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Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel...different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I must confess to start off with that I may have a slight obsession with Kelley Armstrong's books so this review could be a little biased. I loved her Darkest Powers series so I had an inkling that I may fall in love with this series as well. Boy, was I right. First off... can we talk about the cover?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It's so mysterious and alluring and pretty! Also, it completely describes the series! Although I'm not exactly sure how pretty describes a series, but oh well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Maya (isn't that such a pretty name?) is so kick-ass. I loved her personality. She really cares for her friends and family. I love to see when a heroine tends to put others in front of themselves but not be submissive at the same time. I don't really go for the damsel in distress characters, and Maya certainly is not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plot is quick and suspenseful (and surprising) towards the end and it had the right mix of paranormal and romance in it for me. It also didn't have insta-love which is always a plus in my book. If you like to read YA paranormal books that don't have your typical vampire/werewolf characters then this is definitely the book for you. The Gathering has a new mix of paranormal that kept me on my toes. It's nice to have a refreshing new type of paranormal. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423200376450554773noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491415010886495510.post-25585428631495930302014-04-28T16:49:00.003-04:002014-04-28T16:49:45.951-04:00I'm Back!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To my followers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am so so sorry for being gone so long! I have recently finished up my senior year at university and I walk across the stage on May 3rd! Needless to say, I am really excited! I will now have some time to read and review books again after my long hiatus. Graduating with a biology degree, working 28 hours a week in retail, and applying to medical schools is no easy task. Thank you guys for hanging in there!</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423200376450554773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491415010886495510.post-27076098242537260082013-06-26T01:19:00.002-04:002013-06-26T01:31:43.366-04:00Owlet by Emma Michaels Blog Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Iris has a secret. She lost her memory eight years ago and never told a living soul. After an asthma attack one night she finds out that her dreams of a strange house on a snowy island may be a memory resurfacing but the more she learns about the past the more she realizes the life she has been living is a lie. As the façade her father has built starts to crumble around her she will have to decide which means more to her; the truth or her life.</span></blockquote>
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Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.
He’s part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.
He’s part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the unthinkable.
Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his past and the isolation of his present.
Before the sun rises, he’ll either surrender his sanity to the wild darkness inside his mind or make peace with the most elemental of truths—that choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b>Title: The Sweetest Dark</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b>Author: Shana Abe</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 20px;"><b>Publication Date: April 2, 2013</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;">“With every fiber of my being, I yearned to be normal. To glide through my days at Iverson without incident. But I’d have to face the fact that my life was about to unfold in a very, very different way than I’d ever envisioned. </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;">Normal</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;"> would become forever out of reach.” </em><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;"> </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;">Lora Jones has always known that she’s different. On the outside, she appears to be an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl. Yet Lora’s been keeping a heartful of secrets: She hears songs that no one else can hear, dreams vividly of smoke and flight, and lives with a mysterious voice inside her that insists she’s far more than what she seems.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;">England, 1915. Raised in an orphanage in a rough corner of London, Lora quickly learns to hide her unique abilities and avoid attention. Then, much to her surprise, she is selected as the new charity student at Iverson, an elite boarding school on England’s southern coast. Iverson’s eerie, gothic castle is like nothing Lora has ever seen. And the two boys she meets there will open her eyes and forever change her destiny.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 15.199999809265137px;">Jesse is the school’s groundskeeper—a beautiful boy who recognizes Lora for who and what she truly is. Armand is a darkly handsome and arrogant aristocrat who harbors a few closely guarded secrets of his own. Both hold the answers to her past. One is the key to her future. And both will aim to win her heart. As danger descends upon Iverson, Lora must harness the powers she’s only just begun to understand, or else lose everything she dearly loves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">How do I even begin to describe this literally breathtaking novel? This book was incredible, point blank. I have never read a novel that was as whimsical, mystical, and taunting wrapped up all in one. The novel is set in the WWI era and starts out with Lora and her experiences in the orphanage and the mental institution. You see, Lora is not your typical human. In fact, she is hardly human at all. She is able to hear the mysterious songs of gold, and precious gems, and she has a daunting voice inside telling her all sorts of absurd things. Lora is special, which is seen from the very beginning. But, like all young adult novels, Lora is also a teenager. She is sent off the a pristine boarding school on scholarship away from the bombings in London. Here, she meets two very handsome, very mysterious boys. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">I was torn between these two boys. I wasn't sure which one I loved more, but either way I loved to love them. Jesse is the groundskeeper for Iverson boarding school and he is everything you would expect is a total swoon worthy character. He is handsome, caring, and just precious. Armand, on the other hand is a lot tougher. He definitely has a rough exterior, but he also holds secrets that must be protected by his hard shell. Both of them were quite the gentleman in one way or another.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; line-height: 18px;">Unlike most young adult novels, this ones writing went so much more in depth. It carried a whimsical quality that flowed like the wind on a clear summer night. Everything was written so delicately and precisely. I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style. Also unlike young adult novels, the ending to this one had a somber note to it. It was the perfect ending, because it was foreshadowed throughout, but it did not stop the tears in the least. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1219732484p2/15987.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="Shana Abe" src="http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1219732484p5/15987.jpg" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.199999809265137px; text-align: left;">Shana Abé was born in Texas. She spent much of her childhood living in Colorado, with a brief stint in Mexico as a foreign exchange student, and, at age seventeen, lived in Japan as a model. Throughout her childhood, Abé wrote, completing what she calls "The Silliest Romance Novel Ever" during her free time during modeling shoots. Her writing focused on romance, as those were the types of books that she most enjoyed reading.[1] She later attended college in Los Angeles, graduating with a degree in drama.</span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.199999809265137px; text-align: left;">Her second novel, also a contemporary romance, took third place in a writing contest. She sent the book to several prospective agents, many of which responded with questions similar to "Nice voice — but what line are you writing for?" Unwilling to try to fit her writing into some of the rules that governed contemporary romances, Abé chose to concentrate on historical romances. For her first attempt at a historical romance, the newlywed Abé chose to tell the story of her own romance with her husband, set in medieval times. The manuscript was purchased by Bantam Books and published as A Rose in Winter.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; line-height: 15.199999809265137px; text-align: left;">Many of Abé's subsequent novels have also been set in the medieval time period. Abé chose the time period because of its "great sense of dichotomy....It inspires thoughts of grandeur, of courtly grace and chivalrous knights — but at the same time there's a gritty, raw aspect to the period that just cannot be denied."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;" /><i style="background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333; line-height: 18px;">Mr. Stone’s smile faltered. ‘I like my women to have a mind of their own – to be witty. Like you.’