Release Blitz - Veiled By Karina Halle
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Lie and The Pact comes a new romance that will test your limits and leave you breathless.
Death.
It's something that Ada Palomino has always known so well, having grown up in a house of horrors, surrounded by a family plagued by ghosts and demons and things that go bump in the night.
But after the sudden and tragic death of her mother two years ago, death has never felt so personal.
Or so close.
Now eighteen, Ada is trying to move on with her life and the last month of summer holds nothing but sunshine and promises with her first year at a Portland design school just around the bend.
That is until her increasingly violent and realistic dreams, dreams of other worlds, of portals and veils where her mother is tortured and souls bleed for mercy, start to blend into reality. Ada has to lean on her older sister, Perry, to try and make sense of it all but even then, she's never felt more alone.
Then there's Jay. Tall, handsome and deeply mysterious, Jay would be just another stranger, a familiar face on the bus, if it wasn't for the fact that Ada has met him before.
Every night.
In every single dream.
And the more that Ada is drawn to him in both worlds, the more she's in danger of losing everything.
Including her heart.
And her very soul.
EXCERPT
Then, out of nowhere:
“You looked beautiful tonight, by the way.”
Oh jeez. Be still my fucking heart.
I try and swallow, his words, the sincerity in his voice
rocking my world off-balance. “Which part? When the power went out or when Jacob
went upstairs to fight a demon?” I joke. But I joke because I’m feeling this a
little too much.
“All of it. You know why I call you Princess?” he asks, his
tone graver than before, like he’s letting me in on a very deep secret.
“Because I’m a spoiled brat?”
“Because you’re beautiful.”
Well that shut me up. The sentence hangs in the air, larger
than life.
He clears his throat and goes on and I have to fight against
the urge to roll over and face him. “You have this way about you. You don’t see
it. But I do. Like you’re born royalty. The way you hold yourself. Your walk.
The face of an angel.”
Butterflies take flight in my gut, spreading through my
veins until my whole body feels like its floating. “Why are you being so nice
to me? Am I going to die?”
He laughs softly. “I don’t know why I’m saying these things.
Just seemed like the things to say. You’re destined for something great, Ada, I
know this. And it’s an honor to help see you through it.”
His words cascade down on me like ashes from a fire. Where
they land, I’m ignited.
Jay thinks I’m beautiful.
And more than that, he believes in me.
Silence settles over us, stealing time. I hear him breathing
in the dark, steady as a heartbeat. He might even be sleeping.
But I can’t even begin to shut down. My entire body, from
the top of my scalp, down to my toes, is buzzing with heat and electricity.
It’s like everything I felt for him before, everything I try to ignore, is
coming out in full force, responding to his words, to his body so close to
mine. I can feel the warmth at my back, sinking into my spine, just from his
presence only.
I’m starting to have feelings for him. Not just in a he’s a
giant hulking beast who’s here to protect me from the underworld way. But real
feelings, slowly creeping into my heart, day by day.
The thought is terrifying in the same way that demons are
terrifying.
They both might take possession of me.
They both might ruin me.
And I’m not sure how much of me I’ll have left.
QUESTIONS ABOUT VEILED
Q: Is this YA?
A: No. The main character is 18 and there is sex, crude language and violence in the book. It is recommended for mature teens or 18 and up.
Q: Is there a cliffhanger?
A: Nope! There's also no cheating and no love triangle (think I've covered the bases there!)
Q: Do I need to read the series (Experiment in Terror) that Veiled is a spinoff of first?
A: Absolutely not. Veiled stands alone. You do not need to have read the EIT series beforehand as this follows a different character (Ada Palomino) and a different storyline. However for those who have read EIT, all your favorites are in the book!
Q: Is it horror? Your other series was and I don't handle scary very well...
A: No, it's paranormal romance (though I promise you there are no vampires or werewolves), and while there are creepy elements to the story, it wouldn't be classified as horror. If you can read KMM's Fever Series or ANY urban fantasy, you'll be fine.
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