An amazing story! Definitely a keeper.
A must read. A good page turner.
A enjoyable read. An average book.
A book that has flaws and is hard to finish.
Terrible and couldn't finish it.
Title: Dark Angel's Ward (Angel Warden Series, Book 1)
Author: Nia Shay
Publisher: Self (Moonwild Press)
Length: 80,000 words
Sub-Genres: Contemporary, M/F, Paranormal, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
BLURB:
Two years ago,
Jandra Maxwell walked away from the secret Fairlight Society and started a new
life in a quiet Texas town. When her former Ward, the dark angel Zeph, seeks
her out and begs for her help, Jandra faces an impossible choice. She knows he
can only offer her heartache, but she can’t turn her back on the only man she’s
ever loved.
Zeph teeters on
the brink of madness, pummeled by emotions his angelic blood once rendered him
incapable of feeling. Driven to protect Jandra from a threat he can only
glimpse in nightmares, he refuses to leave her side. As they explore the
mystery of his recurring dreams, they discover the Fairlight Society has been
keeping a terrible secret – one they’ll kill to protect.
Fighting for
her life isn’t so easy when Jandra’s also fighting her heart. Her inexorable
attraction to Zeph may save them...or may damn them both.
“Sound and fury,” I
murmured aloud.
“Pardon?”
I didn’t repeat it; he
probably wouldn’t have understood even if I had. Ever since I’d read that
phrase in Macbeth I’d always associated it with this feeling. It was one thing
to be selectively psychic – at least the only thoughts I usually heard were
Zeph’s. But when he and I were truly joined, not just in body or in mind but in
the very essence of our beings, I got a taste of what it was really like to be
half angel. And I hated it. I couldn’t fathom how to cope with hearing the
thoughts and prayers of half the damn city. Except maybe by dissociating large portions
of my personality, like he had. Zeph’s mind could be a scary place.
“Jandra? Are you sure
you’re all right?”
I dragged my attention back
to the matter at hand. “I told you, yes.”
That seemed to satisfy him.
At least he didn’t argue with me anymore. His fingertips brushed the side of my
face. “Thank you.”
“Whatever.” I raised bleary
eyes just in time to see his mouth descending on mine.
Our lips met before I could
stop him, and once I felt his warmth I couldn’t quite bring myself to complain.
I ended up moaning into his mouth instead of pulling away. Encouraged, he
brushed his tongue across my lower lip, his hands stroking upward over my
belly.
My body remembered this –
his embrace, his touch. As I arched my back in unbidden reaction, he cupped my
breasts, his long fingers splayed and caressing. I gasped, feeling his surge of
fierce enjoyment as the pleasure he wrought in my body echoed through his own.
Which was just the reminder
I needed. I wrenched away from him, hissing, “You are not allowed to touch me
that way!”
“I can’t help it.” Zeph’s
eyes were violet fire. “When you feel me and I feel you … how am I to resist?”
“Here’s a suggestion: how
about going away and leaving me alone for the rest of my life? Wasn’t that the
plan?”
He sighed, his gaze going
distant. “I released you because you begged it of me, Jandra. Not because I
desired it. Your pain was crushing us, and you couldn’t seem to heal while you
were with me. But now you have healed. You are whole again, and strong.”
“So you’ve come to break me
all over again?” I accused.
“I’ve no intention of
hurting you.” He reached for me, but I evaded him. Instead, he pinned me with
his gaze as he spoke his greatest lie. “I love you, Jandra.”
“No you don’t!” I
shrieked, balling up a fist and darting forward to punch him in the chest. “You
do not love anyone or anything. You are not capable of it!”
“Perhaps that’s true,” he
said calmly, enfolding my fist in one large hand. “Or perhaps your love has
changed me.”
The tears came as hot and
fast as the resonance of his soul had, and they burned just as deeply. “I never
loved you.”
He said nothing, merely
released me and retreated to the doorway while I wept. As my sobs faded into
racking gasps, he cast me a long look and muttered, “Yet I am the one reviled
as a thief of souls.”
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Nia Shay is a
reclusive weirdo who lives in a tiny concrete box in the middle of the Arizona
desert. (No, seriously.) In between
dealing with mild OCD and an epic caffeine addiction, she finds time to mold
the voices in her head into cohesive sarcastic remarks, and sometimes even a
story or two. She has been penning such tales, almost all of them with a
decidedly paranormal flavor, since the second grade. Now that paranormal
fiction is the "in thing," Nia has decided to overcome her extreme
distaste for trends and jump on the ol' bandwagon. Join her on her harrowing
journey through the twisted corridors of her own mind—that is…if you dare.
Email - nia@cheznia.com
Website - http://cheznia.com
Blog - http://cheznia.com/blog
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/author.nia.shay
Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/nia_shay
Here's the link to the book tour schedule. Don't miss out there's more excitement to come. http://cblspromotions.blogspot.com/2012/03/vbt-dark-angels-ward-angel-warden.html.
Here's the link to the book tour schedule. Don't miss out there's more excitement to come. http://cblspromotions.blogspot.com/2012/03/vbt-dark-angels-ward-angel-warden.html.
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8 comments:
Thank you Danielle for the warm welcome! What a beautiful blog, I just love the "no clothing beyond this point" sign...LMAO
Thanks for the great post! This book sounds amazing! Definitely adding to my wishlist. :)
Thanks Erin! Good luck in the drawing :-)
LOVED the excerpt...can't wait to read MORE! FAB cover too, btw! Thx for the intro to a 'new to me' author and an AWESOME giveaway op! :)
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Thanks for stopping by, Barbara! Hope you enjoy the rest of the book, too ;-)
Hello Nia,
Thank you Romance Book Junkie for featuring "Dark Angel’s Ward" by Nia Shay on your Blog & a Thank you to Nia for providing such a Great Blurb & a Very Nice Teaser of an Excerpt ;) which left me wanting MORE!!! & also your Author Spotlight so we can get to know you better since you are a new Author to me.
I would very much appreciate if I could be entered in your offering of an e-copy of your book, "Dark Angel’s Ward". Thank You.
Sorry I’m not a Member of Twitter or Facebook so I cannot enter the other parts of the Rafflecoopter, but I filled out what I could.
Take Care & Wishing You & Yours the Best of Health,,
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Thanks for stopping by! There will be giveaways all next week too, my tour is right above Rafflecopter box :-) Good luck!
This sounds like a very exciting and unexpected read.
Thanks for the post and for the giveaway opportunity.
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