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September 3, 2014
RWA Goodies Giveaway, Part the Next
I can’t remember what RWA Giveaway number I’m on (maybe #4?), so I’m using one of my favorite eighteenth-century subtitles and just calling it “Part the Next.” :)
I had originally planned to do these once a week, but I got a little behind on mailing packages, so I took a break. But now all the winners’ packages are on their way, so here’s a new giveaway!
This week, it’s all about the mystery. So read about the books I’m giving away, then about my own book, and finally, scroll down and enter to win!
This week, I’m giving away two paperbacks of books by Karen Rose:
Baltimore city Homicide Detective J.D. Fitzpatrick has seen a lot of violence but nothing like the trail of tortured bodies that are turning up throughout the city. And now he’s starting to suspect that his medical examiner, Dr. Lucy Trask, may be shielding a dark secret that could connect her to these vicious killings-and put her next on the killer’s hit list…
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And I’m featuring my own book, Waking Up Dead:
Spotlight On: Return to Me, by Melissa MacKinnon
This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Melissa will be awarding $25 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour, and a $10 Amazon GC to a randomly drawn host. Please click the banner to see additional stops on the tour.
Archaean bounty hunter Marek Coinnich isn’t particularly fond of Engels. In fact, he prefers them dead. But to save his injured brother, he must enter the manor of an Engel enemy. Marek finds himself enthralled by the slave girl nursing his brother back to health. When his enchantment with her lands them in a compromising position, he refuses to let the young beauty pay for the misunderstanding with her life.
Brynn of Galhaven prefers to keep to the shadows. When she is ruined by an outsider, she barely escapes with her life and finds herself left alone in an unforgiving land. Through her struggles to survive, Brynn discovers a world she never imagined and never forgets the enemy Archaean who stole her heart.
Marek can’t deny his desire for Brynn, but these are wartimes, and she is the enemy. And though love knows no prejudice, the world in which he lives isn’t nearly as forgiving.
Now enjoy an excerpt:
It was the scream that caught his attention, the sound of pure terror. A woman’s ultimate terror — he’d heard it many a time throughout his hardened life. For a quick moment, Marek’s eyes shifted in search of the treeline instead of the soldier he battled. The swing of an Engel sword narrowly missed his shoulder and sent him staggering backward on his heels. Marek barely escaped the bone-crushing blow. The soldier advanced on horseback, whereas Marek battled on foot. Regaining his stance, he blocked the Engel’s next blow with only seconds to spare. He couldn’t focus — he worried for her safety. Damn woman. He was going to get himself killed.
Marek was torn between the two battles. Did he attempt to fight the man he engaged, praying Brynn could fend off her attacker until he could reach her, or did he make a run for her, hoping to surpass his own battle? Given another few minutes, Marek would slay his opponent. Another scream sent him reeling. The Engel held a blade high above her.
Damn, she won’t be afforded another few minutes. He was out of time, and no risk was greater than that of her life. Narrowing his eyes, Marek charged his opponent and wrenched him to the ground. The soldier, caught off guard, slid from the saddle, dropping his weapon. With one swift jerk, Marek’s sword slid along the man’s throat, severing it. A wild fray of blood spurted at the sky as the body slumped to the ground. Marek spun on his heels to race across the field.
Losing his footing to the slick mud, he skidded to his knees, realizing he’d never make it to her side in time. The soldier would have the dagger in her chest before he could intercept. Marek fumbled for the protruding handle of the knife still wedged in his boot. Finding it, he pulled the blade from its sheath. With his heart racing and his hand oddly trembling, he whirled the knife into the back of the soldier’s skull.
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Melissa grew up surrounded by dragons, fearsome creatures, and damsels in distress from the wonderful world of make believe. She soon found her ideas on paper, littering her desk with world maps and character biographies. Study hall was used not for homework but for writing. Although she pursued a career in theater, the written word never left her. Melissa now leads a full life with her husband and children (five amazingly adorable clones to be exact), though she still finds time to write in her “spare time”. She sports a Military Wife badge of honor, and is lucky enough to have her own knight in camo armor.
