It's no secret that Rachael Wade is one of my favorite authors. I fell in love with her book Preservation and I had to read Amaranth. I wrote a short review for Amaranth on Goodreads before I started writing reviews. You can read the review HERE. Rachael is an excellent writer and you will fall in love with her books.
The Resistance Trilogy #3
The Battle Comes Home.
After arranging a hopeful but risky alliance during their visit to the Amaranthian realm, Camille, Gavin, and the resistance don’t have much time to recover from their failed mission. Forced to create a new strategy to achieve their goal, they embark on a different mission—one that possibly holds the missing key to their quest for victory, and their deadliest one yet.
As they attempt round two to restore peace and freedom for their kind, they must rely on help from the living, the bayous, and beyond to decipher allies from enemies, good magic from bad, and whether the source claiming to lead the way to their destiny can be trusted. Racing against the clock to solve the mystery of their fate, they find the battle has come right to their doorstep, and this time, everyone must pay a price
***SPOILER ALERT: This excerpt includes spoilers from The Gates, book2 of the series. If you haven’t read book 2 yet, you can pick it up here.***
“All right. Look,” he said. “I’m going tocome at you again from the same angle—when you’re not expecting it—and I wantyou to deflect my strike this time. All it takes is one stab of this silver,and you’re instantly slowed down, do you understand? It can mean the differencebetween living and dying. One strike will make it easier for your attacker toland another strike, and then another. Each one making you weaker. Which meansseconds until you’re completely incapacitated. Then they can do whatever thehell they want to you. Think of it as paralyzing venom.”
“Gavin. I got it. We’ve been over this.” Ipulled my hair tighter in the ponytail and wrapped it with an elastic tie,positioning myself in front of him again, knees bent, arms up, stance ready.
“Then get it together. I need you focused.”
“Did I mention I really don’t like your bossyside?”
“Did I mention I really hate that you don’tdo as you’re told?”
He met my stance with an amused grin, rubbinghis hands over his shoulders to push up his sleeves. My gaze caught themovement, zoning in on his defined arms. I swallowed, and managed, “Do as I’m told?”
“Uh huh.” He shuffled closer with slow, easysteps. “Out here, I’m not your husband. I’m not your lover. I’m your trainer.It’s my responsibility to show you how to defend yourself. And it’s your job tolisten.”
“I am listening. You just make it difficult …to stay focused.”
“Oh, yeah?” He reached out and brushed astrand of hair from my forehead, letting his fingers trail slowly over my skinwhile he peered down at me, licking his lips. “Why do I make it difficult foryou to stay focused, love? Are you having a hard time keeping up?” Pushing thehair back behind my ear, he leaned in farther, grazing his nose against mycheek, smirking when he heard me exhale a low, shaky breath.
Damnhim. “You know why.”
“Do I?” His grin widened.
“You do. And I won’t give you thesatisfaction of hearing it come out of my mouth.”
“Cam,” hedragged his lips across my cheekbone to the base of my ear, “I can feel it,too. You don’t have to say it, because I’m in tune with your body like neverbefore. We’re on the same level now. All that pent-up energy, trying to clawits way out of you …” Nipping my earlobe, he let out a low chuckle and skimmedhis hand underneath the hem of my shirt, tracing the waistband of my jeans withrough, teasing fingers. My entire body came alive at his touch, blood singing,knees quaking, mouth watering. His scent was divine and his lips called to melike some wicked, elemental magic.
He knew exactly what he was doing. Thebastard.
More than willing to play along, I inhaled asharp breath and reciprocated, dragging my fingers down his torso, then backup, stopping just above his navel. His mouth still near the base of my ear, hisbreath hitched against my skin at the contact. Encouraged, I headed southagain, rubbing and teasing, feeling him grow beneath my fingers, tilting myhead to the side to expose my neck. He moaned and grazed his teeth over myshoulder and down to my collarbone, dropping his blade to the ground with aloud thud.
“You make me crazy. Do you know that?” Hegripped my hips and pressed me against him. “Do you feel what you do to me?”
“It’s too intense,” I whispered, my voicebreathy. I was already panting when he moved to the other side of my neck,nudging my head to tilt it in the opposite direction.
“I warned you. You had a taste back inAmaranth, right after you changed.” He started on the buttons of my shirt.
“But the pull is even harder to fight now.When you touch me … I have no self-restraint. Sometimes I feel like … like Ican’t handle all the extra energy. Like I’ll detonate if I don’t act.”
“That’s part of the fun.”
“Gav … we’re in an open field.”
“Hasn’t stopped you yet.” He popped two morebuttons. “I know you want me. Just relax and let me make you feel good, baby.That panic lessens when you give it an outlet.”
Shutting my eyes tight, I leaned up on tiptoeand wrapped my arms around his neck to kiss him hard, then released him andslowly sashayed in the other direction, challenging him from underneath coylashes, the need to run singing in my veins. “Fine. And I know you want me, but you’ll have to catch me first.”
His mouth fell open and his brows raised, asurprised smile pulling at the corner of his lips; he was ready to take thebait. I surged forward into a turbo-charged sprint, clear across the fieldtoward the woods ahead, feeling him feet behind me, fast on my trail. I blewthrough the edge of the brush and into the thick marsh, lifting off my feetinto flight, deeper and deeper into the bayou.
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Books 1&2 in the Resistance Trilogy
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Up for grabs: 1 e-book copy set of ALL 3 books in the trilogy, including Amaranth (Book 1), The Gates (Book 2), and The Tragedy of Knowledge (Book 3) in the e-format of the winner's choice (MOBI, EPUB, or PDF)
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The series sounds interesting. I will have to check it out. Thank you for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThanks for hosting this tour today, Ren! As always, thanks so much for your support. You. Are. Awesome.
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I actually have Books 1 and 2, but I've only started Book 1. I liked it! (from what I had read; I WILL finish soon. Maybe when school starts playing nice). Thanks for being part of the tour! And having the giveaway! <3
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I haven't read the series, but it sounds really awesome! Thank you for the giveaway!
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