Seven Years by Dannika Dark
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Seven Years

(Seven Series, Bk #1)
By Dannika Dark


Blurb: 

Seven years ago, my world ended.

Seven years later, my new life began.



It's been seven years since Lexi Knight lost her brother in a tragic accident. On the anniversary of his death, her brother's best friend shows up unexpectedly - a man she hasn't seen since the funeral. He is no longer the boy Lexi once knew, but a dangerous-looking man with tattoos and dark secrets. He broke her trust and abandoned her family, yet what he reveals makes it impossible to stay angry. Lexi has been secretly infatuated with Austin since childhood, so finding out he's a Shifter just makes him sexier. Dammit.



Austin Cole has returned to the city where he grew up, and just in time. He's lived a hard life these past seven years, and the shadows of his past are threatening to destroy Lexi's family. It's time that she learned the truth about her brother, but there is a shocking twist that Austin never saw coming. Now he must protect her family when her mother and sister wind up in mortal danger. Will Lexi learn to accept the truth about who he is, and can Austin salvage a relationship from the ruins of their past?

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Seven Years (Seven Series #1)
AMAZON (US) - http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Years-Series-1-ebook/dp/B00G2DL26U
AMAZON (UK) - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00G2DL26U

Excerpt

The closer I snuggled up to Austin, the more I craved that cozy familiarity—more than I would have cared to admit. I’d missed him. How do you not miss someone who was a huge chunk of your childhood and young-adult life who disappeared off the face of the earth? Almost every memory I had from kindergarten to age twenty involved Austin Cole.

The next thing I knew, my cheek rested on his bicep and I tucked my body against his like a puzzle piece. 

Just when I closed my heavy eyelids, he groaned.

Oh God, please don’t let him wake up now.

It was deep and guttural, and he shifted on his right side, facing me.

“You okay?” he murmured.

I didn't reply. I played dead and pretended I was asleep. It seemed like a good plan to avoid the embarrassment of explaining why I was latched on to him like a man-sucking leech.

A rough, warm hand cupped my cheek and I felt him scoot down a little. Maybe he thought I had fallen asleep, because his thumb brushed over my right eyelid softly.

Five times. I counted.

When his lips lightly touched mine, my brain just shut down. It was a soft, almost nonexistent kiss, but I felt it all the way down to my toes. Then it zinged back up to my hips and damn if I didn't moan.

Now we were both aware I wasn't asleep and he was kissing me. But it didn't stop. His kiss pressed a little bit harder and tingles roared through my body, and my breath was shaky and erratic.

When his tongue touched my lip, I quickly opened my mouth and kissed him back.

Hard.

Deep.

Kissed him like I’d fantasized about doing for the last seven years.

REVIEW:

Seven Years (Seven Series #1) by Dannika Dark

Reviewer: Kris

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

There are two things that make a book a sure bet for me; Shifters (my favorite paranormal) and Dannika Dark (my favorite author). When the two meet… *cue mental fireworks!!!*

Now, I did try to go into this objectively. I didn’t want to be clearly biased because I *so* love her Mageri Series (which, I do and you should read it!); this is obviously a new series and a new adventure. So, I tried to wipe all thought of it being Dark’s work from my mind, and here is what I was left with…

I stayed up until 6 AM reading this, woke up 3 hours later and continued reading it until I finished. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but I am the mother of four and sleeping in or napping are a thing of my distant past. That’s right, I crippled myself with only 3 hours of sleep when the rest of the day I would facing the firing squad of four kids ages 10 and under. I’ll also mention that I recently quit caffeine. This was kind of a big deal, you see?

Why?

Automatically I was in literary heroine love with Alexia Knight. From the first couple of pages we start to get a good grasp on her strength and personality. Dark is the queen of well-rounded, witty female leads. She was the glue that held her family together, but in no way thought of herself as a saint or anything special. She was in her late twenties and admittedly didn’t feel like her life was going anywhere.

Austin Cole… swish it around your tongue a little bit. If I were younger I would be writing Mrs. Cole in my diary every night. Something Alexia admits to doing as a kid. At first glance Austin appears to be another pretty face, the clear front runner for our HEA. A few times during the read I stumbled and wondered if I got that wrong. I did get one part of the initial assessment wrong; he was not just a pretty face. He was a *good*, strong man who through every action over the last 7 yrs was trying to honor his best friends memory by doing nothing more than protecting his kid sister.

When Austin comes back after seven years so much about Alexia’s past in unveiled. Things I did not see coming! Something I have learned from reading the Mageri series is that Dannika Dark loves giving you little puzzle pieces, things you might not expect are even a clue, but now when I read her books I assume EVERYTHING is something. Lol. In that way it is the book that keeps on giving. Long after you are done reading you will be coming up with a dozen or more theories about certain characters or plot twists. This is why we have the Dannika Dark groups we do, so we can all bounce theories off of each other… and swoon over hot men together.

*I received an ARC copy in return for an honest review on behalf of I Heart Books.

About the Author

This is the segment where you learn a little more about who I am, so here's what I can tell you:  I drink copious amounts of vitamin water placed precariously close to my laptop while writing. These are two healthy habits I have no intention of breaking. I'm a transplant living in the south, but I was born in the 70's to a military dad who moved us around the world.



When I'm not writing (which is all the time), I'm hunting down Indie music, watching movies, reading, eating Tex-Mex, discovering new ways to humiliate myself bowling, and burning up my laptop battery on the Internet. I have a relaxed, easy-going personality and don't like drama. I live with a cat who thinks she is a dog, or a goat (she eats plastic, so I'm not sure which).



Throughout my life, I've had insomnia. Counting sheep never worked and eventually I would imagine those sheep were the sole source of food after an apocalyptic battle where only thousands survived. I made up stories in a futile attempt to bore myself to sleep. The problem was, I got so wrapped up in my "head stories" that I would continue them through the following nights, changing it up each time to make it more exciting. Eventually, I started writing my ideas down - creating short stories, and then I discovered my love for poetry.



It's almost embarrassing how many spiral notebooks and stacks of paper I have of poetry and lyrics.



Another passion: digital art. I design all my book covers, marketing, and series art. I'm a very visual person and pursued photography as an avid hobby for many years.



I am not a YA author (I feel like I have to state this only because I've had a few people ask), but I think it's wonderful there are so many books available to teens in Urban Fantasy and Paranormal.



I am finally doing what I have always wanted to do: giving my characters a pulse through writing full time. I focus on adult urban fantasy romance, but I don't like labels and I enjoy blending genres to break out of the confines of predictability.



But it's what I love to do.



Danni

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