Overwhelm
Release
Date: November 13th 2015
Summary
from Goodreads:
The
living crystals that feed elemental power to Atlantis are exhausted.
They give and give, but the Altantians just want more energy to fuel
their magical city. Sixteen years ago, the crystals came up with a
plan to make it all stop, a plan that revolves around three teens:
KALIOPE
is a soulsinger, an empath with the power to sing the souls of the
dead to their next lives. She just wants to grow up, but her mother
won't let her.
DANICA
is Kaliope's whipping girl. She gets punished whenever Kali
disobeys.
CHIARAN
is a firestarter, so reckless even his family considers him a
monster.
When Chiaran arrives in Atlantis, he's the first fire person to set foot on the island in a hundred years. Kaliope naturally considers him an enemy and uses the last of her depleted power against him. But the battle reveals that the two have more in common than anyone could have guessed.
Anyone,
that is, except the crystals.
Three
teenage antiheroes, a bisexual love triangle, and an island about to
sink.
Overwhelm
is a darkly sensual fairy tale about growing up against all odds.
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About
the Author
Láyla
Messner is a young-adult author and the founder of
ChrysalisSanctuary.com for healing childhood sexual abuse. She has an
M.A. in embodied writing from Goddard College and her novels provide
New Sexual Mythology for teens. She believes that love is real. She
does not believe in unsolicited advice or the word "impossible."
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Excerpt
- Kali & Chiaran: Recklessness and ruin
“When
my time comes around
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her”
Lay me gently in the cold dark earth
No grave can hold my body down
I'll crawl home to her”
-
Hozier, Work Song
“I
just can’t,” Kaliope said, backing away.
Chiaran
glared at her. Why was she doing this? She didn’t want to leave. He
could feel what she wanted. Closeness, comfort, more. His whole body
ached to give her what she wanted and yet she retreated from him.
Just
like all the other girls.
“No,”
he repeated. Not this, not again. And he just…dropped to his knees
in front of her, while a thirteen year old part of him snickered.
Look
at you. You’re on your knees in front of a female. Whipped!
He
shushed his inner pre-teen.
And
felt suddenly like a man, instead of just an overgrown boy. As if one
couldn’t achieve manhood except on his knees. Not through trials of
strength, though males wanted it to happen that way, but only by
giving in, to a woman.
It
was the weirdest feeling he had ever had. Potentially deadly. So he
went with it. He took both her hands and cupped them in his.
“Just
tell me. Whatever it is. Please.”
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