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Jessica Leake
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Jul / 30
I have an amazing cover reveal for one of my best betas: Iris St. Clair. Iris is one of those writers whose voice in all her books draws you in immediately, and today I get to share the cover for a YA book I absolutely loved:
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Genre: YA Contemporary
Tags: YA, romance, slice of life, coming of age, contemporary
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Book Summary:
Disappointment has been on speed dial in Ellen Grayson’s life lately. Her dad’s dead, her mom is numbing the grief with drugs and alcohol, and her so-called friends are slowly abandoning her. Trusting a popular teacher with her troubles should have been safe, shouldn’t have led to an unwelcome seduction attempt, shouldn’t have sent her running to the girls’ bathroom for the final moments of her Junior year. Lesson learned. Best to keep all the sordid details of her life to herself.
Enter Rex Jacobi, a cocky teen recently transplanted from New York and fellow summer camp employee. Though his quick wit and confidence draws her in, she’s not letting him get too close, not til she’s sure she can trust him. By the time Rex’s charming persistence wears down her resistance, it’s too late. He’s put Ellen on the perma-pal shelf and shifted his romantic attentions to her arch-rival. Even worse, the teacher who tried to seduce her is still misbehaving with impunity.
With her ability to trust as shaky as a chastity vow on prom night, Ellen must decide if she has enough remaining courage to speak up about her teacher and risk retribution, to tell Rex how she feels and risk heartbreak, or hold all her secrets inside, the only safe place she knows.
Add Louder Than Words to your Goodreads TBR list now:
About the Author:
Iris St. Clair is the pen name for a long-suffering cubicle worker by day, a Walter Mitty-like dreamer by night. (Her alter ego Tatiana Ivanadance also choreographs gravity-defying routines in those fantasies, but that’s another bio.)
No matter what genre she writes, she prefers witty, insecure heroines and kind, persistent heroes able to break through to the gooey heart inside.
In high school she was voted most likely to win at Monopoly and Clue, but least likely to throw a ball anywhere near a target. Thank goodness writing requires less hand-eye coordination, punctuation errors notwithstanding.
Iris believes in the two-year “fish or cut bait” dating rule and has a 20+ year marriage and two teenaged sons as proof of concept. She lives, writes, dreams and dances in the rainy Portland, OR area.
Follow Iris:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7771489.Iris_St_Clair
http://www.twitter.com/https://twitter.com/Iris_St_Clair
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Iris-St-Clair/173501372698392
http://www.pinterest.com/clairegillian/louder-than-words-inspiration/
Thanks to YA Bound for organizing the Cover Reveal!
