Winter Blog Hop: New Beginnings No Matter the Season

Celebrating New Beginnings No Matter the Season

Welcome to the New Year’s Edition of our YA Book Blog Hop! I’m super excited to participate in this event with so many amazing authors. Don’t miss every hop as each will have their own private giveaway. Plus enter the Mega giveaway with books from each author!

When I thought about what my make a fun new year’s blog post, I realized that many of my books have a new beginnings theme. And since many people like to start their new year with a fresh look, I thought it would be perfect to highlight the new beginnings my characters experience in several of my books. Because I write in different genres, I’ve included at least one book from each in hopes that everyone will find a book they love!

A new venture for Amanda from the clean new adult college series starter Is This Me?

Amanda Avery, age 18, sits on the brink of a new period in her life. Today she leaves for college. She’s flying the protected nest of her parents’ home and moving to the city of Evanston, IL, just a hop from the windy city of Chicago. Her best friend will join her at her school of choice which also happens to be her dad and sister’s alma mater. Still, she plans to pave her own road to success. Amanda is the serious, follow the rules type, but her college script goes sideways the very first night on campus. Stuck at a frat house, she’s escorted back to her dorm by the very hunky fraternity president, Doug. And did I mention he’s into all the same things Amanda is? Should she even think of having a crush on this guy? NO! Is she helpless to avoid it? YES! Discover more, add to your TBR, or download it at 99 cents (FREE with KU) today from the Is This Me? website.

A summer to reset in the YA paranormal Drops of Sunshine

Nina, 16, is in desperate need of a life swap. The whole town knows about her mother’s drama and the only solution she sees is to escape to a summer camp deep in the woods of Wisconsin. With a job as a camp counselor and lifeguard her goal is to forget the past year. But odd things keep happening. The campers know things they shouldn’t, private details about her life. And her appetite for escape places her in a dangerous spot. Can she open up to a different way of dealing with her trauma rather than burying it deep within? Find out in the YA paranormal novel Drops of Sunshine here. Bonus: I’m giving away a signed copy of Drops of Sunshine with this hop. Enter here.

Committing to finding the truth in the YA urban fantasy Kingdom of Embers

Seventeen-year-old Alena (Uh-lee-nuh) keeps many secrets. First she’s half vampire, second she’s half witch, third her mother is the Vampire Chancellor, the head of the vampire government. But her mother holds the answer to Alena’s most cherished piece of information. Who is her father? On the brink of her eighteenth birthday, she’s determined to find the truth. But will her search reduce her mother’s kingdom to a pile of embers? Discover the secrets within Kingdom of Embers, exclusively free on this blog hop with signup to my reader list. Kingdom of Embers and the complete Kingdom Journals series is also available on audiobook. Use your audible credits to download them today!

Sometimes we have to roll with the punches in this dystopian adventure

Fifteen-year-old Jema leads a normal existence until her father wakes her family in the night and loads them onto a transport truck bound for a secret desert community. When complications ensue, she and Troy, a hunky ball-player from her high school, become tasked with getting the families to their destination. But first they must quarantine and Jema’s sister is discovered to be sick with the next wave a virus. Jema must take on the whole camp to save her sister. And Troy becomes the perfect ally.  Lovelock Ones is dystopian adventure starring two teens who discover their role in history is much larger than they ever could have guessed. Are they up for the challenge of saving a planet? Learn more on the book page.

She prepared for years to lead her kingdom in this YA fantasy

But when she’s handed the crown at age fifteen, Titania of the fae discovers her reign to be challenged from many sides. Even those thought loyal to her father attempt to undermine her rule. But if there is one thing Titania is not, it’s a quitter. But how can she, a girl plagued by anxiety attacks, prove her worth and keep her kingdom safe? To be a Fae Queen is the first book in the Realm Chronicles series, a crossover series to the Kingdom Journals. Discover the realm of Middle Earth with the paperback, ebook, or audiobook. The second book in the series, To be a Fae Guardian, releases January 20, 2022!