Marked (The Marked Duology Series, #1)
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Synopsis: A mysterious stranger she can’t stay away from. A birthmark with a hidden meaning and one
bite that changes seventeen-year-old Tessa Morganton’s destiny forever…
Life for Tessa had been steady and calm—with the exception
of her overly jealous boyfriend—until the moment Jace Fowler walked into her
life.
Jace—incredibly charming with boy band good looks—is someone
whom Tessa can’t seem to stay away from… no matter how much she knows she
should.
After surviving a strange animal attack, Tessa learns just
how mysterious and secretive Jace really is and that his secrets not only
involve himself…but her as well, making Tessa question everything she’s ever
believed regarding her life and those around her.
Sneak Peek Into Marked
I
stood on Jace’s front porch trying to slow the erratic beating of my heart
before knocking on his door. Finally deciding it was impossible to do, I
stepped forward and rapped my knuckles against the door. I rolled on my ankles
as the seconds dragged by and large butterflies broke into flight in the pit of
my stomach. He never answered.
I
knocked a second time and waited. This time quick footsteps from inside caught
my attention.
“Coming,”
Jace shouted. He answered the door and shock rippled through me at the sight of
him. He was shirtless. “Hey, you been waiting out here a while? I was in the
shower.”
“No,
not really,” I said, unable to remove my eyes from his bare, and incredibly
solid looking, chest with its well defined muscles.
“You’re
a little early.”
“Am
I?” I asked, struggling hard to tear my eyes away from his six-pack.
“Nah,
just messin’ with you. I’m running a little behind—got caught up in tearing off
the back porch and rebuilding it,” he said with a low chuckle. “Come on in and
let me go grab a shirt. You’re staring at me like you’re either about to faint
or eat me... and I don’t particularly care to witness either.”
My
cheeks burned with embarrassment as I shifted my eyes from his exposed skin for
the first time. “Whatever.” I scoffed.
Jace
smiled and shook his head before turning to retrieve a shirt. I bit my bottom
lip and allowed myself to indulge in watching him saunter away. It was then I
became struck by the sheer beauty of a large, full moon tattoo, which stretched
across his entire back.
“Wow,
I didn’t know you had a tattoo,” I said, pleasantly surprised.
Jace
paused mid-step. “Uh, yeah.”
“It’s
beautiful...,” I whispered, walking to where he stood, mesmerized.
I
gazed at the intricate design displayed across solid muscle with fascination.
I’d never seen anything like it before—slight shadows in places formed the
illusion of tiny craters, creating a realistic, 3-D effect, and bluish-black
clouds hung in the night sky surrounding and touching it in two places. It was
absolutely breathtaking.
“Thank
you,” Jace said, glancing over his shoulder to look at me.
“Did
it hurt?” I wondered, reaching out to trace a finger across the raised, colored
skin. Goosebumps prickled across his skin as my fingertips wandered the length
of the tattoo.
“I
have a high tolerance for pain.” A lopsided grin formed on his face, obviously
due to my amazed expression.
I
dropped my hand and straightened my back.
“Done?”
He smirked.
“Yeah,”
I said, holding his stare.
Changed (The Marked Duology Series #2)
Synopsis: Would you fight to the death to prove you are worthy to
stand beside the one you loved?
Eighteen-year-old Tessa Morganton’s life has flipped upside
down. After learning Jace’s secret and discovering the man she’d thought all
her life was her father isn’t, she must also cope with the reality of what
she’s now become—a werewolf.
Tessa tries to maintain her normal life while her body
changes more and more each night as the full moon grows closer, but when Shelby
comes back to pay her a visit, Tessa soon realizes turning into a wolf may not
be the only dilemma she will have to overcome.
As the Wolf Moon draws near, Tessa uncovers some things
about Jace and Shelby’s relationship and exactly what Pack Law entails in the
untraditional situation Jace has created for them all.
Sneak Peak Into Changed
Jace returned my hesitant smile with
the crooked grin of his own. Raising his shirt above his head, he slipped it
off, revealing his bare chest. I watched in silent shock as he folded the shirt
perfectly before placing it on a pile of nearby leaves. His fingers then
reached for the button of his jeans and unclasped them, the sound of his zipper
coming undone echoed loudly in my ears.
“Whoa! What are you doing?” I asked,
feeling pleasantly surprised at the sight of him undressing in front of me, but
entirely confused and embarrassed by it.
Jace raised an eyebrow in mild
amusement as the corners of his mouth twisted into a slight smirk. “Preparing
for the change,” he answered smoothly, his tone insinuating this was something I
should know.
“Oh, right,” I fumbled, my eyes
darting toward the ground.
“You should, too. You don’t want to
rip those clothes. It can get a little expensive if you don’t take the time to
undress first. Not to mention, early in the morning when you head back home,
it’s not quite as strange for your neighbors to see you emerging from the woods
fully clothed instead of naked,” Jace said, his irresistible little smirk still
lingering on his face.
I swallowed hard. “So you want me to
undress… here… in front of you?”
My cheeks burned with embarrassment.
I hadn’t given much thought to undressing in front of Jace yet, not even while
preparing for the change. I lifted my eyes, meaning to meet his stare, but I
didn’t make it past his solid abs.
“You’re making me nervous staring at
me like that,” Jace muttered.
My eyes darted away from him and I
shifted on my feet.
“Would it make you feel more
comfortable if I turned around?” he asked.
I picked at my fingernail polish,
hesitating before finally answering, “No. I’m going to have to get used to this
part anyway, right?” I dropped my gaze to my toes and began to peel off my pink
long-John shirt.
“Yeah,” he answered a little breathy.
I could feel his eyes on me while I
slipped out of my gray sweatpants and folded them neatly before placing them on
top of my shirt lying on the ground.
“Now you’re staring,” I
muttered, a nervous smile tugging at the corners of my lips as I watched his
eyes drift up my body.
“Sorry, I can’t help
myself.” With blushing cheeks he cleared his throat and shifted his eyes away
from me and out into the surrounding woods.
