This is one of the coolest experiences I’ve ever had as an author.
ICYMI: Here’s the cover of MOSAIC, Book Three in the Reliquary series! Reliquary comes out on Tuesday and the sequel, Splinter, comes out August 2nd! I’m so excited to share this series with you all.
Here’s the description for Reliquary:
Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.
Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. With Asa by her side, she’ll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can’t resist.
In which I introduce my favorite character of all I’ve ever created. Here, Mattie is trying to find her beloved Ben, who was pretty brutally kidnapped, and she has followed a lead straight down the proverbial rabbit hole.
The bouncer inclined his head toward the man in the shadows before turning back to me. “Heard you were interested in a supplier.”
My hope was like a shot of espresso snapping me to jittery attention. “Yeah,” I managed to say. Because maybe that supplier knew something about what had happened to Ben. “I am.”
“Bad idea,” said the bouncer’s friend. “She doesn’t know what she’s doing, Bart.”
“Excuse me,” I snapped. “You don’t know me.”
The man leaned out of the shadows. He was wearing motorcycle boots and cargo pants that hung from his lean hips. His black T-shirt clung to his chest. There wasn’t an ounce of fat on his body. Everything about him was hard, including his face. Hollow cheeks, deep-set eyes, and a nose that held the slightest curve, like it had been broken at some point in the distant past. His mouth was curled in a condescending smile. “I don’t have to. I know your type.”
You can enter to win an ARC of Reliquary this week (and a signed copy of RECURVE by Shannon Mayer!) right here. And you can preorder RELIQUARY here!
Here are Mattie and Ben at their engagement party, discussing the joys of family …
I bit my lip. “We could have invited Asa, you know.”
Ben’s grip turned to iron. “You can’t be serious.”
“Come on, Ben. He’s your brother.”
“Listen, even if we could find him, and even if he were sober enough to show up, trust me—you don’t want my brother here.” His jaw clenched over the tremble in his voice. “And I don’t, either. He’s a criminal. A lowlife. He’s—”
“Ben, he’s the only family you’ve got left.” My heart ached for him. His mother had taken off when Ben was only a toddler, and he and Asa had been raised by their father, who had died a few years back. “Weddings bring people together!”
“But with some people, that’s more of a curse than a blessing.”
“You don’t think he’d be happy for you?”
“Mattie, the last time we saw each other, he threatened to kill me.”
Reliquary comes out on June 14th, but you can enter to win an ARC right here!
RELIQUARY, the first in my newest adult urban fantasy series, comes out 6/14. Between now and then, I’ll be posting a teaser each week. Today’s is the first few lines of the book!
“The night before everything fell apart was the best of my life—the last purely happy, uncomplicated hours I would ever have. Looking back, I’m amazed by how lies can soothe the soul, quell every fear, blind you to reality in the most pleasant of ways. Not forever, of course. And only if you really want to buy into the illusion. But back then, I did. Even as the truth sharpened its knives and hunted me down, I refused to see it.
I was too worried about whether I’d made enough deviled eggs.”
You can ENTER to win an ARC of RELIQUARY over on my Facebook page–I’ll be giving away one copy each week!
I am so excited to reveal the cover of (and give you a chance to win) RELIQUARY, the first in my newest adult urban fantasy series. It comes out 6/14/16, and the sequel, SPLINTER, will come out only seven weeks later! Reliquary is super fun, sexy, intensely psychological (because I can’t do it any other way), and possibly one of my favorites among the books I’ve written. I really hope all of you agree–and in a few months, you’ll get to decide for yourselves.
OR you can read it now, maybe: I’m giving away TWO ARCs right now! Head on over to Facebook and enter to win.
Here’s the description for RELIQUARY:
Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real—and Ben is hooked. It’s not the stuff of storybooks. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.
Determined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. With Asa by her side, she’ll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can’t resist.
You can also pre-order RELIQUARY HERE, if you like.
These 4 young adult novels are out between January and March 2016, and we cannot wait for everyone to read them!
See why these books are all the buzz for the 2016 new year:
“You could be either their most powerful asset―or their worst enemy.” Don’t forget to pick up your copy of The Impostor Queen by Sarah Fine on 1/5/16!
Thanks for reading!
Book one: Marked, by Sarah Fine. Taken where I was sitting when I finished it. First of a series.
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Review: ‘The Impostor Queen’ by Sarah Fine
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reviewA kingdom where magic is held in the most powerful Queen known as a Valtia. Eli is supposed to succeed the current Queen, but when the magic never comes, she ends up fleeing and finding out more about the outsiders that border her kingdom’s lands.
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![My boyfriend and I were talking about different portrayals of the Phantom of the Opera, and how some of them minimize his physical scars.
Me: I read a cool retelling of the story [Of Metal and Wishes by sarahfinebooks] where the Phantom was in an...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/bf3f89af768b5dabb6944dd78711909e/tumblr_nrrqtlewF41uyaqv4o1_1280.jpg)
My boyfriend and I were talking about different portrayals of the
Phantom of the Opera, and how some of them minimize his physical scars.
Me:
I read a cool retelling of the story [Of Metal and Wishes by sarahfinebooks] where the Phantom was in an industrial accident, so that whole
side of his body is messed up. He has a metal arm. Like the Winter
Soldier.
Boyfriend: Like Edward from Fullmetal Alchemist?
Me: Yes! THEY SHOULD HAVE A SUPPORT GROUP.
(This is how I deal with the fact that the sequel to Of Metal and Wishes doesn’t come out until neeext mooonth.)
