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Someone to Love is available~!

It's here! It's here!  Someone to Love is up and running!!! 

Someone to Love is a light, sexy read that is far more naughty than it ever is nice.



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Someone to Love

New Adult Contemporary Romance 
*Intended for mature audiences* 17 + due to sexual situations







What happens when two people who don’t believe in love, happen to fall madly into the most beautiful relationship they could ever imagine? A train wreck.
When twenty-year-old Kendall Jordan transfers clear across country to Garrison University, the last thing she’s looking for is a one-night stand. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what, gorgeous, Cruise Elton offers.
Kendall has long since come to realize that love is an illusion that never lasts, and Cruise couldn’t agree more—but something deep inside her wants him all for herself. So, Kendall devises a seat of the pants plan to “play the player” and proposes that Cruise tutor her in becoming a female version of himself, Garrison University’s own playboy.
Real feelings begin to emerge, and neither Kendall nor Cruise know how to classify them. Everything they once thought they knew is redefined as they discover, in one another, Someone to Love.
I had a blast penning it. I really hope you'll have a blast reading it. 
*If you enjoy the book, please feel free to leave a review. I appreciate even a sentence or two~!
Happy reading~! xoxo

Teasers, hugs and Someone to Love release date

Welcome back to the Tuesday Tease. 
Hugs to all. I feel like this week we need them all around. So BIG (((hugs))) and peace.
I don’t have much to say other than I’m turning Someone to Love over to the formatter tonight. I’ll call Saturday 12/22/12 the official release date although I will be uploading on Friday so you never know. Here are some quick teasers, I hope you enjoy!
SOMEONE TO LOVE
(Kendal, a.k.a. Kenny, and Cruise)
He grazes his bottom lip with his perfect straight teeth, so unearthly white they glow. “Do you believe in love at first sight, Kenny?”Everything in me freezes. If I did believe in love at first sight, I would hope it would be with someone as godlike as Cruise Elton who saw fit to back me in a corner and bless me with his rock hard body—but alas the answer is no.“After my mom’s fifth marriage ended, I stopped believing in love and Santa.” It comes out much cheerier than the sad news it really is. He pulls his cheek to the side and gives a sexy smile that sears me with heat in places I’ve never felt before.  “I don’t believe in it, either. But you can’t tell me Santa isn’t real.” His grin widens. “I knew I liked you.” He cups the side of my face and swallows hard. Gone is the playful flirt as his features take a turn for the serious. His eyes close as he comes in for the kill. My heart gives a few wild thumps, alerting me to the fact that Cruise Cock on Fire Elton has the power to induce a cardiac episode in me if he wanted.“Whoa.” I slap my hands over his chest and give a good shove. “Sorry, cowboy, I’m not into one-night stands either. I get it. I really do,” I say, trying to maneuver my way from under him. “You’re on a road show with your penis, and trust me, I’m the last person who wants to get in your way. But I’m telling you, operation occupy-my-vagina is a no-go for the evening.”
ETHEREAL KNIGHTS
(Logan with Skyla in Ellis’s pool house)
“So”—I take a breath not knowing what’s about to fly out of my mouth—“how long have you known?” Shit. Wrong question. Barron specifically said to test her first.I hand her a pool stick with a reluctant smile. I can’t help it though. Skyla has me all twisted up whenever she's around. She could get me to rattle off the combination to the floor safe at the bowling alley if she wanted.“Known what?” She blinks up as if she’s got no idea what I’m talking about, but something about the way her lips twitch tells me otherwise.I tilt my head to the side and study her—those high cheekbones, her cute pinched nose, hair like a lion's mane. God, all I want to do is pull her in and cover her mouth with a kiss that goes on for days.       “That I like to play pool?” She looks up at me from under her lashes before shooting the ball across the table. “Stripes.”Skyla remains frozen, bent over the table, most likely amazed that she got the ball to obey her command. I snap up a stick and step in behind her. My heart is about ready to blow from my chest, amongst other bodily explosions that are demanding to happen right about now. I lay over her without processing anything my grey matter might like to inject in the situation. I’m firing on one hundred percent primal instincts at the moment, and God, I love these primal instincts. Her body rises to meet me, her bottom tucks into my hips and I give an inaudible groan.“Solids.” I blow the word over the side of her face while trying to control my breathing.Skyla spins around. Her eyes glitter up at me with a smile all their own as she touches her nose to mine for a brief second.Hot damn. I do believe she’s flirting in the best way possible.      I run my fingers through her hair before stroking the back of her neck.Kiss me, I roar it out like a lion and wait to see if she heard. 
EVANESCENT (The Countenance 2)
(Laken with Wes)
So many nights I wondered what it would feel like to have Wes with me, to be nestled in his arms, to hear him breathing—now, here we were, and it doesn’t feel at all like I thought it would. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine death would regurgitate him back to me, only to have reality expose him as something just shy of a monster. Deep down inside, I still want Wesley—just not this version.
ELYSIAN (Celestra Series Book 8)
(Skyla with her biological mother)
“Don’t walk away when I’m talking to you,” I say it sharp and clear, leaving her without excuse.She turns around slowly, burning with anger—the promise of an execution fresh in her eyes. Her face is a perfect resemblance to mine, such a close second it feels as though I’m arguing with a mirror. If ever I wanted to kick my own ass, here it is—my golden opportunity.

