New Release: Sleigh Ride (Holiday Ride Trilogy 2) by Trixie Pierce

Title- Sleigh Ride 

Author- Trixie Pierce 

Holiday Ride Trilogy book #2

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*Warning: Contains cute winter scenes, adorable critters, violence, blood, guns, plenty of cussing, sensual characters with a hard ass mentality,

explicit sex, and a warped sense of humor. Enjoy!*

Winter Beauman left behind glitz, glamour, and the Manhattan skyline for a calmer existence in Wyoming. Taking up welding, she built a life around the new talent in the tiny town, with no need to be anyone but herself.

Mason St. Croix spent five years alone reconciling the death of his wife, when he decided it was time to finally rejoin the living. Commissioning a custom sleigh to take presents to many of the children in town puts him face to face with the beautiful, and talented, Winter … making his long dormant libido roar to life.

But someone in town doesn’t want Mason and Winter to be more than acquaintances, and are willing to kill to keep it that way. 

Searching for answers reveals secrets best kept in the dark, ones that could tear them apart. Mason and Winter find they must accept the pain from the past, or lose the light of a happily ever after.

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Excerpt

Ignoring it, his clothes had dried, and he dressed quickly. Making the bed, he walked into the living room to find Winter bundling into several layers, a snow shovel leaning against the door. “I’m just in time,” he smiled.

“Come on, let’s get this over with,” she returned the smile from under a knit cap and the dark blue parka’s hood. It made her light blue eyes burn a deeper color, and accentuated the red lips against the paleness of her skin.

Taking a deep breath, and glad his coat didn’t let her see the way his dick liked her, he followed outside.

Snow flurries swirled around them like a river, but it was light and the wind was easy. Unused to shoveling snow after buying a snowblower, he was breathing hard a foot from the porch. Winter continued, whistling. She bent over, and he noticed she wore jeans, low riders that gave him a glimpse of the dark blue g-string.

His breathing escalated for another reason altogether. Images of removing the slip of underwear with his teeth, nibbling and licking the skin, making her moan, caused his heart to beat hard enough to force him backwards. The wall of snow kept him upright. He worked hard to get the image out of his head, closing both eyes and counting to one hundred.

“Are you okay? Do you need a break, Mason? Mason? Are you okay?” her voice grew stronger, more urgent.

He opened to find her only a foot away, a hand on his chest. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he croaked, “Yes, I, I …”

“Do you need to go inside?” She jerked off a glove and put a warm hand against his cheek. “You’re really hot, maybe we should go inside.”

The feel of her palm against his skin unlocked a dam. He shoved a hand into her hood, under the cap, grabbed a handful of the silky blonde hair, and pulled her head back. He stared into her eyes, gauging. “I’m going to kiss you, and kiss you hard, Winter. All you have to do is say yes.” His voice dropped several octaves, came out deep and harsh, much like his breathing.

“Yes,” she whispered, a puff of coffee laced breath gently pushing against his face.

It was all he needed. He took her mouth, pushing hard, forcing her to open to him. Taking advantage, he tasted her, the mocha laced coffee, and the underlying sweetness that was all Winter. Throwing the shovel to the side, he wrapped the other arm around her waist, jerking the soft body against his. Her moan vibrated against his mouth, and the imprisoned beast growled. Mine.

Using his tongue, he showed her exactly what he wanted, in and out of her mouth, tasting every inch between thrusts, giving her little room to breathe or decide to end it. He wanted her to know exactly what he wanted, how he wanted it, and that she was going to enjoy every minute. Her hips moved against him, and the beast he thought died with Beth roared to life.

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Mason signed the necessary paperwork, put in a report, and left. Outside the station, he hailed a cab, and watched the familiar buildings pass slowly in the early morning traffic. He’d seen the anger in Winter’s eyes, and knew what it looked like. Damn his stupid instincts. She could obviously protect herself if needed. She didn’t require a man to do it for her. She didn’t manipulate to get what she wanted, nor had she ever demanded he watch over her every move.

Closing his eyes, the night flashed on the inner screen. He had to get it together. He’d taken time off work, saying it was a family emergency, and it was already getting close to Thanksgiving. Not that he’d had big plans. His parents were dead, no siblings, and he wasn’t going to spend the holidays with Beth’s family.

