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Touch (Denazen #1)By Jus AccardoPublished November 1st 2011Entangled Publishing




Tell me about the plot...

Deznee, or Dez as most people call her, is a 17-year-old girl that just loves to get an adrenaline rush and piss of her father at every opportunity she can get. And she gets a good one: She finds a boy on her way home and decides to show him to her father.
But this isn’t any boy she just meet, he’s... well weird. He seems fascinated and confused by normal things, and Dez’s father? They seem to be old friends.
In one night, Dez learns that her father has lots of secrets, his job isn’t what she thought and the weird boy that seemed like harmless fun, is deadly. For real.

Dez finds herself in the middle of a battle between a secret organization: Denazen Corporation, and a secret underground group of people with secret abilities: The Sixes.
Denazen wants his most powerful weapon, Kale, back; but the sixes want to be free.

Who can they trust when everyone has a secret of their own? Can Dez confess her secret? How far Kale is willing to go to protect her?

“Things had gone from really weird to

I-fell-down-the-rabbit-hole surreal.”

Touch - Jus Accardo

Female Main Character

Dez is one of my favorites females characters. She isn’t your typical lonely, smart and bookish girl. Dez likes to party. Everyone knows her and love to watch her do dangerous stunts. She isn’t shy or awkward, she tells things as she sees them and is not afraid to stand up to anyone.
But she also has this vulnerable side that you get to see when she’s with Kale. He brings out the best in her: her strength, her sweet side and the loyal and protective streaks that make her an awesome character.
She’s very easy to like. Her witty comments make Touch a super fun read.

“Current relationship status?” Her voice cut like an arctic chill

blowing through the room.

“If you mean me, then you’re not my type. If you mean my dad,

he’s single, but I don’t think you’re his type either,” I said with a

small smile. Mercy didn’t find it amusing. A small blue vein in her

forehead started throbbing like crazy....“Actually, come to think of it,

I don’t think he has a type. I’ve never seen him with a woman.

Mercy, I hate to break it to you, but there’s a very real possibility my dad is gay.”

Dez, Touch - Jus Accardo

What about the hottie of the book?

Kale is... special and at the beginning a little weird. Kale lived his entire life inside Denazen and only went out when they had a job for him. He doesn’t know anything from the outside world and he can touch anyone but Dez.
What you’ll love the most about Kale is his innocence. He is innocent in so many ways you just want to cuddle him. He finds the smaller things fascinating and sarcasm confusing.
But even when he’s deadly and Denazen has made him do horrible things, he can be one of the sweetest guys on the planet.

“As long as I know this" - he lifted our joined hands -
"is mine to hold, I'll wait for you forever.” Kale, Touch - Jus Accardo

Is there a second hottie?

Yes! Glad you asked. We meet Alex, Dez’s ex-boyfriend in Touch. And he’s... kind of a jerk but a hot jerk so at almost makes it up. Almost.
He has spiky, white-blond hair, striking hazel eyes, and a piercing named Fred. Is pretty cool right?

What was the best part?

The reversed roles. While Kale can definitively take care of himself and Dez, he’s the more fragile or vulnerable of the two to me. And Dez is the strong one to hold them up while they fight against Denazen.
The sensations of discovering the world for the first time was another amazing thing. Though Kale’s comments and questions you get to see things for the first time no matter how common they are.

What you didn’t like about the book?

There was a part where things felt a bit slow, but the book is fast paced through most of it and it has turns that will definitively will catch you by surprise

Anything else I should know about this?

Yes! There’s a novella, Untouched (Denazen #1.5) that is set between the last two chapters of Touch and is told from Kale’s POV. And you absolutely need to read it!
Here’s a teaser for you :)

“They'll never take me back to Denazen. I would kill a thousand if I needed to."

He nodded to Dez. "And for her?"

For her. To keep Dez from going to that place? "For her, I'd kill a million.”

Kale, Untouched - Jus Accardo

Also the second book in the series, Toxic (Denazen #2) will be out in September!

About the Author

Jus Accardo is the author of YA paranormal romance and urban fantasy fiction.

A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald.

Her first book, Touch, came out in November 2011 from Entangled Publishing. She is represented by Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Contact her

Web Page

@JusAccardo

Facebook

Where to get the book

B&N

Amazon

Now for the giveaway!

One lucky winner will get 3 Magnets and bookmark of the Denazen Series so fill the rafflecopter!

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Rescued (kidnapped) and secreted (imprisoned) on an undersea warship, Elyse adjusts to her assumed identity as a cadet with the finesse of a toeless ballerina. Her sulfuric temper and blatant insubordination capture the unwanted attention of the ship’s captain, the gorgeous, infuriating, engaged Nicoli Marek.

