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New Adult/Adult Contemporary Romance/Thriller
Releasing December 2, 2014
Cover designed by Okay Creations
GRITTY. INTENSE. EMOTIONALLY HONEST.
A stunning debut novel that will leave you breathless.
A desolate childhood; a scarred, jaded, damaged girl. Larkin Grant knew she couldn’t end up like her
mother ... so she ran. All her belongings packed in the back of a rusted, brown Cadillac, her best friend
June in the passenger seat as the co-pilot, she fled Aspen and never looked back.
A new life in a new city, Larkin was finally starting to breathe again, an unfamiliar sense of happiness
seeping into her lungs. Landon Black, the boy she loved from afar, came back into her life despite leaving
him and her awful memories buried hundreds of miles away. A weakened pulse brought back to life.
He said she was beautiful. She was starting to believe him. He pursued her and changed the course of
everyone’s plans. Life had dealt Larkin a cruel hand, but maybe this was it. Maybe the boy that never
knew she existed finally saw her and came to free her from the darkness of her past.
But we are never truly free. There are secrets that bind us and lies that unravel from the most beautiful
of lips. Blackness that suffocates and makes us question everything we thought we knew. Larkin and
Landon are intertwined in ways they never imagined, their future unclear as ghosts come back to haunt
them.
Friendship. Revenge. Love. Drugs. Murder. Deceit.
The first in a two-book series, Breathing Black is a mix of suspense and breathless romance. It’s a
provocative tale that challenges what one is willing to do to protect the ones they love. An emotional
journey where trust isn't an option and falling in love never hurt so bad.
My mother once said love is like a drug, fast and euphoric. Licking lips, high on
the idea it's going to last forever, until you're clawing at your skin trying to escape the destructive poison
you let inside.
I woke up to my phone vibrating in my purse. The realization of the darkness that surrounded me came
crashing back into my pounding head along with everything else that had taken place. I sat up and
crawled on the cold tile floor, following the sound of my phone drumming into the ground. I grabbed it
out of my purse and dismissed an unknown Colorado area code number.
4:30 p.m. I’d been in this bathroom for hours.
By choice.
I didn’t want to leave, and I didn’t want move or face reality, so I chose to lie there and let the crippling
fog of sleep take over so I could pretend none of it happened.
I peeked under the bathroom door into his office. It was dark and silent so I felt up the wall finding the
light switch and turned it on. Walking over to the bathroom sink and looking into the mirror was painful,
a visible reminder of how pathetic I truly was. Splashing water on my face wouldn’t rinse away the
misery. I left as quickly as possible, peeking out of the blinds into the hallway until the coast was clear so
I could open the door and run down the emergency exit stairs.
Right when I got home, I got into the bathtub. All I wanted to do was cleanse myself of Landon Black,
but the water wouldn’t get hot enough, and my hands couldn’t scrub fast enough. I wanted to wash
away the way he made me feel. I wanted to wash away everything he did to me Saturday night. I was so
disgusted with myself. How could I be so blind? Sobs strangled my lungs as my cries tore up my throat
until after a while I finally just stopped. Like a blown fuse, my body shut off. I lay in a white bathroom,
in the white tub, with white noise resonating in my ears, yet all I could think about was red. I sat in the
bathtub letting the hot water that had now turned to ice soak my skin. He used me. Everything that
happened between us was a goddamn lie. So many questions raced through my mind. The biggest one
was why?
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