Kate's Book Blog: December 2020

Monday, December 14, 2020

Flesh & Soul

Life wasn't fair to Kian Smith

He grew up with a schizophrenic, alcoholic mother, who viciously turns violent after a little too much to drink.

When a fire destroys their home, Kian is left an orphan. Lost and alone, he grows up feeling he can't trust anyone. That is, until Zara Lewis comes like a whirlwind into his life. And he finally believes that he's found happiness.

On the night that he planned to propose to Zara, life goes terribly wrong. And everything changes. That night sends him spiraling out of control and into the dark depths at the mercy of his immoral addiction.

Silent Screams

Gracie was always a scaredy cat and her best friend Chase was a daredevil. Chase convinces Gracie to sneak into the local haunted house the day before Halloween to prove to her that it was nothing to be scared of.

The house has a reputation for being truly haunted, but Gracie follows her best friend there despite her fears. Hoping that she'll survive the night.

But will both of them come out of the house unscathed?

Destiny

What was supposed to be Destiny's last day of sixth grade turns into a nightmare. She finds herself living with her great aunt, Florence, who she doesn't remember, after her parents were in a car accident.

While living there, she discovers what was once a beautiful backyard garden and puts all of her strength and efforts into restoring it. And in the process, she finds the means in which to save her mom, new friends, and magic like she's never seen before.

Cinder

For as long as Crimson can remember, she wanted a cat. But it just wasn't meant to be. Her parents were adamant that there were to be no cats in their home.

Eventually, the call of the majestic creatures was too much to bear for Crimson and she finds herself drawn to the nearby animal shelter. When a stray kitten follows her home from the shelter one day, all hell breaks loose.

The Give Me Something Series

The Give Me Something Series is different, in the sense that you don't need to read them in any particular order. They are all based in the same world, but there are no reoccurring characters. The only thing tying these stories together is that they are all based off songs by the same band, Scars on 45. The band does make an appearance/are referenced in each book.

Sometimes all it takes is one smile to change your life.

Sahara Evans was sent to spend the summer before college with her aunt at the bed and breakfast she owned in a coastal town. Pelburg, was nothing more than a small tourist town, and Sahara knew that her summer was going to be boring.

That was, until she met McKenna Seaton at The Copper Lighthouse, the restaurant where McKenna waitressed. The moment their eyes met, Sahara was falling hard, but how could she tell this girl she'd never see again once the summer was over that she was in love?

Sometimes love only comes once in a lifetime

Amy knew the moment she met Christopher Tabatt that she was going to marry him someday. She was only eight years old then.

Things didn't happen the way that Amy planned them though. People and circumstances got in the way of their love.

Is their love strong enough to last the test of time?

The Down the Rabbit Hole Series

The Down the Rabbit Hole Series is complete and are listed in reading order!

Sometimes you have to fall to find yourself…

Alayna Liddell grew up hearing the fantastical tales of Wonderland from her mother, Alice. But what Aly didn’t know was that the stories her mom told her were true. Alice had been to Wonderland many times before her daughter was born, but something happened and the doors between the two worlds were closed.

Seventeen years later, Wonderland needs Alice’s help to save the world and all of her friends, forcing Alice to tell her daughter the truth about Wonderland who her father really is. Will Alayna be able to come to terms with the family secrets her mom has revealed to her?

I’m sure that you know me, you’ve heard my story a million times before. I’m the girl that chased a white rabbit in a waistcoat down a rabbit hole. I’m the girl that fell through the looking glass when I was just seven years old. What you don’t know is that I kept going back even after I got older. My name is Alice Liddell for those of you that don’t know me or my story. It is a story of friendship, love, faith, and fear. I fell in love with Madison, or as you may know him, the Mad Hatter. Not everyone celebrated that fact and that’s when things got a bit out of hand. Follow our journey of love and madness through my eyes. Maybe I am crazy, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.

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Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

-Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Alice had never wanted her daughter to be caught up in the mess Queen Risha had started all those years ago, but that's exactly what had happened. Both swept into one last adventure in Wonderland to save the world and Madison.

Alice and Alyana, with the help of Kydos make their way back to Wonderland to save the world, find Madison, and stop Queen Risha's reign of destruction. Raising an army of Wonderlandians they fight back. But will it be enough to take the Red Queen down and right all the wrongs?