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Tuesday Tease

Hi Guys! Welcome back to the Tuesday Tease! I’ve been working nonstop on Someone to Love while my editor plows through it once again. She said I’d have it back today so I’m thrilled with that. It shouldn’t be too long after to format and load it. If it is, well, I blame Christmas, lol! Shopping seems to sideline every project under the sun these days. There was so much interest in ETHEREAL KNIGHTS last week (I’m humbled, thank you guys!) that I’ve included a teaser for that. It’s next in line to give my editor and I’m going to work my hardest to get that out in January. It’s all done but it needs her awesome eyes to gloss over it. On to the teasers!
SOMEONE TO LOVE (Kendall runs to Cruise’s bed, past midnight, scared out of her mind.)
“What brings you for a visit?” He runs his gaze down my ridiculous state of dress. Perfect. I’m pretty sure I’m the least sexiest woman to have ever graced his bed.“The rats of Massachusetts have gathered in my room for a state-wide conference,” I whisper in the event their tiny ears perk up at attention and they decide to migrate over. “You my friend have an infestation of the vermin variety.”“Everyrat in Massachusetts has congregated in your bedroom?” His left dimple goes off, mocking me, and suddenly I find his vexing good looks annoying as hell.“That’s right,” I say accusingly. “And I bet you’ve been planning it all along.”He belts out a laugh that startles me. “You got me.” He holds out a hand. “I had a big meeting with all the rodents in the neighborhood and orchestrated the entire event. I’ve got an alligator working his way through the sewage pipes as we speak.”“No way.” I cover my ears. “If I listen for one more minute I’m going to pee standing up for the entire next year.”“I’m teasing. I assure you the throne is still a safe place to rest on your laurels.” Cruise sits up and pulls me to my knees. “Clothes”—he drills into me with those lucent blue eyes—“on or off?”
ETHEREAL KNIGHTS (Gage and Logan are at the faction meeting that they didn't want Skyla to attend. Gage gets bored and he begins to replay the evening, casting himself as Skyla’s love.)
Nicholas Haver segues right back into the minutia of everyday life, discussing the potholes on Saddle drive, and my mind goes numb from listening. If you ask me the Faction Council is in need of new leadership. For all practical purposes this could be a "city" council meeting because not a thing about the factions has been brought up once.I’m so fucking bored. I wish I were back at the party. Hell, I wish I could rewind the night and have it all work out different. Now there’s a “superpower” I’d love to have. I imagine the house with all of its haunted memories of Chloe—those paper butterflies that I’m not even sure Skyla is aware of yet, lurking in the attic room just above her closet. I picture Logan and I walking in and starting the night anew.“Hi!” Skyla would be eager to greet me. She wouldn’t even notice Logan and his pretty boy smile.I’d try to say something and she’d place her finger over my lips. “Don’t talk. Just kiss me.”I’d plunge my lips over hers and we’d kiss right there in front of every person I know.It would be me that Skyla wanted to make a public proclamation with, not Logan. It would be me peppering her head with kisses, me with my arm secured around her waist, but it wasn’t. I don’t know if it ever will be.
EVANESCENT (The Countenance Book 2)(Laken thinking about Wes)
Maybe our love had its chance and we lost or maybe I’m just not trying hard enough. Whatever it is, I’m pretty sure puncturing my teeth into an imprisoned stranger is not going to bring us closer as a couple. I’m almost certain it’s going to move us the hell away from one another pretty damn quick. I can see now the spiritual terrain on which we’ve landed for what it is—a landslide. I’m not sure we’re ever going to recover. And with Wesley’s strange enthusiasm for all things wicked, I’m not sure I want us to.  
ELYSIAN (Celestra Series Book 8)(Skyla and Marshall)
I clasp my hand over his and then I see it, our entire future laid out in one seamless erotic stream.“Good God,” I pant. “This had better be some warped fantasy or I’m going to…”“Or you’re going to what?” He firms his grip over mine and I choke out a breath, completely intoxicated by the viral sensation he’s railing through me.“Viral sensation,” he huffs. “You know very well you’re trembling from the sheer pleasure of the escapades you’re privy to. In fact, why waste another moment leering when we can indulge our flesh in real time. I’ll take you to the future at once.”The room claps to darkness and we disappear.  
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Tuesday Teasers + Cover reveal!

