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Teaser Tuesdays #68 ~ Valens Rise by Sherrel Lee

Posted: May 27, 2014 in Paranormal or fantasy, Romance, Series, Shifters, Teaser Tuesdays
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from

Valens Rise

The Valens of Legacy, Book #1

by Sherrel Lee

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Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Romance

My Teaser from 8% into the book

She fought the overwhelming urge to throw her belongings into a suitcase and flee as she had so many times in years past. Nowhere to go and nowhere she particularly wanted to be. Dallas was her home. She would find a way to deal with the insanity that had suddenly entered her life.

Another Teaser from 14% into the book

“Do you think she has any idea what all this really means, Hawke? She’s awfully young and hasn’t found anyone to offer the support she should have.”

“Don’t know Miranda, but I suspect she’s in the dark about who and what she really is.”

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Book Description:

In Book One of this paranormal fantasy series, Jemma Nix, a shapeshifting phoenix discovers her family’s heritage. She is overwhelmed with distrust and doubt. Her entire family may have been murdered. Her mentor may be using her in a deadly pursuit of power.

Confronted with these facts, Jemma begins to suspect that those closest to her are mad. Refusing to believe their claims of a secret race, she pushes away the one man who may be able to help. The one man who she may be destined to love. Rather than face the reality of her new life, Jemma makes a fateful decision. One that places the Valens in jeopardy and forces them to face a deadly, genetically engineered threat.
To read this paranormal mystery thriller, download this book now!
Valens Rise is book one of the paranormal suspense series the Valens of Legacy.

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Teaser Tuesday’s #67 ~ Cruelty: Episode 4 by Edward Lorn

Posted: May 20, 2014 in horror, Short stories and collections, Teaser Tuesdays
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from

Cruelty

Episode Four

by Edward Lorn

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Genre: Horror

My Teaser from 15% into the book

Inside, He slept. Here, on the outskirts of Kerrville’s hill country, Momma fumed. Eyes closed tho the horrors yet to be seen, she shook with rage. Angry or not, she knew the End, like a jilted lover, had come for her. She would not go without a fight.

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Book Description:

CRUELTY is a serial novel in ten parts.

Episode Four.

Tom Morgan is out of surgery, but far from out of the woods.

With Kirk for bait, Twon and Ollie go fishing.

State Investigator Markum seeks out clues concerning the murder of John Landover.

Merlo the Cowardly Dog and Sheriff Randy Miser meet for the first time in a desperate struggle to save each other’s lives.

Momma’s not happy.

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Teaser Tuesdays #66 ~ Finding Eden by Pembroke Sinclair

Posted: May 13, 2014 in horror, Teaser Tuesdays, Zombies
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from

Finding Eden

by Pembroke Sinclair

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Genre: Zombie horror

My Teaser

He stood and headed for the door. Pushing bookshelves aside, he took a deep breath. It was now or never. His hand hesitated on the handle. Should he spend one more day thinking about it? His stomach growled. He didn’t have another day. The sparse reserves he found in the building were gone. He needed something more. He wiped the sweat from his brow before jerking open the door…. Please don’t let them get me.

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Book Description:

 

Drunk womanizer Duke, spends his life selfishly taking care of himself and screw the rest of the world. After one particular black-out alcoholic binge, he wakes to find the world changed the dead are rising from their graves.

Lonely, guilt-ridden Hank is someone who minds his own business, and sympathetic but strong-willed Lana is on the receiving end of harassment by other students. Forced together for survival, the three misfits must confront their world gone strange. God said the people of Earth would be punished for their sins, and so the end has come. Duke, Hank, and Lana must walk their own paths to salvation, but they also must depend on each other.

Will their salvation lie in Finding Eden?

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Teaser Tuesdays #65 ~ TEASE by Amanda Maciel

Posted: May 6, 2014 in Contemporary Literature, Teaser Tuesdays, YA
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from TEASE

by Amanda Maciel

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My Teaser

“We’re trying to get you out of this. A girl is dead, and everyone wants to hold you and your friends accountable for what happened.”

“But we’re not,” I blurt out. “We didn’t do anything.”

