Unrequited
Release Date: 09/23/14
Swoon Romance
Summary from Goodreads:
In the town of Belle Ridge there are doctors,
lawyers and teachers... but there is only one vampire. Will Leighton has become
an expert in making a life for himself amongst the unsuspecting small-town
inhabitants, as the high school history teacher. He has spent hundreds of years
crafting an identity and routine that make him feel almost human, but he is
always missing that important final element, love.
Ashton Wallace is beautiful, smart, and angry. She was forced into an eternal
existence, and now her family has moved her away from everything and everyone
she knows. In Belle Ridge she is supposed to finish high school and start her
life again, but how do you make plans for the next several centuries?
Will has never met another of his kind, and is immediately intrigued by Ashton.
He longs to show her that the perceived vampire lifestyle, so popular in
storybooks, is far from reality...but will she let him be a friend and guide in
this new existence? Can Ashton accept Will into her life, or will she be led
astray by a dark stranger with whom she shares an unknown connection?
Excerpt:
In the town of Belle Ridge, there were
doctors, lawyers, and teachers. But there was only one vampire, and he happened
to be the high school history teacher.
Will Leighton always loved the start of
a new school year. Classes were set to begin the next day, and as he looked
around his classroom at the empty chairs, he smiled as he imagined them filled
with chattering young people. He always looked forward to catching up with
former students and getting to know new ones. The sense of community he felt as
a teacher was the only thing that came close to making him feel like he was
part of something, like he belonged.
Will was an outsider, and he knew it. No
matter how many friends he made or local groups he joined, there was always a
thread of solitude running through everything he did. The loneliness had a
certain feeling to it. It wasn’t quite sad, or depressing, it was more like he
was adrift with nothing he could truly connect to. But on this day, somewhere
in his two-hundredth or so year on Earth, Will felt something he never had
before: familiarity. Something in himself was being pulled, as though by a
magnet, toward a nearby presence. Could it be that after so many years, Will
Leighton wasn't alone anymore?
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About the Author
Whether writing
stories to entertain her younger siblings, or typing up an essay for a class,
Emily Shaffer has been a writer for as long as she can remember. Her
stories may have changed from talking cartoon frogs to angsty young adults, but
her goal to write a compelling story remains the same. When not writing,
she lives in Nashville and enjoys all the music, food, and excitement that city
has to offer. Her first novel, the well-received chick-lit title That
Time of the Month was self-published on Amazon in 2012. Her latest novel,
as the others before, are fueled by diet soda and pie.
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This does sound really interesting and I do like that cover!
ReplyDeleteI love the cover as well!
DeleteMy pleasure :)
ReplyDeleteLove the cover and the synopsis certainly has me curious!
ReplyDeleteMe also!!!
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