Unrequited
Release Date: 09/23/14
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
In the town of Belle Ridge there are doctors, lawyers and teachers... but there is only one vampire. Will Leighton has become an expert in making a life for himself amongst the unsuspecting small-town inhabitants, as the high school history teacher. He has spent hundreds of years crafting an identity and routine that make him feel almost human, but he is always missing that important final element, love.
Ashton Wallace is beautiful, smart, and angry. She was forced into an eternal existence, and now her family has moved her away from everything and everyone she knows. In Belle Ridge she is supposed to finish high school and start her life again, but how do you make plans for the next several centuries?
Will has never met another of his kind, and is immediately intrigued by Ashton. He longs to show her that the perceived vampire lifestyle, so popular in storybooks, is far from reality...but will she let him be a friend and guide in this new existence? Can Ashton accept Will into her life, or will she be led astray by a dark stranger with whom she shares an unknown connection?
Ashton Wallace is beautiful, smart, and angry. She was forced into an eternal existence, and now her family has moved her away from everything and everyone she knows. In Belle Ridge she is supposed to finish high school and start her life again, but how do you make plans for the next several centuries?
Will has never met another of his kind, and is immediately intrigued by Ashton. He longs to show her that the perceived vampire lifestyle, so popular in storybooks, is far from reality...but will she let him be a friend and guide in this new existence? Can Ashton accept Will into her life, or will she be led astray by a dark stranger with whom she shares an unknown connection?
Excerpt
“Did they catch him? I don't remember
his name, but I know what he looked like. I can tell the police.” Ashton wanted
to make sure that guy, whoever he was, paid for what he had done.
Her parents exchanged troubled looks
with one another.
“What's wrong? Is he saying it's my
fault?” She looked from her mother to her father.
“He was found dead,” her father said
with a grim face.
Ashton couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
Just then, two police officers came into the room. She told them everything
about the party, the drink, being pulled into the woods, and about the second
man.
“A second man was there?” the officer
asked.
“Yes, I couldn’t see him clearly, it was
so dark and I was feeling so confused, but there was definitely a second man.
He pulled the attacker off of me, and I could hear them struggling, and someone
screamed. Then, he came to me and told me everything would be all right. That's
the last thing I remember.” Ashton was exhausted. The previous night felt like
some horrible dream.
The officers turned toward the door,
like they were about to leave. Just as they were crossing into the hall, one of
the officers turned and came back into the room.
“Miss, about the second man, is he the
one who did this to you?” The officer motioned toward Ashton's neck. She lifted
her hand and felt a large, thick bandage on her throat. When she pressed it,
she winced in pain.
“I don't remember. I don't remember at all.”
She felt a wave of panic. She had been injured in a gruesome manner, but she
didn’t have any recollection of how it had happened. Even more unsettling was a
strange sensation traveling through her body. Ashton realized something within
her was different, something she couldn’t quite put her finger on.
The officers left, and Ashton asked her
mother for a mirror. Reluctantly, Elaine Wallace retrieved the one in her
purse, and handed it to her daughter.
Ashton opened the mirror and looked at
herself. Remarkably, the horror of the night before didn’t seem to have left a
mark on her face. Actually, she looked somewhat refreshed. She moved her hand
to the bandage and began to remove it. When it fell away, she held the mirror
up again and saw what the officers had asked her about.
On
her neck were two large holes.
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About the Author
Whether writing stories to entertain her younger siblings, or typing up an essay for a class, Emily Shaffer has been a writer for as long as she can remember. Her stories may have changed from talking cartoon frogs to angsty young adults, but her goal to write a compelling story remains the same. When not writing, she lives in Nashville and enjoys all the music, food, and excitement that city has to offer. Her first novel, the well-received chick-lit title That Time of the Month was self-published on Amazon in 2012. Her latest novel, as the others before, are fueled by diet soda and pie.
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