Title: Chasing Flames
Author: Emily Fogle
Genre: YA Paranormal
Audience: 13 and up
Formats: Paperback and E-book
Publisher: Anchor Group
Cover By: Robert Immings
Editor: Melissa
Ringsted
Pages: 169 pages
Published Date: Oct 31, 2013
Published Date: Oct 31, 2013
Aydah Bell was happy in her normalcy; she was
never the class clown or the sports hero, never the beauty queen or little Ms.
Honor Student. One day, after a pointless family mini-vacation, Aydah returns
to school and finds that her sheltered little world has turned upside-down.
Besides the fact that she is beginning to crave raw meat, people are also
disappearing.
Suddenly, an alarming disappearance in the quiet
and serene city she calls home puts the whole town into high-alert. One of
Aydah’s schoolmates vanishes during the weekend and is conveniently replaced by
a newcomer. To Aydah’s surprise, the new boy is the completely beautiful and
oh-so mysterious Liam Bailey.
Aydah finds herself drawn to Liam. He consumes
her thoughts and she aches to be with him. In the mix of passion, jealousy, and
hatred that follows, Aydah is too distracted to see the horrible fate headed
straight for her.
Excerpts:
There was so much pain. My skin was on fire and sweat dripped from every pore of my body. There was nothing I could do to make it go away, nothing in the world that could stop it. My flesh was being ripped from my bones, and my insides were being torn out. I was dying … what else could it be? Nothing besides death would feel so terrible. My head pounded and my brain ached. Hot pokers seared into my eyes, and my ears throbbed with sharp, shooting pains.
***
For just a moment more, his fingers continued to touch my forehead. He was perfectly still. His eyes were riveted to my face, like he was memorizing every line, every curve, with his fingertips and copying the image of my features into the palm of his hand. When he lowered his hand slowly, the tips of his fingers traced the bridge of my nose and followed down my jaw line. Frozen feathers, velvety and invigorating, awakening my body with their soft tickling chill. He cupped my chin in his hand and I could feel how powerful he was. He could bring down a mountain, reducing it to dust, but he was also gentle. There was safety in his stone caress and tenderness. The tips of his fingers rested beneath my chin and lifted my head slightly. As he brought his face to mine, my heart caught in my chest and my breath stopped completely. My head was a tornado of want and need. The temperature of my skin began to boil, but Liam’s skin sent a shiver down my spine. I was burning with fever, but shivering against the cold.
Emily Fogle was born and raised in Southern
California. Her dream and ultimate goal was to get her Master’s degree in
English and become a teacher with enough time to write, as well. However, she
soon found out that the best dreams often come true when they aren’t planned.
Instead of fulfilling her teaching goal, real life took over and she married
the man of her dreams. She now has an amazing 7 year old son and another
beautiful baby boy on the way.
She dedicates the majority of her time taking
care of her family, volunteering at her son’s school, and being a Cub Scout Den
leader. And though she loves every minute of it, the thought of being a writer
still tugs at her heart. So, after the busy days are done and everyone is
finally sleeping quietly, she squeezes in time for all the other loves in her
life: the characters running wild inside her head.
Now,
incredibly, her writing dream is also coming true. Her first novel, Dragon
Wars, is being published by Anchor Group. Emily feels sincerely blessed to have
been given so much in life and can’t wait to start the next chapter.
Chasing
Flames - Playlist
While writing Chasing Flames, I was really
in a Breaking Benjamin kind of a moon. I listened to their CDs constantly! Here
are the songs that really spoke to me and fueled me on:
Diary of Jane
Fade Away
Crawl
What Lies Beneath
Into the Nothing
Without You
Breath
Here We Are
You
So Cold
Away
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