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Title: Very Bad Things (#1 Briarcrest
Academy)
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Release date: September 10
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Book
Description:
Born into a
life of privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old
girl could desire. She’s an accomplished
pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high
school. She’s perfect…
Leaving
behind her million dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent
on pushing the limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex.
Then she
meets her soulmate. But he doesn’t want
her.
When it comes
to girls, twenty-five-year old Leo Tate has one rule: never fall in love. His gym and his brother are all he cares
about…until he meets Nora. He resists
the pull of their attraction, hung up on their six year age difference.
As they
struggle to stay away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will
flare, and hearts will be broken.
Welcome to
Briarcrest Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are
Very Bad Things.
About
the Author
Ilsa Madden-Mills
wrote her first work at the age of twelve when she penned a little ditty about
a handsome prince who had no sense. Since then, she’s always written, whether
it was for work or fun. When she was young, she entered every short story and
poetry contest around; when she was in college, she wrote for the university
paper; when she taught English, she wrote a play along with a wonderful group
of drama students.
Very
Bad Things is her first full-length novel and part of a new
series called Briarcrest Academy.
She graduated summa cum laude with a
master’s in English from an esteemed university in the South where she now
resides. She spends her days with two small kids, a neurotic cat, and her
Viking husband. When she’s not typing away at a story, you can find her
drinking too much Diet Coke, jamming out to Pink, or checking on her carefully
maintained chocolate stash.
She loves to hear from fans and fellow
avid readers. Check her out on Facebook or her author website.
Excerpt
Nora
and Leo Meet
“Drop the paint and
turn around slowly with your hands in the air.” The loud command was said with
a deep voice. “I’ve got a gun, so move nice and slow.”
I bent over and placed
the can on the pavement. I started to turn when— “I said put your hands in the
air!” he yelled.
I yanked my hands up
and eased around to face the owner of the voice.
He was about ten feet
away from me, standing six feet and then some. He was missing a shirt but
wearing a pair of black athletic shorts and flip-flops. Judging by his
disheveled dirty blond hair and bloodthirsty eyes, I’d have to guess this might be the owner of the Escalade.
And I’d just woken him
up.
He came closer to me,
and my eyes were immediately drawn to his green-and-blue dragon tattoo. Like a
giant snake, the scaled body of the dragon wrapped around his forearm and bicep
with the neck coming down from his shoulder and the head resting on his broad
chest. Red flames poured from its mouth, between laser sharp teeth.
This guy looked
medieval.
So, I squinted and
pictured him as a rugged Viking, wearing a horned helmet and gripping a spear
instead of a gun. Maybe holding a shield instead of his flashlight and
definitely wearing some of those laced-up leather boots. The word berserker (from round two of the famous
spelling bee) came to mind, and I rolled the syllables around my
tongue . . . ber-serk-er.
Yep, that was him alright: one pissed off Norse warrior.
I grinned at my amazing
analogy because, well, I’d had too much to drink.
“You think this is
funny, son?” he snapped.
I shook my head, suddenly
aware that some guy was pointing a gun at me.
And he thought I was a
boy.
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