<br /><br />My throat closed up. Like me?<br /><br />‘You’re an amazing girl,’ he said suddenly.<br /><br />His use of the word girl made my stomach twist painfully.<br /><br />‘Am I?’ I asked.<br /><br />‘Of course.’<br /><br />‘A girl?’<br /><br />He smiled knowingly. ‘An amazing woman,’ he corrected himself.<br /><br />‘No one has ever told me that before,’ I said.<br /><br />‘I don’t believe that,’ he smiled. ‘You’re clever, and beautiful, and damn witty.’<br /><br />Mr. Stone’s jaw tensed as he realized what he was saying.<br /><br />‘Beautiful?’ I asked, the word escaping as nothing more than a whisper.<br /><br />‘Don’t you know?’ he asked.<br /><br />My heart thundered as I stared at him. Oh please, my mind begged. Please tell me what is going on in that head of yours.<br /><br />‘D-don’t I know what?’ I asked.<br /><br />‘Don’t you know what you’re doing to me?’ He said as though I was torturing him.<br /><br />‘What?’ My skin stung and my head swam with the possibilities.<br /><br />‘Rose, I-’ He paused to collect his thoughts. ‘I’ve felt this … this pull towards you since day one. I can’t explain it.’<br /><br />He didn’t need to explain it, because I felt it too. His eyes, his smile and his scent had me drawn in.<br /><br />I placed a shaking hand over his, which was still on the steering wheel. He looked at our hands for a moment before allowing me to thread my fingers through his. I could feel his pulse in between each of my fingers.<br /><br />Mr. Stone inhaled deeply. ‘Christ,’ he muttered, shutting his eyes tightly.<br /><br />‘What’s the matter?’ I breathed.<br /><br />‘That … that scent. The way you smell-’<br /><br />I suddenly became very self-conscious. Bullies at school often accused me of smelling like wet dog. I sniffed my shirt, but I smelled perfectly normal.<br /><br />‘What is it?’ I said defensively. ‘I showered this morning-’<br /><br />Mr. Stone laughed, and I felt my cheeks burn with embarrassment.<br /><br />‘No,’ he said with a small smile. ‘You smell amazing.’<br /><br />‘I do?’<br /><br />‘Absolutely. You always do.’<br /><br />I never wore perfume, only regular home brand antiperspirant.<br /><br />‘It makes me dizzy,’ he confessed. ‘It’s intoxicating.’<br /><br />‘What do I smell like?’ I asked, rather flushed.<br /><br />Mr. Stone licked his lips as though he could taste me in the air. ‘Sweet,’ he said.<br /><br />My cheeks burned crimson, and I wished he would look at me. I couldn’t believe this was happening.<br /><br />‘I want to kiss you so very badly, Rose,’ Mr. Stone said under his breath. ‘But I can’t … and it’s killing me.’<br /><br />My heart hammered so loudly against my ribcage that I was sure Mr. Stone could hear it from where he sat.<br /><br />Suddenly, I felt powerful. He wanted me … and it terrified him.<br /><br />‘Mr. Stone,’ I breathed, but he still didn’t look at me. ‘Tom.’<br /><br />A small groan escaped him as though his name leaving my lips was taboo.<br /><br />‘Look at me,’ I said, my eyes fixated on him.<br /><br />‘I can’t,’ he said, shaking his head. </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><b>Author: M.A. George</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText11983875448577056336">Dr. Palta Capal would be a typical American career woman…if only she were human.<br /><br />She
has found her calling in this world as a physician. It’s an ideal
outlet for her compassionate spirit...and unearthly healing powers.<br /><br />Palta
may spend her nights rereading Jane Austen novels, but she deliberately
avoids pursuing her own love story. Human men — attractive as they may
be — inevitably grow old and wither, leaving her to grieve in solitude.
Frankly, no one has seemed worth the torment.<br /><br />Enter Eric Moran,
the intensely attractive and enigmatic new coworker on the scene. With
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<span style="font-size: small;">Palta is just your average run of the mill doctor extraordinaire... but not really. She is indeed extraordinary but is not at all normal. She is an American born alien, so to speak. Palta and her family are not of this world, but they have come to love Earth as their own. After complications on their home planet, Palta's mom, dad, and sister escaped to planet Earth (Palta came a little later). Palta's family all have abilities, and she has the gift of healing. Although Palta's sister has found love, she has sworn off men due to their very short shelf life compared to her own. But, as a good love story would go, Palta just cannot resist the new guy at work. And this is where the story gets interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Palta is a very strong willed individual and I admired her spunk and character very much. I also loved her sisters character as well. I thought the interaction between Eric and Palta was very cute, but I was not impressed by the insta love thing. Maybe it's just Palta's alien nature but I just was not feeling it at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved their relationship I thought they were perfect together, I just wish they would have taken it a little slower. Instead of falling in love in a matter of a day, maybe given it a week or two. I would ahve liked to see their interest in each other grow over time rather than quickly blossom. Nevertheless, they were adorable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Overall, I enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to the sequel! I will definitely have to check it out because I am so curious as to what is going to happen to the gang. If you enjoy scifi, or are just looking for something new to add to your young adult reading interests I would definitely check this out! It is an interesting read with a lot of potential for a fantastic series. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian McKinley had finally made it. Reached the pinnacle. The top rung
of the ladder. Tonight represented the crown jewel in the career he’d
spent seventeen years of his life building. Thirty-nine, and by most
definitions, he had everything. Money. Success. A teenage son. A
beautiful fiancée.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Not to mention, having just brought on board the biggest client ever
for CCI Investments of Manhattan, he was a hero to his partners. This
party at the Waldorf-Astoria had been thrown for him, the invitation
list a who’s who of New York City high rollers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Standing here now among trays of champagne and tables loaded with
exotic-looking foods, he should have been nothing but exhilarated.
Somehow, he merely felt tired. Bone weary with the routine of his life,
the predictability of it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every morning he bought his breakfast at the same bagel shop on
Sixtieth Street, ate it at his desk with exactly two cups of coffee, no
cream, no sugar. Every day he ran six miles at noon. He couldn’t
remember when he’d done anything remotely spontaneous.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But this was the life he had wanted. This was what he’d worked so
hard for—to prove a poor boyfrom the wrong side of Manhattan could make
it to Park and Sixty-first. He only regretted that neither Sherry nor
his mother had lived to see his success. He’d promised them both he
would make something of himself one day. He wondered if they would have
been proud of him. But then, if Sherry had lived, maybe he wouldn’t have
been quite so driven. Wouldn’t have buried himself in his work. Life
would have been more about family. More normal for him and for Luke.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Did he even know what normal was anymore?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For the past three weeks, he’d gotten no more than five hours of
sleep a night. That might explain his fatigue, except that part of him
felt as if he’d been tired for years. He needed a vacation. Away from
the city. When was the last time he’d taken one? The last time he’d
spent more than an hour alone with his son? Guilt gnawed at him. He
would plan something for them to do together. Soon. And he would make
sure he kept his word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Why is it you look like a man headed for the gas chamber instead of the man of the hour?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian swung around to find Rachel looking up at him with inquisitive
eyes and a smile on her lips. “Hey,” he said, putting a hand on her
shoulder and giving it a soft squeeze. “A pillow and a bed sound pretty
good about now.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I could go for that. Especially since I’ve been getting just a
little jealous of the stares half the women in the room have been
sending you all night.” She leaned in to kiss the corner of his mouth,
her right breast pressing into his chest. He waited for the surge of
attraction that should have followed her deliberate provocation and
decided, when it did not come, that he was more tired than he’d
realized.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Hey, we can’t have any of that.” Curtis Morgan clapped a hand on
Ian’s shoulder. A short man witha receding hairline and an expanding
waistline, Curtis was one of Ian’s partners at CCI. “Not until after the
wedding, at least. Ms. Montgomery, you’ll have our guest of honor
ducking out before I’ve had a chance to make my toast to him.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I suggest you hurry up and do it,” Rachel said with a raised brow. “I’m afraid he’s nearly dead on his feet.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“No wonder. You really gave this one everything, Ian,” Curtis said.
