How to Live Life on the Edge Blog Tour: Excerpt + Giveaway

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HOW TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE by Sarah Lynn Scheerger Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

HOW TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE

Author: Sarah Lynn Scheerger

Release Date: August 4, 2020

Publisher: Lerner/Carolrhoda

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 312

 

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org

 

Description: 

Eighteen-year-old Cayenne barely remembers her mother, who died of breast cancer when Cayenne was four. The women in her family have a history of dying young. Cayenne figures she'll meet the same fate, so she might as well enjoy life now, engaging in death-defying risks like dodging trains and jumping off cliffs with her boyfriend.

When Cayenne receives a series of video messages her mother made for her before dying, she isn't sure she wants them. Her aunt Tee has been her true mother figure. But then Aunt Tee tests positive for a BRCA gene mutation--the one that doomed Cayenne's mom--and decides to get a mastectomy to reduce her chances of developing cancer. As Cayenne helps her aunt prepare for the surgery, she finds herself drawn to her mother's messages, with their musings on life, love, and perseverance. For the first time, Cayenne starts to question what it truly means to live life to the fullest, even when death might be written into her DNA.

How to Live on the Edge_Sample Chapter by Jaime Arnold on Scribd

Sarah Lynn (Scheerger) works as a clinical social worker with at-risk youth, helping them figure out who they are and who they want to be. She also provides counseling to adults and couples. She lives in southern California with her husband and children. Sarah started out writing under her first and middle name (Sarah Lynn) because she thought having a pen name seemed mysterious and cool. However, over time she’s transitioned to writing under her real name as well (both Sarah Scheerger and Sarah Lynn Scheerger). Sarah loves reading, watching movies, and spending time with her family and friends.

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(3) winners will receive a finished copy of HOW TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE - US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

7/27/2020	rainbowrdrgrl	Review
7/28/2020	Here's to Happy Endings	Review
7/29/2020	Abellafairytale	Review
7/30/2020	TheReadingCornerforAll	Review
7/31/2020	BookHounds YA	Interview

Week Two:

8/3/2020	The Phantom Paragrapher	Review
8/4/2020	PopTheButterfly	Review
8/5/2020	Lifestyle of Me	Review
8/6/2020	Her Book Thoughts	Review
8/7/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Interview

Week Three:

8/10/2020	Jotted by Jena	Review
8/11/2020	She Just Loves Books	Review
8/12/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
8/13/2020	Momfluenster	Review
8/14/2020	Jazzy Book Reviews	Excerpt

Week Four:

8/17/2020	A Gingerly Review	Excerpt
8/18/2020	notinjersey	Review
8/19/2020	Fire and Ice	Review
8/20/2020	Hurn Publications	Review
8/21/2020	Twirling Book Princess	Excerpt

Week Five:

8/24/2020	Rajiv's Reviews	Review
8/25/2020	Jaime's World	Excerpt
8/26/2020	The Book View	Excerpt
8/27/2020	fictitious.fox	Review
8/28/2020	Two Points of Interest	Review

Wounded Blog Tour: Excerpt & Giveaway

Wounded
Author: Jasinda Wilder
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 16, 2012
 
Description:

War has taken everything from me. My family. My home. My innocence. In a country blasted by war and wracked by economic hardship, a young orphan girl like me has very few options when it comes to survival. Thus, I do what I must to live, to eat, and I try very hard to not consider the cost to my soul. My heart is empty, and my existence brutal.

The one impossibility in my life is love.

And then I meet HIM.

War is hell. It takes a chunk out of a man's very soul to do the kinds of things war demands of you. You live with fear, you live with guilt, and you live with nightmares. If you haven't been through it, there's no understanding it. War leaves no room for love, no room for tenderness or softness. You gotta be hard, closed off, and ready to fight every moment of every day. Lose focus for a split second, and you're dead.

Now the only thing that can save me is HER.  

I have nothing to do but think. Nothing but memory and pain.
Derek is dead. It just hit me. I was too involved in the pain and in the mystery of Rania, but now, alone while she "works," all I have to do is feel the pain. Derek is dead.
God. He was my best friend. My only real friend. My brother. I've killed for him. We've stood over each other's bleeding bodies.
He's gone, but the pain won't let me cry. I can't. I don't know how anymore. After my parents died I wept, alone in a bathroom. I haven't since. Not for anything.
I won't cry for Derek, either. He wouldn't want me to. He'd tell me to get drunk in his memory. Bang a hot chick for him. Of course, none of that will happen now.

The reality of my situation is hitting me. I'm wounded, surrounded by insurgents. There's no sign of my unit. They might eventually come back for me, or at least to find my body. Until then, I'm stuck here. Reliant on this girl, this slip of a thing, this prostitute.
Rania. Her name is music. Her eyes are veiled pools of expression. She hides behind anger, behind toughness. It's all an act. I see the pain. See the fear. See the need. She's lonely. She hates what she does.

I think I confuse her as much as she does me.
She's back, cleaning herself up. It's a familiar pattern now. She returns from the building next door, a half-destroyed mosque, I think it's called. The irony of a prostitute operating in a bombed-out church isn't lost on me. 

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