Have You Added One of My Books to Your Summer Reading List Yet?

Tritely put, the summer season is probably one of the best times to catch up on reading.  There's just something about the balmy heat and the breeze sweeping across our faces that lulls us into succumbing to our own imaginations. And what better way is there than to pick up a good book and get lost in it?

June 1st will mark one year since my first book was published.  Since then, I've managed to release 4 more publications, all of which have sold over 100 copies each.  For an independent author, that's more than I could have ever dreamed.

This comes as no surprise that I love to write. But what excites me more is someone reading what I've written and loving it.  So, as I meticulously compose The Trail's End and form it for its release this fall, I want people to read my work, get lost in the words, the characters, learn about my inspiration.

Add these to your summer reading list - you won't be disappointed :)

COMING FALL 2012: "The Trail's End" by Jade Alyse

Flighty and whimsical Esme Duval travels to France to study abroad. She meets Lucas Wood, a young British man on a weekend excursion to Biarritz, and quickly falls in love with him. It is only later that the man reveals that he's actually famous in his country and warns her that the media spends a great deal of time inventing stories about him.

And not long after, the media becomes fascinated with their relationship, though they attempt to keep it as private as possible. None of the stories that they fabricate are remotely close to their actual lives and to escape the scrutiny, they saunter to a friend's house in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. Everything seems peaceful and copacetic until a friend is mysteriously found dead in the woods.  And the only clue that the police are able to find is a ratty 5-subject notebook. There's a problem, however: the police cannot discern whether or not it's a diary or manuscript highlighting their relationship in an obsessive form.

And who wrote it?

Another problem: Esme and Lucas aren't talking...and they seem to have a secret of their own.