The Ransom Series Boxed Set

All three books in The Ransom Series are now available as a digital boxed set on Amazon with a beautiful new cover designed by Marisa Wesley of Cover Me Darling. You can read it for free with Kindle Unlimited.

I’d greatly appreciate it if you could help me spread the word by adding it to your TBR pile on Goodreads.

Happy reading everyone!

My body is broken.

My life is shattered.

Everything I’ve ever known is gone from me, yet I’ve discovered something beautiful.

I didn’t expect to be taken. I never dreamed that love would find me while my life was slowly stripped away. With him something new and alive stirs within me, and I am completely changed.

Though battered and broken-down, I’m not alone. The most unlikely man protects me and gives me strength.

I will survive this for him. I will find a way to save us both.

While they hold me, he holds my heart, and I’m not willing to pay the price to get it back.

Boxed Set Contains:

1. Beyond Ransom
2. Beyond Revenge
3. Beyond Resistance

WARNING: The Ransom Series is intended for mature audiences 18+. It contains disturbing situations, graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.

Cover and Blurb Reveal for Juror 87

Juror 87

by A.T. Douglas

Grand jury proceedings are secret.

So is their relationship.

She is Juror 87, visibly distraught at hearing countless cases of felony drug use and domestic violence, stories that are painfully reminiscent of both her past and present. He is Juror 56, concerned at the sight of her struggle and determined to help her through it. In their short time together as grand jurors—temporarily sequestered from their normal lives and the rest of the world—they discover an undeniable connection drawing them together.

But their lives outside of the courthouse couldn’t keep them farther apart: She is sheltered by her boyfriend at his lavish estate, the facade of luxury masking what happens behind closed doors. He lives a modest life alone, living paycheck-to-paycheck in a small studio apartment. Each time they return to the courthouse for grand jury service, their divergent paths merge closer together.

They seek justice and love, neither of which will come easily.

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Cover design by Marisa-rose Wesley with Cover Me Darling LLC.

Cover and Blurb Reveal for Runaway

Runaway

by A.T. Douglas

They labeled me a runaway. My family, the police, the media—the people I counted on to expend every effort to find me—they thought I willingly vanished after school one day. They pushed aside their worst fears, fears that had become my new reality: I was kidnapped, locked away, and abused for months on end.

The man who crushed my spirit and used my body for his pleasure each day never answered for his crimes. The monster haunting my mind long after my freedom from his control remains at large, a constant but unknown threat that I responded to in the only way that I could: I left my former life behind, finding peace in solitude and starting over somewhere new.

My internal walls have remained strong, despite my daily battles with the demons still lingering inside me. But a single harrowing event is all it took to bring them crashing down. Amidst their rubble, a man was there to help me. He’s a new unknown who frightens me in a different way, making me question whether I need to rebuild the internal walls that have sustained me and provided me a sense of safety.

He makes me want to stop running from the past I can’t change and the family I left behind. He gives me hope that I can overcome my fears and learn to love and trust again.

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Cover design by Marisa-rose Wesley with Cover Me Darling LLC.

Ash to Dust is now available!

My Dark Dystopian Romance novel Falling Ash was supposed to be a standalone, but toward the end of the writing process, I had this crazy idea for a potential sequel.  I took on the story in November 2016 for my National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) project.  The sequel is titled Ash to Dust, and it’s now available for your reading pleasure in both Kindle and paperback formats on Amazon.

I’ll be the first to tell you that this book is much darker than its predecessor.  It was written during a particularly challenging time for me.  For better or for worse, that difficulty I was experiencing showed through in the development of this story, taking it to even darker depths than I originally imagined.

I have embraced that I am author of romance books with warnings.  Ash to Dust comes with my strongest warning yet, so I highly recommend that you read the warning before taking on this sequel.

I’m very excited, though still slightly terrified, to present to you Ash to Dust, a Dark Dystopian Romance by A.T. Douglas:

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Darkness brought us together.

Now it threatens to tear us apart.

Pain and violence are not new to me.  Humiliation and mind games are all too familiar. In the beginning of our relationship, Silas used these techniques that made me realize how much we understood each other.  Now they are being used against us and our family, used in a completely different and more horrific way.

The actions we must take in order to protect each other…  I don’t know how we’ll ever forgive ourselves.  But we’ll do whatever it takes to keep each other alive.  We’ll make the necessary choices to survive and secure a future for our family.

We’ll fight for our freedom, no matter how broken we might become along the way.

WARNING: Ash to Dust is a Dark Dystopian Romance novel intended for mature audiences 18+. It contains taboo subjects, disturbing situations, graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.

 

Falling Ash is LIVE on Amazon!

I have a lot to celebrate today.  It’s the three-year anniversary of my officially becoming an indie author, and to help celebrate that achievement, I’m releasing my fifth book: Falling Ash, a Dark Dystopian Romance.  It’s available now to 1-Click or read for free with Kindle Unlimited.

This book won’t be for everyone.  It’s a Dark Romance that comes with the same strong warning I used for The Ransom Series.  That said, I tried to balance the dark and the romance in this book.  Even though it’s all fantasy and escapism, I wanted the romance to be believable because I do think it’s possible to find love amidst darkness.

I hope you enjoy reading this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.  I’d love to hear your feedback and find out if you want more, because you wouldn’t believe the sequel idea that quickly developed in my head when I finished writing the first draft of this book.