“Our firm will see the benefit of it. We’re all very appreciative.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes. I’m so proud of him,” Rachel said. “Now, if I could just get him to agree on a wedding date.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">She looked up at Ian with wide eyes that attempted to convey
innocence, but Ian suspected Rachel knew exactly what she was doing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As methodical about her personal life as she was about attaining
senior partnership status at the law firm of Brown, Brown and
Fitzgerald, Rachel made no secret of the fact that she thought a
marriage between them would be mutually beneficial. She’d continued
pressing her case for the past couple of years until she’d finally
convinced him she was right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two weeks ago, when Ian asked her to marry him, it had been with the
understanding that there was no rush. Both their lives were full, and a
piece of paper wouldn’t change things drastically. Or so he had told
himself.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Sherry died right after Luke was born, he said he would never
marry again. Unexpectedlylosing his wife at the age of twenty-three was
the most painful, life-altering thing he’d ever known. Something inside
him simply shut down. For the first five years after her death, he
didn’t date at all. When he did start seeing someone, he made sure it
never lasted for any length of time, never long enough to let things get
serious.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With Luke almost grown now, he didn’t relish the idea of spending the
rest of his life alone. His relationship with Rachel was a comfortable
one. It made no demands or even hinted at happily-ever-after and white
picket fences. At one point, he’d believed in destiny and people who
were meant for each other. A young man’s dreams. He no longer believed
in any of that. If what he had with Rachel met the definition of
compatibility more than love, he still appreciated her. Smart and
beautiful, he personally knew of a dozen men who envied him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“So what’s the holdup, Ian?” Curtis asked with a punch to his left
shoulder. “You need a reason to leave the office before midnight.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A waiter approached them and handed Ian a cordless phone. “There’s a call for you, Mr. McKinley.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Now, who could that be?” Curtis joked. “We’re the only ones who ever bother you at this hour, andwe’re all here.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian shrugged and moved to the window, away from the noise of the party. “Hello.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Mr. McKinley?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“This is Detective O’Neill with the New York City Police Department. Is Luke McKinley your son?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alarm shot through Ian. “Yes, he is.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“He was arrested tonight for possession of marijuana, Mr. McKinley.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It took a moment for the words to sink in. One by one, they finally did, even as disbelief washed over him. “Is he all right?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There must be some mistake. Luke has never—”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“No mistake, Mr. McKinley.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The detective gave him the address of the station and told him where
to find Luke. Ian hung up, feeling as if someone had just punched him in
the gut. He found Rachel and told her everything he knew. When she
offered to go with him, he asked her to stay and explain to the others
that he’d had an emergency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He caught a cab outside the building, imagining, during the drive, a hundred different scenarios involving Luke and jail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the driver pulled over at the police station, Ian handed him a
fifty and sprinted for the door, his stomach churning. Inside, he took
the elevator to the third floor. Even at this hour, the place vibrated
with purpose. Still dressed in his tuxedo, he got his fair share of
stares as he wound his way through a maze of desks littered with coffee
cups and mounds of paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the far corner of the room, a thin man with graying hair and skin
that could use a little sunshine waved at him and called out, “You Mr.
McKinley?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Yes.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Your son is in the room across the hall. Go on in. I’ll be right with you.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Thank you,” Ian said, while the detective went back to his call.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the door, Ian stopped and drew in a deep breath before quickly
turning the knob. Relief flooded him at the sight of Luke standing by
the window with his hands jammed in his pockets.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His hair, long in front and short at the sides, halfway covered his
eyes. His stance screamed defensive, his mouth set in a straight line.
“Guess I messed up your party, huh?” he asked, his tone belligerent.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Luke felt any fear, he wasn’t showing it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Is that what you meant to do?” Ian asked quietly, not at all sure where to go with this.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I didn’t mean to do anything.” Luke shrugged, clearly a rebel with a cause, the origins of which Ian couldn’t begin to guess.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“They said you were arrested for drug possession.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another shrug. “Big deal.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Big deal?” Ian repeated. “Do you have any idea how serious this is?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“It must be if you left your party to come down here.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The verbal slap achieved its intended sting. “I know things have been busy lately, but. . . .”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Lately?” Luke interrupted with a short laugh. “You’ve been saying
‘lately’ since I was six years old. Probably before then, I just can’t
remember so far back. You only have time for work. And Rachel, of
course, now that she’s going to be your wife.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bitterness layered the declaration. The vehemence behind it shocked Ian.
Luke wasn’t a big talker. For the past few years, getting information
out of him took the finesse of a secret service agent. Ian chalked it up
to teenage rebellion. The boy had been even less communicative since
he’d told him about his engagement to Rachel. He looked at his son now
and felt as though he were seeing him for the first time in a very long
while. “I think we need to talk.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“So pencil me in before your nine-thirty, and I’ll tell you all about how I know you wish I’d never been born.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The anger in the boy’s voice hit Ian like a brick in the face. “Why would you say a thing like that,Luke?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Because it’s the truth.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“No. It’s not. Son—”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“If it hadn’t been for me, she wouldn’t have died,” Luke yelled. “Don’t you think I know that?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian grappled for composure. “Nobody could have prevented what
happened to your mother. She had a stroke. How could you possibly think I
would—”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I don’t know,” he interrupted. “Maybe because you work all the time just so you don’t have to bearound me.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“Luke!” Ian stopped, at a complete loss for a response. Somehow, when he
hadn’t been looking, something had gone terribly wrong between the two
of them. Staring across at his son, part boy, part man, Ian wondered how
Luke had felt this way without his knowing. How long had Luke been
trying to get his attention? “Does this have something to do with my
marrying Rachel?”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I don’t care who you marry. I’m sure you’ll make all the time in the world for her.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian felt as if someone had just held a mirror in front of him. He
didn’t like what he saw. He thoughtabout the party given in his honor
tonight and realized the price. He’d spent the past seventeen years
trying to make sure Luke had the things he himself never had as a kid.
