Forced Autonomy / Last Teaser

The last Forced Autonomy Teaser.

Release Date: January 3

Still wrapped in my cocoon of reminiscence, I heard footsteps coming down the hall just as I’d finished the last words to the song. The other tenants were so quiet, I could hear a pin drop. I flipped the comb in my hand, wielding the sharpened end instead of the hygienic end and darted behind my shell of a refrigerator. The footsteps continued, the sounds indicating the carrier of feet grew closer and closer. A rattle on the door sent my heart into frantic palpitations followed by a complete seizure of beats. This was no toy soldier, they came in packs and never that late. The steps outside that night were heavier, somehow they felt more determined though to most they would be nearly noiseless.

I sidestepped back into place behind the fridge as the owner of the footsteps entered.

A male voice, scratchy and raspy, claimed he was with the government. I may have been sheltered as a child but I’d never acquired a taste for bullshit. And he reeked of it. Then he confessed, though I could tell by the pieced together, almost quilted clothes he wore, that he was no government agent. 

Burden Cover Reveal

In the depths of the Louisiana swamps, clans of bear shifters roam freely. Hawke Turnclaw, the Alpha over all of his kind, is drowning in the legacy left to him by the Alpha before him, his own father. When he goes on a rescue mission to save a rogue Black bear from the clutches of a Grizzly clan, he finds more than just a Black bear, he finds his mate.

Echo has always been told she's an anomaly, a fluke. She's the only bear of her kind and that makes her a hindrance to her clan. She's tried to run away, but they keep her tethered through guilt and a shock collar around her neck. 

And then someone shows up claiming he's her mate.

Now belonging to a new clan, will she ever be able to understand that she's so much more than just a burden?

Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19452384-burden?from_search=true

Estimated Release Date: Jan 20, 2014

Throwback Thursday {LOVE AND SKATE}

On the rink she’s tough, she’s a leader, she’s fast and she’s the epitome of a rebellious girl. But Nellie’s been hurt, only once, but it was enough to make her look at life through different eyes and off the rink she’s a timid girl who loves with no pretenses.

A long time ago Owen Black was betrayed by the girl he thought he loved and the guy he called his best friend. The anguish set off a domino effect of negativity in his life and he never has fully recovered. He meets Nellie Forrester and thinks he can let it go for her.

But how can you love someone when the wounds from your past are still wide open?

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A sweet romance, just enough drama to keep things interesting, and a whole lotta swoon? What’s not to love!? Mike at Fabulous and Fun

Sparrows For Free Teaser

A Teaser from Sparrows For Free,

 a contemporary romance coming soon.

It was the weekend I met Mara—I knew when I laid eyes on her that my life would never be the same. Of course, my naïve, cocky, self thought that meant I was gonna get laid for the first time. I think most people, if they had one wish, would go back and tell themselves to do something different. They’d make sure they didn’t do anything stupid or future altering. I just wanted to go back to that post-game party and drag Mara away from the teenager me—tell her that if she valued her life, if she valued life at all—she’d run and never look back. I would shake her if I had to, take her by the hand and pull her into another room, a car, a cab—anything. I’d scream in her face, ‘He’s gonna ruin you. He’s gonna make your life hell. He’s gonna screw up any hopes and dreams you’ve ever had. Run, Mara, run.’

Teaser Tuesday

Here is a little tease from BURDEN. 

BURDEN will be releasing Jan 20, 2014.

Cover and blurb coming soon.

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“Echo, we’re home. We just went through the gate.”

I dragged in a breath through my nose and instantly smelled the difference between where I’d been and where I was. Instead of snow and ice, I smelled sunshine and rich earth. I could feel the humidity in the air, the difference in atmosphere. Not to mention, there was no longer the rank muskiness always around me.

“I knew I didn’t stink.”

The cab broke out in laughter, “Who told you that you stink?”

“Horace, all the time. I swear, I spent more hours in the shower than in bed. But the grizzlies were the ones with the funk.”

That brought out a whole new round a masculine chuckles. 

“You definitely don’t stink. And please, stop talking about being in the shower in front of others,” Hawke whispered in my ear, but from the snickers behind me, I knew they’d all heard.

Throwback Thursday {HOAX}

She's spent a long time in a bubble. In an odd turn of events, Corinne is taken out of boarding school and plunged into high school where bullies reign and nice guys come in last.

But this is after she's already fallen in love with Abel over the summer.

Abel is trapped, with friends he secretly hates, but has chosen to stay with the status quo. It's just high school, right?

What do you do when the person you love sees the very worst part of you? And how do you help them when they discover their life is a hoax?

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Teaser Tuesday

Dethroning Crown Cover Reveal...