The cab came to an abrupt stop, and he handed the cabby the fare plus a good tip. Getting out, he stepped onto the sidewalk and stretched. Muscles protested, but nothing had been broken in the fight. A lot of bruises formed, and he couldn’t see out of the one eye, but otherwise, he was okay.

Stepping inside the hotel, he took the elevator to his room, and once inside, stripped. A hot shower was in order, and some serious soul searching. Part of him screamed to find and watch over Winter. She was still in danger, and alone. Word was her parents were going back to the Hamptons. The danger in Wyoming wasn’t likely to stay there.

A towel wrapped around his waist, he hit the power button, and sat on the bed. The news was the same thing, nothing good. There was a blip about a possible fight involving Winter Beauman, but it hadn’t been verified. He flipped the channels until he found an old sitcom. Leaving it, he noticed the red light blinking on his cellphone. Tapping the screen, he listened to the voicemails, saving a couple, deleting the rest. The final voicemail was from Emily, asking him to call.

He tapped her number in and stopped. Staring at the screen, he wondered why he was calling. He’d been clear about the boundaries. It was time to cut the cord. Deleting the numbers, he tossed the phone on the bed, and grabbed a pair of sweats. Turning on the TV, he settled into the recliner.

A noise woke him, and he opened the one good eye. He could hear rustling at the door, and frowned. Walking on the balls of his feet, keeping his footfalls quiet, he moved to stand on the side of the door opposite the handle.

He ducked at the sound of the shotgun cocking on the other side of the door, as the roar of a shot blew the door in. He caught the door, slamming it against the person trying to get in. He heard the groan of pain as it connected with the intruder’s face, and he rolled into the small entrance. One foot kicked out, the heel connecting solidly with the groin of the male.

“Call 911!” Mason yelled, the intruder falling onto his legs. He punched hard, hitting the man’s temple. The feel of the delicate bone crunching under his knuckles almost made him sick.

The body went limp.

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Although she hates writing bio's in third person, Trixie does love fast cars, fast men, and an enduring fascination with internal combustion engines. Living in the Rockies, she's traveled enough to know the mountains are home. When not working, she can be found with her head under the hood, or buried in the pages of her next novel.

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Book Review: Unforgiven (Book 3) by Jessica Miller

Unforgiven

The Wanderer series part 3

By Jessica Miller

Reviewer Sandra Long

Ella and Josie, along with Billy and Cameron leave for Ireland to find Ella’s ex, Tristan, that she had thought was dead since the last battle of the super naturals. Why Cameron wanted to go is anybody’s guess since her only connection to this group is being the girlfriend of Ella’s brother Dean’s best friend. But she seems to be determined and wants to help so they go with her. Their search seems to get off to a great start when in route to their hotel Ella recognizes a garden Tristan has taken her to many times in their dream meetings. She insist that they stop and enter and soon learn the garden belongs to Tristan’s grandmother, an elderly witch with a terrible personality. His grandfather and young cousin, Josef, are much friendlier and want to help them. But after a month of

searching every known hangout and location without finding Tristan, things are not looking so good and Roman is no longer talking to Ella. Cameron appears to be falling for Dean, who followed them to Ireland and is helping with the search.

Josef offers to take them to one of Tristan’s hangouts from his really old days when he was a total bad boy but tells them they cannot get in without him, so they agree even though he is only 16. He shows up to get them with a motorcycle gang and they are forced to go with the gang or not at all. About the time they decide Tristan is not there and they need to leave, a band of Ella’s dads guardians show up to get her and Dean. She tries to throw up a force field to keep them from taking her and accidentally ends up knocking down half the building. As they rush for the back door, led by Josef, Ella trips over a drunk passed out in the back alley. He comes to, mouths off and a fight almost starts until Ella recognizes the nasty, smelly drunk as Tristan. They take him to their hotel, get him cleaned up and after some blood and some rest, they have the old Tristan back and he still loves Ella and she still loves him, but also still loves Roman.

Tristan’s grandmother, as well as an old gypsy friend of hers, tells Ella and Tristan that they share a special bond but no one ever explains what this means. The old gypsy does tell them it comes from Tristan’s sacrifice but they do not understand that either. Ella’s dad comes to Ireland to bring her and Dean home and there is a bitter confrontation where he tells her to come with him now or never come home at all. As much as it hurts her, Ella defies her dad and stays in Ireland.

