BOOK RELEASE SPOTLIGHT: Overpowered (Powered Trilogy #2) by Cheyanne Young

After rescuing Nova from a life of evil, Maci fears she's made a huge mistake. As if she didn't have enough trouble fitting in with her fellow Supers, Nova outshines Maci in personality and power. 

In the midst of this one-sided sibling rivalry, humans are dropping dead from a powerful drug that originates in the underground tunnels of King City. Someone is a traitor and Maci wants to capture the villain before anyone else—especially Nova.
With Nova in the spotlight, Maci needs to set aside her jealousy before more humans die and the future of King City is changed forever.

Expected publication: August 14th 2014

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Maci Might's sixteenth birthday is supposed to be the day she's awarded Hero status. But thanks to a tiny anger problem and a questionable family tree, King City's elders think it's best if she doesn't join the Hero ranks. Determined to change their minds, Maci will break whatever rule it takes to prove she's Hero material. As her hair darkens and her anger grows, everyone turns against her except Evan; a childhood friend turned scientist who may be able to unlock the secrets hidden in her DNA.

When a villain attacks King City and her dad is held prisoner, Maci discovers a truth she refuses to believe. She may not be a Hero after all—but this time the Heroes of King City need her more than she needs them. And she won't let them down.

Powered is the first in a trilogy.

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Author Bio:

Cheyanne is a native Texan with a fear of cold weather and a coffee addiction that probably needs an intervention. She loves books, sarcasm, nail polish and paid holidays. She lives near the beach with her family, one spoiled rotten puppy and a cat who is most likely plotting to take over the world.

She also writes under the pen name Amy Sparling.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT - EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY: Seeress (Runes #3) by Ednah Walters

Today is the last day in our spotlight on Ednah Walters, Runes series. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading this series as yet, then scroll down to enter the giveaway at the end of this post.

I love Torin St. James...
I need his strength…
But someone from his past wants me dead.

Raine Cooper is certain of two things: her love for Torin St. James and her destiny to be a powerful seeress. But when she starts having premonitions, they are unclear and disturbing. Worse, they involve Torin. With her mother gone, her father dying, and her best friend in Hel, she is not sure who to talk to.

But when the visions become more personal and she foresees her future with Torin threatened by someone from his past, Raine becomes desperate for answers. Just her luck two new students arrive at her school and they seem to have answers. When with them, her powers are enhanced and her visions become clear. There is only one problem: Torin forbids Raine to see the two girls.

Can their love survive without trust?

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EXCERPT FROM Seeress:

Torin leaned against the bike and pulled me into his arms. I wrapped my arms around his waist and tried to enjoy the moment, but the vision I’d seen came back to haunt me. I lifted my head and studied his face. “Would you visit a Seeress if something happened to me and I disappeared, and you didn’t know where to look?”

He stiffened. “What?”

“If something bad happened to me—”

“That’s not funny.” He glowered.

“It’s a hypothetical situation, Torin.”

“I don’t care. Don’t say that.”

I sighed. “Okay, I won’t. But would you visit a Seeress to see the future if a friend was missing and you didn’t know where she was or whether she’s coming back home?”

“Why is my friend a she? I don’t have she-friends except you.”

I wanted to deck him. He could be so impossible sometimes. “If a he-friend was sick, would you visit a Seeress to get some answers,” I said through clenched teeth.

“Nope.” He smirked, confirming he was messing with me.

I wiggled out of his arms and gave him you’d-better-answer-me-truthfully-or-else glare. “Why not?”

“I don’t like witches.”

My jaw dropped. “How can you say that? I happen to be one. A Seeress.”

“Until we confirm your first vision, you,” he stroked my nose, “are just a glorified Immortal and… my girlfriend.”

I punched his arm. Hard.  “Jerk.”

“Witch.”

I reached for him, but he engaged his runes and slipped past me. Then he had the nerve to laugh. There was only one truck left in the parking lot, so I figured no one could see us. I engaged my runes and went after him. I tackled him, or he allowed me to catch him and we landed on the snow. We rolled a bit until I pinned him down. I had snow on my hair. I shook it, spraying him.

