Book Excerpt
We stepped
outside to make our way to another part of the building, and I was just about
to tell Theo how incredible it would be if Baleigh’s mum could teach me how to
control my gift before I heard:
“Theo!”
“Lucas!” Theo
said before they stopped to give each other a hug. Theo and this guy were
obviously close, best friends probably.
“Who’s the
pretty lady?” Lucas asked, as he looked in my direction.
I almost turned
to look behind me to see who Lucas was talking about, but I soon clocked onto
the fact that there was nothing behind Theo and I but a white stone wall, so he
must have been talking to me.
I blushed
shamelessly.
Lucas was very
handsome; he was tall, had ash brown hair, and pink lips; his eyes were hidden
behind black ray-ban sunglasses but I guessed they were either blue or green or
a mix of both. Like Theo, he had an infectious smile and strong jawline, and he
was dressed similar to Baleigh had been, minus the skinny jeans; he wore
multiple leather rope bracelets on his wrists, one of which – a fire red one –
caught my eye, and he wore a plain silver thumb ring. He had a very effortless
look about him.
“This is Ava,
the girl I told you about,” Theo answered, gesturing to me for the second time
today.
“Nice to meet
you, Avs!” Lucas leaned in and gave me a bear hug. “You smell good,” he
casually commented and Theo rolled his eyes as I blushed again.
“Now, you two
haven’t seen Bales by any chance? I think she’s hiding from me,” Lucas said. He
had a masculine but playful voice, like he was incapable of saying anything
hurtful or offensive.
“When are you
going to give up on Bales?” Theo smiled. “She’ll chew you up and then happily
spit you back out.”
That
I could believe. But wait, this meant
Baleigh couldn’t be Theo’s ex, not if his best friend was happily going after
her. Or maybe that was why Baleigh
was such a sore topic for Theo… my head began to ache dully.
Lucas placed his
hands theatrically on his heart and looked towards the sky behind Theo and I.
“She’s the only one for me,” he said seriously before laughing.
“And what
happened to Anna?” Theo asked him.
“Well, you know
how things go…” Lucas replied, as he randomly scratched his right ear and
avoided eye contact. “She just wasn’t for me.”
“Oh, that is
such a shame,” Theo said, pretending to take Lucas seriously.
“Was that the
same for Lily, Kyra, Erin, Mia, Tanya, Stacey –?”
“Okay! Okay!”
Lucas smiled, holding up his hands in surrender. “I get your point! But
seriously, where’d she go? Oh wait,” he turned to me, “you’re the psychic, so
you tell me.”
I opened my
mouth then closed it and repeated this pattern, caught in blindingly bright
headlights as I tried fruitlessly to grapple for something to say.
Lucas’ smile
widened. “You were right Theo, she is easy.”
I’m sure he
meant I was easy to play with as Theo had once told me, but I’m also pretty
sure Lucas had winked at me from behind his sunglasses too.
About the Book
Title: Gifted: The Hayven Series
Author: J.A. George
Genre: YA Romance / Fantasy / Dystopian
“Why do birds fly? Why do lions hunt
deer? Why does the sun shine and the moon glow? Because it must. I wish I
could tell you why, I truly do. It mustn’t be easy, such pressure
weighted on such young shoulders, but we do not always choose the lives
we must lead.”
Avery Gray had no choice but to be different. She was not born that way; she was chosen.
After having met a special,
silver-haired woman, and the handsome and enigmatic Theodore-James
Connors, Ava finds herself in Hayven, a city separated from the rest of
the world, where only gifters – ordinary people with extra-ordinary
gifts – can go. With Theo, his friends, Hayven, her gift, and the
ability to ‘travel’ in different colours, Ava must now accept that she
can no longer classify herself as normal. As friendships develop, and
Theo and Ava become closer than she anticipated, it turns out her new
gifted life comes with a catch. With no choice or say on the matter, Ava
must save a city she is starting to fall in love with; a city that has
almost begun to feel like home.
Author Bio
J.A. George is the author of the
four-part series, GIFTED: THE HAYVEN SERIES. Jessica spent years of her
life reading book after book before sitting on her bed one morning,
opening her laptop and typing Chapter One into her word document. Now,
not only does she read book after book, she now writes book after book
too. When she’s not writing, she’s trying to break her record of
finishing a tub of Oreo ice cream in less than forty-five minutes.
You can contact her at Jess.george@hotmail.co.uk
You can contact her at Jess.george@hotmail.co.uk
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