Months, if not years, of them cycling over and over again until I couldn’t distinguish between the past, present, and what was to become of my future.Īs if sensing where my thoughts had gone, he said, “A few days ago you said you loved me.” I opened my mouth, but there were no words-only memories of standing by the stream and telling Aiden I loved him, and then an endless stream of thoughts and actions centering on him. Underneath that connection, you are still you. “I should have never put you on the Elixir,” he countered. Sending him a hateful look, I faced the bare cement wall. Sharp pain sliced between my temples, and I snarled. My hand flew to the crystal rose on its own accord, feeling the smooth and delicate edges. But without the protections from Hephaestus or Apollo between us, he would become an inconsequential nothing. Delphi stood on the other side of the bars. Boy, did I have a T-Rex-sized bone to pick with that pure-blood.

I looked over my shoulder, my lip curling at what I saw. Then I repeated the movements to the left, my fingers moving-pinky, middle, pointer… over and over. I tipped my head to the right, feeling the muscles stretch and the bones crack. Voices… there were so many voices in my head. Well, it was really a threesome… foursome of sorts. My own personal hell was a party for two. Caged and made helpless by the markings etched in the cement above me and by bars crafted by a god. Yet, all I could do was pace back and forth. I was his power-up-the ace up his sleeve. I wielded control over the four elements, and the fifth and the most powerful-akasha. My thoughts were covered in a heady, amber haze of power. She has also written Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Her adult fantasy FROM BLOOD AND ASH was the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award in Romance. Her novel STORM AND FURY was chosen for the 2020-2021 Florida Teens Read List. Her young adult contemporary THE PROBLEM WITH FOREVER is a 2017 RITA Award Winner in Young Adult Fiction. Her adult romantic suspense novel TILL DEATH was a Amazon Editor’s Pick and iBook Book of the Month. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA.

Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her Wicked Series has been into a feature film by PassionFlix. She is published with Tor, HarperCollins Avon and William Morrow, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion, Harlequin Teen and Blue Box Press. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math.

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