Meantime, strange things are going on with Cameron but we are never made privy to what that is. We do know her attraction for Dean is growing, her phone calls with her boyfriend are getting shorter and less romantic and her determination to break up Ella and Tristan keeps growing. She eventually tricks Tristan into going with her to choose a gift for Ella so she can talk to him alone. He buys a beautiful anklet that Cameron eventually gives Ella as a gift from her, never mentioning that Tristan chose it and paid for it. She tells Tristan that he is no good for Ella and should leave her alone. She tells him that Ella has a life back at school that he is no part of and she has true love with Roman who takes very good care of her and if he really cares for her, he should leave her alone forever. He believes her and after a night of loving and love making, he sneaks away leaving Ella only a note that they are finished for good and please not look for him any more.

A broken hearted Ella heads for home to try to mend fences with her dad, get back in school and make up with Roman if she can, never knowing the part Cameron played in her losing Tristan again. Families are family after all, so she and Dean are forgiven and welcomed home. Cameron chooses to go home with them rather than back to school and her boyfriend. They get home just in time for Xander and Jasa’s engagement party and Ella’s birthday, the same day. Just when it appears her birthday is forgotten, the family has a small family celebration for her the next day. But the big excitement is party night. A drunken Xander tells Danni she will always be the only girl he will ever love and against her better judgement, she spends a night of love with him in the family pool house, while Cameron sneaks into Dean’s bedroom for a night of love. For her birthday Ella receives the family’s antique charm bracelet. Ella’s grandmother tells her the bracelet possess magical powers and will recognize and burn evil. When Cameron touches it, she gets a huge jolt of electricity. Later Ella looks for a sign of a burn. No burn is seen but witches heal quickly and we just continue to get vibes that something is not quite right about Cameron. But later when Jasa touches it, the burn is so bad and so big that her skin can actually be heard sizzling. It also heals quickly and nothing is ever said about it. Ella’s grandmother touches her and causes her to pass out and she is taken home and cannot remember what happen, leaving us wondering what is grandma Bea up to.

Ella, Dean and Cameron are to be re-admitted to the school and must be punished for running off. Their punishment is to return for the one remaining week of school and they must attend the summer school session to catch up on the classes they have missed and do manual labor during their free time, confined to campus unless chaperoned by staff. Ella continues to find new powers she possesses and each time she develops another blue streak in her hair, causing her to get a lot of strange looks. All the older witches and paranormals she trusts have told her that she possesses more different powers than anyone they have ever known and once she learns to control them, she will be impossible to deal with. That is why the missing rogue vampire Jack is after her to possess her powers, which he thinks will happen if he is the one to kill her.

Back at school little has changed and we meet new characters as we continue to watch the old ones relationships evolve. Josie and a group of other angel appear and we learn that her punishment/ assignment, as well as the ones who came with her, is to help souls similar to them who are born half paranormal and half human and need to find what their role in life should be. One of the people with her is Kyle, Ell’s first boyfriend who was killed in chapter one, book one. This causes some moments of tension with her current boyfriend, Roman. Another is a mysterious young man Lucas whose eyes can transport Ella to other places and this power he has fascinates and frightens her at the same time.

We wonder why Dean is dating the hated Mackenzie who continues to try to torment Ella. We wonder if Cameron and Austin’s relationship can survive the obvious tension between them since her return and only Dean, Ella and the reader know where Cameron’s true feelings lie. Things at school bounce from delight to disaster, with never a dull moment for the reader. Just as Roman and Ella seem to be getting their old relationship and love back where it was, Tristan has been appearing in her dreams but they have been scary, dark dreams of a Tristan she never knew and full of snakes, spiders and fear. She finally

decides to contact him in a dream using her powers and he denies any knowledge of the dreams she describes but she vanishes without giving him a chance to ask questions or explain, she just tells him to leave her alone forever.