He’d sent the boy off to a camp in Wyoming every summer and to Austria
in the winter with his ski team. In fact, he’d given him everything
possible except one thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Time.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe if he had, none of this would be happening.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe if he had, he wouldn’t have needed this kind of wake-up call to see what a mess he’d made of things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ian sank down on the chair behind him. He raked a hand through his
hair and wondered how he’d gone from such heights to such depths in the
span of one night. Luke was in trouble. Ian could blame no one but
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in, just as she had gotten lost in her favorite books. Her stories
focus on the dynamics of relationships, those between a man and a woman,
mother and daughter, sisters, friends. They most often take place in
small Virginia towns very much like the one where she grew up and are
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In the tiny town of Willowspring, just about nothing ever happens except for layoffs, hockey games, and your average melodramatic teenage angst.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The month of April was the worst month for me ever. About two weeks ago I found out that my dog died. Her name was Hope and I adopted her from the shelter last year. When I got her she had no hair and I nursed her back to health. She was my rock, and I was hers. When I found out she passed away (from the neighbors allegedly poisoning her) I was hysterical. I didn't do anything, and my blog sat still. I am still not happy because I just returned home from college and last night was the first night home that I didn't have her greet me or be my cuddle buddy. It's hard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"How did you know?" he asked as he set me on the ground, his hands tangled in my hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He shook his head and held my chin in his hand. "I've always wanted to have someone to wait for me—to spin them around and then do this."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He pulled my chin up and tilted it until our lips touched—soft at first and then the reminder that we hadn't kissed in two months came over us. The only thing that could pull us apart was the whistle that echoed through the terminal and then the incessant flash of cameras.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Crap," Evan hissed, his forehead pressed to mine with his hands on either side of my face so they couldn't get a good picture of me. "You don't want them to know who you are yet, do you?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I did what he said and then felt his hands slip the glasses over my eyes. As I looked up his cocky half-smile made me laugh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"They look a hell of a lot hotter on you," he teased, throwing his duffel bag over his shoulder and wrapping his arm around my waist so that his fingers were in the front pocket of my jeans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I don't think that's possible," I replied, breathless from the feel of his touch as my t-shirt rose, exposing the flesh of my hip to his warmth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It’s very possible with you," he whispered into my ear as we made our way past the flashing cameras. "I can't wait to see the tabloids on this one."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It would be much better if we did something dangerous, like locked ourselves in a public restroom."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He looked down at me through his eyebrows. "Really? That's not all that clean."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I haven't seen you in two months," I said, turning and stopping in front of him. "I've thought about you every single day. Do you know what that does to a girl? Especially when pictures of you half-naked are strewn across the internet."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I see you found those." His voice was edged with amusement, but his face was red in embarrassment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I pulled on the collar of his shirt before leaning up on my toes and whispering into his ear, "I need some real ones."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"What do you need pictures of when I'm here?" he answered, his breath hot on my chin, voice seductive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I need you to burn the images into my mind then," I said before gently biting his ear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">His free hand drifted down the small of my back to my rear pocket. "I thought I already had."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I have to admit I kind of enjoy this." He smirked down at me. "But teasing me like this is just cruel."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The entire village knows Neima’s grandfather is a madman. For years the old man has prophesied that a great flood is coming, a flood disastrous enough to blot out the entire earth. He’s even built an enormous ark that he claims will allow his family to survive the deluge. But no one believes the ravings of a lunatic…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To say that this book was incredible would be an understatement. I completely and irrevocably fell in love with this novel! I was completely taken aback by how much I enjoyed reading this story. I was a bit wary of reading it at first because of the religious background, and the fact that I don't normally enjoy religious stories, but I was pleasantly surprised. This book surpassed my expectations and left me with a much needed break from exams. It was a simple retelling of the Noah's Ark story, but it added cute romance that I enjoyed reading. It was a pleasant story that I would recommend to anyone looking for a light read.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When 16-year-old Gillian Boone discovers that a secret message has been etched into her soul,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">April 22 - <a href="http://lisaisabookworm.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">Bookworm Lisa -</a> Review</span></div>
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6089482177048922" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gillian Boone watched the funeral from the safety of an ancient oak tree. As somber black forms surrounded the grave, drizzle dampened the headstones. She wanted to get in close, to check the body before they lowered it forever, to know whether or not what she had seen was real or just a dream, but she knew she wasn't welcome. Julia Gomez, the most popular girl in school, had died, and no friends of hers would dare let the likes of Gillian attend the funeral.</span></b></div>
<b id="internal-source-marker_0.6089482177048922" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But the dream haunted her. It had happened a week ago. She woke — she thought she had woken — but was not in her bed. Or her room. Or her house. Confused, she tried to rise, but her body wouldn't respond. Then without her command, she somehow walked into a bathroom — every motion felt wrong, off-balance, out of proportion with where her body should be. In the mirror, she saw the face of Julia Gomez. That's when Gillian knew she was dreaming. And that's when she heard the breathing creature — a sickening sound like air shoved through a tube of mucus.</span></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423200376450554773noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6491415010886495510.post-8848502891614606902013-04-02T00:54:00.001-04:002013-04-02T00:54:09.525-04:00The Space Between Tour [Review, Guest Post, Giveaway]<br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">April 11 - </span> <a href="http://myaddictionisreading.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">My Reading Addiction</a> - PROMO</div>
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April 20 - <a href="http://gimmethescoopreviews.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">Gimme The Scoop Reviews</a>- PROMO</div>
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April 22 -<a href="http://coziecorner.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank"> My Cozie Corner </a>- Review</div>
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April 22 - <a href="http://teacherwritebookaholicohmy.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">Feed My Need for a Good Read</a> - Interview/PROMO</div>
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April 25 - <a href="http://www.dealsharingaunt.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">Deal Sharing Aunt</a> - Review/Interview</div>
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April 25 - <a href="http://letsgetbooked.blogspot.ca/" style="color: #551a8b;" target="_blank">Lets Get Booked </a>- Review</div>
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/myaddictionisreading.com/2013-promo-s/kristie-cook/kristie_cook.jpg?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-style: none; clear: left; color: #0033cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://sites.google.com/a/myaddictionisreading.com/2013-promo-s/_/rsrc/1361545901668/kristie-cook/kristie_cook.jpg?height=320&width=277" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px;" width="277" /></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Basic, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">Kristie Cook is a lifelong, award-winning writer in various genres, from marketing communications to fantasy fiction. She continues to write the Soul Savers Series, a New Adult paranormal romance/contemporary fantasy, with the first four books, Promise, Purpose, Devotion and Power available now and the next book coming in June 2013. She’s also written a companion novella, Genesis: A Soul Savers Novella, currently available. Over 160,000 Soul Savers books have been sold, with Promise peaking at #54 on the Amazon Top 100 Paid list and at #1 in the Amazon Fantasy category.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Basic, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">The Space Between, which releases April 2013, kicks off her second New Adult paranormal series, The Book of Phoenix. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Basic, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">Besides writing, Kristie enjoys reading, cooking, traveling and riding on the back of a motorcycle. She has lived in ten states, but currently calls Southwest Florida home with her husband, three teenage sons, a beagle and a puggle. She can be found at:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Basic, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">Author's Website & Blog: <a href="http://www.kristiecook.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0033cc;">http://www.KristieCook.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Basic, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">Soul Savers Series Website: <a href="http://www.soulsaversseries.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #0033cc;">http://www.SoulSaversSeries.com</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Space Between </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">release tour, we’re sharing behind-the-scenes tidbits about the book, the characters and more. Things that fall “between the lines” of the story’s prose. So here’s Leni, one of the main characters, sharing a few (mostly) unknown facts about herself. Take it away, Leni!