Number ten is plastered on his team jersey and on his ego. In his own mind, Crown Sterling is the shit. He dates the prettiest women, he dominates on the soccer field, he pours money out of his pockets like it’s water. Until a debilitating knee injury puts him out of commission on and off the field. He’s sent to an isolated town in Louisiana to recoup, undergo physical therapy and heal. But it’s when you’re down that you find out who your real friends are, and what they value in you, if anything at all.

All Lyra wants out of life is peace and quiet. She grew up with a regular, everyday family. When she turned sixteen, rummaging through her grandmother’s hope chest in the attic, she discovered a secret that would turn her simple, normal life into a ball of chaos that revolved around her. But while she seems to face her fears head on in her career, she lives a life that’s secure and well hidden.

A new neighbor moved in next door and he’s decided that everyone needs to listen to his rap music, shattering Lyra’s quiet existence. Enraged, she stomps to the next townhouse over and who should open the door but a man whose good looks and charming smile knock her breathless.

How good looking? Just ask him.

How charming? He’ll tell you that too.

The king must be dethroned.

And a small town girl who’s been through hell is just the one to do it.

Release Date: unknown at this time

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Teaser Tuesday: Forced Autonomy Trailer

The Forced Autonomy Teaser Trailer

FALSE START is LIVE!

Rex has firsthand knowledge of how love can rip a person to shreds. How it can swallow a person whole, leaving them gasping for air, and dying a lonely person. He watched his mother give everything she had to his father and then she died, too weak and frail to continue on. His father, the deranged man who could barely feed himself—taking care of him left a permanent crease on Rex's heart. He swears he can still hear his pleas for help in his sleep. Nothing can give him solace from the painful memories. 

Except this girl. 

Hayes is a constant and consistent optimist. She's witnessed her mother and father’s almost perfect marriage and taken it as an example of what she wants. But she can’t seem to find a guy who is sincere. She’s dated them all— snake-in-the-grass jerks, straight-up commitment-phobes, fakes and phonies alike. They all fit her perfect dream on the outside, but when the relationship gets to the nitty gritty, they all crumble like stale bread. 
Unable to find a better man, she settles for nothing instead, wondering if a man who treats her right could even exist. With perfect parents and a team name like I Kilda Girl, that man would have a lot to live up to. 

Until this boy. 

When she sees a rugged, tattooed guy who shows up at all the derby bouts, she wonders if chasing the bad boy might just be right. 

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Throwback Thursday {PERCHANCE}

Remi Harris has a plan. Graduate high school, go to college, become a history teacher, be self-sufficient unlike her mother who is a struggling single mom. And the word ‘boy’ has no place in her plan.

Cooper Neal has been sent to his estranged father’s house to spend his Senior year getting to know him. And maybe, just maybe, there will be some cute girls in the small town.

Cooper sees Remi and he falls hard. Remi sees Cooper and wonders if she can do both. The question is; will he ruin her plans, or will she let him be a part of them?

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Forced Autonomy / New Novella Series

I've decided to do a novella series!!!

Here is the cover and the Goodreads link and below a special teaser!!!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18780670-false-autonomy

Still wrapped in my cocoon of reminiscence, I heard footsteps coming down the hall just as I’d finished the last words to the song. The other tenants were so quiet, I could hear a pin drop. I flipped the comb in my hand, wielding the sharpened end, instead of the hygienic end and darted behind my shell of a refrigerator. The footsteps continued, the sounds indicating the carrier of feet grew closer and closer. A rattle on the door sent my heart into frantic palpitations followed by a complete seizure of beats. This was no toy soldier. They came in packs and never that late. The steps outside that night were heavier. Somehow they felt more determined though to most they would be nearly noiseless.

I sidestepped back into place behind the fridge as the owner of the footsteps entered.

A male voice, scratchy and raspy claimed he was with the government. I may have been sheltered as a child but I’d never acquired a taste for bullshit. And he reeked of it. Then he confessed, though I could tell by the pieced together, almost quilted clothes he wore, that he was no government agent. His hair was the color of beach sand and pulled back in a ponytail, fastened with what looked like suede twine, the kind people used to make those salvation bracelets at summer Christian camp. He squinted as he explained that his job was to search for people like me. His light brown irises looked directly into mine, signaling a teller of the truth. He resembled a lost boy, maybe stranded on an island.

He said he was there to take me away.

Anything has to be better than this.

Throwback Thursday {EMERGE}

 Jenna has spent too long being complacent and accepting. Her mother and step-father constantly belittle and berate her for simply being alive. She passes through life keeping everyone and everything at arm’s length because it’s just not worth the questions or the pity party. She takes what they dish out and just tries to survive.

She has thought up a million different ways to get away from them, but lacked the motivation and the sheer will. Like a fast moving tornado, her motivation comes in the form of a boy who cares for her as none other has and who shows her a glimpse of hope, a glimpse into a life she never thought she could have.

