Today's post is provided by author Tiffany Truitt. I am anxiously waiting to get these books, the excerpt is amazing! Hope you are too! Good luck on the giveaway!
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I am so excited to be stopping by today to announce my “Back
to Reading,” contest. Like millions of teachers and students, I will be
returning back to the classroom, and I thought this needed to be celebrated with a MAJOR book giveaway….and other fun goodies for all my fellow fans of
Young Adult Literature.
What Do You Win?
One lucky winner will receive copies of the
following books (Only US residents need apply)
More Goodies:
And that’s not all. Entangled Publishing and I are excited to announce that from August 23-26 books 1-2 of The Lost Souls Series (Chosen Ones and The Naturals) will be available for Kindle, Nook, and Apple for only 99 cents. That’s right. For less than a dollar, you can join the world of Tess and James before the final book in the trilogy hits store in April 2014.
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Life is bleak but uncomplicated for sixteen-year-old Tess, living in a not-too-distant future where the government, faced with humanity's extinction, created the Chosen Ones, artificial beings who are extraordinarily beautiful, unbelievably strong, and unabashedly deadly.
When Tess begins work at Templeton, a Chosen Ones training facility, she meets James, and the attraction is immediate in its intensity, overwhelming in its danger. But there is more to Templeton than Tess ever knew. Can she stand against her oppressors, even if it means giving up the only happiness in her life?
Tess is finally safe from the reach of the Council, now that she is living in the Middlelands with the rebel Isolationists. With James having returned to Templeton, she easily falls back into her friendship with Henry, though her newfound knowledge of Robert’s chosen one status still stings. Even surrounded by people, Tess has never felt more alone. So she’s thrilled when James returns to the settlement, demanding to see Tess — until she finds out that it’s because her sister, Louisa, has been recruited into Tess’s old position at Templeton, and that the dangerously sadistic chosen one George has taken an interest in her.
Heartbroken but more determined than ever after a tense showdown in the woods, sixteen-year-old Tess once again returns to the safety of her community of Isolationists. Bolstered by new alliances and desperate to protect those she loves, this time she knows she can return stronger and more powerful than ever to take back what is hers.
As she trains in combat and grows more confident, Tess receives beautiful letters penned by her forbidden love, the chosen one James, from his prison in Templeton. He is now serving as a bodyguard to the creators—the team of scientists who created artificial life in the first place. And what he has discovered about the true origin of the illness that halted natural life could change everything.
Enemy will become ally and death will bring new hope in this stunning conclusion to Tiffany Truitt’s epic Lost Souls trilogy.
Need more enticement?
Below you will find an excerpt from
book three, The Creators.
Somewhere,
James was just as trapped as I was.
I thought of the morning when we lay with each other, curled against one another,
never beginning and never ending. How we’d stayed like that till the sun began
to rise.
James had reached down and pulled me off the ground. He wore a satisfied grin
on his face. “Someone is mighty proud of himself,” I teased.
He laughed. It bounced through the forest, calling it awake. Readying it for
the day. “I’m just insanely happy.”
I stood on the tips of my toes and kissed him gently on his scar. “I’m insanely
happy too,” I whispered.
James looked down at me, and I was lost all over again. I would never tire of
looking into those mismatched eyes. They didn’t make him different. They made
him him. He chuckled as he reached over and pulled a leaf from my tangled hair.
“They’ll know just by looking at you that we’ve been up to no good.”
“No good?” I purred. “I thought it was very, very good.”
James growled and lifted me into the air. I wrapped my legs around his waist as
he pressed his lips hungrily against mine. I moved my hands to his hair,
curling my fingers into it, attaching myself to him. I never wanted to let go.
Every part of me ached to be touched by him, and every part of me ached to
touch him right back.
“Do you know how much I love you?” he breathed into the base of my neck. His
lips fluttered against my skin.
I nodded, kissing the top of his head. “As much as I love you.”
James slowly put my feet back on the ground. He cradled my face in his hands.
“That will never change. No matter what.”
I looked deep into his eyes. “I know.” Because I did. It was one of life’s few
assurances. I would always love James.
I pressed my lips once again to his scar. “I adore this scar,” I whispered,
unable to hide the smile that seemed etched on my face all morning.
“You’re enough to drive a man crazy,” he said The tremble of his voice caused
my toes to curl. I wanted him again. And again. And again.
My fingers traced the waist of his pants. “Tonight?” I said, knowing full well
it was a promise that I probably wouldn’t be able to keep.
James grabbed my hand and brought it to his lips. “Tonight,” he echoed.
As the sun climb higher into the sky, I knew our moment was coming to an end.
James reached down and placed his hand over my heart. “Thank you,” he said.
“For what?” I asked, my voice choked with emotion.
“For everything.”
As the memory slipped away, I looked back up at the night sky. Praying and hoping
that James knew how much I wanted to thank him too.
For everything.
