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THE COLONY giveaway on Goodreads

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Giveaway ends August 22, 2016.

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Cover Reveal for THE SHATTERED SEAM and SILENCING THE SEAM

Today is cover reveal day for the first two books in my upcoming Seam Stalker series, The Shattered Seam and Silencing The Seam! The Shattered Seam
Genre: YA Horror with Paranormal elements
Release date: 9/13/2016

Spending spring break on an isolated island rumored to be haunted is not sixteen-year-old Sam’s idea of fun. Spending spring break with her uncle and his ghost-hunting film crew on an isolated island is even worse.
 
Way worse.
 
Her family’s secrets—and a genetic ability she can no longer deny—surface, along with the ghost of a rich serial killer who left behind a trail of trapped souls.
 
And he’s not through yet.
 
With only one chance for escape, Sam must embrace her family’s curse and close the Seam between the living and the dead. Or be lost, forever. The Shattered Seam won the 2014 Rosemary Award from YARWA. The Shattered Seam ebook is available for ​ preorder at:


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​ Silencing The Seam
Genre: YA Horror with Paranormal elements
Release date: October 2016

Sixteen-year-old Sam Drake thought she’d left the horrors of spring break and Defiance Castle behind her. But back home, the spirits swirling around her are more demanding, more aggressive.
 
Fear of being institutionalized by her skeptical mother drives Sam to follow her dad to New Orleans. There she hopes to take back control of her life. But the French Quarter and the cities of the dead have other plans. Hour by hour they drain her, making it next to impossible to fight off a ghost who is determined to use her for its own revenge.
 
Ensnared in an ancient power struggle where Voodoo rituals, betrayal, and murder rule, Sam must determine who to trust. One step in the wrong direction will lock her inside the Seam to walk among the dead for eternity.

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​The covers were designed by Deranged Doctor Design and I love them! Let me know what you think. 

Set for Summer Giveaway - Win $960 in Amazon Gift Cards!

I'm taking part in a HUGE giveaway with 47 other authors and we want you to win! $960 in Amazon Gift Cards up for grabs!
​One winner will receive a $500 Amazon Gift Card.
One winner will receive a $250 Amazon Gift Card. 
Seven winners will receive $30 Amazon Gift Cards.
That can buy LOTS of books! Summer is nearly here. Time to kick back, relax, and enjoy the sunshine.
We’ve got you covered.
Enter to win $960 in Amazon Gift Cards by subscribing to 48 newsletters.
Subscribe to one or all. One entry per newsletter. List of authors participating:
Joanne Dannon | Jodi Redford | Michelle Irwin | Brinda Berry | KB Winters | Eden Connor | Tina Moss & Yelena Casale | Elianne Adams | Josie Bordeaux | Sydney Aaliyah Michelle | Ruby Madden | Theresa Troutman | Mary E Thompson | Shaniel Watson| Abbie Roads | Tracy Ellen | Demelza Carlton | Alexis Noelle | Jordan Ford | C.E. Black | Ashley Bostock | Yessi Smith | L A Cotton | DeAnna Cameron | Andie M. Long | Evie Harper | Harmony Kent | Jami Gold | Terra Kelly | Xandra James | Michelle Jo Quinn | Lena Bourne | Jackie Weger | Mika Jolie | Tracey Pedersen | Jenn Windrow | Kathleen Groger | Dori Lavelle | Kate Kent | T.E. Black | LJ Baker | Liz Gavin | Lisa Swallow | Sylvina Storm | Ani Gonzalez | Eileen Cruz Coleman | A.D. Ellis

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THE COLONY - waterpark/zoo scene video

​The waterpark/zoo scene in The Colony was inspired by locations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. #wsite-video-container-678933876847093111{ background: url(//www.weebly.comhttp://www.kathleengrog... } #video-iframe-678933876847093111{ background: url(//cdn2.editmysite.com/images/util/video... } #wsite-video-container-678933876847093111, #video-iframe-678933876847093111{ background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; } @media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-resolution: 192dpi), only screen and ( min-resolution: 2dppx) { #video-iframe-678933876847093111{ background: url(//cdn2.editmysite.com/images/util/video... background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; background-size: 70px 70px; } }

THE COLONY is now available!