But is her new motivation enough to get her out…

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Teaser Tuesday

He looked up at me, “Tell me what to be happy about right now.”

“Are you serious? You’ve got a hot chick in your bed. And…she’s a roller derby diva. Come on.”

And then he laughed.

“You did great tonight.”

“I did not. But I loved it. Although…now I’m starving and my legs feel like they’ve been put through a clothes wringer. I missed the team after party and pizza to go see some guy.”

“Lucky guy. He didn’t even feed you?”

“Not yet. I was planning on making him grovel with gifts of food.”

He walked his fingers across the bed and with the pad of his thumb he traced the outline of my lips. A shiver broke through me, revealing raised goosebumps along my arms.

“Nevermind, he’s forgiven,”

False Start Teaser

This False Start Teaser is in Falcon's POV. 

     “I hate needles,” she whispered to me in the elevator, turning off her phone, putting it in her pocket and grabbing my arm. I put my arm around her shoulders and she swatted me away, ever trying to be strong.              

     We headed through hallways, following arrows on the walls until we reached the Cancer Center. She was greeted by a woman her age who, after making us scrub down like surgeons, escorted us to a room with wall to wall reclining chairs. Some held people were hooked up to tubes, reading magazines, listening to music, watching The Pelican Brief play on the flat screens hanging from the ceiling. I couldn’t help the thought pulsing through my head, ‘no one deserves this’. 

Another Surprise WIP Teaser...

“Chloe is certainly willing,” River snickered beside me.

I rolled my eyes at his jeering, “She practically humps me if no one’s around. It’s ridiculous. Maybe I can command her to get over herself. She knows how it goes. We are not mates and I’m not interested in anything with a female who isn’t my mate.”

FALSE START Cover Revealed!!

Rex has firsthand knowledge of how love can rip a person to shreds. How it can swallow a person whole, leaving them gasping for air, and dying a lonely person. He watched his mother give everything she had to his father and then she died, too weak and frail to continue on. His father, the deranged man who could barely feed himself—taking care of him left a permanent crease on Rex's heart. He swears he can still hear his pleas for help in his sleep. Nothing can give him solace from the painful memories.

Except this girl.

Hayes is a constant and consistent optimist. She's witnessed her mother and father’s almost perfect marriage and taken it as an example of what she wants. But she can’t seem to find a guy who is sincere. She’s dated them all— snake-in-the-grass jerks, straight-up commitment-phobes, fakes and phonies alike. They all fit her perfect dream on the outside, but when the relationship gets to the nitty gritty, they all crumble like stale bread. 

Unable to find a better man, she settles for nothing instead, wondering if a man who treats her right could even exist. With perfect parents and a team name like I Kilda Girl, that man would have a lot to live up to.

Until this boy.

When she sees a rugged, tattooed guy who shows up at all the derby bouts, she wonders if chasing the bad boy might just be right.

Expected Release Date: November 22nd

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False Start Teaser

Here's your Saturday False Start Teaser!!

And remember the cover reveal is tomorrow!!

“Oh no, I’m late for practice. Nellie will have my ass.”

She ran up the stairs and came back minutes later, frantic.

“Hey, blame it on me. I’ll even go down there with you.”

She popped her fist onto her hip, “Do I look like I need you to handle my derby shit for me?”

“No ma’am.” 

Holy shit, that was sexy.

Secret WIP Teaser #2

*Gasp* What could it be?

I'm having the best time writing this book. 

And now, the teaser:

     "I tried to escape once.

     That’s when they started making me wear the taser collar around my neck, the same collars the dogs wore. As if my life wasn’t humiliating enough. When I reached a certain point on the perimeter, marked by little orange flags tied to branches, or if I went beyond the boundary, I was shocked. At first I rebelled against it, ran out of the boundary as many times as my neck could stand it. I had some burn marks to prove it. I’d stopped doing that years ago, finally succumbing to my station in the world and on this land."

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FALSE START Teaser!

“His name is Rex! Call him now.”

“No. I will call him when I get home.”

“Oh great, another infamous Hayes first date. You should have a reality show or something.”

“Hush, Hazel.””

“No, I’m serious. I’d sit in my recliner and watch that show all night.”

I jumped down from the counter and began to walk towards the dining room, “You’d have to take that huge stick out of your ass first and then ask your ego to move over.”

Surprise WIP Teaser

This is the first teaser for my surprise WIP. I won't reveal the cover, synopis, release date or even title. Hint: It's a new genre for me. 

After the last teaser is posted, I will publish it on all platforms. 

What do you think?

"Finally on the road, I took the time to replay the moment I first saw her laying in the grass, her jet black hair seemed like it went on for miles and miles. She pounced like a feral cat when she heard us, and that’s when I knew that my mate was probably the bravest, fiercest female I’d ever had the pleasure of seeing.

And then her eyes, the color of a turquoise stone, connected with mine and my world shattered.

