Sixteen-year-old Wisteria has embraced
her deep bond with eighteen-year-old Bach, a member of a supernatural race
called the Family, despite the risks. Should his people discover his bond with
a human, Wisteria will be guaranteed a painful and bloody death—but somehow,
being together is more important.
Their bond is tested when empirics, an
elite group of Family investigators, are sent to the Isle of Smythe under the
orders of Bach’s father to find artifacts stolen by the humans. They’re to find
the artifacts at any cost. Among the empirics is Bach’s old friend, the
stunning Alba, who has learned about Bach and Wisteria’s secret relationship,
and surprisingly accepts this. With no one else in the Family to turn to, she
becomes Bach’s ally and confidant, but possibly more.
As the empirics start to take over the
town, Wisteria is torn between trusting Bach and the safety of the humans on
Smythe. She soon realizes that she and Bach are on opposite sides of the war
between the Family and Humans, and there is no middle ground. One of them must
choose a side.
Bisi Leyton was born in
East London in 1978. She grew up in London, Nigeria and the States, listening
to the stories life and love from aunts, cousins and big sisters.
She lives in London, but
has worked around Europe including France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and the
Czech Republic. She has a fondness for reading graphic novels, and cracked.com.
Sixteen year old Wisteria Kuti has two options—track the
infected around the Isle of Smythe or leave the only known safe haven and face
a world infested with flesh eating biters. But even with well-armed trackers,
things go wrong and Wisteria ends up alone facing certain death, until she is
rescued by the mysterious Bach. Uninfected, Bach is able to survive among the
hordes of living dead.
Eighteen year old Bach, from a race known as The Family, has
no interest in human affairs. He was sent here to complete his Great Walk and
return home as a man—as a Sen Son. The Family regard humans as Dirt People, but
Bach is drawn to this Terran girl, whom he has never seen before, but somehow
knows.
Hunted by flesh eaters, cannibals, and the mysterious blood
thirsty group called Red Phoenix, Wisteria and Bach make their way back to the
Isle of Smythe, a community built on secrets and lies.
As she walked back to the ridge of the roof, Bach’s heart went
with her. Someone had tried to hurt her. Tried to damage what belonged to him,
and who he belonged to.
He started to feel dizzy from the volumes of strangle weed
planted in the front of her house.
“Thank you so much for coming and for the guitar. It’s perfect.”
She gave it back to him.
“No, it is yours, Wisteria.” He refused to take it. “Do you
not like it?”
“No, I love it. It’s so beautiful.”
“Then keep it.” He kissed her neck. Knowing—hoping—his touch
would soothe her pain, but he hadn’t come here to comfort her.
“Bach.” She used her instrument as a shield as she moved
away from him. “It’s a bad idea. You won’t understand.”
“You are right. I do not get why you would refuse something
you apparently love,” he whispered while rubbing her forearms and taking in her
scent.
“If I accept your kindness, then I’ll have to face the
consequences. I don’t know if I can face those.”
“You cannot face accepting my kindness, or is it accepting
me that you cannot face?”
“Um…?”
“Tell me that you do not feel the same,” he whispered. “That
the moment you first saw me that I did not get inside your head. Tell me that
you do not think about me all of the time when we are not together?”
The dark-eyed girl did not answer.
Wishing he could will her to speak, he pressed her against
his chest. Briefly, he noticed a black spot at the base of her neck, where he
had kissed her, and then it was gone. “Okay, Wisteria. Then tell me that you
want me to leave, and that you do not care if you never ever see me again.” He
felt like someone else was speaking for him, once again. The questions became
pointless as he found himself still planting kisses along her neck and the
sides of her face.
“I can’t tell you that, Bach,” she replied softly, her voice
breaking. “Because it’s not true.” She wrapped her arms around him and held him
tightly.
Desperately wanting to kiss her luscious-looking lips, he
leaned into her.
Wisteria reached up to him, tugging his head down as she
stood on the very tips of her toes, seemingly just as eager to taste his lips.
“Wisteria, I cannot.” He broke away before it happened. “I
do not want this.”
* * * * *
Wrapping her arms around herself, she moved away from him.
Once again, humiliated and feeling foolish. “Goodnight, Bach!” She strode
angrily to the side of the roof in order to climb down.
He grabbed her and held her back
The guy came here just to tease her, yet again! Didn’t he
know he was hurting her? Didn’t he care? “I’m tired of all this nonsense. I’m
actually tired and need some sleep. I’m done with this. All of this!” She
should’ve left the roof when she saw him appear. “Let go, so I can go.”
“Wisteria, it is not that.” Exhaling heavily, he released
her. “My people could kill you if they knew I wanted you.”
This wasn’t at all what she’d expected him to say. “What?”