It’s here again, the Tuesday Tease~! Super huge thank you to those of you who participated in reader appreciation month. I really do appreciate each and every one of you and think of you like family. Thank you for reading the books, reviewing and for taking the time to reach out to me on facebook, twitter, my blog and email. I love hearing from you and I look forward to getting to know you better~!Cover reveal!!!
SOMEONE TO LOVE is New Adult, intended for mature audiences, 17 and up, due to sexual situations. It’s coming out at some point in December. I’m hoping next weekish. On to the teasers~!
SOMEONE TO LOVE Preface:
It was that season in my life, the coming of age of the woman inside me that longed to know the secrets of the universe—those potent with lust and desire—the very thing that harnessed a sexual frenzy and drove humanity along on its erotic trembling wings. I’ve always thought of love as a very sharp knife that held the promise of exquisite pain, never one that satisfied, never a theory you could nestle in, warm and safe, forever. Love was dangerous terrain. It was where you met your enemy and gutted them before you sacked their belongings, hitting the road once the ink dried on the divorce papers—that’s what my mother taught me. I was my own universe. I guarded my heart, froze and buried it in the tundra of my own misgivings. But now that I was clear across country at Garrison University, desire and passion reared their ugly heads. My body ached to know things, and those kinds of lessons could only come from a heated body pressed against mine. Sex manifested itself in all things. It was all around me—the hibiscus with its sticky pistil, its stamen hungry to release, the perfect round bottom of the peach, the fig tree heavy with its sacks of seeded fruit—the stray cat locked in heat as she begs for a companion. It was everywhere, viral and prolific. All of nature was making love, encouraging humanity with its undeniable whispers. Every day it resonated like an erotic echo. I was envious, greedy to experience the gnashing of hips, the interlacing of hands, knees tucked against mine. I wanted to glean all of the sensual knowledge firsthand. I had held onto virginity and reason long enough—staved off the enemy for far too long. Every intimate part of me was quivering, cheering on my newfound carnal revolution, and now here I am standing in front of the god of Garrison in the exact amount of clothing I was born in. “Down,” he instructs. I get on my knees and he pulls my head back. Instinctively I know this is going to hurt and I want it to. I want to feel everything Cruise has to offer—all that he’s willing to thrust my way. He steps into me and unbuttons his jeans. He flicks at his zipper and gives the impression of a wicked grin.“With your teeth,” he commands. And I do.
***
EVANESCENT (The Countenance 2)(Laken and Jen)
I just stare at her stupefied for a moment.“I don’t care what Wes says, I’m not going in there.” I point to the room ablaze like an inferno. “In the event your blond head hasn’t picked up on the smoke signals, the room is on fire.”“Don’t be silly, Laken.” She gives me a hard shove through the door. “Every good girlfriend does what her boyfriend wants.”“Your ex-boyfriend wishes!” I scream as she seals me in the room of doom.  

