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Worlds Burn Through (The Chronicles of Nowhere)
Synopsis: "Chloe Burke has had re-occurring nightmares of a fire and a strange boy with intense eyes for as long she can remember . The horror of her nightmares is replaced with the death of her father. It's been two months, but the pain is still fresh. After her father’s death her mum has become over protective for reasons unknown to Chloe. Chloe rebels and that's how she finds herself on the date from hell. Wanting to go home she instead finds herself in a terrifying situation, and then when the boy from her dream appears her world becomes filled with darkness and fire and everything changes... “ – Renu, The Page Turner

“Worlds Burn Through is an exceptional novel that blends the ever-growing genre of ‘paranormal (or supernatural) young adult’ and ‘high fantasy’.” – Ian Caithness, Dead Ink

Overview:
Worlds Burn Through is the first instalment in the paranormal novella trilogy, The Chronicles of Nowhere, by kindle bestselling author Vicki Keire. Supernatural Guardians and their Wards clash against a threat cut from science fiction cloth across the pages of this intense book, leaving reviewers demanding more.

“The characters are fleshed out, real, the dialog spare but right on, the scene-setting effortless. The story telling is so good you forget there’s an author. I’ve read Urban Fantasy by well-known writers who could take a lesson from Vicki Keire. “ – Julia Rachel, Goodreads Reviewer

“Worlds Burn Through is full of suspense and amped up my adrenaline through good old fashioned anxiety. I truly did fear for the characters and often held my breath, waiting to see how they were going to get out of some pretty dismal situations. Keire's writing is both streamline and mesmerizing. I will for sure be looking out for other books by this wonderful author.” – Jennifer Bielman, Reading and Writing Urban Romance

Paranormal action and romance fans alike will fall for Worlds Burn Through.

For those in love with The Chronicles of Nowhere trilogy already, you’ll also love:

** Continuing the battle from Worlds Burn Through, search for Shadowed Ground, the second instalment in the series.
** For Vicki Keire’s bestselling Angel’s Edge paranormal romance series, search for Gifts of the Blood.
** The Angel’s Edge series continues with Darkness in the Blood.
** And for more excellent paranormal fiction from Curiosity Quills Press, search for The Stein & Candle Detective Agency by Michael Panush.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Spectral
Shannon Duffy
Synopsis: Convinced she’s a part of the witness protection program, sixteen-year-old Jewel Rose is shuffled around the globe with her family like a pack of traveling gypsies. After arriving at lucky home twenty-seven, she stumbles upon a mysterious boy with magical powers claiming to be her guardian . . . and warning of imminent danger. Despite the obvious sparks between them, Jewel discovers a relationship is forbidden, and the more she learns about dark, brooding Roman, she begins to question who she can even believe — the family who raised her, or the supposed sworn protector who claims they’ve been lying to her all along.

As she struggles to uncover who her family has really been running from, she is forced to hide her birthmark that reveals who she is. With new realities surfacing, unexplained powers appearing, and two tempting boys vying for her heart, Jewel battles to learn who she can trust in an ever growing sea of lies, hoping she’ll make it through her seventeenth birthday alive.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Knee Deep
Jolene Perry
Synopsis: Shawn is the guy Ronnie Bird promised her life to at the age of fourteen. He's her soul mate. He's more uptight every day, but it's not his fault. His family life is stressful, and she's adding to it. She just needs to be more understanding, and he'll start to be the boy she fell in love with. She won’t give up on someone she’s loved for so long.

Luke is her best friend, and the guy she hangs with to watch girlie movies in her large blanketopias. He's the guy she can confide in before she even goes to her girlfriends, and the guy who she's playing opposite in Romeo and Juliet. Now her chest flutters every time he gets too close. This is new. Is Ronnie falling for him? Or is Juliet? The lines are getting blurry, but leaving one guy for another is not something that a girl like Ronnie does.

Shawn’s outbursts are starting to give her bruises, and Luke’s heart breaks as Ronnie remains torn. While her thoughts and feelings swirl around the lines between friendship and forever, she’s about to lose them both.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
A Graveyard Romance
Jason Krumbine
Synopsis: "There's nothing like a romantic picnic in a cemetery...

...after dark...

...on a Friday the 13th...

What could *possibly* go wrong?