Melissa enjoys writing everything from sexy, sword-toting heroes to spit-out-your coffee funny romantic comedies. Her passion lies within the ancient walls of fantasy and historical romance, where anything is possible.
Melissa MacKinnon: http://melissamackinnon.com/
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September 2, 2014
Fairy, Texas by Margo Bond Collins: A Goodreads Giveaway
I’m giving away a copy of Fairy, Texas on Goodreads–the contest will close at the end of September. The Goodreads site still has the old cover–check out the new one at the bottom of the page!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Fairy, Texas
by Margo Bond Collins
Giveaway ends September 30, 2014.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
September 1, 2014
Spotlight On: UNCOVERED by S.X. Bradley
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Evernight Teen
Last year
sixteen-year-old Autumn solved her sister’s murder. This year, she is
part of a high school forensic dream team that assists the police when
teens are kidnapped. When it’s discovered the kidnappings are part of a
secret online survivor game, the police and team focus on the game
maker—the man behind the game. The focus of the investigation shifts when Autumn is singled out
and becomes the target of the Game Maker’s sick game.
Through encrypted messages hidden in steganographs, Autumn must
discover who the last kidnapping victim is if she hopes to save him in
time.
Evernight
TeenAmazonB&NSmashwordsBuy in PrintExcerpt:
Everyone resumed their tasks, except for Minerva. She rolled her
eyes at me, which was miraculous considering the spider-leg eyelashes she wore.
I gave her a country-club smile, then refocused on the blood spatter.
“Clear.” Shock , silence. “Sorry for your loss, miss.”
I documented the results in my evidence log. My handwriting was
shaky, but legible enough for my team.
I blew out the fear in one big breath and got back to work. I
examined the pattern on the floor. The low blood volume found at the scene was
a positive sign, but it wouldn’t matter to her family. They were being
tormented every second she was gone. Right now, the tricks their minds were
playing on them, the things their imaginations were conjuring, were sadistic.
Panic loved to be a bitch like that.
I stepped back and looked at the ice cream parlor from all
angles the way I’d been taught this past summer.
My four other STAFF teammates were walking around performing the
various tasks assigned to them. It was our first case, and I prayed we’d do a
kick-ass job, because there was still hope and a chance to impact her fate.
Objectivity was key. Quick-draw conclusions could lead you down
the wrong path and to the home of…oh, I don’t know, let’s say…my high school
principal. Principal Tamez still hadn’t forgiven me and never would. Ponzi
Scheme Boy knew I was onto him, except there was this little thing called
evidence that the police liked to have before arresting anyone for embezzling.
Author
Bio:
Her greatest joy is her daughter who is quite the storyteller
and likes to come up with the characters’ names for mom’s stories.
Susan loves estates sales, traveling, spending time with her
family, and discovering new books at the Columbus Metropolitan library.
website:
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Spotlight On: Life: Discarded, by D. E. Haggerty
Life: Discarded by D.E. Haggerty
Suspense/Thriller
Date Published: September 1, 2014
Why would a woman who has it all throw her life away? Morgan has the perfect life. She married the man of her dreams. Daniel is smart, gorgeous and successful. Everything she has always wanted in a husband and the father of her children. But he’s also domineering, overprotective and jealous. Is living with him enough to drive Morgan over the edge? Or does something more treacherous lurk beneath the façade?
EXCERPT
Prologue
Shaking hands steer the car to the nearest full service gas station. Only one or two gas stations in town still offer full service, but she had done her homework and knew this one did. Not only did full service guarantee that someone else would be pumping her gas, but its expense meant that there’s never a wait. Maneuvering the car to the furthest full service pump, she waits, hands clutching the steering wheel, for the attendant.
