She Runs Away - Cover Reveal

Today is the cover reveal for She Runs Away by Jessica Calla! It's Book 2 in the Sheridan Hall Series and a follow up story about Ben, whom you may remember from She Laughs In Pink. And stay tuned for a giveaway!!

The Cover

Title: She Runs Away (Sheridan Hall Series, Book 2)

Author: Jessica Calla

Genre: New Adult

Release date: November 15, 2016

Publisher: BookFish Books

Cover Artist: Anita Carroll at Race-Point

Blurb:
After tragedy strikes New Jersey University's Sheridan Hall, freshman quarterback Ben Riley’s stable,normal life is turned upside down. Sidelined from playing the game he loves and on the verge of losing his scholarship, Ben wants nothing more than to escape the chaos of college and return home to rural Pennsylvania and his family.

 Yet, there’s something that keeps him from running. Or someone. A cute blonde he had a chance with but blew off for all the wrong reasons.

 Megan Smith has secrets. Secrets that have burned her in the past. Secrets she’s unwilling to share with anyone at Sheridan Hall—especially Ben, her sexy, rough-around-the-edges floormate whobroke her heart in a matter of days after moving into Sheridan. Meg decided early on that it’s easier to live life on her own than to share her secrets and let people in.

Meg runs, and Ben follows. But sooner or later, the clock on their chance at love will expire. With inner demons dragging them both down, they must find a way to stop running and trust one another or risk losing their perfectly matched love forever.

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About the Author:
Jessica Calla is a contemporary romance and women's fiction author who moonlights during the day as an attorney. If she's not writing, lawyering, or parenting, you'll most likely find her at the movies, scrolling through her Twitter feed, or gulping down various forms of caffeine (sometimes all three at once).

 Jessica is a member of Romance Writers of America, involved in the Contemporary, Young Adult, and New Jersey Chapters, and is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She recently became the oldest marketing intern ever at BookFish Books, and was named a Young Adult mentor for the FicFest writing contest. A Jersey girl through and through, she resides in the central part of the state with her husband, two sons, and dog.

Find Jessica onTwitter (@jess_calla) or at her website (www.jessicacalla.com). She loves to make reader and writer friends.

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Now that we've shared this awesome cover, we can't wait to share the book! See you in November (just in time for Christmas--YAY)!

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•  To play along share a book you've been looking forward to reading, whether it's new or has been on your reading list for a while.

I'm looking forward to...

Evelyn dear Fender by Rodney Jones. I've read a few books by Jones and haven't been disappointed. He steps away from his usual time travel genre to journey to a mythical land. Evelyn dreams of finding Methania and sets off on a sailing adventure to succeed. Instead she finds herself wrecked on an island with Fender, who speaks a different language.

Teaser Tuesday (225)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm/Books and a Beat. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers



Mr. Jones & Me (Kindle 14%)
   - Lindsay Marie Miller

"Isn't it odd that Cabel would marry someone right after graduation?" Jane examined her cuticles as she spoke. "Someone, who only weeks before was a student? Someone, that at one time, was his student?"

Diary of a Haunting

When Paige moves from LA to Idaho with her mom and little brother after her parents’ high-profile divorce, she expects to completely hate her new life, and the small town doesn’t disappoint. Worse yet, the drafty old mansion they’ve rented is infested with flies, spiders, and other pests Paige doesn’t want to think about.

She chalks it up to her rural surroundings, but it’s harder to ignore the strange things happening around the house, from one can of ravioli becoming a dozen, to unreadable words appearing in the walls. Soon Paige’s little brother begins roaming the house at all hours of the night, and there’s something not right about the downstairs neighbor, who knows a lot more than he’s letting on.

Things only get creepier when she learns about the sinister cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost a hundred years earlier.
The more Paige investigates, and the deeper she digs, the clearer it all becomes: whatever is in the house, whatever is causing all the strange occurrences, has no intention of backing down without a fight.

Found in the aftermath, Diary of a Haunting collects the journal entries, letters, and photographs Paige left behind.

*May Contain Spoilers*

Diary of a Haunting, by M. Verano, was creepier than I thought it would be. The first person perspective that the diary is written in immediately pulls the reader into the story and action. Not only that, but the way the novel is framed by a letter, from Professor Verano validating what happened, is reminiscent of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The fact that Verano is a professor at an Idaho university, studying this Pronoica cult, gives fictional credit to the novel, enhancing it's horror factor as the reader wonders if it really did happen after all. 

Paige is the main character and narrator of the book, her electronic diary which is supposedly found after the ending. Paige is a loving sister, a concerned daughter, and an isolated teenager. Readers will connect with Paige through her emotional revelations about her dad cheating, her mother trying to restart her life, and her instant outsider status at her new high school. She's going through a lot of stress and this diary is her only outlet. Then creepy things start happening and she finds an unlikely friend in Chloe, the school weirdo, who believes in hauntings and ghosts. Together, they start to piece together the history of the house, but by then it may be too late. 

The plot begins with Paige, her brother, and her mom moving to Idaho. The house they move into is an old mansion that's been abandoned for a few years, but the owner's son is trying to fix it up. It's liveable with flies and spiders and no bears, thank goodness. When things start to happen, Paige becomes scared, her brother starts having seizures, and her mother thinks that even spirits have a right to live where they want. Paige doesn't agree. The longer the family is in the house, the more active the house becomes. The plot doesn't have a lot of dull moments and I read nearly the whole novel in one sitting. 

My favorite part about the book was the copied diary entries. Throughout the entire thing, some diary entries find themselves written twice, but the second copy is always filled with nonsense words, seemingly random, but when you pay attention, the diary is in fact revealing something else. The words add up to make a message... if only Paige had noticed that... 

The ending of the book is an unexpected bout of chaos. I didn't see it coming. There's a happy ending in there, but it's not actually at the end, which took me off guard. Just when you think it's all over... Amy Danziger Ross throws a curveball -- she's the real author of the book and writes under the pseudonym she uses to validate the story. Though she really did attend the University of Idaho. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys scary stories and is intrigued by ghosts, history, and hauntings. In fact, you can have my copy, just enter the giveaway below. :) Happy reading!

Rating: 3.5/5 Cups

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