It's Mike and Danielle's first date. Will true love blossom as they make the transition from Just Friends to Boyfriend & Girlfriend? Or will zombie uprising squelch their romance and force the young lovers to join the throngs of the undead?

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A GRAVEYARD ROMANCE IS A 21,000 word novella.

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If you enjoyed this book, consider signing up for my email distribution list to learn when new books are released! Just visit my website: www.jasonkrumbine.com and fill out the form on the front page."
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Blood of the Revenant
Synopsis: Something strange is happening in Returning City, something dangerous.

Gabriel has never questioned things before. He knows that because he is a revenant like everyone else, he has to fight the not-family and hurt them to keep his own family safe. He has never questioned that the sky is always dark or that hungry things watch him from the forest.

But in Returning City, everyone has secrets.

Gabriel grew up believing that he was the same as everyone else. But now, things are changing. He begins to see strange, monstrous creatures instead of the people he has always known. Struggling to protect his family, Gabriel must turn to a mysterious stranger, but is she only helping him for her own dark purposes?

In order to survive, Gabriel has to become more than he has ever been, and he
will have to go against all he has ever known. Soon Gabriel will realize that something dangerous waits for him—his past—and that past holds a secret deadlier than anything he could ever imagine.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Calixte: A Novel
Rosella Eleanor LaFevre
Synopsis: Will their love survive her insecurities?

A senior in high school, Calixte has spent a lifetime feeling lonely. One Friday night, she throws a party with the help of her uber-popular classmate Glory and Glory's sexy brother Howard. When Howard flirts with her, Calixte promises herself that she's not going to fall for this hottie. They'll hook up and that'll be it. But then he asks her to be his girlfriend. Things go well for the two at first but then it seems like her fears are getting the best of her.

This young adult novel is a deliciously exciting romance that'll make your heart race.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Raisin Rodriguez and the Big-Time Smooch
Synopsis: Sequel to The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez - wittier, sillier and even more lovable than the first book!
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
Emerald Witch
Leona O'Neill
Synopsis: If Amelia Morgan’s life were a colour it would be positively beige. Her love life is as real as the cheap plastic heart her boyfriend gave her for Valentine’s Day, nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac.
Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend drops off the face of the earth, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people.
It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction ­­– the Morrigan.
As she comes of age the magical ties that bind the powers within her unravel, along with deep, dark family secrets. As her world implodes a war erupts within her between good and very, very bad. She leaves the beige-coloured existence behind to fight a battle of epic proportions - encountering headless horsemen, dark angels, power-crazed goddesses and her deadbeat Dad who requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave.
She discovers magical worlds - under the streets of Dublin, under the Emerald Lake, beneath the Emerald Forest and races of ancient Irish people who she must lead out of the darkness the Morrigan spreads across the land.
No one said being a teenager was easy.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Romance
First Light (Project Five Fifteen)
Synopsis: What do you do when you’ve always dreamed of a hero; your knight in shining armour, only to find when he arrives he isn’t a hero at all?

... He’s a killer.

Ronnie Rose is trying to cope with the loss of her father; now it looks like she might lose everything else that’s dear to her too. Huge debts threaten to destroy her family, her childhood home and her future. Only one person cuts through her pain.

Kalen Smith has just moved to town. He’s trouble and everyone knows it. He and his mysterious friends keep to themselves and the town likes it that way.

But when Kalen mourns at her dad’s funeral, Ronnie wants to know why and her investigation plunges her into a dangerous world of murky government secrets, with deadly consequences. Ronnie knows she should walk away from Kalen before it’s too late. Problem is, she’s falling for him…

Can we choose who we fall in love with?
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Flutter Of Luv
LM Preston
Synopsis: Dawn, the neighborhood tomboy, is happy to be her best friend’s shadow. Acceptance comes from playing football after school with the guys on the block while hiding safely behind her glasses, braces, and boyish ways. But Tony moves in, becomes the star Running Back on her school’s football team, and changes her world and her view of herself forever.

This is a short story told in ten episodes similar to an anthology of short stories over the course of Dawn’s and Tony’s realization of how much they mean to one another.

