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Touch of Honor (The Honor Trilogy #1)
by
J.P. Grider
YA
Paranormal Romance
Publisher:
Fated Hearts Publishing
Release
Date: March 13, 2013
Heat
Level: Sweet
Length:
224 pages
Description:
Honor
hurts…all the time. The doctors say she’s fine – it’s all in
her head. But Honor feels pain. What she doesn’t know is…it’s
not her pain– it’s everyone else’s.
Seventeen
year-old Honor Stevens is not an ordinary teenager. Sure, she looks
like one on the outside…but on the inside, there’s a whole world
of pain going on. Honor is an empath. That means she can feel other
people’s pain – like that of the girl who is about to be raped in
the woods, or the girl who is dying of cancer, or her mom…who is
suffering a heart attack. What she doesn’t know is what Ethan
Sutherland comes to town to tell her – she can save these people.
But at what cost? For every life Honor saves, she knocks years off
her own.
When
Ethan comes looking for her, he isn’t counting on falling in love.
Now that he has, he wishes he hadn’t told her about her abilities.
Though he tries his best to talk her out of saving every soul, Ethan
loses the battle – Honor’s too nice for her own good.
Then
there’s the matter of Ethan’s estranged, morally corrupt
half-brother, Storm – he loves Honor too. And because Honor is
intrinsically empathic, she’s aware of Storm’s softer side and
begins falling for him as well.
When
the two brothers are forced to work together against a group of evil
empaths who are after Honor, they need to put their differences aside
and focus on saving the one girl they both love.
A
Touch of Honor is a paranormal love
story of a different kind. In a world gone mad with vampires and
werewolves, A Touch of Honor
tugs at the heartstrings with a girl out to heal the world…one
person at a time.
Excerpt:
He takes hold of my hand, and we proceed to the wooden playground area off to the side of the library. A maze of playthings built from wood will serve as the background to, I suspect, a life-changing turn of events.We ascend the wooden…plank, I think to myself, though it is really a wooden ramp. But “walkin’ the plank”seems so much more appropriate at this time. Since, unfortunately, I intuit a death sentence on the horizon.“Honor,” Ethan starts, sitting down on one of the built-in benches. Of course, I follow. “I’ve been having this conversation with myself all afternoon,” he drops his head back against the seat’s wall and shuts his eyes. “Yet I still don’t know where to begin.” He opens his eyes and raises his head. Looking straight at me, right into my own violet eyes, he blurts out, “You’re adopted. You do know that, right?”Now if I had not been aware of this fact already, I’d be quite traumatized right now. In fact, I’d have become just a bit unhinged at the moment. Come to think of it, I am anyway. “How do you know this?” I ask, astounded that he is aware of something so personal.“Oh my God, Honor,” he puts his hand on my knee, “you didn’t know?” he asks, shocked.Pulling my knee out from under his hand, I slide as far over as possible. But when I turn to face him, I swear…there’s a tear falling down his cheek. This tempers my anger…a little. “Yes,” I answer, hearing the sardonic tone in my voice. “I knew. I know…”Ethan moves toward me.“But…how do you know? We’ve kept this a secret. No one knows.” Tingly chills run up my spine. I am suddenly afraid.“Your mother’s name was Hanna. Your father…Daniel. Your last name was Robinson.” Ethan ceases to talk, probably surmising, correctly, my need to absorb this new piece of intelligence about my own life.Too dumb-stricken for words, I remain silently in awe.“They gave you up for adoption…because they were dying,” Ethan resumes. “They were only in their early twenties.”Hearing this makes me sadder than I’ve ever been. My body goes slack, and my eyes begin to burn. My mom, the one who raised me, had told me that my mother, the biological one, was dying when she gave me up. But I’d no idea she was so young. And no one had ever mentioned a father. There is a hollowness in my chest that I’d never known. A vacant home that had been hidden away, not knowing my true identity, now manifests into a cavernous canyon, because now I do know.“You are from a special breed of people, Honor.” Unaware of the current turmoil taking place in my mind…and my heart, Ethan keeps on talking. “The violet eyes?” He pauses for a reaction from me, which he gets in the form of a blank stare. “They’re characteristic of your true nature.”There is just no voice in me. All my thoughts are actually knotted into one mess of a ball in the pit of my stomach, where I can feel it trying to find its way up my esophagus. I want to vomit.“Honor?” Ethan probes, as if I’m not listening. “All that pain you feel…day in and day out,” he pauses and is intent on looking me directly in the eyes, “and healing your mother. You know…you did do that. You know that, don’t you?”I just shake my head slowly, hand over my mouth.“Honor Nicole Robinson Stevens.”My head moves back and forth quickly now, unable to grasp this. My hand is still covering my mouth.Ethan will not stop.“You feel people’s pain…Honor.” Ethan shakes his head now. “It is…a horrible existence, Honor, I’m not going to lie.” Tears roll down his face again. “But you are special.”He smiles through his tears.“You…” His head drops in a slight bow. “You can heal people…you are an empath, Honor. You take on the hurt and the pain of others…and you can take them away.”
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About
the Author:
J.P.
Grider, born in Paterson, New Jersey as Julianne Pellegrino, was
raised in Haledon, New Jersey, the oldest of six siblings. Her love
of writing started early in her childhood, when she started writing
poetry in-between homework assignments. As part of a school work
program as a Journalism major in High School, J.P. Grider worked as a
freelance reporter for a local newspaper, writing feature stories
about exceptional high-school classmates. She studied Television
Production and Film Writing at Seton Hall University in South Orange,
New Jersey, where she graduated with a Bachelor's degree in
Communications.
Two
of J.P. Grider's novels have won awards in the Textnovel Writing
Contest, with her recently published, Unplugged
(A Portrait of a Rock Star) reaching
Semi-finalist position. Though Unplugged
is not her first novel written, it is the first to be published. Her
second novel, Maybe This Life,
published Summer 2012, was actually her first attempt at writing a
novel. After completing the whole manuscript, Grider decided to scrap
the whole thing and rewrite Maybe
This Life from scratch. In Grider's
opinion, the difference between the two were night and day.
Currently,
J.P. Grider is working on a Young Adult Paranormal love story and
continues to work on stories in her main genre,
Contemporary/Paranormal romance.
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