by Angela Brown
Expected publication: March 20th 2013
Buy links: Amazon US , Kobo , B&N
NEO – Network of Extraordinaires and Otherworldlies:
Those who answer the call from NEO play their part in maintaining balance in our ever-changing times. With power-hungry malcontents, jealous gods, and even those with misguided good intentions, the fate of our world has oft been held in the hands of unsung heroes such as those that are members of NEO.
But before NEO, these heroes and heroines had lives, loves, issues and interests that didn’t involve saving mankind.
In Frailties of the Bond, it only takes one bite to change a life…
After a hiking trip gone wrong, sixteen-year-old Luca should have been dead. Since then, he’s drifted from one school day to the next, annoyed by the looks of suspicion. When a vampire attack claimed his mother and forced his first shift into animal form, Luca set out for Texas, vengeance bound, only to discover so much more when Aimee crossed his path.
Flesh-born of vampire parents sixteen years ago, Aimee shouldn’t exist. Magic, though, made dreams come true for an undead couple desperate for a child all their own. But this magic came with a price, a cost Aimee discovered after one forbidden bite.
NEO – Network of Extraordinaires and Otherworldlies:
Those who answer the call from NEO play their part in maintaining balance in our ever-changing times. With power-hungry malcontents, jealous gods, and even those with misguided good intentions, the fate of our world has oft been held in the hands of unsung heroes such as those that are members of NEO.
But before NEO, these heroes and heroines had lives, loves, issues and interests that didn’t involve saving mankind.
In Frailties of the Bond, it only takes one bite to change a life…
After a hiking trip gone wrong, sixteen-year-old Luca should have been dead. Since then, he’s drifted from one school day to the next, annoyed by the looks of suspicion. When a vampire attack claimed his mother and forced his first shift into animal form, Luca set out for Texas, vengeance bound, only to discover so much more when Aimee crossed his path.
Flesh-born of vampire parents sixteen years ago, Aimee shouldn’t exist. Magic, though, made dreams come true for an undead couple desperate for a child all their own. But this magic came with a price, a cost Aimee discovered after one forbidden bite.
EXCERPT:
“That’s not the way to really
drink, beautiful.” He pulled down his collar, tilted his neck and exposed his
jugular to me. The vein throbbed to the steady beat of his heart. Thump-thump.
Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
Bloodlust slapped me like a
cornered beast. Ignored for far too long.
I sprang at Trevor, my bared lips a
hair’s breadth from his neck, the pulse teasing and inviting. My lips trembled.
They grazed his smooth skin. The very idea of sucking his blood sent fire
coursing from my core, splintering throughout my body. My fangs drew forth.
I closed my eyes, resisting long
enough to stutter out a squeaky breath.
“Do it,” he rasped.
I sank in my fangs. Hot blood
splashed against the roof of my mouth and soaked my tongue. Like the B-shop
anty pouches, I sucked it down my throat like melted chocolate. I suctioned my
lips to keep every delicious drop within the circle surrounding my puncture
marks.
Quivers wracked my body. I dropped
my Bloody Joey and held to Trevor for dear life.
He gasped, then started moaning.
But not from pain. No. Something else was going on with Trevor.
My heartbeat quickened and I
felt…ALIVE. Complete bliss crested like a crescendo where his heart and mine
beat as one. This was the wonderful thing my parents kept from me my whole
life. For one heartbeat, I despised my parents for keeping me from experiencing
such a high. When I opened my eyes, the moment crashed.
About this Author:
Reading and writing have been lifelong passions. It was around the time she gave birth to her forever-love, nicknamed Chipmunk, that she really took writing seriously. After all, how could she teach her child to follow her dreams if she hadn't tried herself?
As a YA fantasy/sci-fi reader and author, she favors the magical, mysterious, the darker side of life...even harbors a secret fright for things that go bump in the night.
NEVERLOVE is a special project spawned from a blog-challenge-turned-blog-opera, the Abby and Basil affair. It is the first in the Shadow Jumpers series.
FRAILTIES OF THE BOND is the
first in a series of novellas and short stories introducing heroes and heroines
of the secret organization, NEO – Network of Extraordinaires and Otherwordlies.
Links:
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17406766-frailties-of-the-bond
Goodreads author page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6476148.Angela_Brown
Angela Brown in the Pursuit of Publishness blog: http://publishness.blogspot.com/
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Angela-Brown/e/B009JJEX60
Partners in ParanormYA (with Gwen Gardner): http://partnersinparanormya.blogspot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neostateofmind
PIP Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Partners-in-ParanormYA/462052430493091
Goodreads author page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6476148.Angela_Brown
Angela Brown in the Pursuit of Publishness blog: http://publishness.blogspot.com/
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Angela-Brown/e/B009JJEX60
Partners in ParanormYA (with Gwen Gardner): http://partnersinparanormya.blogspot.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neostateofmind
PIP Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Partners-in-ParanormYA/462052430493091
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Thanks so much for the mention here at your blog. I really appreciate it :-)
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