Darkest Designs (28 page)

“Or maybe we just made it happen faster.” He tilted his head to look at her closer. “Is it so bad?”

She frowned, considering it. Then shrugged. “I don't know.”

He turned slightly to look at her mother, then glanced back at Storey. “Your mother appears happy. Young almost.”

That was true, and after all she'd been through, Storey knew how important happiness was. She studied the dreamy look in her mother's face and smiled.

Storey had found someone, so why shouldn't her mother find someone? And if that someone ended up being her father…maybe that
was
a good thing – for everyone.

It would certainly change things. But then, as she'd found, change could be good – very good.

Just then her mother, from deep inside the fridge, popped her head out and asked, “Storey, do you know what happened to the cheese?”

Storey gasped, looked over at Eric wide eyed and the two broke out laughing.

In fact, the world looked damn bright all over.

Blood doesn't just make her who she is...it also makes her what she is.

Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can't get a handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the...blood.

Turning her back on the vamp world, she embraces the human teenage lifestyle-high school, peer pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something in her blood. He's smart and fun and oh, so cute. But Tessa's dream of a having the perfect boyfriend turns into a nightmare when vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnap her date.

Once again, Tessa finds herself torn between the human world and the vampire one.

Will blood own out? Can she make peace with who she is as well as what?

 

Faith and loyalty are tested as a young girl learns what it is to believe – in herself, in her friends, and in life after death.

Cassie's best friend, bad boy Todd, is gone. Gone as in dead. Gone as in ghost. But she doesn't realize that when he wakes her in her bedroom and begs her not to believe what they say about him. It's not until the next day when her parents tell her about the accident that she learns the truth... The police believe Todd was living up to the family name, drinking and driving and coming to a predictable end. It's up to her to find out the truth and clear his name.

Todd is shocked at his sudden change in circumstances...and angry. He struggles with his new ghostly reality, realizing all he's lost as he watches his brother build a relationship with Cassie as the two pair up to find out what really happened to him. The truth isn't always pretty, and Cassie has to be stronger than ever before.

Especially when the whole world seems to be against her.

 

A juvie kid trying to stay on the right path stumbles into trouble...

Gemma takes her camera everywhere. From juvie hall to a halfway home, the new hobby gives her a focus she'd never had before and...hope in a future. Until she takes pictures of something that could get her killed.

And not just her...after she and another juvie girl are chased by a stranger to the halfway home that same night, the other girl goes missing and Gemma knows she needs help. But who can she trust?

Not the authorities that's for sure. Trusting them is impossible for a girl with her damaged history, and besides, who cares about a troubled kid...especially when trouble just naturally seems to find her.

Dale Mayer is a prolific multi-published writer. She's best known for her Psychic Visions series. Besides her romantic suspense/thrillers, Dale also writes paranormal romance and crossover young adult books in several different genres. To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fields with books available on resume writing, companion gardening and the US mortgage system. She has recently published her Career Essentials Series. All her books are available in digital and print formats.

Family Blood Ties Series

Vampire in Denial

Vampire in Distress

Vampire in Design

Book 4 - October 2013

 

Design series

Dangerous Designs

Deadly Designs

Darkest Designs

 

Standalone

In Cassie's Corner

Gem Stone

Psychic Vision Series:

Tuesday's Child

Hide'n Go Seek

Maddy's Floor

Garden of Sorrow

Knock, Knock...

 

By Death Series

Touched by Death

Haunted by Death

 

Second Chances...at Love Series

Second Chances

 

Other Adult books:

It's a Dog's Life

Sian's Solution - a Family Blood Ties short story

Riana's Revenge - a fantasy short story

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