Blog Tour: Loyalty And Lies by Chastity Falls
Book Title: Loyalty and Lies (Chastity Falls #1)
Author: LA Cotton
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 2015
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
Synopsis
Eighteen-year-old Savanah Parry just moved three thousand miles across state to escape. The memories…the whispers…the pain.
Chastity Falls Academy is supposed to be her fresh start; her salvation. And when Ana meets mysterious Jackson, she begins to think it is. She hasn’t smiled in almost sixteen months; not since the night her life changed forever, and despite her guilt…her loyalty, Ana can’t deny that Jackson is breathing life back into her. With Jackson by her side, Ana wants to believe she can heal and move on. But she isn’t the only one living a lie, and the small private Academy has secrets of its own. All is not what it seems, and Ana is about to find herself in a tangled web of lies; fighting for survival, again.
Loyalties will be tested, lies will be told. Welcome to Chastity Falls.
WOW. This series is gonna be awesome. LA Cotton filled this read with twisty, crazy, characters and angsty, evil college kids.
Ana Parry moves from the sunny beaches of Florida where her life was devastated to the cold and extreme Pacific Northwest to attend college at Chastity Falls, but what she finds is friends and a reason to smile again.
This book is filled with great characters from Jackson and Ana to the triplets and "those" teachers...they all seem to have roles and you can picture them all for your own college years.
There is loads of angst, some steamy sex and just a great buildup, climax and then more angst.
I was so engrossed. The writing seemed effortless and I was embroiled in their college lives and all the drama. Ana being not local, doesn't know the history of the people she's suddenly thrust against and the ones that do know aren't quite forthcoming, so Ana seems to get stuck in the middle of a Jackson tug of war. I can't blame her though, cuz Jackson sounds like he'd be worth fighting for.
I like the way LA Cotton just gives you the most basic of gloss overs when something isn't really important, but it is mentioned, so you're not like, "where the hell did this person pop in there, what's up with the mention of this place or person or town" she gives just enough so that you're never lost and always, always wanting more!
Can't wait to start the 2nd book of the Chastity Falls series and see where Jackson and Ana can go!
EXCEPRT
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Ninety-minutes later, I was sitting in Black’s suffering some kind of post-Jackson whiplash.
“I’m surprised you asked me for coffee again.” I slurped up the thick banana shake.
Jackson watched me, his eyes were more the color of the bluey-green ocean today, than their usual shade. “Actually, I invited you for a shake.” He quipped back.
I tried broaching the subject during the ride to Black’s, but he just shrugged me off, talking about the weather. The freaking weather. I was done with his evasion techniques. “After you warned me to stay away from you the other night?”
He placed his mug back on its plate and sighed. I watched, captivated, as he ran his hand through his messy dark hair, the longer strands falling back into place, a five ‘o’clock shadow cloaking his jaw. “About that… I may have been a little hasty.”
“Hasty?”
“See the thing is…” His eyes held mine, smoldering at me, pleading with me. “I’m not sure I can stay away from you.”
My lips moved to say something but nothing came out. Jackson watched me intently and I gulped. It felt like he was willing me to agree, to accept that there was a reason we should stay away from each other, but to ignore it. And I got the feeling it was a no questions asked kind of arrangement.
“It’d be better for you… for us, if you stay away from me, Ana. But I don’t want you to. I’m too selfish to walk away.”
“But-”
Jackson cut me off. “No questions. That’s the deal. We spend time together, get to know each other, but you can’t ask any of the questions I know you have swimming round in that pretty little head of yours.”
“Okay, but-”
His hand found mine across the booth, and his fingers grazed my knuckles. “No questions. That’s just the way it has to be for now.”
I nodded. Unsure what I was agreeing to.
“You won’t regret it Ana Parry, I promise.”
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