It’s Monday! What Are You Reading is where we share what we read
this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in
between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what
others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next
“must read” book will come from!
Read This Past Week
Life sucks for orphans Callum Tate and Harper Bailey.
Kicked out
of their foster homes because they suffer the 'eighteen disease' with
nothing but a hundred dollar check from the government and a pat on the
back, they're forced to rely on a system that failed them miserably.
So
they sit. They sit inside Social Services, waiting for their social
workers to call their names and offer them the miracle they know will
never come but they sit anyway because they have nowhere else to go, no
other options on their very literal and figurative empty plates.
But
as they sit, they notice the other. Although captivated, they each come
to the conclusion that life is complicated enough without throwing in a
boiling tension that can't ever be acted upon because they're both too
busy thinking about where their next meal will come from but when their
names are called and both are placed on a year long waiting list for
permanent housing, suddenly relying on each other seems like a very
viable plan B.
And, oh, how lovely Plan B's can be.
Well,
except for the psycho from Harper's past that haunts her and, oh, yeah,
there's the little issue that neither of them knows they're in love with
the other.
Needless to say, Callum & Harper's life just got a bit more complicated.
Sadie White's summer job isn't going to be on the beach life-guarding or
working at rental booths like most kids her age. With her single
mother's increasing pregnancy and refusal to work, Sadie has to take
over her mother's job as a domestic servant for one of the wealthy
summer families on a nearby island.
When the family arrives at
their summer getaway, Sadie is surprised to learn that the owner of the
house is Jax Stone, one of the hottest teen rockers in the world. If
Sadie hadn't spent her life raising her mother and taking care of the
house she might have been normal enough to be excited about working for a
rock star.
Even though Sadie isn't impressed by Jax's fame, he
is drawn to her. Everything about Sadie fascinates Jax but he fights his
attraction. Relationship's never work in his world and as badly as he
wants Sadie, he believes she deserves more. By the end of the summer,
Jax discovers he can't breathe without Sadie.
But can their love
overcome the disparity in their lifestyles? Or will they have to learn
how to without each other breathe again?
In my debut novel, Breathe, Sadie may have fallen in love with the teen
rock star, Jax Stone, but readers fell head over heels for Marcus Hardy.
This is his story…
Marcus Hardy had hoped to enjoy a year away at college while he put the
summer he’d rather forget behind him. But instead, he’s jerked right
back to the coastal town of Sea Breeze, Alabama due to a family crisis.
His dear ol' dad found himself a girlfriend only a few years older than
Marcus. So now his sister needs help dealing with their mother who is
mentally falling apart. The only bright spot to returning is the
fascinating red head who sleeps over several times a week. The problem
is she's sleeping in bed with his new roommate, Cage Watson.
Willow “Low” Foster needs a place to live. Running to Cage’s apartment
every time her sister kicks her out isn’t exactly a long term solution.
Juggling her courses at the local community college and a part time job
doesn’t produce excess income. But Cage has a new roommate and suddenly
sleeping over at her best friend’s apartment isn’t such a bad thing. Not
when she gets to see those sexy green eyes of Marcus Hardy’s twinkle
when he smiles at her like he wants her there.
Even though Cage seems a little territorial where Low is concerned,
Marcus finds time to spend with Low without upsetting his roommate. Cage
may use his small college baseball star persona to sleep with every hot
female in his path but he’s still under the disillusion that when he’s
through sowing his wild oats, he’s going to marry Low. Marcus intends to
change that assumption for both Cage and Low. Until his carefully laid
plans come crashing down with a revelation he never expected. He’ll have
to choose between Low or his family. Because once the truth comes
out.... there’s no other choice.
Zoe Calder has always been an outsider. Stashed away in boarding schools
since her parents died, Zoe buries herself in the study of ancient
worlds. Her greatest thrill is spending her summers with her
archeologist aunt and uncle on digs around the world. And one day, while
investigating a newly unearthed temple in Crete, Zoe discovers a
luminous artifact that transports her to ancient Greece.
As Zoe
quickly learns, the Olympian gods are real, living people—humans with
mysterious powers… Powers that Zoe quickly realizes she has come to
possess, as well. However, when the people of ancient Greece mistake Zoe
for an Olympian, the gods must restore the balance of the ancient
world… No matter what.
Zoe is forced to play a confusing and
dangerous game as Hera rallies the gods against her—all except for Zeus,
the beautiful, winged young god who risks everything to save her.
In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek.
