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the LAST CHANCE ACADEMY by Alex Lidell Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.
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About
the Book:
Title: LAST
CHANCE ACADEMY : Shifter Fae Vampire Reform School Romance (Immortals
of Talonswood Book 1)
Author: Alex Lidell
Pub.
Date: May 1, 2020
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 400
Foster girl. Trash. That’s all I am to the world. And that’s fine.
After surviving New Jersey’s foster system, I can survive anything. Even taking
a dangerous job from a tall, gorgeous stranger so I can keep my little sister
safe—a job that goes very, very wrong.
Suddenly I’m facing a brutal choice: a decade in jail or four
years as a ward of Talonswood Reform Academy—a place with an all too perfect
correction record. A place that makes bootcamp look like a spa.
But Talonswood and its cruel cadets are far more than they seem,
and so are the four men who rule it. Ellis. Asher. Reese. Cassis. Powerful,
impossibly beautiful men who ignite a wildfire inside me—and who will stop at
nothing to make my life a living hell.
But it turns out I’m more than I seem, too. And I’m not going down
without a fight.
LAST CHANCE ACADEMY is a full length dark reverse harem paranormal
romance. This is the first of four books in Immortals of Talonswood, a new
series from Amazon’s top-100 author Alex Lidell. With hot shifter-fae,
delicious vampires, one lone witch, Talonswood isn't your normal reform
school.
Excerpt:
“Ms. Devinee, as I truly hope you are aware, you are now a
ward of Talonswood Reform Academy. You may call this a reform school, a
military prison, or hell on earth—so long as you do it out of my earshot, I
don’t care. What I do care about is that you understand that our rules are
strict and absolute.”
“I un—” I start to say, shutting up as Asher shakes his
head.
“No, you do not. But you will.” He nods to Quinn. “Take
Ellis to the post and then meet us at the hose. Samantha, follow Reese and me.”
I spare a glance for Ellis, who seems both unsurprised and
unfazed by what’s about to happen to him, and then hurry to follow Asher as
instructed. Dammit. Despite myself, I already fear making the man angry at me
even more than I fear crossing Quinn again.
Quinn is like mean miniature Dachshund. Asher is a wolf.
Holding on to the strap of my backpack, I walk between Asher
and Reese, the two instructors bracketing me like prison guards. I wonder if
this is how all new students are welcomed, or if I’m just extra special.
Witch, Ellis’s voice spits in my memory as if in
response, making me shiver.
Quinn has said as much too.
I swallow.
As we angle right across the dusky green, tall wrought iron
lamps come on along the walkways, and we finally pass other students for the
first time, paused to watch the procession. I try not to stare, but it’s
hard—so hard. The girls, dressed in blue plaid skirts and white button-downs,
all look cut out of the pages of Seventeen magazine, tall, willowy, smooth
skinned, with silky hair down to their butts, in every natural color of the
rainbow. Not dyed hair like mine—I can tell immediately that none of them would
ever be so crass.
The boys, in blue blazers, are all athletically built and as
beautiful as the girls, some with porcelain-pale skin like Reese’s, some with a
feral angle to their eyes like Ellis’s.
I thought these were supposed to be a bunch of juvenile
delinquents. What do they put in the water here? Fuck. Maybe I’ll wake up with
muscles and hair down to my butt too.
When I meet the cadets’ gazes, the dislike in their eyes is
palpable enough to leave a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. In foster care,
another brat meant another threat to what little anyone had, but no one here
looks underfed in the least. Nor does Talonswood appear to be lacking in
anything but common sense. The four fortress-castle-mansion things could
probably fetch enough money to buy a small country, their stone façades in
perfect repair, even the ivy growing in seemingly intentional patterns. The
metal fences at the corners of the yard are no less gorgeously elaborate, the
wolf-head designs on them works of art—and their currently open leaves ready to
swing shut. To turn the large green into a grand prison yard in a matter of
seconds.
“You are the only witch at Talonswood, Samantha,” Asher says
abruptly as we bend around the rightmost building to stop at a piece of soggy
ground behind it under a single harsh spotlight, the forest rising darkly in
the background. “The demis do not know what to make of you. Frankly, neither do
I.”
Demis? Yet another word that sounds like gibberish. “That
makes all of us,” I mutter. “What does being a witch mean exactly?
Should I be
able to fly or do magic or turn men into toads?” My pitch rises with each word
until a hard look from Asher silences me at once.
“No. Potentially. No.” Asher tells me curtly, raising his
hand to stop further inquiries. “You will learn more in class. Let me be
clear—you are welcome to protest, cry, question the truth all you want, just do
it on your own time.” Asher is hiding his emotions better than Quinn had, but
something unkind flashes in his eyes nonetheless. “I will not abide bad
behavior under my watch. You are a witch, a nonhuman species. That carries
risks to all two—apologies, three—creature races. I do not expect you to know
what I am talking about yet—I do expect you to spend your every waking moment
learning.”
For the first time, hearing it in Asher’s cool, logical
voice, my brain has a hard time rejecting it. It’s impossible. But when you
hear something enough times… I think of cauldrons, frogs, pointy hats, and
somehow know that’s not what it means.
About Alex:
Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout
Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin, 2013) and Amazon
top 100 author and KDP-all star winner for POWER OF FIVE and LERA OF LUNOS
(Danger Bearing Press, 2018). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey
player, and an ice-cream addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in
elementary school, where a thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora
Pierce’s ALANNA in Alex’s hands. In addition to becoming the first English book
Alex read for fun, ALANNA started Alex’s life long love for fantasy books with
strong heroines. Alex lives in Washington, DC.
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Tour Schedule:
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