Summer Demons
by Mia Hoddell
Genre: YA Romance
Release Date: 26th
February 2014
Length: Novella
Jenna Shaw ran away to escape her past. In
fact, she jumped on a plane and flew to Portugal to try and forget it. However,
it turns out leaving everything behind isn’t as easy as it sounds.
She thought she could move on and break
free of her fears—that if she had some space the pain would stop. But as
memories resurface due to an ill-timed joke, the past crashes into her present
once more and she didn’t see it coming.
Jenna’s plans for normality are derailed by
the charismatic Ethan Brooks. She sees him as an annoyance; he sees her as a
challenge. But as he tries every trick known to him to impress her, they only
serve to push her further away. He’s never faced this problem before and Ethan
has to work harder than he ever has if he wants to win over and help his
mysterious girl.
Only free 1st & 2nd of
March
She
saw red. Seeping into the crystal clear water it spread, bleeding and merging
as the ripples around her pushed it closer towards her feet. The deep crimson
only grew darker as it surrounded her.
She
could feel her breathing quicken, coming in short, sharp rasps as she started
to panic. Her chest constricted, an unbearable pressure tightening like a boa
constrictor refusing to release her from its clutches. Her throat felt dry, her
increased breathing doing nothing to help the situation as she forced herself
to swallow in the hope of dislodging the lump that had formed there.
This
isn’t happening. This isn’t real. I came here to escape this, she told
herself repeatedly as she laid there, her turquoise bikini embellished with
golden sequins shining in the sun as her back tanned slowly. Bringing up an arm
to adjust her chestnut-brown hair that was dangling in the water, she tried to
pull away before the colour reached her and tainted the beautiful locks. The
damage done would be irreparable if it touched her.
Moving
it just in time, she threw it over her shoulder so it rested between her
shoulder blades, the damp tips feeling nice as they cooled her back by trailing
droplets of water down either side. She tried not to flinch as her gaze
returned to the bloodied water that lapped at the li-lo beneath her chin. With
every wave it seemed to grow closer, making its way further up the yellow
plastic to try and touch her. The tapping that was normally so soothing
tormented her now, like a crowd clapping and cheering her sanity on as it fled
for safety.
Rather
than listen to the logical side of her brain, her body had other ideas.
Shuffling back, she put a bigger distance between her face and the abnormal
pool beneath her. As her toes dipped into the cool water behind her though, she
flinched, automatically drawing herself up so that no part of her body was near
the edge. No matter how disgusted she was, she couldn’t stop staring; her eyes
were hypnotised by the gentle movements that swirled the colour into the water
even more. The red had become so thick that not one tile beneath the surface
was visible.
The
more she stared, the more she remembered.
The
more she remembered, the more she was pulled into her memory.
It
might not have been real at that moment in time, but it had been, and Jenna was
once again pulled into the unbearable memory.
sixteen, Mia moved on to short stories but
finding she had too much to tell
with too little space, Mia progressed to
novels. She started her first series (The Wanderer Trilogy)
at the age of
fourteen and since then hasn’t stopped
writing. Elemental Killers is her
second series and with an ever growing
list of ideas, Mia is trying to keep up
with the speed at which her imagination
generates
them.
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