Gemma thought she had said her good-byes and had felt every possible emotion she could before her soul was detached again. Deep down inside, she hoped she’d never wake up from it because, in her eyes, life without emotion and memories isn’t worth living.
But she does wake up and discovers she can still feel and remember everything she experienced over the last few months. Alex is also telling her that everything’s okay, that he didn’t betray her, and that what she thought happened really didn’t.
Gemma isn’t sure if she can trust Alex, so she tries to keep her distance from him, even though the electric connection and her desire make it nearly impossible. The only person she can trust is Laylen, but even that becomes complicated when the lines of their friendship begin to blur.
While Gemma struggles with her emotions and relationships, she searches for her mother, entering a dangerous world of secrets, seduction, and evil. The further she digs into her mother’s secrets and past, the more she wonders what waits for her at the end of her search and if maybe some things are better left in the dark.
**Mature Content Warning** 17+ for language and sexual content.
(this is a re-imagining of my Young Adult Paranormal book, The Underworld (Book 2 in the Fallen Star Series) told as a New Adult Paranormal)
I’m the author of the Fallen Star Series, the Darkness Falls Series, the Death Collectors Series, and the New York Times and USA Today Best Seller, The Secret of Ella and Micha, a New Adult Contemporary novel.
I love writing and reading almost anything that is YA. Some of my favorite authors are Cassandra Clare, Sarah Dessen, Becca Fitzpatrick, Abbi Glines, Tammara Webber, Jamie McGuire and Jennifer L. Armentrout. I’m also an avid watcher of TV series The Vampire Diaries and of Modern Family.
I absolutely love music. When I’m writing, 9 out of 10 times I have music blaring in the background. My list of favorite songs could go on and on, since I have a very broad taste in music. But a few of my favorite bands are Chevelle, Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie, Flight 409, Nirvana, and I’m going to stop there or else I’ll keep going on forever.
I don’t really have any favorite movies, but a few that I could watch over and over again are Anywhere but Here, Juno, Pride and Prejudice, The Hangover, and Bad Teacher.
I love writing and reading almost anything that is YA. Some of my favorite authors are Cassandra Clare, Sarah Dessen, Becca Fitzpatrick, Abbi Glines, Tammara Webber, Jamie McGuire and Jennifer L. Armentrout. I’m also an avid watcher of TV series The Vampire Diaries and of Modern Family.
I absolutely love music. When I’m writing, 9 out of 10 times I have music blaring in the background. My list of favorite songs could go on and on, since I have a very broad taste in music. But a few of my favorite bands are Chevelle, Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, Brand New, Death Cab for Cutie, Flight 409, Nirvana, and I’m going to stop there or else I’ll keep going on forever.
I don’t really have any favorite movies, but a few that I could watch over and over again are Anywhere but Here, Juno, Pride and Prejudice, The Hangover, and Bad Teacher.
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Prologue
Why do people laugh? Cry? What makes them cry? Smile? What allows them to love? These were the questions I’d asked myself for nearly the last twenty-one years.
What makes people feel?
I didn’t know the answers. I didn’t understand what produced emotions. And I was supposed to be writing a paper on human emotion for my Sociology class. I’d been camped out on a bench in the center of the campus quad at the University of Wyoming studying the interaction between nearly the entire student body as they passed by, and I still didn’t understand. What was it? Why did they hold hands? Kiss? Laugh? What the hell was making them look like they saw rainbows and sunshine everywhere?
It was a warm fall day and leaves were fluttering across the dry grass. The branches were bare and the air was laced with the sent of rain. My jacket was balled up on the bench beside me, and ear buds were stuffed into my ears. “Wonderwall” by Oasis played through the speakers, the lyrics trying to surface an emotion buried deep inside me, but like usual, it was just a spark that quickly faded.
I jotted some notes about a couple making out near the front entrance of the main office. Their hands were all over each other, feeling every inch of skin. They seemed to be enjoying it, but I didn’t get it. I never had. For as long as I could remember, I’d never been able to feel any emotion. Sadness, happiness, love, they were all just words to me and had no more meaning or importance than the shoes on my feet. When I was younger, I’d never thought much about it. I moved through my life, like a robot, and I was fine. But lately, at least for the last few days, questions were beginning to surface. Maybe it was because Professor Fremont, my Sociology professor, had been on a human emotion kick lately. Most of his lectures related to the drive behind emotion. Perhaps his words had finally stuck the pin into my thoughts. Why had I never felt anything? Was I broken? Crazy? Or were there just some people who went through life like how I did—peacefully disconnected?
I wrote that thought down in my notes, shut my notebook, and got to my feet, deciding to call it quits for the day. I gathered my things into my bag and headed across the campus toward my where my car was parked. I used to live in the dorm, but this year was the start of my Senior year and I made the decision to move out on my own, which I’m sure was a huge favor to the person who was in line to share a dorm with me. I tended to frighten people with my internal impassiveness. I’d been the same way in high school. Most of my life I was the outcast weirdo with no friends. It made sense. I mean, how could I make friends when I couldn’t smile, laugh, or even relate to people?