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leni: Thank you! This is kind of weird to be talking about myself like this, but here goes.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m an only child. Like most only children, I sometimes wished I had brothers or sisters to share life with. On the other hand, it’s probably good that no one else had to deal with my mama.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I guess I have my own style—a little Bohemian, a little country and a little trendy all rolled into one. My favorite outfit is a knee-length lacey smock or a long, flowy tie-dyed skirt with my much loved cowboy boots.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love bracelets and rings! Uncle Theo teases me about all of them, but I like the jangle of the bracelets and the way the light hits the rings when I dance around the house.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I was in high school, I was asked to captain the new dance squad and choreograph their routine, but when Mama found out, she made me quit because it would take away from my “real” dancing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before snot hit the fan, I’d been getting ready to attend Emory University, my daddy’s alma mater. I was a little nervous, especially since it had been two years since I’d graduated high school, but I was also ready to get on with life. I thought studying business would be good for the dance studio I wanted to open, but after three years of taking care of Uncle Theo, I considered going into the medical field. Now I don’t know what will happen.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve never had a pet until Ghost comes along. I had always wanted a dog when I was little, but was always too busy to take care of one. Uncle Theo and I kept talking about getting a dog, but every time we made plans to visit the shelter, something came up.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve recently become fascinated with piercings and tattoos, but not on myself. *naughty grin*</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thank you, Leni! Of course, this barely scratches the surface of all there is to know about Leni. Get to know the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Leni in </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Space Between</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, the first part of The Book of Phoenix.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Space Between</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Life Falls to Pieces, Answers Lie in the Space Between</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bestselling author Kristie Cook, with over 200,000 books sold, brings you another New Adult paranormal series, The Book of Phoenix</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“A completely unique story with a paranormal twist . . . the perfect blend of romance and mystery with a phenomenal plot that will keep you guessing.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ Jessica, Confessions of a Bookaholic</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I loved this book! The characters, the romance, the plot, the originality! It had everything to make it an amazing book!”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ~ Kendall, Book Crazy</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After a month-long dance tour through Italy, 20-year-old Leni Drago returns to Georgia to care for her great-uncle, only to find him gone, the home they shared empty and any evidence he ever existed wiped out. All that’s left is a journal she can’t open.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeric Winters has been searching for a piece of his past for over a year, only to reach a dead-end in Georgia. When an urgent and magnetic pull draws him out of his hotel room, he comes face-to-face with the beautiful dancer who’s been haunting his dreams day and night.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeric’s one to stay away from—a bad-boy, hit-it-and-quit-it type—but Leni can’t escape the fervent feelings between them. As their own existences begin to crumble around them and shadowy forms that are more monsters than men attack, they realize there’s more to the connection between them than physical fascination.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To solve the riddle their lives have become, they must embark on a journey that requires them to face their pasts and release their true souls. And they must do it fast—dark ones from another world are closing in, intent on killing them. Permanently.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“This is a completely new twist on the idea of a timeless love story with a paranormal twist unlike any other. The connection between the two characters is bone deep and resonates beautifully. I will never forget this novel.” ~ Heather McCorkle, Author of the fantasy Channeler series</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Kristie has done it again! Her Soul Savers series is my favorite by far and yet The Space Between is easily the best book she’s ever written! It's dangerous, suspenseful, and smokin’ hot.” ~ Marissa, Comfortably Read Book Reviews</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The Space Between is an amazing story of life, love and fates. Author Kristie Cook has you hanging on the edge of every page. This book stays in your head well after the last page.” ~ Mindy, Forbidden Reviews</span></div>
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<span id="internal-source-marker_0.5413255114108324" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: start;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LENI – The overhead lights fell dark for the last time as I opened the dressing room door. The back exit stood open at the end of the hall, allowing in enough light from the streetlamp outside to show my way. I inhaled slowly, cherishing the musty smell of an old theater mixed with the odor of dancers’ sweat and the fragrance of white roses. I silently said my goodbyes as my feet carried me outside.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Thank you, Uncle Theo,” I whispered as I left the theater for the last time. Only because of him did I even have this opportunity. I couldn’t wait to tell him all about it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A large, muscular body flew at me, swept me into his arms and twirled me around as though we were still on stage. Laughter bubbled out of my chest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You ready to celebrate, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cara mia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">?” Alberto asked as he set me down.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Celebrate that you’re finally getting rid of me?” I teased. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He clapped his hand over his heart, and his face fell into an exaggerated expression of pain. “Oh, Leni, you do not know how I will miss you and your mane.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He swatted playfully at the bottom of my curls. He had no idea how I would miss the way he said my name, drawing out both syllables, “laaaay-kneee,” like only an Italian could do.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“But you won’t miss my heels on your toes or my arm in your face?” I said in mock disbelief.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He took my hand and danced me down the cobbled street toward the plaza at the center of town. “You are a stunning dancer, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">cara mia</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.” He spun me under his arm, my duffle bag banging me in the butt the whole time. “Of course, you have become much better since becoming my partner. But everyone does.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He winked at me before dropping me into a dip. My bag slid off my shoulder and a hand darted beneath me to catch it. Alberto swung me up and around so that I came face-to-face with the most unbelievably stunning vision I’d seen my whole time in Italy. Which was saying a lot. His eyes—blue, I thought, though the light from the corner post wasn’t enough to be sure—enraptured me. He held my bag out with a small smile that hinted at dimples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grazie</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” I said breathlessly as I wrapped my hand around the strap of my bag. He gave me a nod almost deep enough to be a bow, his shaggy blond hair falling in his face. Then, without a word, he turned and walked away. My mouth fell open. “How rude.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Must be American,” Alberto said. I punched him in the arm.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Who goes out of their way to catch a falling object and then can’t even say ‘you’re welcome’?” I asked absent-mindedly as I stared after the retreating body that rivaled Alberto’s. No, scratch that. It totally beat out Alberto’s even on his best day.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What an ass,” Alberto muttered.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Rude, yes, but I don’t know if I’d go that far.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“No, I mean what an </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ass</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that man has.” He let out a low whistle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I laughed and admired the view as well. “I </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> agree with that.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He’s going to Alonzo’s. Lucky us.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JERIC – I flipped to the picture I’d drawn a couple of weeks ago during my search in Italy. I’d woken from a dream, one I’d been having for years, and as I had previously, I’d felt the need to sketch the girl who had me waking with a painful boner. Now that I’d met her in real life, I couldn’t deny the girl in my sketches was Leni—curly hair, exotic green eyes, full lips and breasts, her skin … as if the absolute best features of both African and European blood had been blended together and given to her. The Leni I’d just met would probably never wear the leather bra, miniskirt, and knee-high boots I’d drawn her in, but damn if she wouldn’t look hot in them. The vision came to me clearly. Too clearly. I had to place the book over my lap to hide the full-blown wood pressing against my jeans.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed a distraction. I needed to get her out of my head. I bought several little airline bottles of rum and dumped them in my Coke, but they weren’t enough to blur the image of Leni’s face in my mind. When the smoking hot flight attendant ran her finger over my arm then dropped a napkin with a message on my tray (“Meet me upstairs?”), I couldn’t resist. I snuck up the spiral staircase to the empty upper level and found her in the bathroom wearing nothing but heels and thigh-high stockings, tendrils of bottle-bleached hair barely hiding her fake tits. Flight attendants like this had made me a lifetime member of the mile-high club—they wanted nothing more than something to make the transatlantic flight more interesting. My perfect kind of girl.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unfortunately, my eyes only saw Leni’s body under my hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sixteen-year-old Cassidy Tomei was one of the lucky few airlifted aboard the Wonder to the planet Nyx. This emergency exodus from Earth was meant to bring new hope for the remaining survivors of humankind, but there’s one problem. Humankind isn’t alone on this mysterious new planet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On Nyx, Cassidy is one of many living amongst subzero temperatures and with nothing, but a meager ration of food for every household. When the rations deplete, she flees to into unfamiliar wilderness in search of food, but instead discovers debris from a foreign spacecraft that proves humankind is no longer the dominate species. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Soon, everything she knows is at stake and everyone she loves is dead. But she’s got one more battle to fight when she’s taken prisoner within Pelhoi, a concentration camp constructed specifically for humans where hominoid creatures dubbed, “the Achillai” reign supreme.</span></div>