“I am in love with you. I do not know why, but I am. And it
is selfish, because I just want you for myself.” Sadness filled his eyes as he
spoke.
“Why would they do that to me?”
“Because you are human and because we see humans as Terran,
or dirt people.”
“And you believe that too? So why are you here, living among
us, if we’re so disgusting?”
“You are not disgusting. You are beautiful.” Rubbing his
temples, he seemed troubled and bewildered. “I came to Terra as a rite of
passage. To be considered a man, to take a journey and experience the wild.”
“The wild?”
“I chose Terra, or Earth, because I came here as a child.
Your people treated me so badly in the past. When I learned about the Nero
disease, I wanted to see your world.” He paused. “You were right when you said
there was something wrong with me.”
“Bach, it cannot be that bad.” Stepping up to him, she
stroked her fingers along his biceps.
The sweet motion made him smile at her, but he still looked
distressed.
“Like about Garfield, you let him live with you. And now
you’re here with me.”
“You are not like the rest.”
“Neither are you. You’re not so cold and cruel like Enric or
patronizing like Felip. They think they’re better than us. You just hate people
because you’re a jerk, Bach.”
“Ha.” Bach laughed. “A jerk?”
“You’re a big jerk.” As the final word rolled from her lips,
he kissed her.
She was stunned for a second. His lips tasted like a
strange, tantalizing spice.
He squeezed her against his larger frame and rested his
right hand on the small of her back.
She fidgeted, unsure about what to do with her hands. She
tried to kiss him back, but she struggled because she was so short.
Author Bio:
Bisi Leyton was born in East London in 1978. She grew up in London, Nigeria and the States, listening to the stories life and love from aunts, cousins and big sisters. She lives in London, but has worked around Europe including France, Germany, Ireland, Belgium and the Czech Republic. She has a fondness for reading graphic novels.
Author web links: (web, blog, twitter, facebook, goodreads, etc)
My Soul to Wake is now available for pre-order for 0.99 cents! Make sure to get it now before it goes up to its regular price of $2.99! You can find teasers and the trailer as well as the synopsis below!
Witchcraft.
Reincarnation.
True love.
These are the things of legend. Unexplained, some even say impossible, but nonetheless prevalent in stories and tales from all cultures and in every land from the beginning of time. What if there is something to it? What if there is an explanation behind the mysteries and bedtime stories? Something beyond words?
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTES 1692
She was taken from him in the cruelest way... condemned, sentenced and punished out of fear of the unknown. How is he supposed to live without her? How can he go on knowing that in this life, by the natural order of things, they will never be together? There's only one thing to do... only one option that will bring them together again.
SALEM , MASSACHUSETTES TODAY
Amelia is taken on a weekend excursion with her best girlfriends to let loose, relax and have a little fun. What harm is there in a little vacation? It's not like the legends, the haunted history of the place can scare them away. It's all harmless fun.
Or so she thought.
Something seems familiar about the town. The trees, the winds, the feel of everything. Her ever present nightmares have become more intense within the limits of the old historical setting. She's prepared to write off the whole trip as nothing more than a case of her mind running away with the sensationalized magic here. When she meets a handsome stranger who's eager to know her in a way no one else can, she begins to think there may be something more to this place, something more to him.
Will has been waiting, biding his time, and praying that she'll come back. He's broken the natural order of things to possibly find her again, weaving their way through the years until they can be together again. He knows he may never find her, but he can't risk not trying. This place calls to her, just as it did to him. It will bring her back home. It will bring her back to him.
What's 300 years when it comes to true love? He's prepared to wait an eternity if he has to, just to see her, hold her, kiss her again.. to make her remember what was stolen from them so long ago. To make her remember who she is, the power she possesses and the love they swore to each other.
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Title: Run Away Author: Laura Salter Genre: New Adult Mystery Thriller Release Date: May 19, 2015 Publisher: HarperCollins Imprint: WitnessImpulse
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Synopsis
"Ignorance is bliss...until there’s blood involved."
Drenched in blood and sitting in the sweltering interview room of a Thai police station, Kayla Finch knows that Sam, the love of her life, is dead. It doesn’t matter that there’s no body.All that blood can only mean one thing.
It isn’t the first time Kayla’s had blood on her hands. After finding her brother dead by his own hand, she tried to outrun her grief by escaping to Thailand. Heart-broken, the last thing she expected was to find love on the smoggy streets of Bangkok. But everyone Kayla loves seems to wind up dead.
Returning home to England, Kayla is left with a barely-functioning family, a string of gruesome nightmares and the niggling feeling that nothing is as it seems. And as she confronts her brother’s suicide, she starts to suspect that something is very wrong.
Three months. Two tragedies. One connection: there’s more to both cases than anyone is willing to admit. And Kayla’s determined to uncover the truth ...no matter what the cost.
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