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About A Shadow in the Light by Keary Taylor
Title: A Shadow in the Light
Author: Keary Taylor
Series: Parallel Verse Guardians #1
Genre: Paranormal Romance
“You went and fell in love with an ultralight? That’s like a spider falling in love with a butterfly. They’re both arachnids, but the entire universe knows they don’t belong together.”
I needed an out. I needed to be someone who wasn’t trapped in Las Vegas. I went to that club looking for nothing and everything, and there he was. Jaxon’s hands on my hips were just what I was looking for, and for just one night, it was easy to be someone I wasn’t.
Then our signals went haywire. We’ve been looking for the gatekeeper for a long, long time so we can go home, and a new possibility just came up. It was my job to bring them in.
Only it was him. Jaxon Gray. Turns out, he comes from one of the most dangerous crime families in Sin City. But I’m not the only one after him. There are others who want him just as bad, and they’ll kill me to get to him.
Now we’re on the run together. He should be scared. He’s seen me shift, and it’s not sparkly or pretty. But he doesn’t cower when he sees the other side of me—my shadows, my claws, my fangs. With a curious gleam in his eyes, he asks to know more.
This is dangerous. He’s about to manifest. And as soon as he does, his biggest impulse will be to kill me. But it’s too late for my heart, I can’t walk away. So, the million-dollar question is: will what’s happened between us be enough for him to overcome his instincts?
Excerpt from A Shadow in the Light
© 2021
Keary Taylor
He grabs the front of my dress and backs me up in ten quick steps before I have a second to react. The others yell after him, but Ascelin stops when he plants my back against the glass wall of Nisha’s office.
“What the hell do you think you are doing?” he hisses in a low voice, right in my face. “Running off with him? Letting him put his hands on you? What is wrong with you, Serena?”
I shake my head, wondering how he could possibly know.
But then my hand rises to my lips.
He saw the burn.
And the perfect handprint burned through my dress, all the way down to the skin of my lower back.
“Why?” Ascelin barks, loud and aggressive, right in my face.
The others stand back, watching, but none of them intervene. They can see the evidence of what me and Jaxon did, right on my face, just as easily as Ascelin can. They saw it on Jaxon’s lips, as well.
“We don’t always get to choose who we fall for,” I answer quietly as I look away from them all.
“You went and fell for an ultralight?” Ascelin roars as he snaps me back against the glass once more. “That’s like a spider falling in love with a butterfly. They’re both arthropods, but the entire universe knows they don’t belong together.”
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About Keary Taylor
Keary Taylor is the USA TODAY bestselling author of over twenty novels. She grew up along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where she started creating imaginary worlds and daring characters who always fell in love. She now splits her time between a tiny island in the Pacific Northwest and Utah, with her husband and their two children. She continues to have an overactive imagination that frequently keeps her up at night.
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