240+ Pages
WITH BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS
Genres:
Young Adult Romance
Paranormal Romance
High School
Vampires, Demons, Witches
Dark Fantasy
Horror
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~ Kira Sutherland ~
After a near fatal accident (and getting cheated on by her 'boyfriend'), and beating up the lead cheerleader (with whom the boyfriend cheated...), and being labeled as having 'issues' in her school because she, uhm, sees ghosts, Kira is left with two choices:
1. Continue her 'therapy' (where she's told the ghost is a hallucination and also gets her legs ogled too often...)
Or
2. Go to Starkfield Academy, a boarding school for "Crazies and Convicts" (as the social media sites call them.)
She chooses the latter...
~ Cory Rand ~
Cory Rand has not had an easy life. His mother died in a car accident when he was twelve, and so did his mother's best friend...sort of. You see, Janice made a promise to take care of Cory just before she died, and so she lingers. Undead. A ghost that watches out for him.
Brought up in an abusive home, Cory quickly falls into a life of disreputable behavior. After his third offense (which was prompted by a girl, as usual - he has a weakness) he's left with two choices:
1. Be tried as an adult and share a cell with a guy named Bubba (he thinks...)
Or
2. Go to Starkfield Academy, which Cory is pretty sure is run by vampires. But, hey, at least he'll get an education.
He chooses the latter...
It's at Starkfield that Kira meets Cory Rand, a boy with an insatiable Rage who sees ghosts, too. As well as other things, other things from his past, things that confuse him, things like fire and witches and demons.
Things he's always ignored.
Until now.
Excerpt
The Rat
Mike knocked on the
door before I had time to leave the house. Mike was the guy I thought (at the
time) was perfect.
“Who is it?”
“It’s me, baby.”
Baby, urgh — I
wasn’t his baby. I dated Mike because
he was the quarterback, because girls are supposed
to like the quarterback, because it’s just so darn perfect to be seen with the quarterback, like we’re brainwashed
into thinking these things from the first romantic doll set mom buys us.
This was my previous
life.
“Mike.”
“Uh-huh. Gonna let
me in?”
So you can try rub me up and then complain when I don’t let you? This, dear reader,
was the big problem with Mike. The second we first kissed, his hand went way too far south for me to be
comfortable — and I pulled back.
Mike suddenly wasn’t
so perfect.
“Uhm, I was just on
my way out,” I said.
“Kira? C’mon, open
the door.” He sounded upset. “Is there someone in there with you?”
Boys. As if.
I didn’t know much
about love (nothing, actually) but I
knew this wasn’t it.
“Uhm, now’s not the
time, Mike.”
“C’mon, Kira, what’s
going on?” He banged harder.
When in doubt...lie.
I opened the door a crack. “There’s a dead rat in the house, Mike. Been here
for days. I gotta go get some detergent and stuff to handle the stench.”
Mike stepped back.
He peered through the crack of the door.
“It’s really bad,” I
said.
“I’ll drive you.”
“I’m afraid the
smell” — I stuck my armpit to my nose — “has found its way all over me. I’ll drive myself.”
“O — okay. Fine.”
And then he grinned like he wanted something. “Later? My place?”
Urgh. “Uhm, sure...er...later. Not sure when though.”
“Six.”
I fought the urge to
roll my eyes. According to girls at school, he was apparently so damn good
looking — theoretically. But for me personally, he did nothing. Moved nothing.
Twisted nothing. “Look, I gotta go,
Mike. I gotta — ”
“Kira.” His eyes
grew stern. “You’ve been avoiding me...”
Bingo! Well done
contestant number one! And what have you won? A brain!
I tilted my head.
“Mike, look, this...rat — I need to
deal with it. We’ll talk later, okay? Bye.” I closed the door, not waiting for
an answer, and peered out the peep hole. Mike hung around for a second,
shoulders wide and eyes glaring straight at me through the door. Could he see
me? Did he know I was looking at him?
He kicked something
off the ground, and I had the distinct impression he mouthed the word Bitch before leaving. But I wasn’t
sure...
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Author Bio
R P Channing started writing three years ago, but never published anything even after churning out over a million words of fiction. Thirst: Blood of my Blood is the first book he dared to publish. When asked why, he said, “Because it’s the first thing I wrote that my wife actually enjoyed reading.” When not hammering away (most literally) at his keyboard, he can be found buried in a book, reading anything from romance to horror to young adult to non-fiction to comedy.
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