Stargazer
(Halos #2)
by Sunniva Dee
Publication date: November 2014
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal
I
sense their secrets in every corner of the house.
Gabriel
is eerily beautiful, and his personality disturbingly perfect, while Gaia’s
inexplicable PTSD and mood swings bounce her between bliss and despair.
Until
Gabriel’s brothers pay a visit.
Cassiel...
He’s
the night to his brother’s day. He’s sex personified and the devil in one hell
of a stunning package. It’s been years since I last saw him, but this man makes
me burn. He hooks me with his touch. Enthralls me with those oddly simmering
eyes. He pierces my soul with his knowing smirks, and I am losing myself in
him.
Ka...
With
pearlescent hair and spring green eyes, he crashes into my world. I thought
this crazy, beautiful man could mend my bleeding heart. Make things
recognizable again—normal. Instead he pulls me from the embers and feeds me to
the open fire.
College
life. Is this what everyone goes through?
I write New Adult fiction with a paranormal twist and don’t shy
away from romance and heart-wrenching passion when necessary.
“Goddamn it, Kakabel.”
I’d dropped Policewoman off at her apartment and
erased her memories. Blue thumbprints had dotted her mouth. With cheeks glowing
from the aftereffects, she’d dozed off in a foggy bliss. Now, I was back home,
ready to destroy.
My idiot relative had brewed coffee. He sent me a
quick glance over his shoulder and shrugged while he mixed in sugar. “She was
nice.”
Hell
no.
“Ka. I don’t even know what to say to you. I can’t
fucking fix you. It’s absolutely…”
This bozo had demolished my mojo. What was I
supposed to do? I’d loved my freedom, my existence, and not having a
conscience.
With Kakabel around, everything changed. He messed
with Luna. How could anyone mess with
Luna?
I snatched his mug and hurled it high against the
wall, bullet-style. It evaporated into a mist that rained down over us.
Kakabel’s eyes brightened with surprise.
“Dude!”
Could anything be more annoying than his
ignorance? I’d become a babysitter, but I sure as hellfire didn’t need more
reminders of it.
“Luna’s too good for you,” I said, my chest
burning. Everything was his fault. If he hadn’t been around, I’d still be me.
Ka scratched his head, looking insanely special.
Yofiel-special. As in abnormally beautiful, even for an angel.
“Why?” he asked, blinking.
“I can’t
believe I’m spelling this out for you, Kakabel: you’re screwing around. Not
being loyal. Sleeping with other females. Cheating on the best girl you’ll
ever—”
FUCK!
My vision blurred, and I didn’t wait for his
response. I caught his giant freaking eyes doubling in size before I smashed
his face in, grabbed the jerk by the collar, and flew off with him.
Oh yes, the Shades Run mountain chain was a
wonderful place to beat the shit out of assholes you couldn’t destroy. Away
from prying eyes.
“Cassiel,” he groaned between strikes, “Luna
didn’t come home with me.”
“And thank God for that,” I growled, crushing
bone.
“The other one did.”
I laughed, not slowing down on the blows to his
head. Ka’s hair dripped crimson red over his eyebrows. It streamed into his
eyes between the hits. “Police Girl was my
lay, Ka.”
“You didn’t want her.”
“I never asked for a mindreading.”
Kakabel spat out something red and large. His
heart, maybe, if he had one. When he started giggling, I was done.
“Do you like
females, Cassiel?” he forced out.
Yep, time for the big guns. I sparked off a
lightning bolt, mixing it with Gabriel’s favorite, the lava-molten geyser
spray. Always a winner if the goal was to reduce an enemy to a shuddering pile.
This fool’s quakes came from laughter, though.
“What the hell’s your problem, Kakabel?”
“You want my girlfriend,” he wheezed out.
Thankfully, his face was taking on a gelatinous consistency; I’d give my soul
to have it remain that way. From inside the lava heap, his skin sizzled and
deformed him, but he still managed a smile.
“Never mind your opinions,” I snarled. “Here’s the
deal.”
“You always talk about ‘deals,’” he snickered
through a whimper. “Only I don’t like them, remember?”
“Shut up, dickhead!”
I moved from Norway to
the United States in 2001, and the first awesome five years I spent in the San
Fernando Valley, Los Angeles. Then I read “The Book,” aka Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil, which spurred my husband and me to move cross country
to beautiful Savannah, Georgia.
I’m currently on my
seventh year in the Deep South, where I enjoy the heat and the humidity.
Besides writing, I spend my time with our “petting zoo” as in an opinionated
parrot, a herd of cats that are experts on keyboard shortcuts, and puppies
that…uh, bark.
I hold a Master’s degree
in languages, with concentrations within literature and linguistics. I taught
at college level for a decade before settling in as a graduate adviser at the
Savannah College of Art and Design.
Writing is my passion,
my joy, and my addiction. When I’m not writing, I read.
Shattering Halos is my
debut novel, and its standalone sequel, Stargazer, is due out later this year.