ELYSIAN (Celestra Series Book 8)(Skyla to Marshall)
“That’s an awful long time. I’ll be in diapers by then.”Those hotter than hell lips of his scowl in my direction and he wands his fingers over my abdomen. Honest to God, something just heated up inside of me—if he impregnated me “angel style” I’m going to flip.“What was that?” I squawk.       “I bequeath you the everlasting gift of continence.”


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TOXIC is up + Tuesday Teasers!

Welcome back to the Tuesday Tease~! TOXIC Part Two is up and running!



Thank you so much to those of you who have already devoured it and stopped by on facebook/twitter to let me know your thoughts. And thank you to those of you who left reviews. I appreciate that so very much! And if you haven’t had a chance to read EPHEMERAL yet, this would be a great time because there are a few characters that bleed over into both series. Try not to hold the fact they’re Count’s against them. It’s a fun read that interweaves with Celestra and with Skyla’s new series even more so. I really hope you’ll enjoy it! Right now I’m putting the final touches on SOMEONE TO LOVE and will have that up in a week to a week and a half. My editor is getting ready to bounce it back to me one more time. ETHEREAL KNIGHTS is up next in the editing queue If you won something through reader appreciation month, most of it is on its way. I’ll do another run to the post office later this week. If I owe you a book, it will ship slowly but will eventually show up in the mail.This week for reader appreciationOne set of EPHEMERAL PJs




One Celestra Mug (Not pictured)






One signed poster
One signed copy of EPHEMERAL
Five signed bookmarks

Off to the teasers!
ELYSIAN (Celestra Series Book 8)(Skyla and Marshall)
I hedge my way over to him. He’s so handsome, my heart breaks for him like this. I want to do something for Marshall, something special. “Do you have a birthday?” “No”—he cuts me a quick look before continuing with the task at hand—“I was created.”“We should give you one. Halloween would be fitting,” I tease. “Demon’s delight? No thank you.”
EVANESCENT (The Countenance 2)(Laken to Cooper)

“Oh, I don’t know—if a strong guy like you could take on a zombie or two, I think you could handle sleeping next to me in a bed for a few hours.”“Like I said, I’ll take the floor.”
SOMEONE TO LOVE (New Adult, mature audiences)             (Cruise talking to Kendall, a.k.a. Kenny)
“You’re so beautiful.” I press a kiss over her cheek and linger. Kenny would do anything I wanted. I could have her right now. I could burry myself inside her, put an end to this aggressive build up brewing in me once and for all, and explode with relief from the pressure but I can’t. Kenny deserves to have someone say those magic words to her, one of which is the very word she declared war against in class this morning. I suppose I’m a big enough asshole to take her anyway, screw good morals and serendipity but I can’t—not Kenny.“I think tonight’s lesson is snuggling.” I gently roll her into me until we’re spooning again.“Snuggling?” She burrows her hair into my neck, scented with flowers and vanilla and her skin burns an erotic hole right through me. I close my eyes and take in the ecstasy and the misery as if she were writing a poem over me with her flesh.
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TOXIC Part Two is up!

TOXIC has already loaded to Amazon (Link): TOXIC Part Two
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I'll update once it hits Barnes & Noble and iTunes

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Enjoy the trip to Paragon! 