Also there is a short story at the end called Hush A Bye My Baby Brother for the reader to enjoy along with samples of LM Preston’s other book

Look for THUNDERING LUV book 2 in the SUMMER LUV series.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Forbidden Fruit (Forbidden Trilogy)
Heather Lawton, Autumn Wiley, Jamie Reed, Anna Lee
Synopsis: When her parents die in an unsolved case of arson, Lily Grace is sent to live with her exceedingly wealthy and eccentric grandmother. Small town Lily must learn to survive as a high school senior at an exclusive prep school in the heart of Charleston, South Carolina. But fitting in at her new school and getting used to the affluent lifestyle may be the least of her worries. She is suddenly plagued by nightmares and haunted by monsters, all while falling desperately in love with the mysterious new boy, who has quite a few secrets of his own. Lily’s eyes open to a world she never knew existed as she begins the journey to discover who she is and what role she plays in the ultimate war between good and evil.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Grace Awakening
Shawn L. Bird
Synopsis: Grace Awakening Book One: Awakening Dreams is an urban fantasy YA novel set in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Within the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, Greek gods are walking among the population and a battle is unfolding to the destroy love, beauty and radiance that makes all art and music possible. Grace only knows that she is incapacitated by the music of Ben, who seems sure that he's been in love with her forever. She also knows that she has become the target of mysterious attacks in school and around the city. As she awakens to the connection her dreams have to another world, Grace realizes she has a bigger destiny than she could have imagined. In Grace Awakening modern first love is entangled with ancient myth. It's Twilight meets Percy Jackson.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Grace Awakening Power
Shawn L. Bird
Synopsis: Fourteen year old Grace doesn’t know it yet, but she’s been around for three thousand years waiting to fulfill her destiny to become one of the Three Graces of Greek Mythology. Forces are battling for her love, her body and her destiny. Now all she needs to do is survive the war.

In Awakening Power, Grace has been sent to the Shuswap and must learn to live without her love’s physical presence in her life. As the attacks increase, Grace faces a battle to accept her destiny and to save the man she loves, their life together, and the joy, beauty and radiance that fuel all artistic endeavours in the world.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Halfway
Stephanie Void
Synopsis: The world of Halfway is the anti-Harry-Potter: the wizard school is part of a shadowy organization that takes the students by force from their families. And the outside world isn't much better: if you are a wizard, you are looked upon with fear because of what you represent.

In the midst of this, in secret, twins are born: a boy and a girl. They are Halfway, the rare offspring of humans and a now-extinct race of faeries.

But the twins don't remain a secret for long. Temet, the boy, is taken as a child by the wizards. Cemagna, the girl, vows to rescue him. But the only way to escape the wizards is to keep running...

This book is Book 1 of the Wizards and Faeries series.
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Immortals And Melodies (Blood And Guitars #2)
Synopsis: HE'S STILL MORTAL, AND WITH EVERY HUMAN HEARTBEAT HE'S ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE FULL MOON, IF HE LIVES THAT LONG.IMMORTALS AND MELODIES IS THE 2ND BOOK IN THE BLOOD AND GUITARS SERIES
Catalyst frontman Trey is no stranger to chaos, but even the life of a rock star couldn't prepare him for the consequences of loving a vampire. Trey's life is in danger; threatened by the very group he must join to stay alive. His struggle to continue his career and release a new album with the band is marred by events that force him to ask a powerful Synod Elder for help.



Aurora has to keep Trey alive until she can make him a vampire, but her own kind will stop at nothing to prevent it. The head of the Emissary is having her followed, and if she can't figure out who is behind the violent attacks, Trey might not make it to the full moon. As Aurora battles her own kind, she's also plagued by the risk she's taking by changing Trey. Will her moon-given power be enough to carry Trey through the change, or will he be left floating in the wake of destruction?
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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance
Of Darkness and Light (Shadow of the Nephilim)
Synopsis: When Elora starts being followed everywhere she goes, she assumes it's paranoia, afterall, if you can't see it, it can't be real...can it? Things grow increasingly weird in Elora's world; the sound of wings, footsteps and physical attacks with no one in sight. Could she be losing her mind?
When an attractive stranger saves her from her assailant, she can't help but think he might be in on it.
Who can she trust when she doesn't even feel able to trust herself.

3/5 Stars from A&A Book Reviews; http://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B006MVFUII/ref=cm_cr_dp_syn_footer?showViewpoints=1&k=Of%20Darkness%20and%20Light%20%28Shadow%20of%20the%20Nephilim%29

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Age Level: Mature Young Adult
Genre: Romance

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