Asleep

by Krystal Wade

Hopefully I haven’t missed anyone, like my long-time friend Susanna Vallance-Levine, who reads all my work and mostly listens to me complain about things in the writing world—and life. My chat buddy, Ryan Hill, who could use a date. Really, North Carolina girls, he’s available.

  If I’ve left you off, it’s not because you don’t mean the world to me. I don’t have enough space!

  Thank you.

  Thank you.

  Thank you.

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  About the Author

  Krystal Wade can be found in the sluglines outside Washington D.C. every morning, Monday through Friday. With coffee in hand, iPod plugged in, and strangers-who sometimes snore, smell, or have incredibly bad gas-sitting next to her, she zones out and thinks of fantastical worlds for you and me to read. How else can she cope with a fifty mile commute?

  Good thing she has her husband and three kids to go home to. They keep her sane.

  You can find out more about Krystal on her website

  www.krystal-wade.com

  Coming Soon from Blaze

  Available 5/17/16

  Eight weeks after sixteen-year-old Andie Hamilton gives her virginity to her best friend, “the stick” says she’s pregnant.

  Her friends treat her like she’s carrying the plague, her classmates torture and ridicule her, and the boy she thought loved her doesn’t even care. Afraid to experience the next seven months alone, she turns to her ex-boyfriend, Neil Donaghue, a dark-haired, blue-eyed player. With him, she finds comfort and the support she desperately needs to make the hardest decision of her life: whether or not to keep the baby.

  Then a tragic accident leads Andie to discover Neil’s keeping a secret that could dramatically alter their lives, and she's forced to make a choice. But after hearing her son’s heartbeat for the first time, she doesn’t know how she’ll ever be able to let go.

  Available 9/20/16

  After a financial collapse devastates the United States, the new government imposes a tax on the nation’s most valuable resource—the children.

  Surrendered at age ten—after her parents could no longer afford her exorbitant fees—Vee Delancourt has spent six hard years at the Mills, alongside her twin, Oliver. With just a year to freedom, they do what they can to stay off the Master’s radar. But when Vee discovers unspeakable things happening to the younger girls in service, she has no choice but to take a stand—a decision that lands her on the run and outside the fence for the first time since the System robbed her of her liberty.

  Vee knows the Master will stop at nothing to prove he holds ultimate authority over the Surrendered. But when he makes a threat that goes beyond what even she considers possible, she accepts the aid of an unlikely group of allies. Problem is, with opposing factions gunning for the one thing that might save them all, Vee must find a way to turn oppression and desperation into hope and determination—or risk failing all the children and the brother she left behind.