“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.” -Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland

Reegan Hart's life wasn't all it seemed looking in from the outside. Something from inside a locked, forbidden room was calling to her, but she wasn't going to let that stop her. But she got more than she bargained for when she broke into the room.

A magic looking glass, Wonderland, and the Queen of Hearts, that is what she found inside the room. Well, sort of. But it changed her. And she was pressured into doing things that she didn't want to do. All for the sake of becoming the next Queen of Wonderland.

Saving Rosalind

Rosalind Peterson just wanted her high school experience to be normal. She had dreams of being popular, being captain of the cheer leading squad, and just maybe, landing herself a boyfriend on the football team.

But high school was nothing like she imagined it would be. She caught the popular girls’ attention, but not in the way she wanted. Rose finds herself at the mercy of three ruthless bullies.

The torture and taunts become unbearable, driving her to do something so desperate, that almost no one can save her.

Gail and the Rose

What would you do for the one you love?

Gail had always been in love with her best friend, Jude, but he was too blind to see it. She stood by him every time he got his heart broken.

When Jude meets Adelaide, he is certain that she's the one. Adelaide promises Jude that she'll go to a party with him if he brings her a red rose, which haven't grown in a very long time.

Gail vows to help Jude find a rose and win his girl's hand, no matter how much it may torment her inside, but at what cost?

Find out in this modern day version of Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose.

You Belong to Me

Emaline has moved halfway across the country with her parents, for her senior year of high school. She isn't exactly thrilled about it, but she's decided to make the best of it. She makes fast friends with Victoria, the girl chosen to show her around her new school.

Victoria, upon realizing the house in which Emaline has moved into, tells her about what happened to the boy who lived there before her. Koah committed suicide. Not only that, but the locker she now uses was his, and the bedroom she sleeps in.

She tries to make the best of things and live a normal life, until the people she's closest to start dying under mysterious circumstances.

Emaline alone holds the power to stop these deaths. If only she can figure it out in time.

The Chasing Rainbows Series

The Chasing Rainbows Series is a trilogy that should be completed in 2021!

Leprechauns don't exist. At least that's what Hugh and Oliver believe. On their most recent geocaching excursion, Hugh insists they chase after the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, not believing that they will find anything. They cannot believe what they find. Not only do they find the pot of gold, but they meet Aine, who is on a quest to prove herself worthy of the leprechaun name.

Hugh and Oliver are in for the ride of their lives. Steeped in myths and legends that they didn't even believe could be true.

Aine had just found the love of her life, been reunited with her mother's family, and got the answers she was so desperately seeking, but all the happiness was tainted. Aine finds out that the answers she was looking for were also the unraveling of her life and everyone's around her.

Her father, Cormack, vowed revenge on Aine's family if they were ever reunited with Aine.

In hopes of saving her boyfriend and her family, Aine makes a deal with her father to save them all, leaving Aine to bear the consequences of the choice she made.

The Lazulis Series

The Lazulis Series consists of a main trilogy, a novella series, and a character guide. It is not complete at this time.

The Lazulis Trilogy:

Ava is your typical teenage girl, hoping to spend her summer doing the usual: shopping, concerts, skateboarding, and hanging out with her friends. Her best friend Sera has other plans for them, learning how fly her uncle Mat’s hot air balloon. Their first solo flight turns out to be the adventure of a lifetime.

By magical forces, they are pulled into a world that is unlike their own: the world of Indigo, steeped in myths, legends, and prophecy. Where nothing is what it seems. Where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Will the two teens be able to figure out whose side they are really on before it’s too late and find their way home?

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A Lazulis Novella Series:

Ailish was content living with her grandparents, in their modest home, safe within the Indigo palace walls, as any six year old would be. Until tragedy struck, leaving Ailish alone in the world. With her mother dead, her grandparents dead, and a father who won’t claim her as his, she becomes a ward, living in the palace.

Ten years later, she is still living in the same suite, keeping to herself, and spending all of her time in the library, reading. Until one day, the king’s advisor takes an interest in her, and pushes her to find her calling.

Will Ailish be able to find her happy ending after all the years of solitude?

Character Guide:

My name is Ava, and not too long ago, myself, and my best Sera landed in the world of Indigo. After everything settled down, I set to it and put this together. In this scrapbook, you will find a map of Indigo, along with portraits I painted of everyone I met along the way. Each portrait includes a short biography about them. Some of it is fact, and some of it is just estimations from information given to me. I hope this helps you to understand the world I live in a little more clearly.

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