After what feels like an eternity to her fevered brain, the attendant finally notices her and saunters over to her car. Her eyes follow him, silently urging him to quicken his pace. Come on, come on. “Fill it up,” she squeaks at him when he finally reaches her car. She grabs her over-large purse and jumps out of the car, nearly tripping in her haste. Looking back, she whispers “I’m sorry” to the oblivious attendant before continuing around the building.
When she reaches the rear of the building, she frantically scans the area. Finally she spots the large garbage container, not in its usual spot. She jogs to it and squats behind it; shrinking into herself and covering her ears. Just in time. A loud bang shakes the earth below her feet. Looking up, she sees flames shooting into the sky.
Time to get out of here. She stands on shaky legs, taking a moment to calm her erratic breath before walking in the opposite direction – refusing to look back.
About the Author
D.E. Haggerty was born and raised in Wisconsin but thinks she’s a European. After spending her senior year of high school in Germany, she developed a bad case of wanderlust that is yet to be cured. After high school she returned to the U.S. to go to college ending up with a Bachelor’s degree in History at the tender age of 20 while still managing to spend time bouncing back and forth to Europe during her vacations. Unable to find a job after college and still suffering from wanderlust, she joined the U.S. Army as a Military Policewoman for 5 years. While stationed in Heidelberg, Germany, she met her future husband, a flying Dutchman. After being given her freedom from the Army, she went off to law school. She finished law school and moved to the Netherlands with her husband and became a commercial lawyer for more than a decade. During a six month break from the lawyering world, she wrote her first book, Unforeseen Consequences. Although she finished the book, she went back to the law until she could no longer take it and upped stakes and moved to Germany to start a B&B. Three years after starting the B&B, she got the itch and decided to pull the manuscript for Unforeseen Consequences out of the attic and get it published as an e-book. Deciding that she may have indeed finally found what she wanted to do with her life, she went on to write Buried Appearances. After moving to Istanbul, she started on Life: Discarded , her third book. Between tennis, running, traveling, singing off tune and reading books like they are going out of style, she writes articles for a local expat magazine and various websites, reviews other indie authors’ books, writes a blog about whatever comes to mind and is working on her fourth book.
Author Links
Website
Twitter: @denaehaggerty
Blog
Goodreads
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Amazon
Giveaway
$25 Amazon Gift Card
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August 31, 2014
Spotlight On: Valia Lind’s EDGE OF FALLING
Title: Edge of Falling
Author: Valia Lind
Series: Falling, #2
Genre: Contemporary YA
Publication: August 1, 2014
For Chance, there’s always only been Dakota.
He’s been in love with the girl since the day they met. He’s tried everything to get her to notice him and nothing has worked. So when things suddenly start moving in the right direction, Chance can’t believe his luck.
Until Kyle comes along.
Kyle is like a new shiny toy and Dakota loves new and shiny. She falls for the tall, blonde and gorgeous fast and without looking back. Dating the summer before college wasn’t in the plans, but come on, Kyle is perfect. So why does Chance and his snarky grin keeps popping up in her mind now that Dakota has found her happiness?
When Chance’s world comes crashing down, Dakota proves the strength of their friendship, surprising herself and everyone around her, by helping him pick up the pieces. In return, Chance is finally able to crack her hard shell, discovering that not everything is sunny in Dakota-land. Her world is not what it seems on the outside, and together, they’re able to pull each other to the brink of safety and sanity.
Dakota likes that things are simple with Kyle, so why does she feel more like herself around Chance?
As graduation grows closer, both Chance and Dakota learn that the plans you make for your life don’t always play out the way you expect them and sometimes, everything starts to make sense when you find yourself on the edge of falling.
Purchase
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About Valia
Author. Photographer. Artist. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Valia Lind always had a love for the written word. She wrote her first full book on the bathroom floor of her dormitory, while procrastinating to study for her college classes. Upon graduation, she has moved her writing to more respectable places, and have found her voice in Young Adult fiction. Falling by Design is her debut young adult novel. You can visit her online at http://www.valialind.blogspot.com or follow her on twitter, where she spends way too much time, @ValiaLind.
