More (More #1)
Release Date: 10/04/13
Summary from Goodreads:
Ava Michaels used to think she was special.
As a child, she fantasized about having magical powers . . . making things happen. But Ava grew up and eventually accepted the fact that her childish dreams were just that, and maybe a normal life wasn't so bad after all.
Now a young college student, Ava meets Caleb Foster, a brilliant and mysterious man who’s supposed to help her pass Physics, but in reality has another mission in mind. What he shows Ava challenges her view of the world, shaking it to its very core.
Because Caleb isn't quite what he seems. In fact, he's not entirely human, and he's not the only one.
Together, the duo faces a threat from an ancient race bound to protect humans, but only after protecting their own secrets—secrets they fear Ava may expose. Fighting to survive, Ava soon learns she's not actually normal . . . she's not even just special.
She's a little bit more.
Excerpt
“Okay,”
Ava said. “Now what?”
Caleb
pulled out his phone, tapping away on it.
“Wait
a second,” Ava said, stilling his hand. “Is it safe to use a cell
phone? Can’t it be traced?”
Caleb
shook his head. “Not this one.” He glanced up at her. “Do you
have one?”
Ava
pulled her phone out of her backpack, and Caleb cursed under his
breath.
“It’s
not on,” she said.
“It
doesn’t matter.” He grabbed the phone. “I could take out the
battery, but they’d still know this was our last location.” Caleb
thought for a moment then grabbed Ava’s hand, turning to walk
quickly down the block.
“Where
are we going?” she asked.
Caleb
pointed to a Greyhound sign across the street. They walked into the
small bus station, coming to a stop in front of the departures board.
“Wait here,” he said after a moment, glancing around the station
before heading out the back door. Ava paced nervously, her eyes
darting around, before she took a seat on one of the hard plastic
chairs. Caleb returned a few minutes later, motioning for her to join
him as he walked back out the front entrance.
“What
was that all about?” Ava asked with an irritated wave of her hand.
“Couldn’t
risk leaving it here in town, even if we took the battery out,”
Caleb said. “We’ve been monitoring your movements for quite some
time. It’s good that you turned it off, but even then, it’s not
impossible to track. I put it on a bus to New York, just in case.”
“New
York?”
Caleb
nodded. “It leaves in a few minutes. With any luck, it’ll throw
them off the trail. At least long enough for us to get to the safe
house.” He looked back down at his phone and pulled out a small
piece of paper from his jacket pocket.
“What
are you doing?”
“The
location is encoded. I just have to figure out . . .”
He looked back and forth between the paper and phone for a moment,
and Ava leaned in, scanning the strange combination of symbols,
letters, and numbers.
She
tried to make sense of it, biting her lip as she leaned in a bit
closer. Caleb’s breath ruffled the hair at her temple, and Ava
stiffened, suddenly very aware of how close they were standing. She
swallowed thickly, fighting the urge to jump back like a frightened
kitten.
Then—so
slightly that she thought she might have imagined it—Caleb’s
breath hitched. A prickle of awareness ran along Ava’s skin, her
heart thudding heavily in her chest, and she stepped back
purposefully, looking away down the street.
What
in the world was that?
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MORE, Chapter 9
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T.M. Franklin started out her career writing non-fiction in a television newsroom. Graduating with a B.A. in Communications specializing in broadcast journalism and production, she worked for nine years as a major market television news producer, and garnered two regional Emmy Awards, before she resigned to be a full-time mom and part-time freelance writer. After writing and unsuccessfully querying a novel that she now admits, “is not that great,” she decided to follow the advice of one of the agents who turned her down—write some more and get better at it. Her first published novel, MORE, was born during National Novel Writing month, a challenge to write a novel in thirty days.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Mike, is mom to two boys, Justin and Ryan, and has an enormous black dog named Rocky who’s always lying nearby while she’s writing. Whether he’s soothed by the clicking of the computer keys or just waiting for someone to rub his belly is up for debate.
In addition to MORE, Franklin penned the Amazon best-selling short story, Window, as well as another short story, A Piece of Cake, which appears in the Romantic Interludes anthology. The sequel to MORE, The Guardians, will be released November 7, 2013.
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