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pleasantly surprised. I was also left heartbroken. This book is particularly sad, but it is also heartwarming at the same time. I felt for the main character Cassidy and I felt like I went through her triumphs and struggles right along with her. I also cried along with her as well. If you are looking for a well written indie novel that has a unique plot, then I would grab this one. Also, the cover is beautiful, don't you think?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Answer: Yes, I can't even get through writing a synopsis without my Ipod. My favorite bands are indie acts that don't get as much attention as mainstream artists. I love Iron & Wine, Cider Sky, Arcade Fire, The Civil Wars, The Autumn Film, Digital Daggers, The Echo Friendly, Midnight City and The <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Naked</span> and Famous. These are just some of the many artists I can't get enough of. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Answer: This depends on how much enthusiasm I have for certain characters and plots. If I'm so engrossed in a character's story, I have no trouble writing a novel. I've written some novels in less than a week because I was so excited to explore the story and curious to see how it end. </span><br /></div>
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Answer: No, they never do. Even when they <i>do </i>come, I'm always surprised to discover that someone else has already written about it. Then I go back to the drawing board to see how I can put my own spin on the idea to come up with something fresher. I'm a fan of old stories with a new spin! ( I think that the movie "Avatar" did this perfectly!) </div>
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Answer: When I was younger, I loved to draw. I don't think I ever got any good at it, but I loved it regardless and even wanted to be a graphic novelist at one point. That never amounted to much, but it did help me realize how much more I loved to write. </div>
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Answer: Chocolate, especially Rocky Road ice cream! This is my guilty pleasure when it comes to junk food. </div>
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Answer: Movies! I love a great independent film and have discovered some of my all-time favorite movies when I wasn't even looking. </div>
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Answer: The nighttime is perfect for a book. My inner child still loves bedtime stories and can't sleep without one. I get the chance to snuggle up and relax with a good book and if the book is too good, I don't go sleep at all!</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Answer: "<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Naked</span> As We <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Came</span>" actually ended up being a lot darker than I intended it to be. So I guess what I can tell you is that the story is definitely a dark, emotional, but heartfelt roller coaster of events that I'm hoping will give people something to think about. I wasn't aiming to teach anyone anything, but I was trying to get the theme of family across. Ultimately, the story is one about love and the importance of humanity and family. </span></div>
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10) The title "<span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Naked</span> as We <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Came</span>" can suggest many things. What is the main idea behind it and is it at all sexual?</div>
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Answer: Ha ha! The title isn't at all sexual and surprisingly enough, I didn't even realize just how sexual it sounded until <i>after </i>I named it! The title was actually inspired by a song of the same name by the band, Iron & Wine. When I listened to this song, I felt that it perfectly represented the novel in so many ways. I felt that the song was written from the perspective of a grieving man who has either lost or <i>is </i>losing a loved one to death. The novel deals with a lot of themes such grief and mourn and how differently we all deal with the same things ourselves. These emotions are extremely relatable and I wanted to convey them in the story as best as I could. I personally think that the song is both sad <i>and </i>beautiful. It had me in tears every time I listened to it. </div>
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Answer: I try to. Each of the characters have their own burden to bear and each have experienced some degree of pain whether it be emotional or physical. I think that anyone can relate to the emotions they deal with during the course of the novel. I wanted to be inside each of their heads as I typed. It was like roleplaying. I acted out their emotions in my head and even said a bit of their dialogue aloud so I could be sure that it sounded as genuine as possible to fit their personalities. </div>
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Answer: Definitely spontaneous because I hate writing the dreaded synopsis The only time I've ever written one is when I had no idea where the story was going or how it would turn out. </div>
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Answer: Yes and I'm also a chronic worrier. To me, the story can never be perfect enough. I always worry that maybe there was something I shouldn't have written or something I should've written. I worry that I was too graphic or dark or that I should've added more or less humor. I worry about all these things and more. Lately, I've learnt not to overthink things so much. I still worry,but it's not as bad as it used to be. All you can really do is write what you think is best and let the rest happen on it's own. I've had to tell myself hundreds of times that there are some things I can't control and I deal with it accordingly. <div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “Cassidy, are you up yet?” Mama shouts. Her voice quavers from the other side of my bedroom door when she knocks. She’s catching a cold too. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my tiptoes I look onto the top bunk. There, my little brother lays cocooned in the tattered quilts, shivering, but sound asleep nonetheless. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Hey, little bug, are you okay?” I coo. He doesn’t move. I lean in, wondering if he’s even still breathing. “Tariq? Come on, it’s time to wake up.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He rolls over and I note the purple tint in his brown cheeks and the yellowing hue of his eyes. This doesn’t look like an ordinary cold. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Tar, wake up.” He doesn’t answer. I put my hand to his forehead. “Geez, boy, you’re cold as ice. Are you okay? Answer me!” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There’s a pause then a gasp and he coughs, spraying blood through his teeth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Oh my god.” I unravel him from the sheath of blankets and tote him down the narrow hallway into Mama’s bedroom. She’s all ready for the day and fixing her hair into a bun when I stop in her doorway, knocking on the frame. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Mama, something’s wrong with Tariq.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She sighs. “This weather is getting the best of all of us, isn’t it?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“He’s not breathing,” I say and she scurries over, snatching him out of my arms to rest him atop her sunken burlap cot. In a matter of seconds, she checks for a pulse then vitals, putting all of her previous nursing school training to good use. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Get me water and a towel,” she says. “Hot water, now, Cassidy!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I rush out, grabbing a tin bucket from the hallway cupboard, full speed from the hut, neglecting a coat or even a pair of socks. The moment my toes touch the snow outside, my feet burn with blisters as the dry ice cooks the skin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The wind collides, knocking against my featherweight body so hard that I topple over, forced to crawl the rest of the way. If the wind were any stronger it’d sweep me into the air as I forge against it toward the pump behind our hut. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rusty thing squeaks when I wind the handle and flushes nothing but brown droplets of water from the faucet. Crap. Of course. It’s only 5AM. They don’t turn on the water until eleven. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They don’t even crank up the underground generators for electricity until noon. All that talk from before about “conserving our provisions” from Earth was pointless on a planet that is subzero ninety percent of the time. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I need to think fast. Let’s see…the Strip opens at six. Around that time, there’ll be a crowd of colonists already outside the gates fending each other off for the best lumber. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Water isn’t an option for five more hours. Venturing into the forest for wood isn’t forbidden, but inadvisable if you have no idea what you’re doing. Whether I like it or not, braving the inevitable pandemonium at the Strip is all I can do. I rush back inside. Mama hovers over Tariq in the den, cocooning him in blankets on the floor in front the last flame of fire smoldering in the furnace. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Where’s the water?” she asks. “Cassidy, he’s freezing!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There’s no water,” I say. “The pump is dry until eleven. I’m going to the Strip for firewood, okay?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“There’s no time for that!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We don’t have a choice, Mama! I have to go. I’ll be back. Keep Tariq as warm as you can. I promise you, I will be back. Okay?” