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Sweet Desire, Wicked Fate
Sweet
Desire, Wicked Fate Book 1
by
Wray Ardan
Genre:
YA Romantic Fantasy Thriller
Discovering
long lost relatives can be a real nightmare. Do you know who or what
you're related to?
Jaden
Lisette never imagined she might not live through the month to see
her sixteenth birthday, or that befriending reclusive triplets and a
mentally challenged man could be her only chance of survival. Days
after coming to Louisiana, Jaden falls for the irresistible Briz
Nolan. Then she falls into a living nightmare when she discovers a
side of her family that she never knew existed. Once she uncovers her
family's deadly secret, Jaden is forced into a world she could only
imagine in horror movies. There's nowhere to run. To survive, she
must kill.
Sweet
Desire, Wicked Fate is the first book in a YA romance, fantasy,
thriller trilogy that is filled with danger, humor, and the
intoxicating passion of first love.
SWEET DESIRE, WICKED FATE
What
Jaden knew for certain:
1.
Buried family secrets can be deadly when uncovered.
The
hairs on Jaden's arms rose as she saw the jug's strange contents
slowly unfold. Tiny limbs stretched, bony fingers moved the ceramic
shards off a distorted face, and citrine-colored eyes sprang open.
Jaden's body went rigid. She sucked in a ragged breath as wiry
tendrils lashed out from the malformed thing and plunged their sharp
tips into Jaden's ankle.
2.
She wanted Briz.
The
innocent girl Jaden had been earlier today, trembling from her first
kiss, was nowhere to be found. Now she wasn't feeling the least bit
pure or virtuous. Taking hold of Briz's shoulders, Jaden drew him
closer, letting her lips fondle his. This time he didn't stop her.
3.
The American poet e.e. cummings was right.
It
takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
STORY
EXCERPTS
Beginning
of Ch 1
Family.
Until now Jaden had done her best to hold onto the comforting idea
that family meant something. That you supported one another and cared
about each other.
“Get
over it, Jaden. Stop acting all broken-hearted.”
Crossing
her arms over her chest, Jaden glanced at her sister. Ava was
punching buttons on the car radio with one hand and steering with the
other. Music blasted as they swerved off the pavement skirting a
section of the bayou onto a dirt road. Jaden watched it stretching in
front of them like an open wound, slicing through the remains of a
sugar cane field and ending at Guyon Manor, the old plantation house
they’d inherited.
Tears
welled in her eyes. She knew she cried too easily. She’d never seen
Ava cry. Ever.
Jaden
considered Ava’s words. “Broken-hearted.” Her sister was
seventeen but still clueless. What Jaden felt was not a broken heart.
It was the broken bond between siblings. But then, how could a
sisterly bond be broken when it had never even existed?
Ava
started in on her again. “Don’t be all pissed off at Briz. No
guy’s ever going to be interested in you,” she smirked. “You’re
a joke. An immature goodie good. Or is it all an act?”
Jaden
knew that Ava wielded sexuality like a sword. It was her weapon of
choice to successfully maneuver through life, to gain power over men
and the rest of the world. Why would today be any different?
“Oh
yeah,” Jaden replied, “I’m really just like you, an evil
back-stabbing baboon-faced princess!”
Baboon-faced
princess; Jaden hadn’t called her sister that in years. She was
fifteen. Couldn’t she have come up with something better? Anyway,
it set Ava off.
“Get
out of the car!” Ava’s hollering drowned out the screeching
brakes.
“No
way,” Jaden snapped, but she didn’t shout. She knew she’d
already sent her sister into Ava mode.
“Don’t
say no to me.” Ava punched Jaden’s arm.
“Is
that what you said to Briz before you had sex with him?”
“He
wanted it. He was practically begging me.” She shoved Jaden toward
the door. “Now get out!
“Stop
it!” Jaden looked at the approaching storm clouds, then glared at
Ava. “I’m not walking anywhere.”
“Get
out now! I don’t want to see your ugly face anymore.” She gave
Jaden another shove. “Why don’t you make us all happy and
disappear? Or better yet, drop dead!”
Jaden
climbed out of the car to escape her sister’s malice. She slammed
the door and jumped back as Ava sped off, tires throwing bits of dirt
at her—tiny stones stinging of hurt and rejection. Drawing her
hands over her face, Jaden wiped away the summer heat along with her
tears and searched her mind for reasons why Ava hated her so much.
She answered her own question.
I
was born.
Imagine Jade Gone
Sweet
Desire, Wicked Fate Book 2
The
bayou holds terrors that can devour her alive.
All
sixteen-year-old Jaden Lisette wants to do is spend time with the
sweet and sexy Briz Nolan. But falling in love may not be their
fate. When
a new, deadlier species of creatures is set loose, Jaden and Briz's
chance of survival quickly becomes as murky as the bayou water
surrounding them. As Jaden battles her new living nightmares, an old
adversary returns, intent on revenge. This time, every last ounce of
her strength and courage may not be enough to save the ones she
loves...or herself.
Imagine
Jade Gone is the second book in the YA romance thriller series Sweet
Desire, Wicked Fate. If you like original fantasy creatures, dark
suspense, and simmering chemistry, then you'll love Wray Ardan's
captivating tale.
Wray Ardan lives on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with an artist, four cats, and a parrot. She is the winner of the Readers' Favorite 2015 Gold Medal for YA Horror for her novel Sweet Desire, Wicked Fate, and the 2017 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal for the second book in the series, Imagine Jade Gone. The stories were inspired by sculptures her partner in life and business, artist Steven Lee Smeltzer created. Currently she is working on book 3. With a desire to promote teens that are PONO, Hawaiian for "doing the right thing," she set up Dakine Teens+ at dakineteens.tumblr.com
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