Book Release: Of Blood And Bone by Courtney Cole
Publication: September 16, 2012
By: Lakehouse Press
About Of Blood and Bone
As a little boy, Luca Minaldi was told he was a monster.
As an adult, he knows it is true.
He lives in Malta, a fairytale-like place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty and secrets. And Luca’s darkest of secrets is the best kept of them all.
Eva Talbot arrives in Malta for the summer to finish up her doctoral dissertation. When she meets Luca, a mysterious and handsome shipping tycoon, there is an instant attraction, a disturbing and beautiful energy that she has never felt before. But she senses the darkness that lives within him.
Eva is hired to care for his mother, who suffers from dementia, but it is Luca who Eva will eventually risk everything to save. Her life becomes a swirling chaos of darkness and romance, of secrets and mystery. And the question that emerges will become the most important answer of all.
Can she save Luca from the darkness that plagues him without losing herself?
The answer is a matter of life or death.
As an adult, he knows it is true.
He lives in Malta, a fairytale-like place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty and secrets. And Luca’s darkest of secrets is the best kept of them all.
Eva Talbot arrives in Malta for the summer to finish up her doctoral dissertation. When she meets Luca, a mysterious and handsome shipping tycoon, there is an instant attraction, a disturbing and beautiful energy that she has never felt before. But she senses the darkness that lives within him.
Eva is hired to care for his mother, who suffers from dementia, but it is Luca who Eva will eventually risk everything to save. Her life becomes a swirling chaos of darkness and romance, of secrets and mystery. And the question that emerges will become the most important answer of all.
Can she save Luca from the darkness that plagues him without losing herself?
The answer is a matter of life or death.
Teaser...
“Can you start at the beginning?” I ask. He nods.
And
so he tells me of life at Chessarae. Of being a child here, with a
mother who was distant and detached and a father who was never home.
Luca knows why now, because Nicolas was increasingly confined to the
cave in the maze, more and more as his life progressed. But since the
Minaldis do not speak of their curse, not even to each other, he didn’t
understand as a boy. He felt abandoned and alone.
Luca
Minaldi may be confident and powerful on the outside, but on the inside
he is a broken little boy. And with each word that comes from his
mouth, from his perfectly formed lips, I feel my heart constrict just a
little more until it is difficult for me to speak, to ask him
questions.
“When did you understand what was
happening to you?” I ask. It’s hard to formulate sound around the lump
that has swelled in my throat.
“I always
knew,” he answers, quiet in this large room. He gets up and pours us
each a glass of Scotch, moving fluidly. He takes a gulp of his and I
grip my cold glass tightly. “I always knew. My mother told me at a very
young age that there was something wrong with me, that I was a monster
like my father. My brothers and I had a nurse who stayed with us in our
wing. If we showed signs of sleepwalking or something similar, she was
instructed to tie our hands to our bed and not allow us to leave until
it had passed. As time went on, it was clear that it only afflicted me.
My brothers were normal.”
A tear slips from the
corner of my eye now as I picture Luca as a boy, terrified and alone in
the darkness of his room, tied to his enormous bed.
“Luca…
I…” I can’t speak any more. The words won’t come. And another tear
slips down my cheek. My eyes are hot and burning, so I close them...
About Courtney Cole...
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could.
She
has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate
America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. Every Last Kiss is her debut novel and she followed it with the rest of The Bloodstone Saga (Every Last Kiss, Fated, With My Last Breath and My Tattered Bonds).Courtney
lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life
Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get
their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
You can find her at the following links:
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