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 :)

Star-Crossed Lovers, Driven to Madness on a Suffocating Island of Memories

Loren Soto meets Nicholas Grey at the age of fourteen on sleepy Kiawah Island – and ever since she can’t seem to shake him no matter how hard she tries. They grow together, developing a love affair torrid enough to send a mountain crumbling to the ground. And just as everything appears to be set in place, Nicholas interrupts the course and marries Loren’s oldest friend and Charleston’s princess, Sadie Vansant instead. Disillusioned and angry, Loren then occupies her time with Oliver Russo, a Vansant childhood friend who mysteriously returns home just in time for the wedding. Loren then begins to notice that there may be more to Oliver and Sadie’s friendship than they let on, and subtle truths and revelations inevitably lead toward an unveiling of secrets that no one, least of all, Loren, is prepared for.

Throughout the novel, I combined a little bit of what I loved best in life: music, art and love. Without these three things, I don’t think life would be nearly as worth it.

In this excerpt I pulled inspiration from the classical Arabic tale: Layla and Majnun and listened to Nayanna Holley’s On Love and Fear extensively.

The concept of star-crossed lovers driven to a semblance of madness by their feelings and the inevitably of their proximity to each other has always fascinated me.

WANT A PREVIEW? Here you go: Kiawah Excerpt / Twenty-Nine / KiawahExcerpt1

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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.

Read: Excerpt of "Kiawah"!

With the unexpected success of "Kiawah" on the iBookstore yesterday, what better time than to show a little bit of what it's all about. Throughout the novel, I combined a little bit of what I loved best in life: music, art and love.  Without these three things, I don't think life would be nearly as worth it.

In this excerpt I pulled inspiration from the classical Arabic tale: Layla and Majnun and listened to Nayanna Holley's On Love and Fear extensively.

The concept of star-crossed lovers driven to a semblance of madness by their feelings and the inevitably of their proximity to each other has always fascinated me.

Enjoy! :)

Download Now: KiawahExcerpt1