Adorned

Book 1 in Trinity of Souls Series

 

by Georgeann Swiger

 

Sweet Upper YA/NA Paranormal Romance

 

Published by Georgeann Swiger on 4/2/2014

 

Main Characters: Micah and Anya

 

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When seventeen-year-old Anya finds out she’s an angel being trained to protect humanity, she discovers that becoming an angel has nothing to do with wings and haloes. For Anya, becoming an angel has to do with death—her death.

Micah, the angelic soldier ordered to protect her until she transitions from human to angel, promises her death will be a glorious experience as long as she follows his rules. But getting Anya through this life and to the next isn’t as simple as Micah expects. His job becomes even more difficult after he unwittingly performs a miracle that exposes Anya’s hidden angelic light. 

With her secret out, Hell’s legions begin targeting her. Unfortunately, Hell’s minions are the least of Micah’s worries. He’s more concerned about the forbidden human emotions he’s developed toward Anya. Even more troubling, is she seems to love him too. And giving in to those feelings, could mean dire consequences for them both.

Cloven, the 2nd book in the Trinity of Souls Series is coming October 21.

For Dylan’s Review of Adorned, click here!

Georgeann Swiger

Georgeann Swiger earned her degree in journalism from West Virginia University, and then spent five years as an anchor/reporter at WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, WV. After having children, she left television news to be a stay at home mom.  During that time, she discovered creative writing was more fun than writing about real life tragedy. Imagining interesting character and having them come to life on the page is now her passion. When she’s not writing, she works as a substitute teacher. She lives in Reedsville, West Virginia with her husband, two kids, a beagle dog and a temperamental cat who tries to rule the house.

Guardian is a YA Paranormal romance novel undergoing new editing and a brand new cover!

Sometimes, things that go bump in the night are real. 

My name is Whitney Lane.  I’m sixteen years old and at first, I thought I was crazy. 

I kept seeing shadows move along walls, and hearing whispers around corners, but whenever I looked, there was never anything there.  

Until one day, there was. 

Our world isn’t what we think.  There are things around us, good things, bad things, scary things.  

Things that we tell ourselves aren’t real, but they are.   

They’re very real, and they’re terrifying. 

I’ve been swept up now, in a battle of good and evil, confused about love and what is supposed to be love, but isn’t.  I don’t know what to think anymore.  I can’t trust my emotions and I don’t know what is true.  

There’s only one thing I know for sure. 

Nothing is what it seems.

Now for the COVER REVEAL of Guardian!

Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.

Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.

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Title: Cryostorm

Author: Lynn Rush

Series: Touch of Frost Series

Published by: Lynn Rush

Date published: July 11, 2014

Genres: Paranormal Upper YA/NA

Book Length: 331

Steam Rating: Steamy

Main Characters: Mandy Hillman and Nate Ashcroft

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“I’m faced with the vivid reality: the Nate I knew and fell in love with may be lost forever.

And if I get him back, will I still be able to say those three precious words?”

They made his body, she’ll awaken his soul…

Three months ago, my twin sister, Georgia, and I had to die so our loved ones would be safe from the scientists hunting us. After months of searching, we’re close to finding the one person who can help us find closure, Georgia’s adoptive mother, Lois.

Snowstorms and an unexpected run-in with GenCorp, the latest entity charged with capturing us, delay our mission and break our spirits. The only light in my supernaturally chaotic life is Nate. He’s given up everything to protect and take care of me, and each minute I’m with him confirms how much I love him. Finally ready to share my heart again, I take the next step, admitting my true feelings.

The mad scientists who want to tear me apart and use my body for a freak show, once again taint my happiness with a disturbing technology that rips Nate from my arms. As I battle GenCorp’s warped technology to save my soulmate, I’m faced with the vivid reality: the Nate I knew and fell in love with may be lost forever.

And if I get him back, will I still be able to say those three precious words?

Lynn Rush

Originally from Minnesota, Lynn Rush currently enjoys living in the sunny Arizona desert with her husband of seventeen years and her loveable Shetland Sheep dog, Maddux. Rush holds a degree in psychology from Southwest Minnesota State University and a master’s degree from the University of Iowa. When she’s not busy writing her next trilogy, she can be found pounding the pavement, training for her next endurance event.

