Ruby's Fire (Book II in the Fireseed series) by Catherine Stine
The book, however, can be a stand alone.
Released Date: June 26, 2013
Genre: YA Sci Fi
Description:
If everything about you changes, what remains?
Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the Fireseed desert cult, escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn. Arriving at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running. Or can she? The Greening is not what it seems. Students are rampaging out of control and as she cares for the secret Fireseed crop, she experiences frightening physical changes. She’s ashamed of her attraction to burly, hard-talking Blane, the resident bodyguard, and wonders why she can’t be happy with the gentler Armonk. She’s long considered her great beauty a liability, a thing she’s misused in order to survive. And how is she to stop her dependence on Oblivion to find a real beauty within, using her talent as a maker of salves, when she has nightmares of Stiles without it?
When George Axiom, wealthy mogul of Vegas-by-the-Sea offers a huge cash prize for the winner of a student contest, Ruby is hopeful she might collect the prize to rescue her family and friends from what she now knows is a dangerous cult. But when Stiles comes to reclaim her, and Thorn sickens after creating the most astonishing contest project of all, the world Ruby knows is changed forever. This romantic fantasy set in 2099 on earth has a crafty heroine in Ruby, and a swoonworthy cast, which will surely appeal to the YA and new adult audience. + to your Goodreads!
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My favorite part of this cover is definitely the elements of red. What's yours?
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ReplyDeleteCongrats to the author! Love the cover!
Hugs and chocolate,
Shelly
Congratulations, Catherine!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Sheri, for featuring Ruby today. Ruby's Fire is now on Goodreads, and I'd be honored for folks there to put it on their TBR list!
ReplyDeleteHow cool to have a book 2 that can be a standalone novel.
ReplyDeleteLove the sound of this!! I'm going to have to go take a look at book 1 :) The cover is definitely intriguing!
ReplyDeleteDid you see this post on covers: http://www.novelmatters.com/2013/05/the-alure-of-blue-foil.html
ReplyDeleteShe talks about how a cover can make you buy a book. Lots to be said for the cover artist!
Congrats and awesome.
- Eric
Wow! Thanks, Eric. I'll go check it out!
DeleteRuby sounds like a great character
ReplyDeleteI thought the same thing before reading your closing sentence: really love the red in the book cover.
ReplyDeleteI like the 3-D look to the artwork. It's like something produced by one of the animation companies. Love the sky and the sand background.
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Great looking cover. Lots of texture. Love the phoenix-looking bird.
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