The First Girl Child By: Amy Harmon Published: August 20, 2019 by 47North 391 pages Genre: Young Adult, New Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction, Science Fiction Source: Netgalley ARC ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From ​the  New York Times  bestselling author comes a breathtaking fantasy of a cursed kingdom, warring clans, and unexpected salvation. Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words:  From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok. Raised among the Keepers at Temple Hill, Bayr is gifted with inhuman strength. But he’s also blessed with an all-too-human heart that beats with one purpose: to protect Alba, the first girl child born in nearly two decades and the salvation for a country at risk. Now the fate of Saylok lies with Alba and Bayr, whose bond grows deeper with every wh...

The Smallest Part By: Amy Harmon Published: February 13, 2018 325 pages Genre:  New Adult, Contemporary, Romance Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: “In the end, only three things matter. How much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”  - Unknown  It was a big lie. The biggest lie she’d ever told. It reverberated through her head as she said it, ringing eerily, and the girl behind her eyes—the girl who knew the truth—screamed, and her scream echoed along with the lie.  “Are you in love with Noah, Mercedes?” Cora asked. “I mean . . . I know you love him. You’ve been friends forever. We all have. But are you in love with him?”  If it had been anyone else—anyone—Mercedes would have stuck out her chest, folded her skinny arms, and let her feelings be known. She would have claimed him. But it was Cora. Brave, beautiful, broken Cora, and Cora loved Noah too....

A Different Blue By: Amy Harmon Published: March 29, 2016 by CreateSpace 322 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance Source: Freebie, Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Blue Echohawk doesn't know who she is. She doesn't know her real name or when she was born. Abandoned at two and raised by a drifter, she didn't attend school until she was ten years old. At nineteen, when most kids her age are attending college or moving on with life, she is just a senior in high school. With no mother, no father, no faith, and no future, Blue Echohawk is a difficult student, to say the least. Tough, hard and overtly sexy, she is the complete opposite of the young British teacher who decides he is up for the challenge, and takes the troublemaker under his wing.  This is the story of a nobody who becomes somebody. It is the story of an unlikely friendship, where hope fosters healing and redemption becomes love. But falling in love can be hard w...

Making Faces By: Amy Harmon Published: February 21, 2017 by Spencer Hill Press 405 pages Source:  ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Ambrose Young was beautiful. He was tall and muscular, with hair that touched his shoulders and eyes that burned right through you. The kind of beautiful that graced the covers of romance novels, and Fern Taylor would know. She'd been reading them since she was thirteen. But maybe because he was so beautiful he was never someone Fern thought she could have...until he wasn't beautiful anymore. Making Faces  is the story of a small town where five young men go off to war, and only one comes back. It is the story of loss. Collective loss, individual loss, loss of beauty, loss of life, loss of identity. It is the tale of one girl's love for a broken boy, and a wounded warrior's love for an unremarkable girl. This is a story of friendship that overcomes heartache, heroism that defies the common definitions, and a modern tale o...

The Bird and the Sword By: Amy Harmon Published: May 10, 2016 352 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.   The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would sell his soul and lose his son to the sky.  My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free.  But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t ...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Bird and the Sword with Amy Harmon: Teasers: I didn't want to be taken care of. I wanted to run away from all the men who sought dominion over me, who thought they could own me, imprison me, use me, cut me. (Loc 29%, 1192 of 4260) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

The Law of Moses By: Amy Harmon Published: November 27, 2014 298 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Paranormal ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: If I tell you right up front, right in the beginning that I lost him, it will be easier for you to bear. You will know it’s coming, and it will hurt. But you’ll be able to prepare. Someone found him in a laundry basket at the Quick Wash, wrapped in a towel, a few hours old and close to death. They called him Baby Moses when they shared his story on the ten o’clock news – the little baby left in a basket at a dingy Laundromat, born to a crack addict and expected to have all sorts of problems. I imagined the crack baby, Moses, having a giant crack that ran down his body, like he’d been broken at birth. I knew that wasn’t what the term meant, but the image stuck in my mind. Maybe the fact that he was broken drew me to him from the start. It all happened before I was born, and by ...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Law of Moses by Amy Harmon: Teasers: She would want me to be normal because she was normal. And normal was so lost to me that I didn't even know where to look for it. (Loc 14%, page 43 of 298) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!