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She nods. I hurry to my bedroom and slide a large plastic storage bin from beneath the bottom bunk and pick out my best coat along with a pair of mukluks, hand-me-downs courtesy of my older brother, Lonnie. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I dress fast and rush out onto the porch. The first thing that hits me is the wind. It hits me so hard that it dries my face. I lick my cracked lips and taste the fleck of dried blood down the center of a cut. I stuff my hair in handfuls beneath my snowcap, neglecting the stray strands peeking from under. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before descending the wooden porch stairway, I make sure to click close the padlock on the hut door and check all the windows for locks as well. It’s better this way to keep others in the colony from getting any ideas. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house isn’t exactly a practiced commandment around here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I follow the gravel pathway downward, around the bend of the block. More turf huts dot the edges, separated, padlocked and boxed into little sections by rusty wire fences. None of them have smoke in their chimneys which means that either they’re still asleep or heading to the Strip to wait in line with the rest of us. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m hoping for the former. The longer they sleep in, the fewer people I’ll have to deal with for the day’s portions. This would be a worthwhile venture it if the wood they threw at us through the shafts were any good. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every once and a while there’s at least one sadistic woodsman that doles out a fine piece of wood that people swarm over until someone is either shot to death or beaten into submission. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ll take whatever I can get right now. Even if it’s scraps, I’ll make do with it for Tariq’s sake. After all, we’ve lived off less. So long as it’s enough to spark a decent flame, I don’t have a problem with accepting second best today. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Halfway down the path, I see the usual grey smoke signal through the thorny treetops. Sometimes, when Nyx’s fog is too thick, the smoke transitions to purple to help fellow colonists see their way into the Heart. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After landing on Nyx, the only things we learnt when the schools were built were trades that would only benefit the colony. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Things like firewood, crop picking and smoke signals are amongst the curriculum for graduation, insisting we learn the exact potion formulated for changing the color of smoke to fit specific situations. Red is for danger. Blue is for weather advisories. Purple is for times like this when seeing is the utmost importance and pink is an SOS. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s amazing what a dash of food coloring, potassium chlorate oxidizer and lactose can concoct under the right conditions. I follow the purple smoke in, rounding the gravel pathways further into the most populated part of my colony, Cere –- the Heart. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Further in, past the horizontal rows of unmarked huts, the lone Quonset amongst a fleet of wooden shacks sits in waiting with the purple smoke signal seeping out from its tin chimney. I smell the fire raging from inside and covet the heat like a dying flower craving water. I rub my hands together, peeling the dead skin rolling off my palms. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These daily windburns have done a number on my skin and caused so much of my complexion to fade in patches of dry cardboard colored flesh. Once, I was blessed with a brilliant brown complexion that’s now sallow beige. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’d look at me now, you could almost never tell that I was once teased for being the blackest girl with the kinkiest hair at school in Arizona. I’m a ghost of my former self in this weather and on this planet. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m not the only one sucking my cracked lips to keep them from chapping in the wind. There’s already a small huddle of people gathered before the Quonset. The frosted windows are still barred shut and the tin log chutes jutting out its sides are clearly inaccessible. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nonetheless, there are already people lying outside the place in makeshift sleeping bags and heavy coats. The huge sundial hanging from the Quonset’s hood is around forty-five after five. In a cluster of maybe ten or fifteen people, I figure, I’ve made some good time. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can handle a crowd this small. I think. There aren’t many people here to fight. I remind myself to not underestimate the company. I stay behind the crowd, burrowing my hands inside my coat pockets, wondering which strategy I’ll go with from here. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could make a run for it as soon as the chutes open, but that would take some quick feet not to mention some tricky footwork to keep out of the crossfire of others who will be tempted to do the same thing. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or I could stay back and out of the way until the trampling starts. By then wood will be flying from people’s arms one log at a time. I’m small for my age. I could squeeze into the crowd unnoticed and retrieve the dropped lumber before anyone catches me. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yeah, that’s best. It’s best not to push my luck by getting too cocky. I’ll stay out of the way and pick up whatever is dropped. As the crowd thickens, I wonder more and more how possible that plan is. What started as a crowd of fifteen is now a twice the number and growing by the second. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t have much wiggle room to maneuver through. I can’t see over the heads of the taller people blocking my view of the chutes. Still, I stand as far away as I can to wait with everyone else as dawn casts light over the colony sundial’s sixth hour. The chutes unlock and the first batch of wood shoots out like torpedoes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People have to duck to keep from getting hit. I dodge behind the biggest man I find to shield myself. The first batch incites the usual brawl. Two men battle it out over one huge log that’s big enough to fuel a continuous fire for at least two weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rest of us scatter. We know better than to get in the way of this once the knife is drawn. I make a beeline for the opposite direction, dodging the log that flies at my head. Someone jerks me around. I get out of their way and fall all-fours to search the ground for dropped wood. Overhead, I watch a nice piece of timber burst from another one of the chutes. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s right in my path, aiming for me like it’s meant to be mine. I open my arms to catch it then something hits me from the left and takes me down in a tackle that knocks the wind out of me. I sit up wheezing as a boy intercepts the wood midair, looks down at me chuckling then says, “Oops. Better luck next time?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Asshole.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“What was that?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Holding my stomach, I prop myself onto my feet. “I called you an asshole.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It’s not my fault you’re slow with poor reflexes.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Whatever,” I say. “Take the wood and get out of my face.” I dust myself off, bruised from limb to ego. All I want to do is disappear even if it’s with nothing, but my tail between my legs so I try, but he sidesteps and blocks off my path.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Wait…you take it,” he says then shoves the wood at me. “Go on. It’s yours. Take it before I change my mind.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I don’t need your charity.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“You also don’t need that attitude either, but we’re all forced to deal with the cards we’re dealt, right? Besides, there’s no way you’re getting past these other vultures for anything better. Take the wood.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Forget it.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Again, he shoves the wood in my direction. I step back. He steps forward. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Take the damn wood and stop being so stupid. I’m fast and a good jumper. I can easily catch another piece of wood.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I can catch my own wood,” I say, determined to do just that. “Now move!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A second log whizzes over us. It hits the snow as me and two others scurry toward it. The girl who reaches it first draws a pocketknife and waves it at the rest of us to keep us at bay. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we stagger back, the man behind her grabs her by the neck and snaps it with one quick motion. In a matter of seconds, he swipes the wood and rushes off. I stand still holding my breath. The boy steps in front of me and drops the log into my arms. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Here,” he says. “Someone has gotta show some humanity around here.” </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I don’t reply. I watch as he disappears back into the crowd. With him gone, my eyes return to the girl in the snow. I bet she’s no older than Tariq and died over a stupid piece of wood. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Date Published: November 18, 2012</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Eighty-year-old Cass wakes up in the body of a troubled
seventeen-year-old girl named Casey, which all believe has survived a suicide
attempt. Cass intends to turn the girl’s life around, only it’s harder than she
expects. All Casey’s troubles have now become Cass’s and someone wants her
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If I could pick one word to describe this book I would pick satisfying... because it truly is! The beginning is about an eighty year old woman who is diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. She then proceeds to take her own life on her own terms. But, the twist is that she ends up waking up in the body of a teenage girl who has also just taken her own life. Finding this as a place to start over, Cass decides to turn the girl's life around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The story goes more into the detailing of Casey's intricate life and past grievances This is a heartfelt story that was gripping from the very beginning. I just could not put it down! I would recommend this book to mature young adults because it does have some mature topics contained within. Overall though, I would say that I would have to give this story four owls because of just how touching it was and how engrossed I was in the storyline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I really like Dr. Grey.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I know, but we can’t take the chance. You’d visit a doctor
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Does he have the equivalent experience and skills as Dr.