Today's the release day for The Colony​! The ebook and paperback are available at Amazon
The ebook is also available at  iBooks  Nook  kobo

THE COLONY - The Water

​The Colony releases April 5, 2016. Check out a video of the place that inspired the water scene. #wsite-video-container-965794684735847400{ background: url(//www.weebly.comhttp://www.kathleengrog... } #video-iframe-965794684735847400{ background: url(//cdn2.editmysite.com/images/util/video... } #wsite-video-container-965794684735847400, #video-iframe-965794684735847400{ background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; } @media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-resolution: 192dpi), only screen and ( min-resolution: 2dppx) { #video-iframe-965794684735847400{ background: url(//cdn2.editmysite.com/images/util/video... background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; background-size: 70px 70px; } }

Abbie Roads Cover Reveal

Today I'm helping spread the news that my fellow Readerlicious writer, Abbie Roads, is revealing the cover for her debut book, Race The Darkness​.
Race the Darkness: Cover Reveal and Excerpt

It’s precisely 7:22 pm ET, the sun has just set in the Eastern Time zone, and it’s starting to get dark.
We are excited to reveal the cover of  Race the Darkness , a dark, gritty, emotional and sexy romantic suspense novel by debut author Abbie Roads!

First in a gripping paranormal romantic suspense duo by a Golden Heart finalist debut author whose clinical work gives her chilling insights...
Cursed with a terrible gift
Criminal investigator Xander Stone doesn’t have to question you—he can hear your thoughts. Scarred by lightning, burdened with a power that gives him no peace, Xander struggles to maintain his sanity against the voice that haunts him day and night—the voice of a woman begging him to save her.
That threatens to engulf them...
Isleen Walker has long since given up hope of escape from the nightmare of captivity and torture that is draining her life, her mind, and her soul. Except…there is the man in her feverish dreams, the strangely beautiful man who beckons her to freedom and wholeness. And when he comes, if he comes, it will take all their combined fury and faith to overcome a madman bent on fulfilling a deadly prophecy.
 
About Abbie Roads:
Abbie Roads is a mental health counselor known for her blunt, honest style of therapy. By night she writes dark, emotional novels, always giving her characters the happy ending she wishes for all her clients. Her novels have finaled in RWA contests including the Golden Heart. Race the Darkness is the first book in the Fatal Dreams series of dark, gritty romantic suspense with a psychological twist.
Race the Darkness  will be available on October 4th. 
Amazon:  http://amzn.to/22nGnVk
B&N:  http://bit.ly/1pwghOK
BAM:  http://bit.ly/1RmOgoN

A special note from Abbie Roads: 
Dear Readers,
I wrote Race the Darkness from start to finish three different times, with three different story lines, and with three different titles! The only thing that ever remained the same between the versions was Xander and Isleen. I believed in them and the story they wanted to tell. I hope you love reading about their tragedies and triumphs as much as I enjoyed writing them… All three times! And isn’t the cover amazing, beautiful, gorgeous? I cried the first time I saw it! It made all the hard work to get this book to you worth it!
Abbie Roads

An excerpt from  Race the Darkness : 
No f*cking way was he going to die running. He stopped, turned and faced the truck barreling toward them. The tires ate up the ground at an indecent rate. He clutched Isleen tighter to his chest. For her sake, he wanted it to be a quick death. No more lingering. No more pain.
 
That thought infuriated him. None of this was right. They shouldn’t be on the verge of death. Again.
 
The truck kept coming—twenty-five feet.
 
Everything slowed, happened as if through the quicksand of time. A white dandelion floaty meandered on the breeze directly between them and the truck. His heart no longer ran a staccato rhythm. Duh…duhm. Pause. Duh…duhm. Pause.
 
His life didn’t flash before his eyes. The future did. Isleen’s future. In an ethereal dream beyond time, her skin was gilded by firelight, her eyes void of sadness and fear, her body whole and healthy. She smiled, an expression so full of warmth and tenderness and undiluted joy that it plunked itself down inside his heart and wouldn’t leave.
 
He ached to create that kind of smile on her face, but their lives were over and it all could’ve gone so differently if he’d only listened to her, believed in her, found her years before now.

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Book Look for THE COLONY

Last night I found the coolest thing by Googling myself. A lovely woman had made a Book Look to go with my book cover of The Colony on the site www.polyvore.com - I love the entire outfit and want it! Thank you, xmikky, you made my day!

I Got My Proof Copy

I received the proof copy of The Colony today! I get to reread it and make sure it's ready for release on April 5th!

THE COLONY - Val's house

Check out the quick video I made of the house that inspired Val's hideout in The Colony. #wsite-video-container-504651121840783916{ background: url(//www1.weebly.comhttp://www.kathleengroger.com/uploads... } #video-iframe-504651121840783916{ background: url(//assets-www1.weebly.com/images/util/videojs/p... } #wsite-video-container-504651121840783916, #video-iframe-504651121840783916{ background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; } @media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and ( min-resolution: 192dpi), only screen and ( min-resolution: 2dppx) { #video-iframe-504651121840783916{ background: url(//assets-www1.weebly.com/images/util/videojs/@... background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position:center; background-size: 70px 70px; } }