“Cut that out,” he growled, a playful light in his eyes.

“What do you have against witches?” I asked.

He cushioned his head on his arms and smirked. “The ones I knew growing up were horrible.”

“What did they do to you?”

He pulled me down for a kiss and the conversation was forgotten, until I became aware of cold and wetness on my knees. Torin’s pants had to be wet too.

“Let’s take this home,” I whispered.

“I like it when you lust after me.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans. 

Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third installment, was released March 2013. She’s working on the next book in the series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com.

Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She just released book 3, GRIMNIRS December 2013. Read more about this series and the world she's created here www.runestheseries.com.

Under the pseudonym E. B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published five more books in this series. She's presently working on book seven. You can visit her online at or www.ebwalters.com.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT - EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY: Grimnirs (Runes #2.5) by Ednah Walters

Day three of our spotlight on Ednah Walters, Runes series, see's us taking a look at Grimnirs. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading this series as yet, then scroll down to enter the giveaway at the end of this post.

Straight out of the psych ward, Cora just wants her life to be normal. She doesn’t want to see souls or the reapers collecting them. The guy she’s loved from a distance for years moves away without saying goodbye. So yes, she’s nursing a serious heartbreak. It’s no wonder love is the last thing on her mind when Echo storms into her life. 

The chemistry between them is mind-blowing.The connection defies logic. Even better, the souls leave her alone when he is around.

Too bad Echo is the poster boy for everything she hates in a guy—hot, beautiful,and cocky. He is also a soul reaper. A Grimnir.
The very beings she wants out of her life. Maybe normal is overrated because Cora wants it all. Answers. Love. A life.

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EXCERPT FROM Grimnirs:

  

A thud came from my left, and my head whipped around. Echo gripped Blaine’s neck. Blaine’s back was against the wall.

“Don’t ever put your hand on her, Chapman. You don’t look at her wrong, raise your voice, or give her a reason to cry. You laugh and cry with her. Worship the fucking ground she walks on. If she’s hurting, you’d better be hurting ten times worse because her pain is too much to bear. Get it?”

Blaine shook his head and tried to talk.

“Wrong response, Chapman.” He slammed Blaine up against the wall. His feet were now off the ground.

I ran toward them. “Echo, stop.”

“If she’s sad, you find out why and fix it,” he continued as though I hadn’t spoken. “If she gets scared, you find the bastards responsible and you annihilate them. You slay her dragons and chase away her demons.”

I gripped Echo’s arm. “Put him down. He didn’t hurt me.”

“He did. You cried out.” His voice was curt, and he still didn’t look at me, his focus on Blaine. “If you ever hurt her in any way or form, there won’t be a place or realm for you to hide because I will find you, Chapman, rip out your heart, and feed it to the serpents of Naastrand. Understand?”

Blaine nodded.

“Good.” He dropped Blaine. No, threw him, since Blaine landed in the gutter a few feet away. The sound of concrete cracking sounded like a sledgehammer.

Echo glanced at me. Then his gaze shifted to someone behind me, and he smirked.

Caught between knocking some sense into his thick head and going after Blaine, I peered at Blaine. “Are you okay?”

He staggered to his feet, one hand rubbing his neck. “The bastard is crazy!”

A chuckle came from behind me and I turned, expecting to see Echo. He had already disappeared. Instead, Andris, Ingrid, Torin, and Raine watched me with varied expressions. Ingrid’s boyfriend was by the door and I wondered how much he’d seen.

“No, you pissed him off, Chapman,” Andris said. “What were you thinking messing with Cora?”

“I didn’t mess with her,” Blaine snapped. “We were talking, so when she took off, I followed. And that Neanderthal nearly snapped my neck.”

“Actually, he could have snapped it.” Andris moved closer to where I stood with Blaine. “You grabbed her, dude. That’s just wrong.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans. 

Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third installment, was released March 2013. She’s working on the next book in the series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com.

Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She just released book 3, GRIMNIRS December 2013. Read more about this series and the world she's created here www.runestheseries.com.