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The Tour
August 25th
Total Book Geek | Review
Books are Love | Review
Kelly P’s Blog | Excerpt
August 26th
Her Book Thoughts | Review
August 27th
What’s BeyondForks? | Excerpt
Love In Every Page | Excerpt
August 28th
Camisado Mind | Teaser
August 29th
Good Choice Reading | Review
My FavoriteThings | Teaser
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Review: Ill Wind, by Karen Perkins
In Ill Wind, one of two prequel novellas to the novel Dead Reckoning and an entry in the Valkyrie series, we meet Gabriella, a young woman whose miserable life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony leads her to dream of sailing away into a new life. But when she finally gets that chance, she discovers that her new life is just as miserable as her old one.
Yet, through her developing friendship with the slave Klara, she is able to maintain just enough hope to keep her going.
What I liked best about this novella was the attention to detail. Having spent a little time studying the Caribbean slave trade while I was working on my Ph.D. in eighteenth-century British literature, I appreciated the fact that Karen Perkins created a believable world with strong historical detail.
I also loved the character development—Gabriella is a nicely drawn character whose experiences left me gasping in sympathy.
I would have liked to have seen a more definitive ending for those readers just coming to the series, but having read Dead Reckoning, I know that this novella’s conclusion is just the start to the rest of a strong series.
Gabriella Berryngton is an unhappy and oppressed fourteen-year-old girl living in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1683. She dreams of escaping her bitter, ambitious stepfather and sailing off into the unknown.
Her dreams come true when her stepfather sells her into marriage.
Aboard the Freyja, she is hopeful that her new life in the Dutch West Indies will be an improvement – a hope that dies when she is given a slave, Klara, and a whip. She discovers that her soon-to-be father-in-law is a ruthless slave trader in league with pirates, and her fiancé is cold, unfriendly and disinterested in Gabriella. She is little more than a vessel to provide the next generation of van Eckens.
Largely ignored and desperately unhappy, she and Klara develop a friendship which makes life bearable – at first. Once married, Gabriella’s life takes a turn for the worse and she descends into a world of horror and abuse until tensions finally explode. Life will never be the same and she has no choice but to take fate into her own hands.
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About the Author
Karen Perkins lives in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing and publishing as proprietor of LionheART Publishing House. She has been a keen sailor since childhood, competing nationally and internationally until the day she had both National and European Ladies Champion titles. Although she no longer takes to the water, she continues to enjoy sailing in her imagination and fiction – capsizing far less often!
She has written the novella (Ill Wind) and the full-length novel (Dead Reckoning – long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011) both of which are number one bestsellers in Sea Adventures on Amazon.co.uk in the Valkyrie Series. Look Sharpe! Valkyrie 3, has just been released and will shortly be followed by the short story, Where Away and the novel Ready About!.
Karen Perkins has also written the novel, Thores-Cross and the associated short story Cursed in the Yorkshire Ghost Story Series. Dark, haunting tales set in the North Yorkshire Moors about isolation, superstition and persecution, Thores-Cross follows the stories of Emma, a present day writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth century witch. Thores-Cross is a number one bestseller in British Horror on Amazon.com, and will soon be followed by the next book in the series, Knight of Betrayal. Set in both 1170 and modern day, Knight of Betrayal focuses on the four knights – Hugh de Morville, Reginald fitz Urse, William de Tracey and Richard le Bret – who broke the sanctuary of Canterbury Cathedral to murder the Archbishop, Thomas Becket. Hiding out in Knaresborough Castle, the extreme level of their medieval sense of guilt and dishonour has horrific repercussions nearly a millennium later.
Review: Blood Reaction by D. L. Atha
D.L. Atha’s novel Blood Reaction offers a new spin on vampires. Protagonist Annalice is home alone while her daughter is away visiting family—and she lives on an isolated farm. And while Annalice might be looking forward to a quiet week at home, what she gets is something much worse. She is taken prisoner in her own home by Asa, a vampire who forces her to participate in feeding him, teaching him about modern humanity, and worse, all by threatening the life of her child.
