Title: Crushing Summer
Author: C.M. Stunich
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Genre: New Adult Romance
Hosted by: Love Between the Sheets
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Synopsis
I'm a girl. I met a
boy. Why can't it stay that simple?
Here, in this town,
summer doesn't just mean tiny bikinis and sunglasses, white toothed
grins and lounging at the beach. It means pain. And loss. And false
promises.
It means liars pretending
to be saints, friends pretending to be enemies, rivals pretending to
be lovers.
For me, it means being
crushed. The Crush, actually. The one they all want simply because they
were told to. It means being surrounded by beautiful faces and gorgeous
bodies, sweet words and sizzling kisses.
It means being wanted
and despised.
My name is Chloe Summer, and I'm afraid that if I'm
not careful, this summer could be my last.
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CRUSHING SUMMER Playlist
"About A Girl" by The Academy
Is…
"Summer Hair = Forever Young"
by The Academy Is…
"Swing, Swing" by The All-American
Rejects
"One More Sad Song" by
The All-American Rejects
"Flavor of the Weak" by
American Hi-Fi
"Sk8er Boi" by Avril Lavigne
"The Great Escape" by Boys
Like Girls
"Just the Girl" by The
Click Five
"Catch Your Wave" by The
Click Five
"Hot Mess" by Cobra Starship
"Brand New Skin" by Count
the Stars
"On the Way Home" by Count
the Stars
"The Curse of Curves" by
Cute is What We Aim For
"If It Means a Lot to You"
by A Day to Remember
"Graveyard Dancing" by
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows
"Note to Self" by From
First to Last
"Secrets Don't Make Friends"
by From First to Last
"Ride the Wings of Pestilence"
by From First to Last
"Hot N Cold" by Katy Perry
"Roar" by Katy Perry
"The Show" by Lenka
"Trouble" by Never Shout
Never
"Time After Time" by Quietdrive
"Both Ways" by Quietdrive
"Say You Like Me" by We
The Kings
"Skyway Avenue" by We the
Kings
"Check Yes, Juliet" by
We The Kings
Excerpt
“Casper,” I began, knowing I
couldn't put this off any longer. I hated to break the moment, but I
could hear the shouting and cheering coming from the drive-in and knew
it was only a matter of time before he figured out there was something
odd going on. “I know we just met and this might sound a little weird,
but there's something you should know about this town.” His raised
his thin brows and sat back, draping his arms over the back of the bench.
“Do you sacrifice kittens
on the full moon? Because if so, I'm totally out. I won't sacrifice
kittens. Goats, maybe. But not kittens.” I tried to smile back at
the joke, but thinking of The Assignment was akin to strapping weights
on either side of my mouth. The corners of my lips pulled down into
a frown. “Tonight is Assignment Night.” Casper remained still, listening, not at all nervous about what I was going to say. He didn't think it was going to be bad or that it was going to affect him, but I knew it would. Somehow, I just knew.
“Like, for classes or something?”
“Like, for the summer. All summer. Tonight, all the students, ages thirteen to eighteen, will be assigned a title. Most of them will stay Students, but a select lucky and unlucky few will be … Something else.” Casper gave me a look that said I was totally and completely nuts. Again, I attempted a smile, but this one fell even flatter than the first. I resorted to keeping my eyes on the sea and letting my fidgety hands spin the conch around in circles. “You know all the stereotypes people think about when they talk about high school? Jocks? Losers? Party boys? Goths?” Casper pulled a cigarette out of his pocket and slipped it between his lips.
“Yeah, sure, okay.”
“Well … on Assignment Night, tonight, people get nominated by their peers for certain … positions, and then they have to act them out until the Friday before Labor Day. Every day until that day, at midnight, they have to be who everyone wants them to be, for good or bad. And everyone else, the Students, they have to play along.”
“Um, you're kidding right? Is this some kind of game?” My faux smiled turned into a grimace.
“I wish it were. If it were just a game, it'd be fun, right? But it's not. I mean, I used to think it was, but not anymore. People get hurt playing this game.” I paused, not necessarily for dramatic effect, but there it was. “They get killed."
About the Author
C.M. Stunich was raised
under a cover of fog in the area known simply as Eureka, CA. A mysterious
place, this strange, arboreal land nursed Caitlin's (yes, that's her
name!) desire to write strange fiction novels about wicked monsters,
magical trains, and Nemean Lions (Google it!). She currently enjoys
drag queens, having too many cats, and tribal bellydance.
Always a fan of the
indie scene and 'sticking it to the man,' Ms. Stunich decided to take
the road less traveled and forgo the traditional publishing route. You
can be assured though that she received several rejections as to ensure
her proper place in the world of writers before taking up a friend's
offer to start a publishing company. Sarian Royal was born, and Ms.
Stunich's books slowly transformed from mere baking chocolate to full
blown tortes with hand sculpted fondant flowers.
C.M. is a writer obsessed
with delivering the very best and scours her mind on a regular basis
to select the most unusual stories for the outside world.
Ms. Stunich can be reached
via e-mail or by post and loves to hear from her readers. Ms. Stunich
also wrote this biography and has no idea why she decided to refer to
herself in the third person.
Come visit me at www.cmstunich.com and follow me on Facebook !
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