the hell he escaped. Emma must decide if the man she still loves deserves equal rights to her heart. Warning: This title contains torn pants, ripped gowns, and sand in uncomfortable places. It also includes one overcompensating villain, one gnarly priest, and two battered hearts willing to give this thing called love one last chance.

Everlong (Romance)

1 chapters — updated May 19, 2010 01:54pm

Description: The most damaged heart can fly with the right pair of wings. Madelyn’s life is far from fairytale perfect. She is second in line for the throne of a corrupt, brutal monarchy. Or at least she was until her dark guardian sacrificed his life to hide her safely in a realm of infinite possibilities. For years she’s lived among a colony of escaped slaves as her guardian’s widow. Even in this simple life, though, nothing is as it seems. Her hero kept a secret—a younger brother named Clayton Delaney. Warrior, winged demon…and the man who now wants to lay claim to her heart. No longer cast in his brother’s shadow, Clayton meets all obstacles head on, including one named Maddie. His infatuation with her reaches the breaking point when she undergoes a royal rite of passage, going into heat and pushing them both over the edge. Just as Maddie learns that some risks are worth taking, she discovers that her guardian may be alive. And she’s forced to make a choice between the man she’d thought she loved, and the demon willing to lend her his wings. Warning: This book contains virginal angst, a hero who’s too nice for his own good, wings, claws, and convenient use of glamour. It contains heartbreaking loss, conversation with a woodland creature, and sweet, sweet demon loving.

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Hailey Edwards made a comment on Romance Magicians: "I'm always looking for ways to hone my craft, so I'm looking forward to having access to a new pool of resources. Meeting local(ish) authors would als...more "
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Hailey Edwards is now friends with Boone Brux
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Hailey Edwards made a comment on New Family Members: "Thanks, Maddy! They are the sweetest babies. :) "
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Hailey Edwards added a quote "People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be." — Abraham Lincoln
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Hailey Edwards gave to: Lethal Rider (Lords of Deliverance, #3) by Larissa Ione (Goodreads Author) read in May, 2012	My rating:
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Hailey Edwards wrote A Hint of Frost: Chapter One "Fear kept my steps nimble. All my life, sentries had guarded these underground tunnels beneath the c" …more
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Hailey Edwards wrote Eversworn: Chapter One "Realm of Askara, City of Feriana Runes burned hot across my wrists where slave bands were inked into" …more
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Hailey Edwards marked as to-read: Once Burned (Night Prince, #1) by Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Quotes by Hailey Edwards

“Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.”
― Hailey Edwards

tags: evermine , hard-truths , wisdom

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“She snorted. “Talking doesn’t leave my kitchen six inches underwater. Talking doesn’t leave two full-grown demons soaking wet. Unless you were both pretending to be mermaids trying to perfect freshwater communication in my sink, I fail to see how talking had anything to do with whatever you two were up to.”
― Hailey Edwards, Everlong

tags: humor

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Quotes Hailey Likes

“I had to smile at the man. I mean, you have to smile at idiots and children.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

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“Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking.”
― Jim Butcher

tags: evil , harry-dresden , molly-carpenter

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“Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

tags: humor

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“Nay, but prithee, with sprinkles 'pon it instead," I said solemnly, "and frosting of white.”
― Jim Butcher, Small Favor

tags: irony , politeness , sweetness

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“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. ”
― Jim Butcher, Turn Coat

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