Indiegogo Campaign Blitz & Excerpt! Ashes & Ice Trilogy by Rochelle Maya Cullen
Title: Ashes & Ice
Author: Rochelle Maya Callen
Released: February 4th, 2013
Genre: Young Adult
Blitz Host: Lady Amber's Tours
She is desperate to remember.
He is aching to forget.
Together, they are not broken.
But together, one may not survive.
Jade wakes up with no memory of her past and blood on her hands.
Plagued by wicked thoughts, she searches for answers. Instead, she finds a boy who doesn't offer her answers, but hope. But sometimes, when nightmares turn into reality and death follows you everywhere, hope is not enough.
LUST. LOVE. LOSS. Sometimes, all that is left are Ashes and Ice.
He is aching to forget.
Together, they are not broken.
But together, one may not survive.
Jade wakes up with no memory of her past and blood on her hands.
Plagued by wicked thoughts, she searches for answers. Instead, she finds a boy who doesn't offer her answers, but hope. But sometimes, when nightmares turn into reality and death follows you everywhere, hope is not enough.
LUST. LOVE. LOSS. Sometimes, all that is left are Ashes and Ice.
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***Ashes & Ice Excerpt***
The girl’s glassy, dead eyes stare
into me, through me, pierce me with a fierce urgency, with a wicked
accusation. The blood is still on my hands.
Red hair, blue eyes, a constellation of freckles on pale skin. She
was fragile and innocent, a lovely thing. That is what I think until
I see the gashes on her wrists and throat. With her blood spilling
out, she looks delicious. She’s mine. Possessiveness shocks me,
stabs into me. I run, tearing away from a craving I don't understand.
Breathless, I grit my teeth and run harder, faster.
My feet pound against the earth, away from the lifeless body and
toward the lights of the city lingering on the horizon. Rot and death
linger in my nostrils. Unscarred skin stretches taut over my freezing
bones. Echoes of an empty memory reverberate in my mind, taunting me.
The ice chases me, clutches me, and bites at my heels, sending
shivers up my spine. The ice wants me back, but I run forward, toward
the lights, toward the heat, toward a world that burns me, because I
have no other choice.
The lights are so close. Heat scalds my skin.
Images race through my mind, paralyzing me. I skid to a stop, my
boots digging into the mud. The vision’s blurred edges materialize
into solid shapes.
I gasp.
A new horror rakes my insides. Desperation propels me forward; the
pictures nagging at my seams threaten to tear me apart.
Scorching fire licks over my skin. In my vision, I contort like a
vile, ugly creature, eyes as black as decay. My frame hunches over
the small, dead girl, like a demon looming over a defenseless child.
Her blood drips from my mouth.
I lick my lips and taste only salty sweat.
I run, desperate to trample the vision under my feet, to crush it
deep into the ground.
I refuse to believe the image, refuse to acknowledge the monster
within me demanding to be unleashed—and the possibility it has
already been unbound. An unrelenting tide of fear washes over me.
Past the denial, the fear, and the hope, I think I can still taste
her.
The cold stillness inside me cracks open just as the lights of the
city slam into me.
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Author Bio & Follow Links:
Rochelle grew up dreaming up stories.
When she entered high school, she tucked away her creative side and
jumped head-first into academics, work, and service projects. She
graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Political Science and
Communication when she was twenty years old. After years away from
her writing, Rochelle picked up a pen and started fleshing out a
character sketch that she outlined when she was twelve. That sketch
was the start of the Ashes and Ice story. Rochelle lives in the DC
metro area with her husband and daughter. By day she works as a
behavioral therapist. By night, she is a dreamer and is busy tapping
out new stories on her keyboard.
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