Grace keeps her nose to the grindstone. A place for everything and everything in its place, she's a business major who likes her life neat, categorized. With her eyes firmly set on the prize, her degree and a successful career, Grace seldom cuts loose.
A rare night out with friends will change her life forever.
Jack is an art major who colors outside the lines in life and in love. Unwilling to be confined by the world's expectations he finds his happiness where he can, with a man or a woman.
One night with Grace will have him questioning everything he thought he wanted.
Can Jack give Grace the fidelity he's never wanted to give another? Can Grace survive loving a man who may need more than she can provide?
*I'm currently in possession of this novel as a Beta reader and will be sure to let you know my thoughts VERY soon!*
Grace is a studious business major who always colors inside the lines. Jack is a fun loving, bi-sexual art major who challenges her orderly existence. Grace loses her heart when a night out with friends leads to a wild encounter with Jack. Only time will tell if her heart can survive the rigors of loving a man who may need more than Grace can provide.
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Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle
had no choice but to cover up the deadly truth behind Ichabod Crane’s
disappearance. Centuries later, a Crane returns to Sleepy Hollow awakening
macabre secrets once believed to be buried deep.
What if
the monster that spawned the legend lived within you?
Now, Ireland Crane, reeling from a
break-up and seeking a fresh start, must rely on the newly awakened Rip Van
Winkle to discover the key to channeling the darkness swirling within her. Bodies
are piling high and Ireland is the only one that can save Sleepy Hollow by
embracing her own damning curse.
But is anyone truly safe when the
Horseman rides?
Excerpt 1:
The plush terry
cloth robe slipped from Ireland’s shoulders with a whispering caress before
pooling in a heap around her ankles. Marble tiles chilled her bare feet as she
stepped into the walk-in shower. The tips of her fingers slid across stainless
steel. With a flick of her wrist, the trio of shower heads flowed to life.
Welcoming heat came at her from all angles, pulsating over her curves with a
rhythmic seduction. Ireland turned, a groan escaping her as the streams massaged
all the right places. Steam rose, fogging the handle and creating a cloud of
humidity that hugged her frame. Tipping her head back, she let the droplets
rain down on her face and across her closed lids. Her lips parted, welcoming
the rush of warmth that flooded between them. Until it assaulted her tongue
with a rush of coppery warmth that clamped her throat shut with a wretched
heave. Her hands cupped to catch the droplets, her eyes widening as thick
crimson pooled in her palms, seeping between her ivory fingers. Formerly white
tiles were now smattered and smeared with blackish-red gore that sprayed from
the nozzles. Ireland threw herself from the shower, her feet slipping beneath
her. She reached out to steady herself, but found nothing to hold on to.
Nothing there to pull her back from the brink, except her own need for
self-preservation … and a shadowed silhouette in the corner. Instinctively, she
covered herself with her arms. Squinting, she craned her neck to see the figure
that was slowly turning to face her.
“Mason?” Her voice
echoed around her before she could even speak it.
He stared straight
ahead with fixed, unseeing eyes. Blood trailed down his face from various
points of origin, soaking the front of his shirt. “Cloak of night, brings Horseman’s
plight. His pricy toll, will be a soul.”
“Mason? Are you
okay?”
A hard blink and
his eyes found focus on her. A desperate panic flared his nostrils, forcing his
breath to come fast and ragged. “Help me, you have to help me,” he pleaded, his
teeth pink with the blood that streamed past his lips.
Her trembling hand
reached for him, then recoiled at her own inept state of confusion. “H-how?
What do I do?”
“You have to save
us,” Mason’s words became more garbled by the fresh rush of gore that bubbled
up the back of his throat. His once handsome face contorted in rage. Leaning
forward he balled his fists and screamed with a force that bulged the tendons
of his neck, “Save us!”
REVIEW
First, as to my normal cover obsession! HOLY SMOKES! This cover is bad @$$! I mean seriously! It's even the wallpaper on my cell phone! I really see this cover receiving lots of rewards through bloggers and page owners! LOTS!
Prior to reading Crane I had never read anything related to the Horseman story line! It just never interested me for some reason (I know, I'm strange lol) but when I found out Stacey was writing this I knew I had to give it a shot and boy am I glad! After reading Crane I am torn between reading other Horseman stories or being afraid nothing will ever come close to the love I have for this book! While this story has it's dark moments, it also has the humor from Stacey Rourke that we have all grown to love in her other series!