Another school year begins with the welcome back to school Fall Ball, which is masquerade this year. Everyone seems to be having fun when two mysterious gorgeous men appear. We soon learn it is Tristan and Billy who had stayed in Ireland to try once more to find Jack. Ella learns for the first time that Tristan and Roman are brothers. In a panic she runs from the ballroom, straight to the maze and to Jack, who has been waiting for his chance. She is unarmed and alone and he is physically stronger than her so she knows she is going to lose the battle. But then the words of so many of her mentors pops into her head, her powers are so strong she does not need weapons or help, she just needs to focus. She is about to win the fight when the pair hear others coming through the maze and they will soon not be alone.

This author knows how to leave her readers hooked on unanswered questions. Will Jack or Ella win the fight ? Will Jack be killed finally ? If Ella survives, will she choose Roman or Tristan ? Will Cameron and Dean finally admit their love and be together ? Will Xander learn he is the father of Danni’s child and marry her, his true love, or Jasa, the unknown factor that has shown several times that she has secrets she does not want him to know ? So many unanswered questions, so many on-going story lines. When, oh when, can we get our hands on the next installment ? Keep writing Jessica—you are giving us a reason to keep on reading and we love these characters. Another hit for this great author.

I live in a fantasy world and have an over active imagination. But the best part about that is I never stop creating new characters and new stories to share. I love writing and expressing myself in a way that everyone else can enjoy as well. I work in the salon most days, but when i'm not doing hair, I'm writing or reading.

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Book Review: Reborn (Book 2) By Jessica Miller

Reborn

The Wanderer book 2

By Jessica Miller

Review by Sandra

This novel begins where book one left off-----a depressed Ella is back home wit h her family following the brutal murders of her best friend, Josie, and her boyfriend, Tristan, by the rogue vampire, Jack. She has learned that she will not be returning to that school, but will be transferring to her brother, Dean’s, school, where she will learn the history of her kind and how to identify and make the best use of her super powers. Ella had never been told that she was half vampire and half human so this all comes as a total shock to her and just adds to the mental anguish she has been dealing with from the deaths of her friends.

She learns that her family is the “royal” family in their vampire world and her dad is the leader. Her brother, Xander, was supposed to be his successor but he declined and since her brother Dean is considered too much of a party boy to be considered as a leader, Ella is expected to take over when her father steps down. For that reason she must attend the school because she knows absolutely nothing of their history or their roles. We also learn that Xander has agreed to hang around and help dad until Ella is ready. Xander has a new girlfriend named Jasa who has moved in with the family but in the background we sense turmoil between Jasa, Xander and the family maid, Danni. Danni was Xander’s high school sweetheart but they broke up when she obeyed his parents and told him that she was pregnant by another man. We learn that Danni had gone to Xander’s parents before telling him that she was pregnant with his baby. They sent her away, refusing to tell Xander the truth, but later worried about her and wanted their grandchild so they gave her a job as their maid and a home for her and the baby with them.

The little girl is now 5 years old and Xander still doesn’t know the truth. It is obvious to the

reader that these two still care about each other so there is a background storyline that keeps us hoping they get back together and he learns the truth.

Ella does not want to replace her dad and she rebels in the only way she can since she is

under such close supervision, she finds a tattoo parlor and gets as many tattoos as she can conceal beneath her clothing. Of course, her parents eventually see them and so tighten the security around her. We learn that this rogue vampire, Jack, has been after her powers for a long time. In fact, he was responsible for the wreck that resulted in the death of her high school sweetheart and he was the man with the shiny eyes standing in the road that caused them to swerve and then wreck. He was coming to get her when another man with shiny eyes came to her rescue and saved her life. We meet him later in the story as he is a student at the paranormal training school Ella attends.

The shock of learning she is half vampire and heir to the role of leader of the clan, combined with the deaths of her loved ones, all change Ella’s personality from happy-go-lucky , to reserved and bitter, so she has trouble getting along with a lot of people. She resents having to go to the new school and what makes it even worse is she is roomed with the most obnoxious, most conceited, cruelest witch in the entire school, a girl named Mackenzie.. And even worse is this girl’s boyfriend looks so much like her lost Tristan.

Ella finds this school has a lot in common with her last school with exceptions being everyone here is either a vampire, witch, warlock or werewolf, all teens training for their adult roles. She begins to make friends and to learn more about this new world she is a member of but never knew about growing up. Like any other school there are good kids and bad kids and they seem to find each other quickly and form their own little cliques. Ella finds her gay warlock friend Dixon, from her last school, is there, and she quickly makes new friends. Her major problem seems to be her roommate.