As I pulled my keys out from my pocket, a strange sensation overcame me, like I’d forgotten something on the bench. I glanced over my shoulder, squinting against the faint stream of sunlight flowing, and scanned the bench, but all I could see were people. My eyes swept through the crowd and I had the strangest feeling someone was watching me, but it was just a feeling and everyone seemed to be engulfed in their own business.
I turned around and was overcome by the sensation of heat hitting me, like a kick to the stomach. Hunching over, my keys fell to the ground. It hurt, like fire was melting my skin and scorching my hands. But my skin looked as pale and smooth as it always did. I tried to straighten back up, force my shoulders upward, but something stabbed into the back of my neck. When I reached around, I could feel the warmth of my skin pressing against my trembling fingers. There was something else there though—something invisible, possessing my body, as if hot liquid spilled through my veins and pooled inside my heart. I couldn’t breathe—couldn’t stand. My knees buckled and I collapsed to the ground, the rocks digging through my jeans into my skin, and my palms spilt open as I pressed them to the ground to hold my weight up. Every hurtful word, every sad moment, every lonely second I’d ever experienced poured through me like a raging river and flooded my body, drowning me in my own tears. It felt like every bone in my body cracked open from the pressure of emotions. My fingers shook as I touched my wet cheeks. I was stunned. Shocked. Terrified. A million different things. Because for the first time in my life, I was crying.
**if you want to read chapter one go here!!! **
I was so excited when I got my ARC of this book. I loved book one shattered promises and couldn't wait to get more of gemma's story. Let me just say Mrs. Sorensen didn't let me down with this one either. At the end of book one I was ready to SMACK Alex, so needless to say after the first few pages those same feelings resurfaced.
With Alex's evil father trying to take over the world, Gemma is running for her life while trying to figure out how to stop all the evil surrounding her. But there's one problem....who can she really trust to have her back?
Laylen oh laylen....laylen and gemma's relationship grew in this book emotionally and physically. Ok ok I have to tell this.. He bites her y'all...one time for the hot sexy vampire!! Oh and did I mention she loved it. By far one of the best hot scenes in this one. Thank you mrs. Sorensen!
Laylen and Gemma come up with a plan to help rescue her mom from the under world. Yup you got it her mama is still alive. Ofcourse Alex is to smart for his own good and is on to their plain so he's participating in this rescue mission as well. He is pushy by nature but he's determined to regain gemma's trust. The chemistry Gemma had with Alex and laylen In This book was WOW! The attraction she felt for both men had me screaming you go girl. Oh but decisions, decisions!!
Who will she choose?
This book had it all. Great fight scenes, unexpected masterminds, unexpected love/attraction. Gemma's character grew in this book. She showed strength and determination in this one. Once she put her mind to it, she was determined to succeed in her mission: operation save her mother. The fight to get her mother back was an action packed one. Mrs. Sorensen gave her readers glimpses into the past/childhood of Gemma/Alex that answered a lot of questions. But the woman with the answers (gemma's mother) revealed revelations to this take over the world scheme that left me with serious WTH moments. Gemma may be a star but there are power in numbers!
I need book 3 ASAP! Great job mrs. Sorensen. Seriously I'm team laylen right now!
Cheers,
With Alex's evil father trying to take over the world, Gemma is running for her life while trying to figure out how to stop all the evil surrounding her. But there's one problem....who can she really trust to have her back?
Laylen oh laylen....laylen and gemma's relationship grew in this book emotionally and physically. Ok ok I have to tell this.. He bites her y'all...one time for the hot sexy vampire!! Oh and did I mention she loved it. By far one of the best hot scenes in this one. Thank you mrs. Sorensen!
Laylen and Gemma come up with a plan to help rescue her mom from the under world. Yup you got it her mama is still alive. Ofcourse Alex is to smart for his own good and is on to their plain so he's participating in this rescue mission as well. He is pushy by nature but he's determined to regain gemma's trust. The chemistry Gemma had with Alex and laylen In This book was WOW! The attraction she felt for both men had me screaming you go girl. Oh but decisions, decisions!!
Who will she choose?
This book had it all. Great fight scenes, unexpected masterminds, unexpected love/attraction. Gemma's character grew in this book. She showed strength and determination in this one. Once she put her mind to it, she was determined to succeed in her mission: operation save her mother. The fight to get her mother back was an action packed one. Mrs. Sorensen gave her readers glimpses into the past/childhood of Gemma/Alex that answered a lot of questions. But the woman with the answers (gemma's mother) revealed revelations to this take over the world scheme that left me with serious WTH moments. Gemma may be a star but there are power in numbers!
I need book 3 ASAP! Great job mrs. Sorensen. Seriously I'm team laylen right now!
Cheers,
dr. Books
Book rating: 4.5 stars/A
**i was provided an ARC of this book in exchange for a honest review.**
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00DQCOK1E
