I am thrilled to be
hosting a spot on the EDEN’S ECHO by Lynn Veevers Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter
the giveaway!
About the book:
Title: EDEN’S
ECHO
Author: Lynn Veevers
Pub. Date: May 15, 2020
Publisher: Lynn Veevers
Formats: Paperback,
eBook
Pages: 300
RWA (CIMRWA) ELEVATION OF LOVE 1ST PLACE WINNER
2018
True love knows no boundaries, it sees no color,
even if that love is forbidden. Believing that got Eden’s mom, Echo killed at
the age of sixteen, and the identity of Eden’s father was one of many secrets
she took to the grave. Instead of moving on, Echo’s soul moved in. With her
mother’s presence in her body, Eden can feel Echo’s emotions and hear her
thoughts. When Eden tells, pseudo father, Uncle Daryl, about the voice in her
head, it takes her down a road that leads to a diagnosis of multiple personalities.
Now at seventeen, Eden has a secret love affair of her own with Drew. If Uncle
Daryl ever found out the consequences would rip them apart, but that’s the
least of Eden’s problems. As new clues surface surrounding her father’s
identity, Eden finds herself on a dangerous path that could answer her
paternity questions and the mysteries of her mother’s death, but at what cost?
Eden can feel the weight of the secrets Echo keeps from her—secrets that have
Echo’s killer returning after seventeen years with a mind to make history
repeat itself.
Excerpt:
Nine months before…
The lie I’d been living had finally caught up with me. As I
hunched against the concrete wall under the bleachers, mud seeping through the
hem of my jeans, a quote I’d read at least a thousand times skipped through my
head, “And the truth shall set you free!” The only problem
was, telling the truth at that moment would likely have made things worse—not
better, and right then, I needed better.
The foul scent of cheap alcohol and the pungent odor of weed
enveloped him as he staggered past the girls in his company to tower over my
shaking form. They all laughed and mistook my trembles for fear, but I was
shaking because it was mid-October and eleven o’clock on a Friday night. I was
freezing, and the homecoming game had just ended in defeat for the second year
in a row. Jennifer, my best friend, had just gone to get us some hot chocolate
when Aiden and his feminine entourage took the window of opportunity to corner
me. Bending down until he was inches from my face, he swayed and peered at me
through cold, calculating, blood-shot eyes. Every other time he’d cornered me,
it had simply been an annoyance, but this time something different—something
darker, lurked in his eyes.
“Rumor has it that your freak factor just went through the roof.
The word around school is that you have more than one person living in that
head of yours, Garrows.”
Well now, isn’t he just a piece of work. He has no idea just how
close to home he’s hitting, does he? The sassy sixteen-year-old voice
in my head and the emotions being carried through my body because of it were
not my own, and yet, I couldn’t agree with her more.
Aiden waited for a beat, and when I didn’t speak but instead
stared at the mud I was standing in, he continued. “So, the rumors are true,
you do belong in a nut-house. You do have
different personalities, so who am I talking to now, or are y’all sharing the
same name.”
“It’s called multiple personalities, Aiden,” Clarissa chimed in
from behind him with an air of supremacy accompanied by a judgmental tone.”
Slowly, my gaze turned toward the grating cadence of Clarissa’s
voice. I pinned a resentful glare to my Volleyball teammate because I knew she
was more than likely the driving force behind what was about to happen to me.
It was bad enough living in a small southern town that was predominately white
when I wasn’t. What made it worse was the only other mixed girl my age, in the
entire school, had an annoying habit of going out of her way to make my life a
living hell.
“Are we done here, Aiden,” I said, facing him again, “because
honestly, I have better things to do than sit here and listen to your arrogant,
stupid…”
I was practically spitting the words in his face, when he shut
me up by shoving me—hard, against the cold, damp wall of concrete. My head
smacked into the wall, air whooshed from my lungs, and I couldn’t catch my
breath as he lifted me off the ground by my neck. Panic ceased my throat as the
trembles from the cold morphed into fear, racked tremors. Black spots drifted
into my peripheral as my vision fragmented under the pain blooming at the back
of my head.
“Aiden put her down!” one of the girls shrieked, “You’re killing
her!”
He didn’t listen but instead slammed me against the wall again
and again as the smell of whatever he’d been drinking, and blood flooded my
senses. I dimly registered that the coppery scent was likely my blood.
Fight back, Eden!
Echo screamed in my head as if her demanding that I take action
could somehow make me do just that. I clawed at the hands around my throat,
trying to break his grasp. As the breath I struggled to take was being pinched
off, I started flailing my legs around, trying, in vain, to wiggle myself free,
but the black spots were getting bigger, and darkness was closing in. I knew if
I passed out, I’d be as good as dead.
About Lynn:
Lynn Veevers is originally from
Washington State. An award winning author she is both traditionally and self
published. With her mother being from Christchurch, New Zealand and her father
being a well-traveled retired Navy Chief, Lynn has always had a fascination
with different cultures around the world. An avid reader, she prefers books
that take her to a place she's never been and teach her something new at the
same time. The Young Adult Genre is her absolute favorite to read, so it comes
as no surprise that it is also her favorite to write. Lynn, on average, pens
two to three novels a year.
Aside from being an author, Lynn is also
an award winning graphic designer, and an editor. You can see this side of her
here:
https://www.storiedgraphics.com/
Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.
https://www.storiedgraphics.com/
Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.
Giveaway Details:
One lucky winner will receive a $10 Amazon
gift card, International.
Tour
Schedule:
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One:
5/15/2020
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Excerpt
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Week
Two:
5/18/2020
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Excerpt
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5/18/2020
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Instagram Stop
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5/19/2020
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Excerpt
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5/19/2020
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Excerpt
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5/20/2020
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Excerpt
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5/20/2020
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Excerpt
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5/21/2020
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Review
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5/21/2020
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Review
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5/22/2020
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Review
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5/22/2020
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Review
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Week
Three:
5/25/2020
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The Try
Everything
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Excerpt
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5/25/2020
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Day
Leitao author
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Excerpt
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5/26/2020
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A Dream
Within A Dream
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Review
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5/26/2020
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Jaime's
World
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Review
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5/27/2020
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Mythical
Books
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Review
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5/27/2020
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Hurn
Publications
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Review
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5/28/2020
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The
Phantom Paragrapher
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Review
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5/28/2020
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Reese's
Reviews
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Review
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5/29/2020
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Popthebutterfly
Reads
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Review
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5/29/2020
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Twirling
Book Princess
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Excerpt
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