Happy to be a part of the blog tour for
Gravitational Pull by Marissa Carmel,
which releases today!
Please enjoy an excerpt from the book below.
Synopsis:
Touch me, and bring me to life...
How do you move on when you don’t even know where you were
going in the first place?
The Spirit Stalker is dead and I have finally started to
erect my life. But I quickly discover, that just because the structure is built
doesn’t mean the foundation is sturdy. As much as I try to manage my abilities,
I can’t completely control them. The physical impossibility of the relationship
I have with Justice has reached a boiling point; our fundamental problem, my
inability to control myself from absorbing his power, and his fears of touching
me because of it.
As if that wasn’t deal-breaker enough, a new threat looms on
my horizon - Darklings.
They are grim reapers of the immortal world who surface
every five-hundred-years to feed off the souls of magical beings who are weak,
aimless, lost; those who have given up and want to move on.
They also hunt power. Which means, they’re hunting me.
Abandoned by the one person I need the most, I find myself
in Melenia’s realm. There, I’m courted
by Siberian, a dangerous pixie who covets me, hunted by Death personified; all
the while hiding my powers and my ancient bloodline. The pixie prince is
alluring, and I feel so broken and vulnerable. I know giving in to him means
giving myself over to him. But right now, I don’t care. All I want is to feel
anything other than the loss and rejection Justice left me with.
Anything other than pain.
So what do I do when I’m scared to be touched, even though I
know it’s the only way to bring my soul back to life?
Excerpt:
As we dance, glitter falls all around us. Enchanting the dream-like atmosphere, but I can’t escape the music’s haunting melody, and the reality that reminds me of the truth, that I’m not undamaged. I just desperately try to pretend.
“I could dance like this with you forever,” Siberian whispers as he pulls me tighter.
There it is again, that word, forever. I despise it, mainly because, to me, it pertains more to a prison sentence than anything else.
“I’d get old after a while,” I say with my cheek pressed hopelessly against him.
“I know that would never be true.” He slides his hands up my body to my face and stares down at me with glossy silver eyes. “I would like nothing more than for you to stay here with me Liv. I can give you everything you could ever want, all your heart’s desires.”
I stare back at him silently. As tender, and as terrifying, as that proclamation is, my heart only desires one thing, and right now, he is standing across the courtyard, shooting me a demonic stare.
This is wrong, this is so so wrong, parading myself like this in front of Justice. But I just can’t pull myself away. Siberian’s searing gaze has me, and I want so much to just get lost in the moment, to feel his touch. I put my hands over his and brace for his lips, allowing him to have me, if only for a second. Then suddenly I jump: I’ve just been energy checked right in the gut.
Gravitational Pull is available now!
Meet The Author
Marissa Carmel has been writing since a young age and although it has always been for personal enjoyment, she finally decided breakout and share her imagination with the world. She hopes that her universe is as fun and intriguing to her readers as it is to her. Marissa Carmel is originally from NJ but moved to Maryland several years ago, she enjoys reading, writing, and catching up on her ever growing DVR library. She is currently working on the sequel to iFeel, Gravitational Pull and the third and final installment of the Vis Vires trilogy, Constellation.
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