Happy reading and Happy Thanksgiving~! xoxox

Tuesday Teasers + News~

Welcome back to the Tuesday Tease!
OK. So. I have finished Toxic Part Two. I actually finished days ago but my OCD demanded I do several thousand additional “slow reads” to make sure it sparkles and shines just the way you deserve it to. This is my last Tuesday Tease for T2 and I’m super relieved. The teaser cupboard was getting rather bare. Honestly, I’ll just throw out the reserves in my teaser file and it’s probably a bunch of stuff from Marshall since he always seems to have the lions share of stockpiled quotes. So when does the book come out? Well, tomorrow I format my brains out. As soon as I square that away and my paperwork/blurb etc, I’ll upload the files. I’ll tweet and facebook as soon as I hit publish (with the forewarning it could take days). Sometimes Amazon spits it out in a couple of hours like it did with Toxic Part One but that seemed unusual. Anyway, it might be off balance as to when it arrives at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and Apple because they all have minds of their own even though I upload within the exact same hour. Go figure. About the book: Gah! SO close to the end!!!! I really did pour my heart and soul into this—and might have accidentally sacrificed my children’s arteries in the process. (I’m look at you KFC). OK, questionable nutritional practices aside, the book is done. It was an intense labor of love. I’m insanely grateful that you’ve hung on for ride this far. I really hope you’ll get a laugh, shed a tear, and simply love the book from top to bottom. This one’s for YOU!Reader appreciation: Reader appreciation has been a HUGE hit! I am loving this interaction with you guys and a few people actually won prizes twice so please don’t hesitate to enter. (And a few haven’t responded back to me so check your inboxes.)This weeks prizes are:
One Tremble necklace
One Toxic Part One flask necklace
Two Toxic Christmas ornaments
Three Signed copies of EPHMERAL (Yes, I have a paper baby!)
In addition to all these wonderful things I want to tell you about two anthologies I was lucky enough to eek into. First Jingle All the YAwith a bunch of great YA authors and the best part is its FREE!!!! Please go and get it! Because what’s better than free?
And second, Christmas Lites II, which is raising money for a very good cause. All proceeds from the book are being donated to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
Enjoy the teasers!
  *(Skyla about to witness an encounter with her two mothers)
Then it happens.“Lizbeth?” My mother, the one who gave birth to me, the one who bears my striking resemblance and has long since passed away, approaches the partially clad woman I now call Mom. Candace wears her signature I’ll cut your throat smile. Honest to God, she might have been better suited as Chloe’s mother than mine.
*(Skyla and Marshall)
Shit has hit the fan ~S Really, there were probably a million other things I could have said to Marshall that were more to the point and less cliché in nature. You’ve created eunuchs of both Oliver boys with a dull blade from the kitchen? I don’t even know what the hell he’s taking about but then again the feeling is mutual I suppose. We have an uninvited party guest—Cerberus!!! Help now! ~SYou’re having a party without me? I can practically hear the indignation in his voice.
*(Skyla debating on telling the truth)
I shake my head. I’ve told lies before, plenty of them. In fact, it’s a hobby I’ve come to realize is morally reprehensible, but truthfully, this is one time I think I should distance myself from the truth in a spectacular way.
*(Skyla thinking about Marshall) (BTW, this is a quasi deleted/rewritten teaser)
I drop the girls off at the mall. I made the stupid mistake of letting them know where I’m going after and all the way over they accuse me of getting it on with “that teacher.” They looked both fantastically disgusted and excited beyond reason at the same time. They didn’t bother hiding the fact they think Marshall is “cute.” Marshall is a lot of things but cute isn’t one of them—more like smoldering, insanely good looking, a sexual god of alien descent. 
*(Sklya and Marshall)
“Where shall we spend our honeymoon?” He goes right there without provocation. “No honeymoon—but, well,” I fold my arms across my chest. “I’m sort of not really seeing Gage since I can’t trust him. Logan wants to wait until the end of the faction war before we see where our feelings lie, so I suppose I’m open.”“Open?” His head twitches to the side just so. “You know, for your wooing. No kissing though. You’ll have to woo without lingual contact.”“No kissing.” His chest broadens under the guise of this new turn of events. “This is fantastic.” He says it sharp like it were a war and he just gained ground on the enemy.
*(Skyla and Marshall)
“Sounds like we’re an afterthought.” I pull on a loose thread at the base of his shirt lost in a momentary bout of madness with visions of our flesh contorting in unison. It’s easy like this with Marshall. I never question what his motives are or if he’s going to turn out to be one of Chloe’s psychotic minions. He simply wants to marry me and create a super race of Sector, Celestra half-breeds—nothing more, nothing less.
*(Skyla and Marshall)
“Nothing but the best for the love my life,” he says situating himself across from me. “Get use to having the finer things at your fingertips—your disposal.” He punctuates it with a sexual leer that lets me know he’s the luxury in question. There’s no doubt Marshall would be a luxury for any woman.
*(Death comes to Paragon)
“Pity,” Marshall muses with a false sense of charity, “would you like to bury or burn her?”
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Tuesday Teasers + more reader appreciation!