Under the pseudonym E. B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published five more books in this series. She's presently working on book seven. You can visit her online at or www.ebwalters.com.

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT - EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY: Immortals (Runes #2) by Ednah Walters

Day two of our spotlight on Ednah Walters, Runes series, see's us taking a look at Immortals. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading this series as yet, then scroll down to enter the giveaway at the end of this post.

Nothing can stop Raine Cooper when she wants something...
Raine finally knows that her gorgeous neighbor, Torin St. James, is a legend straight out of Norse mythology, and that her feelings for him are strong. Torin is crazy about Raine too, breaking the one rule he lives by: Never fall for a mortal. The problem is he no longer remembers her, his memories erased by Norns—Norse destiny deities—to punish her for defying them.

So Raine comes up with a plan...
She will make Torin forget his one rule a second time and fall in love with her all over again. 
But she quickly learns that well-laid plans do not work when dealing with deities and supernatural beings. Desperate, Raine makes choices that could not only tear her and Torin further apart, but lead to the destruction of everything and everyone she loves.

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EXCERPT FROM Immortals:

“I’m throwing a Halloween party next week. Want to come?” Drew asked.

“Maybe.” Cora, Eirik, and I had a weird Halloween tradition. We went treat-or-treating together then poured all our candy on the bed and traded pieces. Trading was the fun part. “Can my friends come, too?”

“If one of them is Cora, then yes,” Drew said and smirked.

Before I could respond, a telltale shiver rushed under my skin. Torin.

“What are you three plotting,” he asked from behind me. He was so close I could feel the heat from his body. Did he have to stand that close? I’d bet it was deliberate.

I took a deep breath before glancing at him, which was a mistake on so many levels. His scent, earthy and masculine, filled my nostrils, and my traitorous body responded. I wanted to wrap myself around him like a pretzel, bury my face in his neck and just soak him in. He looked so good in a dark-blue shirt under his leather jacket, which made his eyes pop. He hadn’t shaved again, but I wasn’t complaining. The shadow on his chin made him look even yummier.

“Cat got your tongue?” he teased.

“No. It’s still here.” I stuck out my tongue.

His eyes drifted to my lips. My mount went dry, my heart picking up tempo. When our gazes met, I blinked. How could he claim he didn’t want me yet look at me with such heat? I wanted to kick him or yell at him then kiss him senseless.

“We’re discussing my Halloween party,” Drew said.

“You’re coming, St. James, right?” Keith said.

Torin didn’t even look at them, his hot gaze on my face. “Are you going?”

His voice was velvet soft, making me want to purr. I had to swallow before answering. “Yes. Are you?”

“Aren’t you too busy to be partying?” he asked sharply, disapproval on his face.

Just like that, he destroyed my romantic thoughts. I shot him a mean smile.

“For Drew and Keith,” I hugged the two jocks’ arms. “I’ll make time. So are you going?”

“I don’t do Halloween.” He smirked and sauntered past me.

“Chicken,” I retorted.

He stopped and turned. The glint that entered his eyes should have warned me he was about to do something I wouldn’t like. He took a step that brought him closer. My first instinct was to walk away. Run. Say something. But the terrier in me was wagging its tail. His hand slipped around my waist and nudged me closer. My breath hitched. He grinned, liking my response. I stopped breathing altogether when our bodies touched. He felt so good, all muscles, heat, and pure temptation.

“Chicken? Me?” he mocked, his head dipping slowly, eyes daring me to, I don’t know, repeat what I’d said, stop him?

I wanted to say something snarky, but my mouth was too dry. When his nose gently brushed mine, I moaned. He was going to kiss me. Yes! My lips parted in anticipation.

  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans. 

Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third installment, was released March 2013. She’s working on the next book in the series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com.

Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She just released book 3, GRIMNIRS December 2013. Read more about this series and the world she's created here www.runestheseries.com.

Under the pseudonym E. B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published five more books in this series. She's presently working on book seven. You can visit her online at or www.ebwalters.com.

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