Nothing else mattered.

Everything in my body seized, including my heart, and with an exhale of bated breath, it began again, beating with hers, in time with the female I was created to love."

False Start Saturdays!

A little teaser from False Start (Love and Skate #5), Release Date November 22

Enjoy!

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FALSE START Teaser!

Love and Skate #5

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SEEKING HAVOK is LIVE!!!

Her life is just as messed up as her name.

All she wanted was a friend---one that knew her and not her circumstances. She needed somewhere to call home. Hers was an open door for countless men looking for the services her mother offered them. She camouflaged herself against lockers and blackboards to avoid the stares and whispers at school. 

And then she found Cal...and Fade.

Cal lives like Frankenstein, rising at night to work and just trying to make it until dawn. He avoids most relationships, afraid of the things he will be asked to do. He moonlights as Fade, a radio station DJ who spends hours counseling his peers on their troubles. It was all mundane until Jocelyn called the station.

Cal and Havok pursue a friendship. 

Jocelyn and Fade pursue a relationship beyond the confines of the radio waves. 

But when Havok disappears, Cal will find that Havok has been guarding a lifetime worth of secrets. And when Fade and Jocelyn’s all night phone conversations cease, he finds a link between them he never saw coming.

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Love and Skate is free through September 1!

Love and Skate is free on Amazon through September 1!! 

Get it while you can!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Love-and-Skate-ebook/dp/B00A2DP1I6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1377784338&sr=1-1&keywords=love+and+skate

Striking Saturday Teaser!

This week's teaser is from Cami.

Next week's teaser will be from Stockton and Cami.

Rachel and I are just bubbling with excitement to share this story with everyone!

Less than a month to go!

 



Tuesday Teaser:Seeking Havok

This teaser is from the POV of Fade.

"I passed the local Laundromat and inside saw the newspaper girl from outside the bakery inside folding clothes while talking to a girl who could almost, from a distance, be her twin.  I moved to where the window of the Laundromat met the brick of the next building and used it to shield myself while I gawked. 

          It’s strange how you’ve never seen something in your life, but then once you become aware of it, you see it everywhere.  Such was the case with this girl—now that I’d seen her once, I saw her everywhere. 

          She wasn’t like anything I’d ever seen.  She was just pure beauty—simple and uncomplicated. When she laughed the sides of her nostrils flared a little bit and she held on to her friend’s arm.  Her friend proceeded to do a little off kilter jig and it threw her into a fit of doubled over laughter.  I wished the window wasn’t barring me from the sound of her laughter.  I knew, without having experienced it, that it was exquisite. 

          Ugh—keep walking stalker man.

          I shook myself out of a daze and kept walking until I got about ten feet from my front door.

          Damn  it, I had to think about her, right?

          Beth sat on the stoop eating what looked like beef jerky. I shuddered and barely contained the gulch from rising in my throat.  I hated beef jerky and the thought of her beef jerky breath in my face—might as well make out with a butcher, a stalker butcher."

Fade, Seeking Havok

Release Date: TBD

Caught In A Jam is LIVE!! Links

Caught In A Jam is LIVE!

Here are the links!  Thanks so much to my amazing readers for all the love!

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Caught-Jam-Love-Skate-ebook/dp/B00E9BTBTC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375459944&sr=8-1&keywords=caught+in+a+jam+lila+felix

Barnes and Noble

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/caught-in-a-jam-lila-felix/1116264854?ean=2940148798606

Kobo:

http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/caught-in-a-jam

And also, Love and Skate is free on Kobo!

Thanks again!

Seeking Havok teaser!

First things first: Seeking Havok is getting a brand spanking new cover.  I mean, there's no spanking on it--I hope.  

And here's the teaser.  I don't know when Seeking Havok will be released.  But I'm working on it!

“Hey,” I said. 

          “Hey, you.” Fade answered.

          “You’re cheating,” I teased him.

          “I am?” He asked.

          “Yes, you’re not supposed to meet me here until Sunday, you’re a little early.”

          He chuckled a bit.  I balled my hands into fists to keep them from reaching out to touch his chest, checking if the rumble felt as good as it sounded. 

          “I guess I was just returning to the scene of the crime, hoping I’d get to see you sooner.”

          That sounded like a lot more than friend talk.  And I loved it and loathed it at the same time.

          “Well, I gotta get back to work.  By the way, I’m here every night at this time, in case you can’t wait until Sunday.”  Holy hell, did I just flirt back?

          “I’ll have to be here then.  I need to get to work too.  See you later gorgeous.”

          He walked off while I stood, frozen in time, mouth wide open.  That was definitely not friend talk.

          I got back in the van and Mr. Randy had a smug grin on his face.

          “Don’t say a word old man,” I picked on him.

          “Nope,” he shook his head, “Not a damned word.”