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He won’t touch your eyes. He’ll just work on the cheeks.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“And if I’m scarred, causing little children to scream at
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“So explain why you’ll love me without hesitation if I’m hideously
scarred, but won’t even kiss me when I’m just ghoulishly tattooed?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Simple. Dan wouldn’t mind if I’m the only man in the world
who still thinks you’re beautiful. But as long as millions of better
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She hated it when he nailed the truth. If she were really
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“He’s not going to leave you scarred, Cass.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I hope not, but if he does, I’m holding you to your word.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She smiled at the turn of this conversation. “So you think
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Why? I like this conversation.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I live in
Denville, NJ with my dog, Jess. We hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or
shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, I learned to fly small
cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New
York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in
Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. I’m an
avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic
arts. Yet through my entire life, my first love has and always will be writing
novels. I love to create interesting characters, set them loose, and scribe
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; text-align: right;">Release Date: 12/1/2011</span></span></span></div>
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The Rapture has occurred - the end of the world. The faithful have risen up to Heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and oriental weapons and turning down a job at the British museum.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His YA novel RAPTURE (the first in the Rapture trilogy) was released Sept 1st, 2011 by Pear Jam</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">books. RAPTURE is a dystopian/post-apocalyptic story about the end of the world featuring demons,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">angels and a half demon protagonist caught in the middle. RAPTURE was shortlisted for the Sir Julius</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Book 2, TRIBULATION, was released in December, 2012. The final book, APOCALYPSE, will be out</span></div>
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<span style="color: #260a00; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On a personal note, he is married to Rose, has a son (Jack) and two border terriers, Whiskey and</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As soon as this thought entered his mind, it was
interrupted by a demonic presence to his left. A cluster of Lemure surged out
of what had once been the local coffee house, screaming as they advanced. Sam
sprinted around a wrecked SUV to give himself some breathing room, drawing both
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He swung around to his left, still at full
stretch. Whether by good luck or by displaying a higher than usual level of
intelligence, three of the Lemure hadn’t fallen for the ploy. They met him on
the other side of the SUV, running as hard as he was. Sam didn’t even pause. He
struck high then low and spun around to deliver a double blow to the third
Lemure. All three turned to ash in his wake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He kept sprinting, skirting around the wrecks in
the middle of Main Street, heading east. It was opposite to the direction he
wanted to head in but he would double back later in order to confuse his
pursuers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sensing that the demons were falling behind, Sam
slowed to a fast jog. He could keep this pace up for hours if he needed to.
Before the Rapture, he had often run into the Rockies and back before the sun
had even snuck up over the horizon. Night-time was when he always trained, away
from prying eyes. He always felt stronger in the dark. Hikari had told him that
his night vision was much better than any other humans, something he had
suspected when he realized he could see almost perfectly in all but the most
absolute darkness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was just as well because now the only light
came from the moon, which was hardly a great source of illumination. Normally,
street lights, the frontages of residential homes, the odd shop open for a late
night and the occasional car would provide ample light for the average
resident. It was odd running through the small town like this, guided only by
the malevolent red glow from above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Disturbingly, despite his injuries, Sam felt even
stronger right at that moment, almost as if the moon was energizing him. He
looked up, hoping to catch a glimpse of a star in the now cloudless sky. There
were none. Had been none since the Rapture. The stars, once beautiful and
sparkling in the clear country air, had all fallen. Where they had landed, Sam
had no idea. He just knew that they weren’t in the sky anymore.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Suddenly a shadow fell across the moon, a strong
wind buffeting him from above. He’d sensed the presence of the Astaroth but he
was far, far too late. Too late and too slow. Cursing himself for his lack of
concentration, Sam attempted to roll but felt something lift him off his feet
with a powerful jolt. It was the Astaroth alright. Clearly, those wings weren’t
for show, he thought wryly as the Astaroth slowly gained height. Luck had been
on his side though. Instead of those mighty talons piercing his skin, they had merely
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had been in his hands all the way down Main Street. His swords. He swept both
up at the same time, each aiming for a different leg, and felt a savage surge
of satisfaction as the iron weapons both connected and bit deeply. The Astaroth
roared so loudly that, if Sam had been able to, he would’ve covered his ears.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isabelle Andrews isn’t supposed to be here. She isn’t
supposed to be a freshman at Hartford Community College, she isn't supposed to
be living at home and working at her dad’s failing bakery, and she definitely
isn’t supposed to be taking Intro to Electronic Music Production, a class that
will get her nowhere toward her goal of an English Ph.D. by age twenty-five.
But when her dad’s latest business fiasco eats up her college fund, Hartford
Community College is exactly where Isabelle finds herself—and thanks to her
late enrollment, she doesn’t even get to choose her classes. Stuck with
Electronic Music and way-too-easy English courses, Isabelle is determined to
wallow in all the misery she feels entitled to.</span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But community college brings some unexpected benefits…like the fact that a
certain overworked, over-scheduled Electronic Music professor hands over most
of his duties to his teaching assistant. His tall, green-eyed, absolutely
gorgeous teaching assistant. When TA Evan Strauss discovers Isabelle’s apathy
toward electronic music—and, well, all music—he makes it his mission to convert
her. The music Evan composes stirs something inside Isabelle, but she can’t get
involved—after all, she’ll be transferring out as soon as possible. </span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Still, no matter how tightly Isabelle holds on to her misery, she finds it
slipping away in the wake of all Hartford Community offers: new friendships, a
surprisingly cool poetry professor, and most of all, Evan. But Evan’s dream of
owning his own music studio is as impractical as Isabelle’s dad’s bakery, and
when Evan makes a terrible decision, everything Isabelle has gained threatens
to unravel. Soon Isabelle discovers that some of the most important lessons
take place outside the classroom…and that in life, as in Evan’s favorite
Depeche Mode song, the most precious things can be the hardest to hold on to.</span></i></b></div>
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to Los Angeles because of Francesca Lia Block's WEETZIE BAT books, which might
give you some idea of how much books mean to her. She also loves dogs, books
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b>Author:</b> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Kelly+Oram" target="_blank">Kelly Oram</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Grayson finally noticed Aiden and I on the couch. “What are you two dorks doing?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">“Learning about steroids,” I said cheerfully. “You should probably know that using them can cause acne, testicular atrophy, decreased sperm count, prostate enlargement and gynecomastia.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Grayson looked rightfully appalled. “Gyneco-what-ia?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">“Enlarged breasts in men,” Aiden translated. “So you should lay off the juice before you have to start borrowing Avery’s bras.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I gasped at the mention of my underwear and whacked Aiden’s shoulder hard.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Behind me, Grayson laughed. I knew he was about to deliver a comeback, but I refused to look at him. Seconds later his breath was warm on my neck. He whispered just low enough that his mother couldn’t hear what he said. “I like my bras colorful and lacey, Aves. Not sure your collection would do it for me.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Total mortification. Grayson may be as close as family to me, but he was still one of the hottest, most popular guys in our whole school. Him discussing my bras in that low sexy voice that could stop a girl’s heart on the spot made my lungs constrict. Plus, he was right of course. My bras were all of the plain white cotton variety.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I started to leave the room but she stopped me at the door. “Grayson?” Her tone tugged at something inside me. “You really want to take me with you tonight?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">She sounded so small and unsure of herself. It was how she always sounded at school and around strangers, but never when she was at home with us. I think my brother had really broken her. I was seriously going to have to beat him sometime.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">“You don’t have to if you don’t want to. I know I really freaked out on you earlier, but I promise I’ll be fine. Aiden’s right.” She swallowed back a lump in her throat. “I’ll manage without him somehow.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">“Aiden’s a tool. You can learn how to manage tomorrow. Tonight’s New Years Eve and for once in your life you’re going to spend it without Aiden or The Discovery Channel.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I knew I was making progress when she cracked a smile and asked, “What about Whootylicious in 7 B?”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">I thought of the luscious booty I’d originally planned on seeing tonight and sighed. “That will be an unfortunate loss, but, like you, I will just have to deal.”
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<span style="color: #444444;">I winked and then decided I’d give her ten minutes before I came back and physically dragged her out of bed.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Kelly Oram wrote her first novel at age fifteen–a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and loves to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband and four children.</span></blockquote>
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