Everyone tells Ella that Roman, her roommate’s boyfriend, is the nicest boy in the school and they think she has cast a spell on him making him date her. Apparently she did that to the school’s handsome young headmaster when she first came to the school and she soon casts the same spell on Ella and the headmaster, trying to get Ella kicked out of school. After almost going all the way, Ella somehow breaks the spell and remains a virgin. She then ends up with Roman and Mackenzie starts spreading rumors that Ella did have an affair with the headmaster and has now cast a spell on Roman and that was how she managed to take him away from Mackenzie. Confrontations with Mackenzie continue throughout the book.

A lot of this story also focuses on Jack, the rogue vampire, and his plans to get Ella’s powers. The last book ended with a huge fight in which he killed Ella’s best friend, Josie, and her boyfriend, Kristan, but escaped without killing Ella or getting her powers. He is somewhere gathering and training an army .of rogue vampires ready to attack once they locate Ella,the relationship between Roman and Ella keeps getting closer. Eventually Mackenzie moves out of the room, leaving Ella a private room, and Roman sends more and more time there.

Eventually, as we would expect, he and Ella consummate their relationship. This leads to a fight between her brother Dean and Roman, but this too is eventually settled peacefully.

This book is lengthy and much of it deals with the various para-normal creatures/people

attending the school. The author makes them real to us, believable and most of them even

likeable. It ends with an all out attack on the school by Jack and his gang but thanks to Josie, who left Paradise where she was an angel, to warn Ella, the guardians are prepared for this attack so it is not as bad as it could have been. Josie, however, learns she is to be punished for violating the rule about interfering with events on earth and she is not allowed to go back, at least for now.

During the final battle, Jack ad Ella fight almost to the death, but he springs a surprise on her that causes her to be distracted long enough for him to escape. He told her that Tristan was not dead, but was living in Ireland and thought Ella was dead. According to Jack that was why Kristan had made no attempt to find or contact her. As proof, he produced Ella’s grandmother’s locket that Kristan had said he would always keep as a reminder of their great love.. Jack is missing and Kristan is hospitalized but with the help of Josie, Josie’s werewolf boyfriend Billy and their witch friend Candence, Ella leaves the hospital and the friends leave for Ireland to find Kristan. As in the last novel, the author leaves us hanging, dying to see what is going to happen next, but having to wait for the next book.

As a general rule, I am not a big fan of paranormal stories but this author brings them across in a way that makes us feel as they are the same as us and that we could easily be one of them. This is the best series of paranormal books I have read since the Twilight series and I would not be surprised to see this story on the big screen one day. Two thumbs up and stars.

I live in a fantasy world and have an over active imagination. But the best part about that is I never stop creating new characters and new stories to share. I love writing and expressing myself in a way that everyone else can enjoy as well. I work in the salon most days, but when i'm not doing hair, I'm writing or reading.

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Book Review: The Wanderers ( Book 1) By Jessica Miller

The Wanderer

Book 1

By Jessica Miller
Reviewed by Sandra Long

This novel starts off with a very strong first chapter. We immediately meet our leading character, Ella, as she is having one of her recurring nightmares about her high school graduation night She and he boyfriend, Kyle, had made plans to spend the weekend at his parents’ mountain cottage where she plans to give him her virginity. They have been planning this for some time so it is a very special night for them and they are very excited but also nervous and talk very little on the way up the mountain.

Suddenly a man appears out of nowhere and is in the middle of the road, Kyle swerves to miss him and the SUV flips over and goes skidding along the roadway. Shaken, but conscious, Ella gets out of the car and sees the man walking toward her but all she can see are his evil, demon-looking eyes shining in the dark. Too worried about Kyle to be really scared, she tries frantically to get him out of the car but can’t.

When she looks out again she sees a different man walking toward her. This man also has glowing eyes but somehow they look friendly and she thinks he will help her. He immediately slings her away from the SUV that almost instantly explodes into flames and she watches helplessly as Kyle burns to his death inside the SUV. She is alone—both men have vanished. Whenever she tries to tell anyone about them, they tell her that her rescuer was probably a local man who just didn’t want any recognition so left when he saw she was safe. She didn’t tell anyone about their glowing eyes, too afraid she will not be believed and people would call her crazy.

