Touching Smoke Excerpt

 
 
 
TOUCHING SMOKE
 
 
 
“He’s lying, Fallon.” Isaiah’s chair shrieked against marble as he climbed to his feet. The soft, steady clap of his feet as he moved towards me, made my heart flinch.
 
I hugged myself despite the warmth, warding off an inner chill. “Why would he?”
 
“Because he’s evil,” he said simply. “Because he likes knowing he’s hurt you.”
 
I didn’t pull away from his touch when he rested his hands on my shoulders, although I wanted to. The feel of him through the fabric of my shirt had my blood singing in a way that only then did I realize probably wasn’t natural. Nothing about us was natural. Everything that would apply to a normal relationship, didn’t apply to us. It only just then made sense why I was so obsessed. Why his touch made me melt in my skin. Why being away from him was like being skinned and salted alive. Why I felt like my very breath depended on his existence. None of those things were normal, not to the intensity with which I felt them.
 
“When you touch me, do you feel it?” I asked, staring far into the horizon, at the spot where the world dipped and vanished from sight, kind of the way my sanity seemed to want to do at that moment. “Do you…” I trailed off, biting my lip, trapping the single word that could unleash all my insecurities. The magical L word all girls wanted to hear from the boy they were crazy about.
 
His nose grazed the side of my face as he leaned in to murmur into my ear. My eyes closed and I steeled myself against the shiver that rippled along my spine. “Yes.”
 
Yes.
 
He said yes, yet my chest heaved with the first of many heartbroken sobs because it wasn’t real. It wasn’t real!
 
 
 

 
 
 

Reveal Trailer: Touching Smoke

 
 
 

 
 
 
“What am I?”
 
“Mine… always!”
 
This summer… their love will annihilate the world!
 
For sixteen-year-old FALLON BRAEDEN, being haunted was just another day in the life of a gypsy, like being on the run had always been a closely guarded secret her mother would have happily taken to the grave… if her past hadn’t caught with them.
 
But when Fallon is stalked by fire-throwing demons, nearly killed by rebel mutants and finds a soul mate she can never have, even her normally unusual life is thrown into a tangled web of love, lies and betrayal.
 
As worlds collide, secrets unfold and blood is spilt, Fallon comes to several unsettling revelations: she’s not entirely human, her creator has a bounty on her head and the only one who can save her is the one person she has to keep at arm’s length or risk annihilating the world for.
(Excerpt from GoodRead)
 
 
 

 
 
 

TOUCHING SMOKE (Coming Soon!)

 
 
 

 
 
 
You know that feeling when you get off a roller coaster(assuming you're not amazingly terrified of heights or of sudden death drops)? That feeling of nausea, elation and pride in yourself for not throwing up on the dude in front of you? Then, there's that feeling of accomplishment; you looked death in the eye and laughed... all the way down that twenty-foot drop!
 
Well, that is the feeling I think most authors get when their dream of putting a book out into the world.
 
I've already had the immense pleasure of seeing my name in print with my story in the Clever Fiction Anthology: Clever Beginnings, and as much as I love the other authors and their stories, holding a book with my name stamped on the front... wow!
 
TOUCHING SMOKE (Touch Series Book One) is all but good to go! Thanks to TreasureLine Publishing, it's only a matter of time before TOUCHING SMOKE will hit Amazon. (More on dates soon!). But I am just so excited! I have to share and tell everyone that it's finally happening!
 
*deep breath*
 
But keep an eye out for it. I'll be giving away copies, both ebook and paperback as well as other little treats that shall remain a surprise!!
 
 
TOUCHING SMOKE:
 
“He will never stop!”
 
For sixteen-year-old FALLON BRAEDEN, being haunted was just another day in the life of a gypsy, like being on the run had always been a closely guarded secret, a secret her mother would have happily taken to the grave…
 
If Isaiah hadn’t caught up with them.
 
But when Fallon is stalked by fire throwing demons, nearly killed by rebel mutants and finds a soul mate she can never have, even her normally unusual life is thrown into a tangled web of lies, love and betrayal.
 
As worlds collide, secrets unfold and blood is spilt, Fallon comes to several unsettling revelations: she’s not entirely human, her creator wants her dead, and the only one who can save her is the one person she has to keep at arm’s length or die.