It’s Tuesday again! Welcome back to the Tuesday tease and reader appreciation month~!WOW~ what an amazing response to the reader appreciation week giveaway! Thank you so much for entering. I extended the winners from 10 to 40 last week. This week I’m trying rafflecopter and I really hope you’ll enter again for a chance to win. If you won last week you’re still eligible!Here are the prizes this week:
One pair of Toxic PJ’s
One Tremble necklace
One Ephemeral tote bag

One Ephemeral mirrored compact
As many signed Toxic/Ephemeral bookmarks as I can send out~! 
TOXIC Part Two news~! I’m close. SO close. I have to bounce one last time with my editor and that takes about a day or two for her to peruse my corrections. Then I do as many final read-thrus as I’m comfortable with. Will I have it up by next Tuesday? Your guess is as good as mine but that’s how very close we are!I hope you’ll hang tough for the final book (8) as our journey comes to a close. And I hope to have Skyla’s new series ready to go shortly thereafter to smooth the transition.Don’t forget to enter the rafflecopter drawings on facebook and my blog~! The drawing is open until Thursday-midnight! There are lot’s of chances to win because I really do appreciate you guys! xoxo
TOXIC Part Two (Celestra Series Book 7.5)
 (Brielle and Skyla discussing Chloe)
Brielle ribs me. “I’m still planning a take down.”“Good luck with that.” I’ve been outsmarted, out witted, and out played. Chloe is virtually indestructible. I’m betting not even my mother in the sky could hold her down and make her cry celestial uncle.A flash of lighting comes from nowhere, startles me to attention as if my mother had heard and begged to differ.
(Marshall and Skyla)
“Delphinius was generous enough to cast me a vision of our future.”I spike up in a panic. “What did you see?”“Arms and legs, and a tangle of flesh contorting in a deliciously disturbing manner.”Gah! Disturbing is right.
(Gage yelling at Logan at the beach)
You had your chance with her and you blew it.” He glares into him. “Just like you blow everything else in your life.” Logan scoffs at the blow. “Sounds like my life interests you.” He leans in. “I bet you wish you were me.” Logan gravels it out, his mouth rising on the sides. “Deep inside, you know you’ll never have what Skyla and I share. Why don’t you go hook up with Chloe? Everyone here knows you want to. You could do her in the parking lot—write a poem about it after.”

(Ouch)
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Tuesday Teasers + Reader Appreciation~!

It’s here again~! The Tuesday Tease!!!
Guess what? I have TOXIC Part Two back in my hot little hands!! *jumps*throws confetti* That means no sleep for me as I work 24/7 to get this baby clean and mean and ready to be seen. I really do apologize for the gigantic delay. In other, far more important news, it’s reader appreciation month! That’s right. I need to thank YOU in the biggest way possible. Each Tuesday I’m going to be gifting you with all sorts of Celestra and Countenance bling (mugs, signed bookmarks, necklaces, earrings, …). And I’m just giving it away. You don’t need to answer a question, or like me in five hundred different places, simply leave your email addy in the comments section as follows... yourname  (@) yahoo.com, and you're entered to win! I’ll count out the entries and have my daughter pick a number because that makes her feel special. You can enter either on facebook or my blog I’ll do two separate draws. 8 winners on facebook and 2 on my blog. Feel free to enter at both places if you like. Please get your entries in by midnight Tuesday and I’ll contact the winners sometime on Wednesday.Prizes up for grabs this week are as follows: One set of Ephemeral P.J.s~! (I have a selection of sizes/ Black shirt available)
One Ephemeral mug
One Tremble necklace One set of Tremble Earrings
3 signed Ephemeral posters
3 sets of signed bookmarks *
Thank you so much to all of you for your continued wonderful support. I owe you everything. xoxo
On to the teasers!!!Enjoy~
TOXIC Part Two (Celestra Series Book 7.5)
(Skyla talking to Logan)
“I’m hungry for you in the worst way. I don’t think I could ever get enough.” I don’t think I’ve ever spoken the truth like that before where it hurt like hell, where I could feel the breaking of a dam deep in my heart and it felt like the sweetest release. That was our relationship in a nutshell, pain and relief rolled into one. “I love you.” I peck another kiss just shy of his lips. “I love you more than the heavens love the sun and the moon.”
*(Skyla begging Marshall for help)
“Get rid of it,” I hiss.“Sorry, I’m tied up at the moment forming the guest list for our coming out party. Word on the golden streets is the Soullennium is rife with envy and gossip. Tsk, tsk, it brings shame to the Kingdom. The quicker the celestial scene sees you for itself the sooner the jealousy can properly set in.” He gives a sly look before evaporating into thin air.
*(From the beginning of the chapter entitled The War and the Whore)
The morning greets us with a slate grey sky, rain falls like axes. It has the power to etch the glass with its hellish fury. I wish it would. A storm like this should have the knowledge to inscribe my future on my bedroom window, tell me what the future holds for Gage and me—let me in on why he’s so damn insistent on cutting out my heart and gifting it to Chloe. She is the witch who desires nothing more than to devour my existence. Gage is the hunter eager to please.

