Lauren Barnholdt - Playing With Fire

Embers (Playing With Fire) 

by Lauren Barnholdt 

 

EMBERS, the first book in the Playing With Fire series of novellas...

Emily Bower's summer vacation is not off to a good start. She's leaving her first real boyfriend back home and traveling with her parents to Cape Cod for a family vacation that's supposed to be fun and relaxing, but in reality is turning out to be a complete and total disaster.

Immediately upon arrival in the seaside town of Hyannis, Emily has a humiliating run-in with Lucas Marshall, the hot but arrogant boy whose father owns the house Emily's staying in. Lucas is anything but ordinary, with a shady part-time job and an even shadier ex-girlfriend who makes Blair Waldorf seem like a sweetheart.

And then there's Emily's parents, who've been acting strange ever since last year when Emily blossomed from an ugly duckling into a Lindsay Lohan lookalike. And when Emily catches her dad having a secret, late night meeting with strange and possibly criminal people, Emily starts suspect that there might be something sinister going on.

But the truth is far worse than anything she could have imagined. Because Emily's parents are in trouble-they've been making deals and trading favors that have put her life on the line. Her very soul is in danger, and someone - or something - is coming to collect. And it turns out that Lucas, the boy she hated practically on sight, may just be the only one who can help her escape a fate worse than death....

From the authors who brought you the hit series The Witches of Santa Anna comes a paranormal romance series that proves that first impressions aren't always what they seem, and that in the battle between good and evil, love is the only thing that matters...