Shades of delight, Cocoa hue, Rich as a night, Afro blue. -Oscar Brown Jr. ______________________________________________ • "You know what I love?" An eyebrow raised in question. • "Stereotypes. I love when people firmly believe in them. You know why?" Both eyebrows raised in question. •"It feels so good to see them looking stupidly shocked. That just goes to show you how closed minded people are." A smile in response. ~Ev

Assassin by day, Mistress by night... World's deadliest mercenary, a shadow in the scarlet-soaked void of vengeance; Ariana Yvette Edensworth knows when to head for the hills. Upon a sinister target at her back and an innocent baby in her arms, she joins the cutthroat Chosens with two lives at stake for a single revenge. Now beyond the unforgiving clutches of law and helplessness-excluding her feelings for a certain treacherous correspondent-follow this fallen woman in building a future from blood and bone... regardless of what fate is planning in a bleeding alley of nostalgia. Warrior by past, Martyr by future... Worlds wealthiest aristocrat, a thriving soldier in the steel-rigged abyss of War; Jacob Balthazar Sparksfly knows when to cease fire. Upon a pile of letters he can't let go of and a betrayal he can't forgive, he resorts to nepenthes with his life and legacy at stake for a spirit's worth of oblivion. Finally beyond the flailing grasps of sanity and misery-except those of a consuming albeit unseen love-follow this heartbroken male in wrecking a future to ash and ruin.. heedless of what destiny has in store with a bloody strike of remembrance. *** A CHOSEN PREQUEL. WARNING: Violence and mild sexual scenes may be included.

It's been only a year since Utah became the last state to pass legislation granting age-of-majority sufferers of mental illness the Right to Die. When seventeen-year-old Koralee Benson wakes up in the hospital having survived a suicide attempt, her parents are desperate to get her help before her next birthday, when she will have the legal right to request a lethal dose of Repose7, a medication that has revolutionized the practice of assisted suicide. Dr. Crimm is the lead psychiatrist with Right to Life, an organization that promotes mental health treatment and support, and funds research into alternative treatments for mental illness and suicidal ideation. Right to Life was founded by the Wilkinson family, owners of tech giant Virtual Now, as a response to the loss of their own son to suicide. Their unconventional program combines the use of an experimental medication with a virtual reality technology that allows study participants to relive their traumatic experiences through the eyes of other people. Koralee is recruited to join five other teens from around the country, all grappling with their own demons, in an adventurous exploration of perspective, friendship, trust, and healing-possibly the only hope these suffering teens have at regaining the will to live. The country is engrossed in a recent news frenzy when seventeen-year-old Braden Ertz is found guilty of the murder of his fifteen-year-old girlfriend. He was discovered unconscious in her family pool with no recollection of the crime or his involvement in it. The country is already divided on his death sentence when Braden requests to stop his automatic appeals and be given the chance to take Repose7. When the judge overseeing his case hears about the experimental medication that could help regain his memories, he pulls R2L and Dr. Crimm into a battle of morals and ethics.

~ AVAILABLE ON AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/164434193X ~ She hated riding the subway. It was cramped, smelled, and the seats were extremely uncomfortable to sit on for hours on end. Now add a group of crazy mask-wearing, weapon-wielding, maniacs to the ever growing list of reasons why Gemma hated riding the subway. Gemma Conners is your average eighteen year old and for the past two years she's been riding the subway to and from school with no problem. She always expected the same ol' same ol'. Cramped spaces, hard seats, and perverts staring her up and down and "accidentally" bumping into her and blaming it on the train as it jostled people into one another. Never did she expect a group of masked men to rush in and hold everyone onboard hostage, demanding that they all play along with their sick and twisted idea of a "game". It was either that or die. To add on to her ever growing list of problems, one of the passengers onboard just so happens to be Archer Daniels, your typical high school "heartthrob" and Gemma's classmate. Her day just kept getting better and better. With Gemma's luck, she'd be lucky if she lasted five minutes. Yep. She really hated the subway. *Book Cover Credit: Irah Marie* Thanks again for making such an AMAZING cover!❤️

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