Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week’s teaser is: Nevermore by Kelly Creagh

Isobel whirled.  This sound had come from the trees directly across the road.  It came again from behind.  She heard the pop of a branch, and the crush of dry leaves.  She spun in a circle, and despite the cascade of sudden noise, the rustling and crackling, she could not sense so much as the slightest movement in any direction.

Isobel felt her throat constrict and her chest tighten.  Her heartbeat sped to triple time.  She turned and broke once more into a run, taking the road as hard and as fast as her legs would carry her.  Her palms, cold and sweaty, tightened around the straps of her backpack, and she felt the Poe book pound against her.

Synopsis (Product Description):

Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she can’t help but give this enigmatic boy with the piercing eyes another look.

Soon, Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life.

As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined, and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares.

His life depends on it.

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week’s teaser is: Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (I’m On Page 156)

Ice kissed the back of my neck.  The chill tiptoed down my spine, momentarily paralyzing me.  I stood at the end of the passageway, eyes fastened on the backyard.  Bushes swayed docilely in the breeze.  The open gate creaked on its hinges.  Very slowly I backed away, not about to trust the stillness.  Not about to believe I wasn’t alone.  I’d felt this way before, and it had always signaled danger.

Synopsis (Product Description):

Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can’t figure out if it’s for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.

The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father’s death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn’t answering her questions and seems to be standing in her way, she has to start finding the answers on her own. Relying too heavily on the fact that she has a guardian angel puts Nora at risk again and again. But can she really count on Patch or is he hiding secrets darker than she can even imagine?

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week’s teaser is: Crimson & Steam by Liz Maverick

Monday mornings were never pleasant.  A Monday morning involving time with Marius at a body-parts market was certainly not going to be the exception, particularly given that within five minutes of leaving her apartment, Jill realized someone was following her.

Synopsis (Author Site):

Named for the angels, Los Angeles is a city of demons, a crucible of souls. It is Crimson City. Here vampires and werewolves vie for dominion, humans build soldiers of flesh and steel who seethe with fury. But alongside strife can be love–a love that cares nothing for species or origin.

Yet, love doesn’t always conquer. Marius and Jill have long been kept apart. Bound by destiny yet forbidden true union, he is vampire; she, human. And a marriage alliance that promises peace for all others shall separate them forever.

As if peace might be achieved so easily. Darkness is rising: a mysterious plot shall force every inhabitant of Crimson City to take sides. Deliverance exists, but first must come a tale of impossible passion and discovery, of Marius and Jill in a race against time leading back to the city’s paranormal beginnings, to Victorian London, to an era of invention and a world of …*CRIMSON & STEAM*

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week’s teaser is: The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay

I glanced over my shoulder to see a gargoyle, the size of a large cat, perched on top of a tall, dark bookshelf by the door.  His head moved with the flow of patrons, watching them closely.

Synopsis (Product Description):

Atlanta: it’s the promised city for the off-worlders, foreigners from the alternate dimensions of heaven-like Elysia and hell-like Charbydon. Some bring good works and miracles. And some bring unimaginable evil….

Charlie Madigan is a divorced mother of one, and a kick-ass cop trained to take down the toughest human and off-world criminals. She’s recently returned from the dead after a brutal attack, an unexplained revival that has left her plagued by ruthless nightmares and random outbursts of strength that make doing her job for Atlanta P.D.’s Integration Task Force even harder. Since the Revelation, the criminal element in Underground Atlanta has grown, leaving Charlie and her partner Hank to keep the chaos to a dull roar. But now an insidious new danger is descending on her city with terrifying speed, threatening innocent lives: a deadly, off-world narcotic known as ash. Charlie is determined to uncover the source of ash before it targets another victim — but can she protect those she loves from a force more powerful than heaven and hell combined?

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

This week’s teaser is: The Mark by Jen Nadol

I expected those first few days to be the worst-the hospital, the funeral, going back to our apartment-but it was after, when the people and the decisions and the questions receded, when everyone else’s life took on its normal rattle and hum and I was left with quiet and solitude in mine, that it became unbearable.