Book Blitz: Hookah by Cameron Jace with Giveaway

Hookah by Cameron Jace

(Insanity #4)

Publication date: September 28, 2015

Genres: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Young Adult

 

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A Plague Scarier than Death

 

Alice and the Pillar have to stop a Wonderland Monster who’d lashed out an incurable disease onto the world. Their biggest challenge is that the world loves this monster so much.

 

A Cure Larger than Life

 

The only way to save the world is to travel to the other side of the globe, and peek into one of Lewis Carroll and the Pillar’s darker pasts.

 

A Truth Madder Than Fiction

 

This time, the price of saving the world is too high. Alice will have to live with the consequences of the maddest logic of the world surrounding her.

 

Will Alice find who the Pillar really is? What he wants? Is she brave enough to handle the one Wonderland Monster she’d thought was a good friends? And even so, is the world ready the truth?

 

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“She’s not my daughter.” The Pillar purses his lips. He’s pissed at me. I know it. But you know what? I love the mushrooms’ effect. Because I don’t freakin’ care. “Don’t pay attention to her.”

 

“I’m beginning to lose my patience,” the machine gun man says. “You don’t know the password, and your daughter is a lunatic.”

 

“I told you she isn’t my daughter,” I hear the Pillar say while I’m trying to catch a diamond from the sky. “And I don’t know the answer to your puzzle. Divide a loaf by a knife? What kind of mathematical question is that?”

 

“Wrong answer.” The man is about to shoot the Pillar while I’m chasing stars.

 

This is when I find myself standing before the Pillar to protect him. “You will not shoot my father!” I have no idea what I am saying, or why I am saying it. It’s strange that in the middle of my hallucination I care for the Pillar.

 

“Tell her to move, or I will shoot you both,” the machine gun man warns.

 

Then another totally bonkers thing happens. This time it’s too insane to swallow.

 

“Tell you what? You look like you’re itching to shoot someone today,” the Pillar says, pushing me away toward the man. “Why not shoot her, and let me pass?”

 

Suddenly, I am two feet away from the machine gun itself, unable to determine if what I just heard was part of my hallucination or for real.

 

My attempt to turn back and confront the Pillar goes out the window when the machine gun man decides he’s had it with me.

 

He shoots me straight in the chest.

 

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Insanity 4 is available for pre-order Amazon.

 

Cameron Jace is the bestselling author of the Grimm Diaries and Insanity series. A graduate of the college of Architecture, collector of out-of-print books, he is obsessed with the origins of folk tales and the mysterious storytellers who spread them. Three of his books made Amazon's Top 100 Customer Favorites in Kindle 2013 & Amazon's Top 100 kindle list. Cameron lives in California with his girlfriend. When he isn't writing or collecting books, he is playing music.

 

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The Finn Factor

by Rachel Bailey

Release Date: 09/28/15

Entangled Embrace

 

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A new adult romance from Entangled's Embrace imprint...

 

Sometimes all a girl needs is a little practice...

 

It's been twelve months, three days, and eleven hours since accounting student Scarlett Logan made it past a second date. A pitcher of mojitos in hand, she employs her supreme graphing skills to narrow things down to one horrifying explanation. Kissing. Clearly someone needs to teach her how to kiss properly. Like, say, her best friend and roomie, Finn Mackenzie. He's safe, he's convenient, and yeah, maybe just a little gorgeous.

 

Finn knows exactly why Scarlett's boyfriends are disappearing quickly. Him. Not a single guy she's brought home is nearly good enough. And he'll be damned if he lets some loser give her "kissing lessons." No. He'll do the honors, thank you very much. The moment their lips touch, though, everything turns upside down. But Scarlett deserves the one thing Finn can't give her. And if he doesn't put an end to the sexy little shenanigans, he'll teach Scarlett the hardest lesson of all...heartbreak.

 

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Excerpt

 

“I haven’t forgotten we kissed, obviously, but I can’t remember details, like what the most effective elements were.”

