Very Bad Things Buzz
Title: Very Bad Things (#1 Briarcrest Academy)
Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
Release date: September 10
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
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Description
Born into a life of
privilege and secrets, Nora Blakely has everything any nineteen-year-old girl
could desire. She’s an accomplished
pianist, a Texas beauty queen, and on her way to Princeton after high
school. She’s perfect…
Leaving behind her million
dollar mansion and Jimmy Choos, she becomes a girl hell-bent on pushing the
limits with alcohol, drugs, and meaningless sex.
Then she meets her
soulmate. But he doesn’t want her.
When it comes to girls,
twenty-five-year old Leo Tate has one rule:
never fall in love. His gym and
his brother are all he cares about…until he meets Nora. He resists the pull of their attraction, hung
up on their six year age difference.
As they struggle to stay
away from each other, secrets will be revealed, tempers will flare, and hearts
will be broken.
Welcome to Briarcrest
Academy…where sometimes, the best things in life are
Very Bad Things.
About
the Author
Ilsa Madden-Mills wrote her first work at the age of twelve when she penned a little ditty about a handsome prince who had no sense. Since then, she’s always written, whether it was for work or fun. When she was young, she entered every short story and poetry contest around; when she was in college, she wrote for the university paper; when she taught English, she wrote a play along with a wonderful group of drama students.
Very
Bad Things is
her first full-length novel and part of a new series called Briarcrest Academy.
She graduated summa cum laude with a master’s in
English from an esteemed university in the South where she now resides. She
spends her days with two small kids, a neurotic cat, and her Viking husband.
When she’s not typing away at a story, you can find her drinking too much Diet
Coke, jamming out to Pink, or checking on her carefully maintained chocolate
stash.
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Excerpt
Nora
and Leo Meet
“Drop the paint and turn around
slowly with your hands in the air.” The loud command was said with a deep
voice. “I’ve got a gun, so move nice and slow.”
I bent over and placed the can on
the pavement. I started to turn when— “I said put your hands in the air!” he
yelled.
I yanked my hands up and eased
around to face the owner of the voice.
He was about ten feet away from me,
standing six feet and then some. He was missing a shirt but wearing a pair of
black athletic shorts and flip-flops. Judging by his disheveled dirty blond
hair and bloodthirsty eyes, I’d have to guess this might be the owner of the Escalade.
And I’d just woken him up.
He came closer to me, and my eyes
were immediately drawn to his green-and-blue dragon tattoo. Like a giant snake,
the scaled body of the dragon wrapped around his forearm and bicep with the
neck coming down from his shoulder and the head resting on his broad chest. Red
flames poured from its mouth, between laser sharp teeth.
This guy looked medieval.
So, I squinted and pictured him as
a rugged Viking, wearing a horned helmet and gripping a spear instead of a gun.
Maybe holding a shield instead of his flashlight and definitely wearing some of
those laced-up leather boots. The word berserker
(from round two of the famous spelling bee) came to mind, and I rolled the
syllables around my tongue . . . ber-serk-er. Yep, that was him alright: one pissed off Norse
warrior.
I grinned at my amazing analogy
because, well, I’d had too much to drink.
“You think this is funny, son?” he
snapped.
I shook my head, suddenly aware
that some guy was pointing a gun at me.
And he thought I was a boy.
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