Ella spends the summer in therapy and staying at home with her family, her socialite mom, work-aholic dad and 2 older brothers. The family is very wealthy and seem to think throwing money at a problem will make it go away so Ella has the best therapist money can buy. Problem is Ella never tells the therapist or anyone else about the men with the glowing eyes or that they haunt her nightmares and sometimes even her waking hours. She can’t deny the nightmares because she wakes the entire family with her blood curdling screams.

Ella’s best friend, Josie, luckily is the daughter of her parents’ best friends, so they get a lot of time

together. Josie’s mother has a severe alcohol problem so Josie and her little brother Jake spend a lot of time at Ella’s house. This is true even when the two families go to their mountain cabins for some R & R as their cabins are not very far apart.

A weekend at the cabin sharing family time is the plan for the last weekend before Ella, Josie and Ella’s brother, Dean, all head to the East coast for college, all the way from California. A backyard cookout, then roasting marsh mellows over an open fire and telling campfire ghost stories before going to bed in their backyard tents is the teen agenda while the adults go inside after the meal for some “grown up time”. The kids are all having fun until a ghost story about a man with glowing eyes who kills and then keeps body parts of his victims starts to scare Jake. He falls asleep while being comforted and is put to bed in one of the tents hey had set up for the night, while the teens decide to go swimming in their underwear. When they finally freeze out of the water Jake is missing. After a scary and lengthy search they find him and he tells the he saw man with the glowing eyes in the woods and followed him to prove he was not scared. This really freaks out Ella because she thought she saw him several times following her but never told anyone, afraid she would be committed to a mental institution.

A weekend party at the cabin Ella was headed for when she and Kyle wrecked was something she

wanted to skip but felt she needed to face her demons. Kyle’s twin brother, Kevin, was hosting the

party, adding to the problem. Ella attended and survived the event and after talking with Kevin about what happened she learned that he blamed himself for Kyle’s death because he had forced him to switch weekends with him at the cabin. Kevin kissed her and brought flashbacks of Kyle, but also helped Ella find some closure. She and Josie left for college determined to start a fresh new part of her life.

Anyone who has ever gone away to college can relate to what happened to these two naïve girls their first week on campus. They were supposed to be in separate dorms on opposites of the campus but though some mix up Ella ended up with no roommate and Josie ended up with no room so after a phone call from daddy to the college, the girls ended up as roomies . They decide to explore and are deluged with the usual first week on campus rush—credit card offers, sorority offers, clubs to join, causes to volunteer for, parties to attend. They went back to their room a little overwhelmed but determined to fit in and have fun. First night they decided they would attend a party hosted by a fraternity who’s sister sorority had offered to let the girls pledge to them. Both girls drink too much and meet a lot of people, good and bad. The bad boy of the college seems to be a fraternity brother and also RA at the girls’ co-ed dorm. His name is Tristan and he is gorgeous but a heavy drinker and womanizer He immediately sets his sights on Ella, who does her best to lose him. She is there to study, or so she says. Josie is the swinger and she loves the party atmosphere and all the guys’ attention.

As classes begin and they meet other people. Ella becomes friends with a nerd named Jack who lives down the hall from her. They become study buddies and she goes out with him a few times, more out of pity than anything else. Tristan continues to pursue her and the louder she protests, the more determined he becomes. Apparently he has never been told no before. He is very open in his pursuit of her and one of his old flames confronts her on campus one day. They have a verbal confrontation that becomes physical. After they are separated, Tristan has a verbal confrontation with Skylar also.

That night Tristan and Ella go to the art room where he has promised to help her finish her painting. We have learned that he is a very talented painter and teacher and the art teacher agreed to leave the room open for them to have a private tutoring lesson. Painting is finished and the two get into a paint fight, then have a real mess to clean up. Before they can leave, Jack shows up and they leave the building together. Then they learn that Skylar has been murdered, mutilated and left tied to a tree nude with the words “bitch” and “slut” carved into her flesh. Tristan is immediately suspect number one but since he has an alibi and the police have no proof, they arrest him but have to let him go.