 

I shifted in my seat. Every second of that kiss was burned into my memory bank. It seemed that hadn’t been as mutual as I’d suspected. I blew out a breath and focused on being a teacher in the situation, not a man who’d been carried away with his own lesson.

 

“I think you’re over-analyzing this. The elements don’t matter on their own. It’s more about the big picture.”

 

“Would you say that to your undergrads? Don’t worry about the specifics of the aqueducts, or which emperor came to power in what year. It’s more about the big picture of knowing there was a Roman Empire?”

 

“Well, no, but it’s completely different,” I said, looking down the hall and wondering if I could escape the conversation by simply leaving.

 

“How?” she persisted. “In both cases, you’re teaching something. So the student needs the topic broken down into bite-size pieces.”

 

At the word “bite” all the air left the room. Scarlett must have interpreted my silence to be disbelief because she grabbed a pen and a sheet of paper.

 

“Here.” She smoothed it out on the coffee table in front of us. “I’ll graph it for you.”

 

That snapped me back. “You’re going to graph our kiss?”

 

She drew an X and Y axis, then a line that went up across the page, but not smoothly—there were spikes and bumps along its progress.

 

“So, here, for example”—she pointed to a sharp rise in the line—“you did something and the kiss took off. What was it?”

 

“Seriously?” She wanted to talk as if it had been a clinical experience?

 

“If this had been a kiss for kissing’s sake, then, sure, we could leave it alone. But it was a lesson. How am I supposed to learn if I don’t remember the stimulus that caused the response?”

 

“You don’t need to. You were great. There’s nothing more to learn.” Better than great. Her kissing had been phenomenal.

 

“Again, if an undergrad wanted to learn more about the Roman Empire than they needed to for the first-year exam, would you tell them they were fine, or would you point them to more resource material?”

 

I blinked. “I’m resource material?”

 

She threw her hands up in the air, as if she was the one who was exasperated. “You’re the one who offered the lesson in the first place, so yes. You are my resource material on kissing.”

 

I looked over at the array of empty beer bottles on the coffee table. “We really need to make it a rule that we don’t talk about kissing after we’ve been drinking.”

 

“You’d rather have this conversation stone-cold sober?”

 

“I’d rather not have this conversation at all.”

 

“Oh.” Her face fell.

 

“What?” I asked warily.

 

“It’s just occurred to me that although I thought the kiss was good, you might not have enjoyed it at all. That’s why you’re fighting so hard against a follow up lesson.” She scrunched up her nose. “It was awful for you.”

 

I rubbed my temples—I was getting a headache trying to keep up with her thought processes and keep us out of dangerous territory.

 

“It wasn’t awful.” Amazing would be closer.

 

“Then why are you so against a follow-up lesson so I can focus on the bits I’ve forgotten?”

 

Something in the way she said “forgotten” made everything inside me rear up and protest. Maybe it was vanity, maybe it was neediness, but whatever it was, I didn’t want to be considered a forgettable kisser. Especially by Scarlett.

 

My gaze zeroed in on her mouth as I wrapped an arm around her and tugged her closer, but not quite touching. Her eyes widened and her pink tongue darted out to moisten her lips. I groaned.

 

“See if you can forget this,” I said, and lowered my head.

 

About the Author

 

As a teenager, I was a voracious reader of science fiction, until one day when I was 16, I saw Pride and Prejudice on television. The old version with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson. I adored it. I’d seen it in the TV guide and, since I had a crush on Laurence Olivier after seeing him in Henry V, I’d taped it.

 

I watched that tape so often I can still recite most of the dialogue by heart. I sought out the book, devoured it, then found every other Jane Austen book and read and reread them frequently. I only discovered romance as a genre as an adult. Imagine my delight when I first read modern versions of Jane Austen!

 

Now I read most subgenres of romance, from category to historical to romantic comedy. Such a banquet!

