Release Date: July 18th, 2013
Publisher: Merit Press
Pages: 303
Source: IFB Blog Tours for touring purposes
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Goodreads Synopsis:
A "good boy" will do anything for vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or follow his sister Silver into the darkness?
After a hideous car wreck, Lucas wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they weren't identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it defied reason, and was nearly supernatural.
After her death, that bond seems to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he's crazy, or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent on revenge, turning on Raymond, Silver's former boyfriend; the one Lucas never wanted her to date. He forms a posse of vigilantes to take out the gangsters responsible for Silver's death, but he risks not only his own life, but the love of the new girl on his block, who knows more about Lucas and Silver than can be accounted for by mere chance.
Excerpt:
I leaped at him, my fist hitting his face full force. I felt his nose
fracture against my knuckles and the scathing chaser up my hand. He
roared and shot an arm toward my gut. Lashing gusts forced us backward,
and we rolled down the side of the cliff onto a narrow stony landing.
The last firm footing before we tumbled into hell. That’s when I noticed
the ripping burn in my middle. Stunned, I felt the warmth of blood
mushroom across my stomach beneath my cold, clammy shirt. He’d stuck me
with the knife, buried so deep it appeared his fingers were digging
inside my gut. My hands circled his neck. As I began to squeeze, a
mountainous wave blasted the rocks and slammed us flat. Water sloshed
over the ledge, dragging at us like an undertow.
He lost his hold on the knife. Pulling on my arms, he tried to loosen my
grip on his neck. I dug for his jugular. Blinded by blood lust, I lost
notice of everything except the sneering face pissing on my car, the
lustful eyes staring at Silver, the gaping mouths when the two hot rods
approached the intersection.
Another wave smashed into us, knocking us apart. He toppled backward,
tumbled into the receding water. I fell forward on my hands and knees,
gripping a sharp edge of rock.
“I’m gonna kill you.” Pisser sprang up bowed over, prepping to gore me again.
I rolled out of the way, tripping him. He fell onto another flat
boulder. I managed to push to my feet, the dark, tempestuous sea behind
me an ominous threat. Pisser lunged for me, barreling us both onto the
jagged rocks along the edge. He thudded on top. I rolled, flipped him on
his side, my hand fisted on his jacket sleeve. His body thumped
on another ledge of rocks.
Another wave towered up. Too late. It crashed down, a bludgeoning,
suffocating weight pinning me to the boulders. Hanging on for what
sketchy life remained, I waited for the wave to recede. It didn’t.
Another followed and a third. A triple threat.
I heard screaming. Tara or Alyssa? Strange thoughts of death flashed
through my mind. A white beam lit the rocks lending their dark death a
momentary glimpse of rebirth. If I died, am I supposed to limp into the light or some stupid thing? Did Silver ever go into the light? Where’d she go? She seemed to disappear when I didn’t think of her. My mind rambled.
A hoarse, terrified voice spiraled above the storm. “Help me, man. You want another death on your hands?”
Water flowed, ebbed, and I lay half over the cliff, my right leg stuck
between two rocks. Frozen fingers slid over my hand. I tightened my
tenuous hold, reaching forward to grab Pisser’s arm with my other hand.
He dangled from the cliff, dead weight in my faltering grip. Without my
help, he’d bite it hard. In one split second, I contemplated letting go,
prying his fingers off the rock one by one, hearing his body plop to
its death on the boulders below.
Author Bio:
Erin Richards writes SF&F romance and young adult fiction. Her YA debut novel, VIGILANTE NIGHTS, releases from Merit Press (F+W Media) on July 18, 2013. Erin has also published two adult romance novels: CHASING SHADOWS, a romantic suspense (EPPIE award finalist), now available in print for the first time (July 2012); and WICKED PARADISE, a fantasy romance, was released by Crimson Romance (F+W Media) in August 2012, available in eBook and print format.
Erin Richards lives in Northern California. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, photography, and American muscle cars.
Erin Richards writes SF&F romance and young adult fiction. Her YA debut novel, VIGILANTE NIGHTS, releases from Merit Press (F+W Media) on July 18, 2013. Erin has also published two adult romance novels: CHASING SHADOWS, a romantic suspense (EPPIE award finalist), now available in print for the first time (July 2012); and WICKED PARADISE, a fantasy romance, was released by Crimson Romance (F+W Media) in August 2012, available in eBook and print format.
Erin Richards lives in Northern California. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, photography, and American muscle cars.
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