Elyse would rather perform her own autopsy than become the other woman, but Nicoli—who’s as full of himself as he is of secrets—regards his impending marriage as a mere political transaction. And Elyse as fair game.

As Elyse’s suspicions about the UN’s true agenda mount along with her attraction to the relentless, chronically shirtless captain, she must choose between the murky path to everything she’s ever wanted, or the squeaky-clean path of self-sacrifice—which could mean taking the secrets of the virus with her to the grave.

Warning: Features a strong, chocolate-loving heroine who takes no prisoners on the way to saving the world from an epidemic and winning a captain’s heart.

Before continuing reading, please grab yourself some chocolate *puts basket full of chocolates at the entrance* And follow our advice: keep a stash of chocolates next to the book! And don’t read in public, drooling and laughing out loud can make people think you’re crazy!

We had the pleasure, or maybe the scary experience, of traveling in a Transport Pod to board The Bellator where Ms. Scarlett was waiting for us.
On our way down, we were hoping two things would happen: We’d catch a glimpse of The Captain and avoid Lt. Horan at all cost.
Anna offered us a tour, and we couldn’t say no...

To start off, we have an ice breaker question, what's your favorite color?
Red. The kind hookers wear. Sorry.
Ah, Scarlett, makes sense.

Since our blog was founded on the idea of finding mistakes in books, are there any major mistakes you remember from the editing process?  Anything you found after?  Stuff you forgot to put in? Things you wished you did differently?
Hmmm. My critique partner found a mistake that I didn’t see. When Nicoli was taking Elyse to the Admiral’s office. When she’s observing the décor of the office, she thinks to herself something along the lines of “The admiral’s office was luxurious” or something like that, but the point is, she hadn’t been introduced to the admiral yet! She wouldn’t know she was in the admiral’s office—she doesn’t know whose office Nicoli has taken her to.  I felt like such a caveman. Yeah.
Actually, that’s not a bad mistake.

We love Elyse and Nicoli. She’s witty, she’s funny, sensible, chocolate lover, super smart, seems awesome in arguments and trouble magnet. Honestly, she can be our new BFF we’d get along just fine! And him… well he’s also smart, awesome in arguments, loyal and can pull off a uniform as no one else. The dynamic between them is amazing!
How did you come up with them? Where did you get the inspiration for Elyse and Nicoli? Do you find a lot of you in her/his personality?
I’ve always been a fan of feisty heroines. Scarlett O’Hara, Anne Shirley, Lizzie Bennett. And heroes who are their equal/complement in every way—it just takes some time for both of them to realize it. There is a lot me in Elyse. I wish there was a lot of Nicoli in me…Uh, am I allowed to say that here?
I'm sorry...did you say something? I think Nicoli just walked out of the gym
wow... I'm glad they let him carry guns"

We noted your books have water as an important element in your novels… Did you grow up around water?  Or what is it that inspires you to write novels related to water?
I grew up two blocks away from the bay, which opens up into the Gulf of Mexico. My cousins and I walked to the bay to swim every day of the summer. When Disney’s The Little Mermaid came out, whoa. We were duct-taping our legs together and almost drowning and enjoying every minute of it.  That was my first “Wow the ocean=cool” moment. Then that show SeaQuest DSV came out (I KNOW you know what I’m talking about). I always fantasized that I too was a child prodigy like Lucas (and also Lucas’s love interest, because hello, Lucas was played by Jonathan Brandis) aboard a technologically advanced hyper-big deep sea vessel.
Yes, under this elegant, sophisticated composure, I’m a fantastic nerd.

Music and books tends to go together for most people (at least for us). Do you listen to music while you write?  Is there a playlist or song that inspired you during writing?
I totally agree! But I don’t listen to it while I write, I listen to it before I write, to get me in the mood for the scene. I need quiet to actually write. If it’s a falling-in-love scene, I opt for 80s love songs, like music by When In Rome, and Ah Ha. Or Distance by Christina Perri (love that chick!).
If it’s a scene where the main character is changing/growing, it will be something motivational like Skyscraper by Demi Lovato, or Titanium.
If it’s a fight scene, it’ll be Marilyn Manson, Smashing Pumpkins, Paramore, Offspring, etc.

We were lucky enough that Lt Horan didn’t catch us otherwise he might have made us do some push ups... we’re book girls, we can’t do that!

Thank you Anna for stopping by today! We hope you had fun and come over another time!

Thanks to Anna and Shamhain Publishing we have an ECopy of the book and a swag pack (that includes chocolate) to giveaway to one of you, lovely people!
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Play nice!

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