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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith

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Also by Karina Sumner-Smith:

Defiant, May 2015
Paperback
Radiant, October 2014
Paperback / e-Book

RADIANT
By: Karina Sumner-Smith

Towers Trilogy #1
Talos
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
400 pages
ISBN: 194045610X
EAN: 9781940456102
Kindle: B00MSYV3SO
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Paperback (October 2014)

Science Fiction

Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcastβ€”no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City’s floating Towers.

When a rich City man comes to her with a young woman’s ghost tethered to his chest, Xhea has no idea that this ghost will change everything. The ghost, Shai, is a Radiant, a rare person who generates so much power that the Towers use it to fuel their magic, heedless of the pain such use causes. Shai’s home Tower is desperate to get the ghost back and force her into a bodyβ€”any bodyβ€”so that it can regain its position, while the Tower’s rivals seek the ghost to use her magic for their own ends. Caught between a multitude of enemies and desperate to save Shai, Xhea thinks herself powerlessβ€”until a strange magic wakes within her. Magic dark and slow, like rising smoke, like seeping oil. A magic whose very touch brings death.

With two extremely strong female protagonists, Radiant is a story of fighting for what you believe in and finding strength that you never thought you had.

Towers

Radiant
RADIANT
#1.0 β€’ October 2014
Defiant
DEFIANT
#2.0 β€’ May 2015

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