“It’s not that simple.”

“It should be.”

Natalie heaves a big sigh. “I know, but it’s just not. People are sad and angry and they just want to see how sorry you are.”

But that’s the thing right there.

I’m not sorry.

Emma was a boyfriend-stealing bitch right up until the day in March when she killed herself.

I didn’t do anything wrong, but she totally ruined my life.

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Synopsis

From debut author Amanda Maciel comes a provocative and unforgettable novel, inspired by real-life incidents, about a teenage girl who faces criminal charges for bullying after a classmate commits suicide.

Emma Putnam is dead, and it’s all Sara Wharton’s fault. At least, that’s what everyone seems to think. Sara, along with her best friend and three other classmates, has been criminally charged for the bullying and harassment that led to Emma’s shocking suicide. Now Sara is the one who’s ostracized, already guilty according to her peers, the community, and the media. In the summer before her senior year, in between meetings with lawyers and a court-recommended therapist, Sara is forced to reflect on the events that brought her to this moment—and ultimately consider her own role in an undeniable tragedy. And she’ll have to find a way to move forward, even when it feels like her own life is over.

With its powerful narrative, unconventional point of view, and strong anti-bullying theme, this coming-of-age story offers smart, insightful, and nuanced views on high school society, toxic friendships, and family relationships.

Supports the Common Core State Standards.

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Teaser Tuesday’s #63 ~ The First Days by Rhiannon Frater

Posted: April 23, 2014 in apocalypse, horror, Teaser Tuesdays, Zombies
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from The First Days

by Rhiannon Frater

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Teaser #1

“Zombies, or whatever they are, definitely shouldn’t exist in a rational, ordered world. It suddenly feels like we’re living in a horror movie.”

Teaser #2

So small.

So very small.

The fingers pressed under the front door of her home were so very small.

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Synopsis

Katie is driving to work one beautiful day when a dead man jumps into her car and tries to eat her. That same morning, Jenni opens a bedroom door to find her husband devouring their toddler son.

Fate puts Jenni and Katie—total strangers—together in a pickup, fleeing the suddenly zombie-filled streets of the Texas city in which they live. Before the sun has set, they have become more than just friends and allies—they are bonded as tightly as any two people who have been to war together.

During their cross-Texas odyssey to find and rescue Jenni’s oldest son, Jenni discovers the joy of watching a zombie’s head explode when she shoots its brains out. Katie learns that she’s a terrific tactician—and a pretty good shot.

A chance encounter puts them on the road to an isolated, fortified town, besieged by zombies, where fewer than one hundred people cling to the shreds of civilization.

It looks like the end of the world. But Katie and Jenni and many others will do whatever they have to to stay alive. Run, fight, pick each other up when they stumble, fall in love…anything is possible at the end of the world.

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Teaser Tuesdays #62 ~ The Cold Pools

Posted: March 25, 2014 in Dystopian, Science Fiction, Short stories and collections, Teaser Tuesdays
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from The Cold Pools

by Chris Ward

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Teaser #1 from

Karen reached over and touched my arm, and when I looked towards her, her smile calmed me. My own cold pool, I thought. My very own.

Teaser #2 from

…here was the only recognized place in the whole world where the air was cool, and as we finally emerged at the top of the bluff, we saw the reason why.

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Synopsis

Meet me at the end of the world …

As civilization comes to an end, Lewis and Karen take their last vacation to the only cold place left on Earth, the remote resort town of Cold Pools. There, they will say goodbye …

The Cold Pools – a short story of 3,000 words, is taken from the author’s collection Ms Ito’s Bird & Other Stories.

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Teaser Tuesdays #61 ~ Another Faust

Posted: March 11, 2014 in Paranormal or fantasy, Teaser Tuesdays, YA
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from Another Faust

by Daniel & Dina Nayeri 

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Tease #1 from page 58

“I’ll tell you one thing: Christian and Bic’e have some crazy ideas about where we got our gifts,” he said, laughing. ‘They think Vileroy’s some sort of magic godmother, or a witch or something.”