 

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Overwhelm

by Layla Messner

Release Date: November 13th 2015

 

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The living crystals that feed elemental power to Atlantis are exhausted. They give and give, but the Altantians just want more energy to fuel their magical city. Sixteen years ago, the crystals came up with a plan to make it all stop, a plan that revolves around three teens:

 

KALIOPE is a soulsinger, an empath with the power to sing the souls of the dead to their next lives. She just wants to grow up, but her mother won't let her.

 

DANICA is Kaliope's whipping girl. She gets punished whenever Kali disobeys.

 

CHIARAN is a firestarter, so reckless even his family considers him a monster.

 

When Chiaran arrives in Atlantis, he's the first fire person to set foot on the island in a hundred years. Kaliope naturally considers him an enemy and uses the last of her depleted power against him. But the battle reveals that the two have more in common than anyone could have guessed.

 

Anyone, that is, except the crystals.

 

Three teenage antiheroes, a bisexual love triangle, and an island about to sink.

 

Overwhelm is a darkly sensual fairy tale about growing up against all odds.

 

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Láyla Messner is a young-adult author and the founder of Chrysalis Sanctuary for healing childhood sexual abuse. She has an M.A. in embodied writing from Goddard College and her novels provide New Sexual Mythology for teens.

 

She believes that love is real. She does not believe in unsolicited advice or the word "impossible."

 

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The Protector Project

by Jenna Lincoln

Release Date: 6/15/15

Boroughs Publishing Group

 

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Teen soldier Mara de la Luz is about to find out what makes her so special that some would kidnap and kill her—and others, willingly die for her.

 

ENDLESS CARNAGE. ENDLESS QUESTIONS.

 

Mara is a 16-year-old soldier who’s spent years fighting a war that’s lasted generations. Wide-eyed children, some just turned thirteen, rarely survive their first fights despite her best efforts to train and lead them. What she thinks she wants is to uncover the root causes of the war between the Protectors and the masked Gaishan, maybe find a way to end it. But what she really wants is a future—for herself and the others—beyond the battlefield.

 

Then she’s injured in combat, and when an enemy fighter not only heals her wounds but reveals his face, she sees the promise of all she desires. This cunning teen Gaishan has answers to her questions, but first she must commit treason and travel beyond the boundaries of her world. She must brave a place where everything rests on the point of a blade: her loyalties, her friends, her heart.

 

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The two leads, Mara and Dalin, meet for the first time.

 

Agony disrupted Mara’s ability to maintain her energy shield. Dizzy and nauseated, she pulled off her helmet and tried not to vomit. With one hand she soothed her horse, with her other hand she pressed hard on the gash. Hot blood trickled into her boot.

 

A Gaishan stepped out from the trees. Its hand came down next to hers, brushing Mara’s fingers and the wound.

 

“Don’t touch me!” she yelled.

 

The figure pulled off the Gaishan mask revealing a human face, young and male. His smile was grim, “Mara, you were out of position.”

 

Mara’s breath stopped. She stared into the Gaishan’s silver gray eyes, felt the tremor of magic cross from his fingers into the torn flesh of her leg. The air shimmered and shrank, enclosing them. He was light haired and tall, not much older than any of the Protectors. The pain eased and the burning tapered to a mild sting.

 

“Your questions have answers. But you’re asking the wrong people,” he said.

 

She threw a punch at his mask-less face, but the Gaishan blocked it, trapping her hand.

 

His smile relaxed into a grin and he leaned closer. “One of the answers is, this isn’t your fight.” He slapped her horse on the rear, propelling them back to the field.

 

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Jenna Lincoln loves to read, write, and talk about reading and writing. She spent many happy years as a language arts teacher doing just those things. After dabbling in Firefly and Supernatural fan fiction, Jenna got serious about building her own imaginary world, big enough to get lost in for a long, long time.

 

When she comes back to reality, Jenna enjoys her home in beautiful Colorado with her husband and two daughters.

 

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