A House Divided (Astoran Asunder, book 1) (37 page)

Phoning It In
- 25-year-old Melinda is single and stuck in a job she hates. Can she find the courage to change her life?

Derailed
- When Lou leaves the career that's defined her, she heads to France to embrace the life and love she's always denied herself.

Starstruck
- Lex's emotionally abusive marriage has left her an empty shell. Can she find the strength to take a chance on love again?

Committed (
A free 8-part serial
)
- With only one week left until Ella's wedding day, everything that can go wrong does go wrong.

Prejudice, Persuasion, and Sensibility
- How could Dae have gone from the most obnoxious guy Ami knows to the most intriguing?

Love dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction?

Creators (Free prequel novella)
- As the world's food system collapses, 19-year-old Liang Zhang must choose who lives and who dies.

Contributor
- Dara learns the truth about her seemingly perfect society: once a Contributor has outlived their usefulness, they're discarded.

Infiltrator
- Working as a Free Thinker mole, Dara risks her life to uncover the Creators' secret plans.

Instigator
- The time has come to fight for freedom from the Creators' oppressive rule.

About the Author

Nicole has progressed from scribbling in notebooks to banging on keyboards, but she's never managed to stop daydreaming at inappropriate moments.

When not answering the demands of her characters, Nicole can often be found curled up with a good book or spending far too many hours acting the hero in whatever video game is her obsession of the moment.

One of Nicole's other great passions is travel. She loves being married to a native Belgian, both because she likes the idea of being "The American" and because it gives her plenty of excuses to visit Europe—that wondrous land of coffee, chocolate, pastry—as often as possible.

Michigan born and raised, Nicole lives there with her honorary Michigander/Belgian husband and her two children. A Michigan State University alum, Nicole bleeds green and is a Spartan for life.

Book Description

Cianne Wyland leads a double life. No one in House Staerleigh would suspect that the meek woman on whom they heap their disdain is a gatherer of secrets. Determined to uncover whether the House's upper echelon—including her own father—are engaging in illicit activities in a grasp for control of the House, Cianne has made an art of slipping into their homes to rifle through their private lives.

Kila an Movis is an Enforcer. Gods-gifted with an extraordinary ability to piece together physical clues, he's entrusted with protecting the vulnerable from crime. But his habit of expressing his opinions a little too freely earned him a nine-year banishment to the wilds, and he's determined to be more circumspect upon his return to the trade city.

When someone close to Cianne dies and Kila is called out to investigate the scene, her world and his collide once more. His long absence hasn't driven the memory of him from her heart, but the woman he encounters isn't the child he remembers.

Unwilling to trust anyone else, Cianne enlists Kila's help. The deeper they dig, the more secrets they unearth about her father, the other House members, and her entire life—until Cianne discovers that House Staerleigh is built on a foundation of lies.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, business establishments or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 Nicole P. Ciacchella

Cover design:
Race-Point