***Have a great week and please go out and vote! Happy Election Day~!

Tuesday Teasers~!

Welcome back to the Tuesday Tease~!
Next week I begin reader appreciation month in which I give away prizes each Tuesday because you are beyond awesome and deserve them. Toxic Part Two news~! My editor is still hacking through that thicket but once it reverts to me it’s on baby. I’m taking that book to task, working 24/7 until I crush it under my heel, I mean until it sings to me and then I will graciously pass it on to you~! In the meanwhile I managed to pretty up SOMEONE TO LOVE and will swap it out with T2 once she’s through. Honestly, my personal goal was to get T2 out to you by Halloween, so “boo” for me. Sorry about that. On the upside, each day it’s closer to completion.
Enjoy the teasers~!
TOXIC Part Two (Celestra Series Book 7.5)
(Chloe, Gage, Ellis, Skyla)
“It’s our senior year. This is it, the big one.” She slits her eyes over to Gage’s crotch when she says “the big one” and I suck in a quick breath at the audacity. “Then it all ends,” she whispers, “and everyone goes their separate ways.”“We’ll always have Paragon.” Ellis picks up a stick and stokes the fire. “Half of us will probably never leave.”
*(Skyla and Marshall)
“Fine, I’ll go to Ezrina myself.” I take Marshall in with all of his physical perfection, feel his glorious vibrations of love pulsate through me, and wonder how I ever got so lucky that a celestial king such as himself should ever pay me any attention.“My, my—pouring it on a little thick, are we?” He purrs, lapping up the stroke to his ego.“Did it work?”“Maybe,” he steals a quick kiss before pulling away. “What the heck. Let’s get this party started.” He snaps his fingers and we disappear.
(Wesley to Skyla after she threatens to rip his balls off in the Tenebrous Woods)
“I wasn’t kissing you.” Wesley twitches his brow the same way Gage does. It makes me wonder if Dr. Oliver had made a genetic deposit to some long gone girlfriend before he married Emma. “You’re beautiful, Skyla,” he whispers, “but my heart belongs somewhere else.” He tilts into me. “I was going say thank you for trusting that I wouldn’t hurt you.” He offers a bastardized version of a sarcastic smile. “And I won’t.”

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(Kendall talking to her friends about Cruise)
“I asked him to instruct me in his wicked ways.” A devious smile plays on my lips but I won’t give it. “I told him I wanted to be just as sleazy as he is when I grow up and asked him to teach me the tricks of the trade.”“Which consists of?” Lauren seems nonplused by my ability to enlist Cruise as my personal portal to promiscuity.“I don’t know. It’s like my mouth started moving without my permission and before I knew it I was asking him to lead me through the deep dark forest of debauchery. The truth is, I sort of wanted to, you know, be with him but I was too shy and embarrassed by the fact I’ve never been with anyone before.” I shrug as though what just flew from my lips was morally sane. “I believe I referred to it as a social experiment.”

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