Tristan and Ella are spending more and more time together, an obvious chemistry there that neither can deny but Ella is not ready to accept. Jack seems to keep turning up all too frequently, leaving the reader wondering if he is a stalker, and possibly even a murderer. But Ella continues to pity him and see him as just a poor nerdy guy who needs a friend. The one thing that bothers her is that he suddenly is very secretive about his room and stops letting her come in and keeps the door shut and locked at all times..

Jack is telling her that Kristan is dangerous and she must stay away from him. Kristan is telling her the same thing about Jack. She thinks both are just jealous of each other but she continues to have the feeling of being watched and she still sees the glowing eyes from time to time.

When Jack’s roommate is found in their room, murdered and butchered, and Jack is missing, Josie and Ella’s parents arrive, the school is evacuated and classes cancelled until the murderer(s) can be caught. The wealthy parents have brought an entire army of giant bodyguards to protect the girls and old family secrets start coming out that have a direct bearing on these murders. The girls are told some, but not all, of their families history and how it relates to the current murders but they refuse to see the real danger and sneak away from their body guards to attend the sorority Halloween party in costume, then sneak into their abandoned dorm for some private time with their dates not realizing the killer was stalking them. Death awaited them, even when Ella managed to get outside, she could not escape the stalker.

This story gets more intense with each page and ends with a cliff hanger and a short note—“to becontinued”. The reader is left with an intense desire to get part 2 ASAP. We all want our love stories to end with a happily ever after but this novel leaves wondering—what next ? Another wonderful story by Jessica Miller—now I have to find part 2 before I go crazy !!!

                                                                 

I live in a fantasy world and have an over active imagination. But the best part about that is I never stop creating new characters and new stories to share. I love writing and expressing myself in a way that everyone else can enjoy as well. I work in the salon most days, but when i'm not doing hair, I'm writing or reading.

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Book Review: Switching Lanes (Unspoken Truth #2) by Renea Porter

Switching Lanes

By: Renea Porter

Published: May 23rd, 2014

Review by Rene

If you have not read Changing Layne then please do not read this until you do so. Switching Lanes begins a few weeks after Changing Layne leaves off. 

This is a story of survival. How do you find the strength tho move on after losing someone that you love. Layne struggles after losing Amber, she was his light, she was someone who saw him for the great man that he was. He stopped his bad boy ways and fell in love with a girl. Sadly, Amber has since passed and now he has to learn to move on.

Renee was Amber's' roommate, and they became so close that they were like sisters. Since Amber's' passing she distances herself from her boyfriend. She tries to find solace alone. Renee return back to school and decided to take a good friends advice and seek a little help. In finding that help she meets a new friend and begins the healing process inside and out. When she decides to join the land of the living she finds him in bed with another woman. Turns out he was a giant sleaze ball while she was grieving the loss of her best friend.

Renee and Layne have been friend since childhood, and since they both suffered a horrific loss, they seek comfort in each other. Does Renee find new love in familiar arms? Can she fall in love with the very same man that was with her best friend before she died? Does Layne find the strength to move on? Will he open his heart again and see that the girl that he has loved since the beginning was right in front of him this whole time? 

Read the book, fall in love with the story! Don't forget the tissues!! This is a wonderful story about love, loss and moving forward. 

"They say time heals all wounds, I have nothing but time"

Renee is back at college after taking the first semester off. Starting her second year of year college isnt going to be easy, especially after suffering a loss that is very recent and she continues to struggle with her own demons. Lucky for her, she has a boyfriend that she can lean on during her dark days. But will he be enough?

Layne suffers from the same loss, and she took his heart with her when she went. Back to his playboy ways he will do anything to numb the pain. Drag racing his race car is the only thing keeping him sane. 

How will the two cope with their loss? Does time really heal all wounds or will the unspoken truth consume them for good?

I've always had my nose inside of a book ever since I can remember. And I thought Id try my hand at writing, and Ive wrote ever since I was young, never showing anyone what I was writing. Initially I started writing Coming Back to You without intending to publish, but my hubby of 15 years encouraged me to publish it. And I did. I cant imagine never writing. Its in my blood. 

My mind is always wondering, plotting and full of ideas. I think my hubs questions my sanity sometimes, because I say my characters are real. They feel real to me. 

And I hope my stories make some sort of impact to you readers. I love hearing from you and enjoy talking with you. 

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