Pick up your copy today and follow through Stacey's past and present story telling from where the legend begins and where the legend presently stands!
Fabulous read and in my opinion it's Stacey's best book to date! I can NOT wait for book two, Raven!
RONE Award Winner for Best YA
Paranormal Work of 2012 for Embrace, a Gryphon Series Novel
Young Adult and Teen Reader voted
Author of the Year 2012
Turning Pages Magazine Winner for
Best YA book of 2013 & Best Teen Book of 2013
Stacey Rourke lives in Michigan
with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant, dogs. She loves to
travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction and considers herself blessed to make a
career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head.
Edition/Formats It Will Be Available In: Audio Book, eBook,
Print
Blurb/Synopsis:
Things
are about to heat up…
Brandi Vaughn wishes she could stand out. She’d do anything
to get out from behind the shadow of her socialite family—which now includes
Dani, her half-sister, recently discovered to be the most powerful vampire
known to their kind.
But Brandi is more extraordinary than anyone realizes. The
fiery young vamp has a secret elemental power—an inner flame that she must keep
under control so as not to reveal herself to the dangerous rogue vampire
targeting exceptional talents like hers. But when two desperate followers of
the Rogue attempt to kidnap Dani during her wedding ceremony, Brandi lets loose
with a pyrotechnic display that doesn’t go unnoticed…
As the vampire nation comes face-to-face with the threat of
the Shade army, Brandi is caught in an emotional tug of war between the light
and the dark. Torn between the affections of lovers from both factions, she
will need to choose who to trust with her heart: a warrior or a rogue.
I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland and now I live
not far from my birth place in Perry Hall, Maryland. I have two teenage
daughters and a man that keep me busy when I'm not working full-time as a Certified
Medical Coder. I'm an avid reader and I love all genre of romantic fiction from
historical to contemporary to paranormal. Sleeping has always been a problem
for me so most nights I can be found in the living room reading or writing
instead of in bed like the rest of the world. I don't watch television. It's
not a conscious decision, it just never occurs to me to turn it on when I have
books to read and writing to do. It can actually be a hazard, because I never
know what the weather will be until I look outside and I have to rely on my
kids and coworkers for local and world news. I love creating the characters you
love and love to hate. My characters remind me of people I know and people I
wish I had never known.
Allison thought it was crazy enough when she found out her father, Liam, wasn't entirely human. But now she has to join his magical allies to unravel his former mistress's plans. Aoife wants to keep Allison's parents apart forever.
Despite Allison's efforts to keep Ethan, the only guy she's ever cared about, out of this supernatural mess, fate keeps throwing him back into the mix.
Will Allison be able to find the amulet that holds the enchantment Aoife placed on Liam and destroy it? Are Ethan' s feelings for Allison strong enough to endure the magic of the Tuatha De Danaan?
Laura Howard lives in New Hampshire with her husband and four children. Her obsession with books began at the age of 6 when she got her first library card. Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High and other girly novels were routinely devoured in single sittings. Books took a backseat to diapers when she had her first child. It wasn’t until the release of a little novel called Twilight, 8 years later, that she rediscovered her love of fiction. Soon after, her own characters began to make themselves known.
When Raven Ferragamo moved to Washington, D.C. for a fresh start, she never realized that her new life would be someone else's old one. From the moment she found Lark Kingsley's diary, and the missing diamond heiress' plea for help, there was no turning back. Raven plunged in to the dark mystery. She's spending more and more time in Lark's luxury apartment, trying to follow the trail of breadcrumbs that the socialite left behind.
Each passing day reduces the liklihood of finding Lark alive. From reading the journal and deciphering the clues, Raven believes that someone close to the other girl is involved in her disappearance. She just needs a little more time to figure out who and why.
A secret boyfriend, the weight of a diamond empire on her shoulders, evidence that could topple her family's ivory tower....Lark Kingsley really does have it all. And now, so does Raven. She just doesn't know it yet.
In addition to Fragile Facade hitting electronic shelves today, the first Collection in the Blind Barriers Serial Series, is now for sale!
At 82,000 words (328 pages), the Collection includes: Blind Barriers, Courting Chaos, and Fragile Facade. Get it now for only $2.99!!
For purchase links to Fragile Facade: www.SophieDavisBooks.com/Fragile_Facade
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