Summer and Phoenixes in the house!

Could This Summer Get Any Hotter?

It has been one hot summer, y’all! I think you know what I’m talking about, and it’s not just about temperature. *wink* Carter and Erin finally arrived with 40 AND (SO OVER) FIXING IT. That in itself was super hot! With temps in the 90s and 100s here in the South, I practically had to wear ice packs while I finished writing that book! 😊

I was also able to do something I’ve been dreaming of for over a decade for my birthday this summer. My sis, Dani Wade, and I went one hot night recently to see the Goo Goo Dolls in concert. Mind. Blown. It was the best concert I think I’ve ever been to. I got to see O.A.R. perform (if you’re as old as I am, you know who that is), and then a whole two hours of GGD singing from every album they’ve ever released — and that’s a lot! It was totally worth sweating in the heat to experience their music live. And Johnny… *swoon*

What else have I been doing? Well, I’m also playing with a HOT hero right now. Sun is in the house! The next Archai Warriors book is due to the narrator in September, so I’m currently writing it and continuing to figure out what is going to happen in the next three Assassins books. (I just finished rereading ASSASSIN’S GAME in preparation — have you read it? No? Well, get it HERE!)

Oh, and there might also be a Christmas somethin’-somethin’ if I can manage to finish it in time. I’ll definitely let you know.

In the meantime, PHOENIX FALLING comes out November 28th. If you haven’t preordered, DO! I think you’ll love seeing where the Archai find themselves next.

Her name tells me everything I need to know about pursuing her. Risk. And yet my phoenix — and my heart — refuse to walk away.

Sun

I was raised in the shadow of the king, expected to perform but never expecting to ascend to the throne. The only thing I’ve cared about in my centuries-long life is protecting my people, even if it means going up against my own father.

The weight of so many lives in my hands is eased by only one thing: being with her. But I can never make her mine, no matter how much my animal and my soul cry out to possess her.

Risk

My life changed forever the night a monster followed me home. My family died, and I…well, I was never the same. I made it my mission to find others like me, to protect them, to help them find themselves when everything they knew disappeared like smoke.

And I failed. I can do my part, but only the inhuman Sun and his warriors can truly save them. Is it selfish to want a small piece of him for myself? Just for a little while. Just until my secrets are set free, and the love I thought I saw in his rainbow-colored eyes turns to hate.

The race is on to find the women who, unbeknownst to them, have hidden inside them the key to winning the war against the Anigma. But it may not be too little, too late.

Because the Archai — and their prince — are about to fall.

Don’t miss this all-new installment in the Archai Warriors series. A shifter species of mythological creatures, the basis for all human myth — and they bite.

Keep an eye out for more updates later this summer and news on the next release. In the meantime, happy reading! 

~ Ella