Monday, May 5, 2014

REVISED - Night in Crimson Clouds - YA Fantasy - Sarah B James

Upon discovering his powers, seventeen-year-old Michael Sullivan must choose whether to hunt humans or protect them. Michael’s family members were all ‘Hunters’ and he has the potential to become an excellent one as well, but falling in love with his ‘Defender’ girlfriend, Anahita, endangers his life and his loved ones. Set in a turbulent future, NIGHT IN CRIMSON CLOUDS (106,000 words) is a dual narrative YA fantasy novel with a strong touch of romantic flair.

Michael, who has lost both his brother and his ex-girlfriend to suicide and grown up through public executions, hopes only for a quiet life without having to kill people like the Hunters do, or blindly sacrifice his life for humans like the Defenders do. But out of his love for Anahita, he starts training with her Defender family. This leads to the Hunters targeting him as a traitor and an illegal Defender recruit.

Even though Anahita fears she might be training her enemy, she relies on her secret history with Michael—the past he has no memory of. But everything falls apart when Michael takes a life to save another, and after he discovers the truth about his identity and the sacrifices Anahita has made for him. If Anahita can’t help Michael defeat his own dark side, they might both lose their lives, or each other.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

REVISED x 2 - Ensnared By You - Historical Romance - Lana Klaydon

ENSNARED BY YOU is a historical romance set in early Victorian England, complete at 100,000 words.

Bred to strike hard and fast, Lysander belongs to an elite guild of assassins known as The Shadows. When his latest mission goes awry, Lysander awakens to an angel caressing him in the most intimate of places…and to find he’s crippled and immobile. With the police hunting The Shadows, he’s trapped with no choice but to claim amnesia.

Spirited country miss Lady Olivia Woodward is mortified when she’s caught stroking him down there. In her defense, she was bathing him. With her father’s recent inheritance of an earldom, Olivia is thrust into the haut ton, fending off fortune hunters and scheming matrons. So when the enigmatic hero saves her father from a harrowing assassination attempt, she seizes the chance to nurse him back to health. It’s a good excuse as any to ditch her insufferable deportment lessons. She didn’t count on the man being so arrogant and infuriating. Or so devilishly attractive.  

He’s no hero. Lysander knows every kiss is stolen, every touch forbidden. His past will resurface, and when it does, it will destroy Olivia’s trust...for he was sent to kill her father, not save him. With his deadline looming, Lysander is torn. Torn between duty to his brethren and risking everything for the only woman he’s ever loved.