YASH Spring 2018!

April 3, 2018

Welcome to the 15th YA Scavenger Hunt!

Hello! I am Colleen Houck, your hostess for this leg of the hunt.

About Me

My beverage of choice is Diet Dr. Pepper.

I have 11 Koi fish and 2 dogs.

My must have salad topping is feta cheese.

The last movie I watched was “Wrinkle in Time”.

And my all time favorite love song is “Open Arms” by Journey!

You are currently hunting on TEAM GOLD.

Looking for my exclusive bonus content? You’ll have to keep searching.

Somewhere on this blog hop, I’ve hidden a sneak peak from The Lantern’s Ember! Before you go looking for it, check out the amazing author I’m hosting.

But, first, a few rules.

SCAVENGER HUNT PUZZLE RULES

DIRECTIONS: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my favorite number. Collect the favorite numbers of all the authors on TEAM GOLD, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!)

HINT: THE SECRET NUMBER IS HIGHLIGHTED IN GOLD!

ENTRY FORM: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.

RULES: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by SUNDAY, APRIL 8th, at noon Pacific Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

On this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each participating YA author, you also get a secret number. Add up the numbers, and enter it for a chance to win a major prize–one lucky winner will receive at least one book from each author on my team in the hunt! But play fast. This contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online until noon PST on Sunday, October 8th!

There are SEVEN contests going on simultaneously as well as a bonus contest and you can enter one or all! I am a part of the GOLD TEAM but there is also a RED TEAM, BLUE TEAM, PURPLE TEAM, GREEN TEAM, & PINK TEAM! Check out each team for a chance to win SIX different sets of signed books!

If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the YA Scavenger Hunt page.

Now that all the technical stuff is out of the way, I’ll introduce the author I am hosting on this hunt.

I am super excited to be hosting…

SELENE CASTROVILLA

About SELENE:

The book she is showcasing is…

ABOUT THE BOOK

The tables are turned with a vengeance in this tour de force sequel to Melt. Now it’s Dorothy who is fragmented and lost, while Joey keeps the promise he made her to better himself – even though she’s gone. This time the stakes are even higher, as Joey forces himself to move forward while Dorothy is frozen in place. But when he learns of a devastating decision, Joey races to find her before it’s too late. Truth, consequence, repercussion and modern medicine collide as pieces converge in this psychological, thrilling story which begs the question: Can love really conquer all?

BONUS MATERIAL ALERT!

Hi Everyone,

I’m so excited to be sharing an excerpt from Unpunished: Book Three of The Rough Romance Trilogy, which is releasing this fall!

This concludes the treacherous journey of Joey and Dorothy, started in Melt and continued in Signs of Life. (My featured YASH book!)

Happy hunting, and reading!

Selene

Dorothy

I wake up shrieking in the

dark,

trapped inside myself.

Buried alive inside my own

flesh,

my body is my

coffin.

Help! Help! The terror burns through me like I’m tied to a fiery pyre.

Maybe this time I’ll

die.

Maybe this day,

I’ll die.

Please,

let me die.

Joey

I wake up in the dark. Black out curtains, blacked-out mind. All this blocking, still no relief. The bright, shining pain, it sears right though. Here comes the sun.

I clamp my eyelids, squeezing every bit of defiance I can muster. I bury my head in the cheap feather pillow, the untrimmed ends stab my face.

Twisted in my sweat sheets, wound up like a tangled yo-yo no one wants, I think of her name. Why does love rip through us so much, isn’t it supposed to heal? Pleas spew from my mouth.

“Come back. Come back, Doll. Please.”

Dorothy

If I can’t hate him,

I need to

unlove him.

Just turn it

off.

Transition my emotions.

They need an operation for that.

Joey

I wonder if I’m being punished for being so selfish. For wanting her to stay.

Or maybe I’m unpunished. Maybe that’s the problem.

Pop

I woke up seeing red, big bolts of red zigging through my skull, flashing through my mind, zapping me with pain. I thought: I’m dead. This is hell. And I laughed because it would be so perfect for me to be in hell, I couldn’t argue the placement. But laughing made the red bolts zing harder, and I shut up real fast. I lay there for awhile, trying to think past the pain, wondering if this was all that I was gonna get for eternity. God, I needed a shot of Jack. Death was bullshit!

Joey

I guess it’s true that you can block trauma completely from your mind, because it had been gone until that moment. Why couldn’t I keep it gone? What was it about me that insisted to remember? Because faced with this knowledge I had to do something.

Pop

What did they have on me anyway? His word, that I was gonna kill him? He’s the convicted felon, I’m the cop — remember?

Dorothy’s Dad

We killed her.

Oh God did we kill her?

Dorothy

The same words

rang over and

over in my

head as I came

back and

opened my eyes.

“No good deed goes unpunished.”

That was awesome, right?!

You can buy her book HERE!

Check out more on her Website, Twitter, or Facebook page.

And don’t forget to enter the contest for a chance to win a ton of signed books by me and many more! Just check out all these books on team GOLD,

To enter, you need to write down my favorite number

101

and find all the other numbers on TEAM GOLD, add them up, and you’ll have the secret code to enter for the grand prize!

Thank you so much for visiting my website! While you’re here don’t forget to enter the Rafflecopter bonus contest I am running exclusively during the YA Scavenger Hunt.

Two lucky winners will receive an advanced readers copy of The Lantern’s Ember and a bonus book! Good luck everyone!

Enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win,

a Rafflecopter giveaway

To continue on the hunt, check out author ABIGAIL JOHNSON!

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YASH Spring 2018!

April 3, 2018

Welcome to the 15th YA Scavenger Hunt!

That was awesome, right?!

You can buy her book HERE!

Check out more on her Website, Twitter, or Facebook page.

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