Connect with Lynn on Twitter, through Facebook or her website. Lynn also writes as Reese Monroe and you can find her alter ego there.

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Title: City of Heavenly Fire

Author: Cassandra Clare

Series: The Mortal Instruments

Published by:Margaret K. McElderry

Date published: May 27, 2014

Genres: Fantasy, Paranormal

Book Length: 725 pages

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“All of these characters show that love is, in many ways, a leap of faith, and you’ll have to read to see who takes that leap and how.” ~Steff

Shadowhunters, Downworlders, Nephilim, and Warlocks band together to feet Sebastian, a demon/angel hybrid allied with the Seelie Queen and the Wild Hunt to become supreme ruler of all the realms. It’s up to Clary to defeat her brother, figure out how to rid Jace of the Heavenly Fire that makes it impossible to touch him, and gather her friends – Shadowhunter, vampire, and werewolf – to save this world and others.

THE COUPLE: The last installment of Cassie Clare’s series gives us four couples to root for: Shadowhunters Jace and Clary, of course; Shadowhunter Isabelle and vampire Simon; the werewolves Jordan and Maia; and Shadowhunter Alec and the ageless High Warlock of Brooklyn, Magnus. One couple’s romance ends abruptly. I enjoyed all of the pairings here, though somewhat surprisingly, I found the main couple, Jace and Clary, the least compelling in this book. They finally resolve the issue keeping them apart (Jace is filled with the Heavenly Fire and thus cannot touch or be touched) in a pretty matter-of-fact way. It just sort of happens. But Izzy struggles more with trusting Simon, having seen in her parents’ relationship that love can die and leave you broke, and Simon struggles with accepting that he is worthy of love.  I found the development of their relationship – and the heartbreak of a last minute complication to it – compelling. But my favorite relationship in this book involves Alec, a character I don’t find terribly likable alone, but his love for Magnus intrigues me. I was cheering for Magnus to open up about his looooong past and accept that somehow he and Alec could have a lasting romantic partnership despite his fears that Alec will inevitably age and change and they will grow apart. All of these characters show that love is, in many ways, a leap of faith, and you’ll have to read to see who takes that leap and how.

OVERALL: The narrative dragged a bit in the middle for me but that could be because I, like many fans, have been waiting for a long time to have this saga resolved. It made me impatient for it to just happen already! But Clare’s introduced some great new characters with the destruction of the Los Angeles Institute that opens the book and I am eager to read about their adventures in the next series, The Dark Artifices. Plus, I loved the “return” of some characters from The Infernal Devices and the realization of a long-delayed romance begun in that series.

SMOOCH FACTOR: On the strength of the mix of witty banter and heartfelt admissions of love between Alec and Magnus, I give CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE 4 smooches.

From www.cassandraclare.com:

Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood travelling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on a Jane Austen short story of the same name (and  which later inspired her current pen name).

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favourite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006 and hopes never to have to write about Paris Hilton again.

Cassie’s first professional writing sale was a short story called “The Girl’s Guide to Defeating the Dark Lord” in a Baen anthology of humor fantasy. Cassie hates working at home alone because she always gets distracted by reality TV shows and the antics of her two cats, so she usually sets out to write in local coffee shops and restaurants. She likes to work in the company of her friends, who see that she sticks to her deadlines.

“`And he shall rule them with a rod of iron,’ said Clary, remembering Alec’s words in the Accords Hall, `and I will give him the Morning Star.’

“Sebastian whirled on her his eyes bright. `Yes!’ he said. `Yes, very good, you’re understanding now. I thought I wanted our world, to bring it down in blood, but I want more than that. I want the legacy of the Morgenstern name.’

`You want the devil?’ Clary said, half-baffled and half-terrified . . .

[Sebastian] extended his arm, and elegant gesture, and indicated the two great thrones on the dais. `One of those is for me. And the other – the other is for you.’

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