Title: Altered (Devoured #3)
Author: Shelly Crane
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Publication Date: April 29, 2014
Event Organized By: Literati Author Services, Inc.
~ Synopsis ~
Enoch is tested.
His brother is human, the thing he hates. He watches as the brother he knew is stripped away by his love for Clara. He's never hated someone as much as he hated her...but the bond forced him to not only want to protect her, but feel things he never had before.
When a girl needs his help, that split second decision changes his whole world in one instant. A Devourer's Fate...
~ Excerpt One ~
“It’s cold,” I
lied. It was cold, but that was absolutely not the reason for the goose
flesh. He knew it and I knew it. And I hated it. I didn’t like for people to
get under my skin. It made me feel too vulnerable, like they had power over me.
When they had power, they could hurt you, leave you, die and leave you
destroyed. I wasn't up for any more of that. Except for Clara; she
was already attached to me and I owed it to her.
He looked over.
Even in the dark with barely any light being provided from the streetlamps, I
could see his purple eyes searching mine. “Just help me and then you never have
to see me again.”
It was almost like
he could tell what I’d been thinking about.
~ Excerpt Two ~
I fed on her terror
and fright and it tasted like heaven in my mouth. But as I looked down at that
woman who had just given herself to me, and I hadn’t even had to persuade her
to, it washed over me all at once how I didn’t really want to hurt her. That I
wanted to hurt people, but not her. Not really. I had gotten everything I
needed from her without doing that, hadn’t I? I was full and sated. Now I was
just letting my true nature take over, letting the Devourer in me take over.
But wasn’t that
what I was supposed to do? I looked down at that woman and was so confused. I
cursed Clara and Eli and all their love and human bullcrap for turning me into
the thing that I was now.
No. I realized then
that this was my turning point. That if I let this girl go, that I would be
just like my brother one day and that wasn’t what I wanted. I was not going to
be some human. I was a Devourer. My chin ached from clenching it so tightly. I
turned my glare fully on her and knew that honestly it wasn’t her fault, but
she was about to pay the price for my brother’s mistake.
“I’m sorry, love.”
I lifted her by her arms and then leaned into her, pressing her to the wall.
“For what?” her
small voice asked, falsely reassured by my about-face. “What are you doing to
me?”
“I’m sorry that our
night is just beginning.”
She seemed to
understand and her face crumpled. “Please. I’m sorry for whatever I said to—”
“It’s not you,” I
grinned as evilly as I could muster, “it’s me.”
~ Devour (Devoured #1) Synopsis ~
Clara has it all. A wrestling star boyfriend, popular friends, all the right school activities...pretty much a perfect life...up until her parents died. Now she lives with the Pastor and his family and
though they take good care of her, she feels alone. Then her boyfriend, Tate, starts to show signs of trouble when a new guy, Eli, comes to town. Clara is fascinated with him but hides it until something happens. Eli confesses to her that she gives him something he's never had
before...something he needs. Everything is about to change for this normal pretty popular girl
in a supernatural way.
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~ Consume (Devoured #2) Synopsis ~ |
Eli and Clara's story
continues as she tries to finish high school. Eli is as over protective as
ever and Tate and his group of friends are no help. They wait for the Horde, always
looking
over their shoulder. But the ever annoying but strangely prophetic bird
begins to become
more of a chatter box and Eli learns something that could
change some things.
Not just for him and Clara, but Devourers everywhere.
Then an unexpectedness
guest comes forcing Eli to flee with Clara, leaving her temporary
family
behind. She is thrown into his world of underground 'traitors' and learns much
of his past. They meet many new people and creatures along the way to freedom.
But when tragedy strikes the two, will Clara see the monster in Eli? Can she
handle his strange world and awful past? Will one of them lose their life
forever...
~ About the Author ~
Shelly is a NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY bestselling YA author from a small town in Georgia and loves everything about the south. She is wife to a fantastical husband and stay at home mom to two boisterous and mischievous boys who keep her on her toes. She loves paperbacks, coffee, and candy corn, and to spend time with her family and friends, go out to eat at new restaurants and site see in the new areas they travel to, listen to music and also LOVES to read.
Her own books happen by accident and she revels in the writing and imagination process. She doesn't go anywhere without her notepad for fear of an idea creeping up and not being able to write it down immediately, even in the middle of the night, where her best ideas are born.
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