Synopsis
She'll
have to believe the unbelievable to survive.
The doctors have told Kay that she will
die before she reaches her eighteenth birthday. Her mother’s determination to
save her life leads them to a move outside of Asheville, NC to a new set of
cancer specialists in the hopes to help her. But it’s not what Kay and her Mom
find in the doctor’s offices in Asheville that lead them on the journey to save
her before time runs out. It’s what Kay finds in the woods outside of
Asheville, and an inhumanly gorgeous guy named Ryan, instead.
Myths and fairy tales come to life
before Kay’s eyes, bringing her closer to the ultimate cure if she can stay
alive long enough to get there. And if the cancer doesn’t kill her before she
finds the cure the secrets her mother has hidden from her may be the beginning
of the end.
Can
she reach her destiny before tragedy strikes?
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Author
Bio:
Jessie
Lane is the writing team of Crystal Leo and Melissa Pahl. The two
sister-in-laws share a great love of breath-taking romance, cliff hanging
suspense, and out-of-this-world characters that demand your attention or
threaten to slap you around until you do pay attention to them. Because really,
it is ALL about the characters. (They’re kind of megalomaniacs)
When
not loosing themselves in a story they remember they have real lives. Crystal
lives in Kentucky with her husband and two little girls who plot daily the many
ways they can drive their poor mother crazy. At the end of the day Crystal then
calls Melissa and threatens to ship her two nieces to their favorite Aunt with
lots of air holes punched through their box. Melissa answers Crystal’s crazed
calls in Washington state where she lives with her husband and big furry baby
of a Rottweiler named Yuffie and reminds her that children are not shippable.
This
is their first novel but they are all geared up and excited to be releasing
other projects soon!
Excerpt:
I stood there frozen knowing that I would probably die because of
this wretched creature. All of a sudden I saw the quick movement of an arm
bringing down the point of the knife slicing towards the large creature’s
skull. The animal’s enraged screams ripped through the woods around us. My
brain tried to analyze what was happening before me I stood as still as a
statue and watched as the monster started crumbling away. That’s right, I said
crumbling. Like something that had been burnt from the inside out and then fell
apart, it was just disintegrating into nothing. This can’t be real. I looked up
from the ashes into the face of an angel. No, he’s not an angel, he’s just a
guy right? He was staring at me like he had just seen me sprout a second head
and I was staring at him like I was about to scream again and that’s when I
fainted. At least I didn’t scream again, right?
When I opened my eyes to see his two ethereal blue eyes staring back
into mine my head felt like it might split in two from a raging headache. “Are
you okay?” his strong but sweet voice whispered.
But before I could stop myself from saying anything ridiculous I
replied, “Are you an angel? Did I finally die and go to heaven?”
He bellowed a laugh and I blushed a
shade that was more than likely lobster red. I really just didn’t say that did
I? Stupid, stupid, stupid Kay. I smacked myself in the forehead and tried to
hide my face. That’s a great way to make a first impression to an extremely hot
guy. Let’s just faint like an air headed girl, which I am not, and then wake up
asking stupid questions. And then that’s when it hit me. The past few moments
of events flooded my brain again and I started to panic. “Wait, wait a minute!
What was that thing and how in the world did it just, just…”
“The dog? I’m sorry to tell you I had
to cut it with my knife to scare it away. It wasn’t a mortal wound though. He
took off through the woods in an escape. Sorry if you’re one of those animal
lovers, but I was afraid it might kill one of us.”
I shook my head to try and clear it.
“No, no, no, no. That was no dog. Well I mean, it was at first, but then it
became something else. It was black, and huge, and had those red eyes…” And
before I finished my sentence I looked up at him to see complete shock and
amazement on his face. I had never seen anyone look so bewildered. “Don’t look
at me like that! I know what I saw! Now what was that thing and what happened
to it at the end. It didn’t run off, I saw you kill it. And I would point to
the body to prove it, but it; well it fell apart or something.”
And in just a split second the shock
had disappeared from his handsome face and was replaced by something more
masked and calculating. “I’m sorry. You’re quite mistaken. I didn’t kill it. I
only wounded it. And it was a dog. Are you sure you didn’t hit your head or
something? I’m afraid you might be having some kind of hallucinations of some
kind.” Somehow, when he said it, it didn’t seem as scary or grotesque as it did
when I played what I thought I saw back in my head.
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