Some of the things I liked best about this novel—other, of course, than the vampire twist (always a favorite!)—were the ways that Annalice drew upon her experience as a doctor. I also loved the fact that the vampire wasn’t a hero. He was brutal and murderous. And despite Annalice’s own “blood reaction” drawing her to her tormentor, she recognized the physiological and psychological elements of that attraction, using her medical training to work to save herself and her daughter.
Overall, this book is a noteworthy entry in the vampire genre, mixing the mundane and the terrifying in some interesting ways, and Annalice’s unexpected solution to her problem makes for a fascinating conclusion.
Blurb:
Annalice, a single mother and physician, is ready to immerse herself in the mundane chores of her farm as a diversion from her hectic professional life. But she becomes the victim of a home invasion, the supernatural kind. Vindictive and cruel, Asa, a century old vampire, takes brutal control of her life and home. Forcing her to strike a bargain in exchange for her daughter’s life, Annalice must not only accept his presence but also bow to his depravity. Facing threats to her only child, she relies on her skills as a physician to unravel the clues to the vampire’s existence, attempting to beat him at his own game. Caught in a race against a genetic timeline, Annalice struggles to survive the Blood Reaction.
About DL Atha:
DL Atha, having the good fortune to have been raised in rural western Arkansas, resides there still with her husband and three children where together they enjoy the farm life.
She earned her MD in 1999, and currently enjoys the practice of hospital medicine and wound care which she performs full time in a nearby town.
She is currently working on the sequel to Blood Reaction.
For the Sake of Revenge was her first venture into non-medical fiction.
A few of her favorite things are chocolate, anything old but especially old houses, gardening, and horses.
Her least favorite things are getting up early, anything that happens before nine a.m. and constricting clothing.
Get in touch with DL ATHA:
http://bookblogs.ning.com/profile/DLAtha
https://www.facebook.com/ForTheSakeOfRevengedlatha
Purchase DL ATHA’s books:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/dlatha
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4877830.D_L_Atha
http://www.amazon.com/DL-Atha/e/B005018RJU/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1408311205&sr=8-1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-reaction-d-l-atha/1101002201?ean=9780979335600
August 28, 2014
In the Pages of a Good Book Friendship Blog Hop and Giveaway
Welcome to the Friendship Blog Hop and Giveaway, hosted by In the Pages of a Good Book in honor of their one-year anniversary!
This hop is all about friendship, so I’m featuring the books of just a few of the friends I’ve made as an author–some of the people who have inspired me, supported me, and helped me along the way. I only hope that I can do as much for them (and others!) at some point.
So join the party! Check out the books below, then enter to win all four giveaways: one on my blog, and three hop-wide giveaways–one for a Kindle, one for prizes for authors, and one full of goodies for readers! Once you’ve done that, be sure to HOP to the rest of the participating blogs. And finally, check out the Facebook Page Takeover on August 29.
BOOKS
The Harvesting, by Melanie Karsak
“The world, it seemed, had gone silent. It was something we knew but did not talk about. We were alone.”
While Layla Petrovich returns home to rural Hamletville after a desperate call from her psychic grandmother, she never could have anticipated the horror of what Grandma Petrovich has foreseen. The residents of Hamletville will need Layla’s cool head, fast blade and itchy trigger finger to survive the undead apocalypse that’s upon them. But even that may not be enough. With mankind silenced, it soon becomes apparent that we were never alone. As the beings living on the fringe seek power, Layla must find a way to protect the ones she loves or all humanity may be lost.
It’s all fun and games until someone ends up undead!
UPDATE
The Harvesting is free for a limited time! Get your copy now!
