Here it is! The cover for Shelly Crane's next Significance book! This is a spin-off series and I am so excited for this book to be released. This cover is so beautiful! If I had to choose my favorite cover from the Significance books, I would have to pick this. Here ya go!
Isn't it beautiful? Here's the synopsis and an excerpt! Also:
Synopsis:
Ava has watched
her parents, Caleb and Maggie, live the perfect fairy tale, the perfect
love story, played out in front of her eyes her entire life. Her family
is love, life, and happiness. The Jacobsons are everything a family
should be and Ava is loved and well taken care of. But the one thing
that’s missing from her life is the one thing she’s waited for every
day, the one thing her kind knows will make them complete, the one thing
they thought was gone and lost forever.
Her significant.
Seth
has lived with the Watsons his entire life. They’re the only family he
knows, but he knows that there are things they keep from him. He knows
that they lie and they do unspeakable evil, things from when he was a
child that he can barely remember that cling to the edges of his memory.
He barely remembers his real mother and all he knows is what he’s told.
He doesn’t know what to trust. He wants to believe that the Watsons
love and care for him, have his best interest at heart, but isn’t so
sure of that anymore when he finally—after a lifetime of waiting for
her—meets his soulmate, and the Watson’s first act is to try to take her
away from him.
The
Virtuoso worlds collide, hearts are exposed, humans are endangered, and
the lives of Seth and Ava are changed forever. They’ll have to love
without judgment or reservation, they’ll have to be wise and accepting
beyond their years, they’ll have to forgive for things before they’ve
even happened, they’ll have to trust without seeing, have faith without
knowing, and they’ll have to light their own way in the dark when
everyone else is blind to show them the way. And more than anything
else…
they’ll fight like hell to keep each other.
Excerpt:
“I
don’t know if I can even sleep tonight,” I muttered and rubbed at my
arms. They were restless. “I can already feel myself twitching.”
“Tomorrow…”
Dad began, but stopped. He sighed forcefully and tightened his fists.
“I’ll go find him and make him come here if he doesn’t come on his own.”
“Dad,
you didn’t see him. He was…” I bit into my lip hard. Just talking about
him was making me ache all over. I closed my eyes and tried to breathe.
I heard Mom say, “Baby, I think we need to stop talking about this. It’s just making things worse for her.”
“I know, but…maybe I should go over there.
Maybe I should try to find him and—you know what? No.” I looked up to
find him looking down at me. “I’m not going to do that. It has to be his
choice until it’s not. I’ll give him until tomorrow to be the good guy.
If he doesn’t, then I’ll go get him and make him. I can tell by looking
at you that you want to have faith in him.”
“You
didn’t see him, Dad,” I reiterated. “He wanted this. He was worried
about me. He’ll come. He’ll find me.” I hoped. “If what you said is
true, then he didn’t choose any of what happened. He’s not a Watson.”
“But
he’s lived with them his whole life,” Mom reasoned. “We have no idea
the things they’ve done to him, the things they’ve made him do. We have
to be cautious. You have to cautious.” She went into the kitchen
and I heard a pill bottle shake before she came back. “Here. Take these.
They’ll help you sleep tonight. They were Grans,” she said softly.
I
ached as the pills went down. I heard Rodney coming in the back door
loudly. Dad went right to him and put his hand on his chest to stop him.
They whispered back and forth and Rodney looked at me over Dad’s
shoulder. Dad wasn’t going to be able to stop him. He didn’t know that,
but I did.
“Come on, Dad,” Rodney said gruffly and looked at him right in his face. “Move.”
He pushed his Champion gently in the shoulder and I watched Dad’s stunned face as he watched Rodney
come and sweep we up in his big brotherly arms on the couch. He said
low in my ear, but I knew that they still could hear, “Tell me who I
have to hurt. Who is this guy and why isn’t he here with you right now?”
I
looked at Dad and he looked so amused and bemused all at once. He waved
me on and leaned his hip against the counter, pulling Mom into the ‘v’
of his legs so he could wrap his arms around her from behind. I heard
her so sigh loud and hated that I was causing them so much distress.
“Seth,” I explained. “Seth Watson,” I said with as much gumption as I could muster.
His eyes rounded. I told him everything and he tightened his arms on me as he listened.
“Okay,”
he said and kicked his shoes off the end of the couch. Mom was two
seconds from scolding him when he asked, “So where is he? He should be
here.”
Like fate usually worked, there was a knock on the front door. An insistent knock. Dad shot me a look before taking a loaded breath. I started to shake and stood from the couch quickly. It was him; I knew it like I knew my own name.
Like fate usually worked, there was a knock on the front door. An insistent knock. Dad shot me a look before taking a loaded breath. I started to shake and stood from the couch quickly. It was him; I knew it like I knew my own name.
“Ava, wait,” he told me.
“Dad.”
“You,
sit,” he said in his Champion voice. “I’ll answer and let him in. What
if the Watsons were planning something and knew you’d run to the door to
answer it thinking it was him? We know nothing about him yet. Until we
do, we go at this with caution.” I sighed. I hated that I had to look at
my significant with anything but reverence, but Daddy was right. I
mean, I was the one that had run right out of the coffee shop this
afternoon. “I mean it, baby girl,” he said softly.
Rodney turned me to look at him and held my upper arms in his hands. “If he hurts you, I can’t be held account for what I do.”
“I
love you, you know that?” I replied and kissed his cheek. I tried to
smile, but think I failed epically when he put one arm around my
shoulders and tugged me close, as if to shield me from whatever or
whoever was coming.
Dad
had to know I was anxious—he didn’t make me wait. He went to the door
quickly. I could hear them in the other room with deep, urgent tones. My
significant.
And then there he was.
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