Mundie Moms

Friday, July 22, 2011

Wildefire by Karsten Knight Blog Tour

I'm really excited that Mundie Moms is the next stop in the Wildefire Blog Tour hosted by Books Complete Me. Wildefire has been on my list of must read debuts for months now. Today Karsten is treating us with an excerpt, but first, here's a little bit about Wildefire.

Published by Simon & Schuster
To be released on July 26th, 2011

Every flame begins with a spark.

Ashline Wilde is having a rough sophomore year. She’s struggling to find her place as the only Polynesian girl in school, her boyfriend just cheated on her, and now her runaway sister, Eve, has decided to barge back into her life. When Eve’s violent behavior escalates and she does the unthinkable, Ash transfers to a remote private school nestled in California’s redwoods, hoping to put the tragedy behind her. But her fresh start at Blackwood Academy doesn’t go as planned. Just as Ash is beginning to enjoy the perks of her new school—being captain of the tennis team, a steamy romance with a hot, local park ranger—Ash discovers that a group of gods and goddesses have mysteriously enrolled at Blackwood…and she’s one of them. To make matters worse, Eve has resurfaced to haunt Ash, and she’s got some strange abilities of her own. With a war between the gods looming over campus, Ash must master the new fire smoldering within before she clashes with her sister one more time… And when warm and cold fronts collide, there’s guaranteed to be a storm.

Now enjoy this hot little scene.....

EXCERPT FROM WILDEFIRE by Karsten Knight

Ashline wasn’t sure how long she’d been asleep when someone was knocking on her window. Her first exhausted thought was that it must be a woodpecker, but when she caught sight of the face behind the glass, she nearly toppled out of bed.

Colt was perched outside, gripping the frame with one hand to steady himself on the narrow ledge, and rapping the glass with his other. “Ashline,” he mouthed to her.

She shook her head to shake loose the last shackles of exhaustion and stumbled over to the window. She lifted it slowly, terrified that she was going to knock Colt backward.

“Are you crazy?” she asked him as he climbed through her window. “We’re on the second floor. How did you even get up here?”

He wrapped his arms around her waist. “I couldn’t wait for tomorrow,” he replied as if that were an adequate answer.

“We can’t,” she whispered, her will breaking. “Jackie’s here…”

But Jackie was gone, the bed made and the pillows fluffed, like no one had ever slept there.

“Any more reasons I shouldn’t kiss you now?” he asked her. She opened her mouth, but her reply was lost in the abyss as his lips melted into hers.

Before she could talk herself out of it, she was letting him drag her across the room to her bed. Something was terribly wrong, and yet this is what she wanted, wasn’t it? This is what she saw in flashes of light whenever she was near him, one of the many delectable possibilities. Now it was all happening, happening so very fast…

His mouth was on her neck, and suddenly it wasn’t feeling so wonderful. “It burns,” she said to him, then louder, “You are burning me.”

As his lips continued their downward voyage toward her collarbone, she heard his smooth voice say, “It’s just the heat of the fire between us. Do you feel the fire?”

Ash woke up. The dream—Colt, the feel of his hands, his lips—evaporated. But the heat did not. If anything the room felt hotter than it had before, and now it was glowing ruby and orange, as if she had gone to sleep in California and woken up in hell. Her throat was parched. If only she could reach over and find her glass of water…

It was then, when she touched flame, that she realized her bed was on fire.
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Thank you Karsten for that swoon worthy scene!
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Thank you to Simon and Schuster we have 1 copy of Wildefire we're giving away!

To ENTER please fill out the form below:
- 1 entry per person/per email address
- open to residents of the US only
- you must be 13 yrs & older to enter
- this giveaway ends on July 29th, 2011



Exciting CA & CP News!


Cassie has posted the exciting announcements that Simon & Schuster made last night at Comic Con! Here's what Cassie said:

All copies of the Clockwork Angel paperback are going to come with a short story in the back called "Magnus' Vow." It takes place during City of Bones and is from Magnus' view point. All first editions of Clockwork Prince are going to come with a letter from Will to his family, that he never sent*, in the back. That's *all first editions. "So any first edition, wherever you buy it, will have the letter, Indie stores, Barnes and Noble, etcetera. (I have asked about Kindle/etc versions, but I think they won't have it.)

* Yes, the same letter from Will that was in the Italian editions, but with some added material so it isn't *exactly* the same.

** THis isn't the end of bonus context in the books, just the first announcement. Stay tuned......

This is such EXCITING news! Be sure to go and & pre-order your copies for Clockwork Angel (in pb) and Clockwork Prince here- Simon & Schuster| Amazon| Barnes & Noble| The Book Depository

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