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Untethered, by Katie Hayoz
Sixteen-year-old Sylvie isn’t comfortable in her own skin. In fact, there are times she can’t even manage to stay inside it. But if there is one thing she’s sure of, it’s her love for Kevin Phillips. She’s willing to stake everything on it — her family, her friends, and possibly her soul.
Junior year is off to a less than stellar start for Sylvie: Her parents are splitting up, her little brother is sitting at her lunch table, and she’s the target of the school bully. Plus, she accidentally astral projects, slipping out of her body again and again at all the worst times. Sylvie is cast as the class freak and a medical misfit. She wishes she were somewhere else. Someone else. But it’s only when her best friend catches the attention of the boy Sylvie’s loved in secret since the fifth grade that Sylvie makes up her mind to do something drastic.
Sylvie intends to get Kevin by any means possible — even if it involves treachery, deceit, and the insidious side of the paranormal. After years of trying to ignore her ability to astral project, Sylvie finally decides to embrace it. But she also decides to embrace the shadows that accompany her on her out-of-body experiences. Opening herself up to the shadows and their evil, Sylvie comes up with a dark plan. She is positive her scheme will give her what she wants, but she doesn’t count on it all spiraling out of control.
Untethered by Katie Hayoz explores the intoxicating and dangerous world of jealousy and obsession when coupled with paranormal ability. It is a touching, sometimes funny, sometimes heart-breaking novel that speaks to the self-doubt lurking in us all.
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Death of the Body, by Rick Chiantaretto
I grew up in a world of magic. By the time I was ten I understood nature, talked to the trees, and listened to the wind. When the kingdom of men conquered my town, I was murdered by one of my own—the betrayer of my kind. But I didn’t stay dead.
I woke to find myself in a strange new world called Los Angeles. The only keys to the life I remembered were my father’s ring, my unique abilities, and the onslaught of demons that seemed hell-bent on finding me. Now I must learn who I really am, protect my friends, get the girl, and find my way back to my beloved hometown of Orenda.
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Never Upon a Time, by Meredith Jade
You’ve always hated her. But you might not know the whole story.
Edith may not be brazen and enchanted like her twin sister, Ember, but in a world of dying magic, perhaps her simple desires are enough. After a Selection Banquet gone awry, Edith is left without a suitor or a plan. Befriending a little white fox and occupying herself with a philanthropic project outside castle walls, Edith soon rebuilds morale and musters enough courage to reach out to her estranged twin sister. But Ember’s been harboring an evil secret — and thwarted love and jealousy can turn acts of merit into classic tales of wickedness in this new twist on an old tale.
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August 27, 2014
Welcome to the Dangerous Hero(ine) Challenge!
Hi, everyone!
I am participating in the Dangerous Hero(ine) Challenge, hosted by Paranormal Cravings.
THE RULES:
1. Dangerous Hero Challenge runs from August 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014.
2. Sign up at Paranormal Cravings to start your challenge.
3. The challenge is to read 10 books (of the paranormal romance or Urban Fantasy genre) that have a Dangerous Hero as a main, or supporting character.
4. Books can be in any format and should be at least 150 pages. You may also post about your rereads.
5. Post about the Dangerous Hero Challenge on your blog or website stating that you are participating or create a new shelf on your Goodreads profile.
6. Include that link to that post or shelf on Paranormal Cravings.
7. Please be courteous and include a link back to the Paranormal Cravings blog post.
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I’ll be posting about these as I complete them. I’ll also include links to my Goodreads shelf.
My First Dangerous Hero Read
I’m starting my list with Jus Accardo’s Darker Days.
Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They’re your girls–but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course…
When gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case–until the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.
Seven deadly ones, in fact.
They’ve got five days to recapture the Sins before they’re recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy–except for one thing…
There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and family–or lose everything.
Mini-Review
I LOVED this book! Jessie Darker is a fabulous teen iteration of the kick-ass heroine, and Lukas Scott–currently embodying the sin Wrath (of the Seven Sins)–couldn’t be more dangerous, or more heroic. I can’t wait for Accardo’s next book!
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