By: J. A. Redmerski
Ebook Release Date: February 4th
Paperback Release September 2, 2014
Paperback Release September 2, 2014
Appox 464 pages
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SYNOPSIS
Brayelle Bates has always been a force of nature. Even as a child, Bray's wild and carefree spirit intimidated everyone around her. The only person who's ever truly understood her is her best friend, Elias Kline. Though every fiber of her being wants to stay with Elias forever, Bray can't bear the thought of him discovering her agonizing history. She's done everything she can to keep him at arm's length, including moving away. But their undying bond was too strong a pull to deny, and Bray couldn't survive without him. Now she's back home with Elias, and things have never felt more right-until one night changes everything.
EXCERPT
J.A. Redmerski, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children, two cats and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC's The Walking Dead.
THE TRUTH WILL SET THEM FREE
Brayelle Bates has always been a force of nature. Even as a child, Bray's wild and carefree spirit intimidated everyone around her. The only person who's ever truly understood her is her best friend, Elias Kline. Though every fiber of her being wants to stay with Elias forever, Bray can't bear the thought of him discovering her agonizing history. She's done everything she can to keep him at arm's length, including moving away. But their undying bond was too strong a pull to deny, and Bray couldn't survive without him. Now she's back home with Elias, and things have never felt more right-until one night changes everything.
Elias vowed never to be separated from Bray again. So when she decides to flee in a desperate attempt to escape her fate, Elias knows he must go with her. As the two try to make the most of their circumstance, taking up with a reckless group of new friends, Elias soon realizes there's a darkness driving Bray he can't ignore. Now in order to save her, he'll have to convince Bray to accept the consequences of their reality-even if it means losing her.
Songs of the Fireflies is a stand alone novel however we first met Brayelle and Elais in The Edge of Always.
When I made my way back to the top, I found Bray wasn’t sitting
near the edge of the ridge where I had left her I moved farther out into the
clearing with our blankets draped over one shoulder.
“Bray?” I said, looking around.
I brushed it off for a second, thinking she was probably just
taking a piss behind a tree somewhere, and I set our blankets on the ground.
But then I got a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach.
I walked quickly toward the edge and looked over. My heart started
to bang against my rib cage. I peered down as far as my sight could penetrate
the darkness, but took a step back upon realizing that if she had fallen there
was no way I’d be able to see from way up here.
She had to be somewhere around close by. She had to be.
“Bray?” I called out again. “Where the hell did you go?”
Still no answer.
Panic set in quickly. I stood there as still and as quiet as I
could for several long seconds in case she was coming through the woods, but I
heard nothing. I arranged both hands around my mouth and shouted, “BRAY!” and
my voice echoed through the wide-open space. But still nothing. I felt sick to
my stomach. She wouldn’t have left like that way out here. And if she did, I
would’ve seen her on the path coming down as I was making my way back up.
I ran toward the tree line, searching for any sign of her, for
another path she might have taken. I refused to believe that she had fallen off
the edge.
Just as I noticed another path through the woods that seemed to
head south and I started to go toward it, I heard footfalls in the leaves. I
didn’t wait to see if it was her, I ran blindly straight into the woods. A skinny
branch slapped me across the forehead on my way, but I didn’t stop.
Bray and I nearly crashed into each other.
“Shit, baby! Where the hell did you go? Scared
the hell
out of me!” I started to pull her into a hug, but something about her was off
and I stopped. She didn’t respond or even raise her head to look at me.
“Are you all right?”
I took her hands into mine. Hers were shaking. Her whole body was
shaking.
I cupped her face in my palms and raised her head so that she’d
look at me. She was crying, and something in her eyes…I couldn’t place it, but
it haunted me. I wondered if she even knew I was standing right in front of
her. Her hair was messy, with pieces of leaves stuck within a mass of strands.
Dirt was smeared across her left cheek. She looked like she’d been in a fight.
I touched her split lip, where a thin line of blood glistened near
the corner. “Bray, you’re scaring me. What happened to you?” I shook her gently
and then more aggressively when she still didn’t respond. “What happened? Talk
to me!”
Her lips trembled and more tears seeped from the corners of her
eyes. And then as if a floodgate had been opened, she started screaming through
her tears, “It was my fault! Elias! Oh my God!”
“What happened?”
I roared, scared for her and for myself, my heart about to burst through my
chest.
AUTHOR BIO
J.A. Redmerski, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children, two cats and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC's The Walking Dead.
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UPCOMING RELEASE
THE MOMENT OF LETTING GO
by J.A. Redmerski
(April 14, 2015; Forever Trade Paperback & E-Book)
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SYNOPSIS
New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author J. A. Redmerski brings us a heart-wrenching, stand-alone new adult novel that fans of her blockbuster The Edge of Never are sure to fall in love with.
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