Entice: An Ignite Novella (16 page)

Kellie Sheridan. Where do I even begin with you? When we first “met” to exchange our first manuscripts of
Ignite
and
Mortality
, respectively, I had no idea our beta-reading relationship would grow into the fun business partnership and friendship it is today. Can you believe it’s been nearly a year? Thank you for the beautiful books you send me and your perfect feedback on the early, terribly rough versions of
Entice
. And all of my writing, really. It’s always nice to know I have someone to bounce my new story ideas off of, even if it’s in the middle of the night. I apologize for clogging your email with hundreds of messages.

Thank you Pieke Roelofs for allowing me to use your beautiful photography as cover art for
Entice
. I am so lucky to have stumbled across your work.
http://photoandgrime.com

Thanks, again, to my awesome, weird, dysfunctional family and friends. I’m so happy to be able to write and have such an amazing support system. You’ve all been very forgiving (for the most part) of my strange writer habits. Sorry I didn’t unload the dishwasher last week. Or get the mail the other day—I honestly thought it was Sunday. No post on Sunday, you know. Anyway... I hope this book makes up for it! :)

Yinger and little Crouch—“I love
birth
of you so much. TOU AHRE.” Also, Amy. I love you too. Come home already.

To the WordNerd ladies. You may not have helped me write this book directly, but
damn
you all inspire me so much. Everyone is so fantastic and lovely and gives great advice. It’s amazing how wonderful the writing community can be.

I would also like to thank the book bloggers and reviewers on GoodReads for welcoming me so kindly into their e-readers. In particular—Chaira (Delicate Eternity), Kayla (Bookish Owl), and Leonor (A Cup of Coffee and a Book). Every review I receive, positive or negative, means the world to me. Thank you for supporting the book community with great reviews and blog posts, you are all beautiful people.

And, of course, thank you to anyone who reads anything I write. Be it a post on twitter, a short story on Wattpad, of this novella. I would love for my words to mean as much to you as you reading them means to me. I hope you’ll come back for the final installment of Pen and Az’s story.

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E
RICA
C
ROUCH IS FROM THE
always colorful city of Baltimore. Currently, she is studying English and Creative Writing with a specialization in Fiction at Southern New Hampshire University. She is the cofounder and head of editorial services at Patchwork Press. Her debut novel,
Ignite
, was published June 2013. The e-novella sequel,
Entice
, is due November 2013, and the last book in the series,
Incite
, is expected Spring of 2014. Along with the YA series Ignite, she is working on publishing a New Adult series, titled the Undying series, with the first installment,
Cut
, due 2014. When Erica isn’t writing, she’s reading an overwhelming stack of books, watching an obscene amount of Netflix, and procrastinating.

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Entice: An Ignite Novella
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Penemuel (Pen) fell from grace over a millennium ago, yet there are still times she questions her decision to follow her twin brother, Azael, to Hell. Now that the archangel Michael has returned, threatening Lucifer’s vie for the throne, she begins questioning everything she has always believed.

As Hell prepares for war - spreading a demonic virus and pilfering innocent souls to build an army - the lines separating the worlds blur. Fates erase and the future is left unwritten. Azael is determined that he and his sister will continue to serve as demons together, but for the first time in her life, Pen is not ruled by destiny. She has the freedom of choice.

With choice comes sacrifice, and Pen must decide which side she’s willing to risk everything fighting for: the light, or the dark.