Tease #2 from page 122

Victoria opened her eyes to a sight that left her breathless. Moths, hundreds and thousands and millions of them. “Don’t worry,” Madame Vileroy read her mind. “You can talk. They won’t hurt you…much.”

 

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Synopsis

A devilish debut by a brother-sister team invites us into the world of the elite Marlowe School, where some gifted students are having a hell of a year.

One night, in cities all across Europe, five children vanish, only to appear, years later, at an exclusive New York party with a strange and elegant governess. Rumor and mystery follow the Faust teenagers to the city’s most prestigious high school, where they soar to suspicious heights with the help of their benefactors extraordinary “gifts.” But as the students claw their way up, reading minds, erasing scenes, stopping time, stealing power, seducing with artificial beauty, they start to suffer the side effects of their own addictions. And as they make further deals with the devil, they uncover secrets more shocking than their most unforgivable sins. At once chilling and wickedly satirical, this contemporary reimagining of the Faustian bargain is a compelling tale of ambition, consequences, and ultimate redemption.

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Teaser Tuesdays #60 ~ Enchanted by Alethea Kontis

Posted: March 4, 2014 in Romance, Teaser Tuesdays, YA Fantasy
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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My Teaser for today is from Enchanted

by Alethea Kontis 

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My Tease

She was as fresh and wild and innocent and mysterious as the Wood itself. She knew so little of the world and yet saw everything through eyes of uncommon wisdom. She spoke, and the bright crystal tones of her voice soothed him. She laughed with her whole body, and when she smiled, she glowed. She was startling beautiful, like a newborn fawn, even more so in her blissful unawareness of the fact. She was at the same time selfish and giving, ungrateful and kind. Her name was Sunday.

And she loved him.

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Synopsis

It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.

When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises.

The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past – and hers?

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Teaser Tuesdays #59 ~ Comes A Horseman

Posted: February 26, 2014 in Mytery/Thriller, Teaser Tuesdays
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• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page.
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My Teaser for today is from Comes A Horseman

by Robert Liparulo 

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Tease #1

The beast moved through the woods like the falling of night. The beast’s companions, one on either side, kept pace, agile and powerful.

Tease #2

“I think there’s someone in the house.”

“Are you sure?”

“I said I think.”

“Can you hear them? Are they moving around?”

“I heard….I think I heard nails…claws clicking on the floor.”

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Synopsis

The ancients saw Death as a blazing figure on horseback, swift and merciless. Those facing the black chasm often mistook their pounding hearts for the beating of hooves.

Now, two FBI agents pursuing a killer from a centuries-old cult realize they have become his prey.

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Teaser Tuesdays #58 ~ She Kissed A Vampire

Posted: February 18, 2014 in Paranormal or fantasy, Romance, Supernatural, Teaser Tuesdays, Vampires, werewolves
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My Teaser for today is from She Kissed a Vampire

Werewolves of the West #2

by Carol Van Atta 

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Tease #1

Something was wrong, something beyond the fact that I’d been falsely imprisoned by a fraudulent FBI agent who tortured zebras while feasting on their blood.

Tease #2

Maybe if I’d done things differently and kept my secrets secret, I’d be somewhere besides a jail cell contemplating ways to stay sane while plotting my escape to freedom.

Or…maybe I’d be dead.

The way things were going, dead was still a very real option.

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Synopsis

Best selling author Melanie Larson’s relationship with her friend, Chloe Carpenter, is bleak. Falsely accused of murder, Chloe’s future rests in the hands of her mate, Zane Marshall, and the Pacific Pack’s purebred werewolves. In an effort to help, Melanie joins forces with the pack and soon discovers the monsters she writes about in her paranormal novels really do go bump in the night.

As Chloe struggles with legal troubles, an unwanted blood bond with a master vampire, and a reunion with her mate, Melanie untangles the attention of multiple supernatural suitors determined to claim her as their own. Strangely attracted to a brazen vampire, she must decide if the blurred line between passion and pain is worth crossing.

Werewolves, vampires, and fae royalty race to unearth an ancient artifact with the power to extend their existence. Can Chloe and Melanie restore their friendship in time to stop magical mayhem from ruining everything they have worked so hard to redeem?

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