I proudly present to you Falling Ash, a Dark Dystopian Romance by A.T. Douglas:

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He has me. He holds me. He’ll never let me go.

I’ve faced my fair share of challenges this year. I’ve endured physical and emotional pain and survived the attacks that led to the self-destruction of society, but I don’t know if I can survive this.

I may not want to.

My name before he took me was Ashleigh, but now I’m only Ash.

WARNING: Falling Ash is a Dark Dystopian Romance novel intended for mature audiences 18+. It contains disturbing situations, graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.

 

Prologue

Darkness and silence fill the room around me. I try desperately to bring my limbs close to my body, mankind’s natural reaction to retreat inward to its fetal position in times of fear and crisis. I’m physically unable to move, though, my hands bound by leather cuffs dangling me in a strained position from chains directly above my shoulders. My ankles are similarly bound at the floor, my feet barely able to reach the hard surface because of the short distance that the chains keep my legs spread apart.

My breathing quickens erratically as I struggle against the bindings. The rapid movements of air to and from my lungs become deafeningly loud in the complete stillness around me.

Then it all stops. The slow and heavy sound of footsteps from an area nearby halts all movement of my limbs and inhalations from my lips. The muffled sounds of someone approaching grow louder, weighted with purpose, their malicious intent becoming clearer with each step.

The door creaks open, a blinding beam of white light pouring into the room directly at me. I immediately look away, more to avoid seeing what or who will come in next than to avoid the harsh light. The steps aren’t muffled anymore. They’re right here approaching me, quickening in pace until they’re upon me, overtaking me.

Ending me.

“What is your name?” a deep voice asks.

I say nothing. I don’t move. Despite all that I’ve endured since the end of last year and despite how strong I’ve pretended to be, I don’t know that I can face this.

“What is your name?” The voice is more demanding now, the tone quickly escalating to one of anger.

My mouth opens fully intending to speak, but I can’t get anything out. My breath catches in my throat, and I feel like I can hardly breathe.

“Your name.” All patience gone, he grabs my chin and forces my face forward, though my eyes only see his dark outline against the blinding light from the doorway.

“Ashleigh,” I breathe out, and his hardened grasp on my skin instantly releases.

He steps back just enough to look me over from head to toe, then stills before me. “Ash,” he declares definitively. “That will be your name here.” He turns and takes two more steps away, then barely glances over his shoulder at me. “That will be my name for you.”

Without another word, he quickly exits the room and closes the door behind him, leaving me back where I started, drowning in darkness and struggling to survive.

Cover Reveal for Falling Ash

I had ambitions of letting my photographer do a photo shoot with a model based on my guidance to come up with a cover photo for Falling Ash.  I planned to essentially design and format the cover myself like I’ve done with my previous book covers.  As I was approaching the end of writing the first draft of Falling Ash, though, I began to stress about not even having started the process of getting the cover ready.

Then I found my new favorite graphic designer who also serves as her own photographer: Marisa at Cover Me Darling.

Marisa designed a cover from one of her photos that ended up being absolutely perfect for this book, and when I saw it and the other work she had done, I knew I had to work with her.  All thoughts of doing my own cover went out the window.  All the stress of not even having a photoshoot scheduled was gone.  Within a day or two of getting Marisa the information she needed to complete the cover, I had a final product that I couldn’t be happier with.

I’m thrilled to finally show you how it turned out.  Here is the cover for Falling Ash, a Dark Dystopian Romance, coming exclusively to Kindle on August 11, 2016.

 

Coming Soon ~ Falling Ash by A.T. Douglas

This book I’ve been writing for the last six months isn’t just a manuscript anymore.  It has a final blurb.  Its cover is complete.  Its story has come to life and is almost ready to be put out into the world, so it’s time I finally gave you the details I’ve been keeping close to me for so long.

I’m thrilled to announce the title and blurb for my upcoming release due out on August 11, 2016, the three-year anniversary of the day I officially became an indie author:

Falling Ash, a Dark Dystopian Romance

He has me.  He holds me.  He’ll never let me go.

I’ve faced my fair share of challenges this year.  I’ve endured physical and emotional pain and survived the attacks that led to the self-destruction of society, but I don’t know if I can survive this.

I may not want to.

My name before he took me was Ashleigh, but now I’m only Ash.

WARNING: Falling Ash is a Dark Dystopian Romance novel intended for mature audiences 18+.  It contains disturbing situations, graphic violence, strong language, and sexual content.

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A Blessing and a Curse

It’s become very clear to me over the last year and a half that being an indie author is both a blessing and a curse.  The beauty of it is we’re just normal people living our regular lives each day while fulfilling our dreams of writing even if that time is limited to the late night or pre-dawn hours and the few spare moments we can get.  The curse of being an indie author is that daily life inevitably gets in the way, not just because it makes precious writing time more difficult to come by, but also because life can be draining, and an exhausted indie author brain is not usually conducive to writing.

Last year was hard.  I learned that having two kids really is a lot more work than just one, especially when one isn’t just a normal kid (that’s a story for another blog post).  My day job that has always kept me busy reached new levels of misery and chaos.  It was a mentally and emotionally exhausting year, and I can’t even begin to tell you how disappointed I was in not having the energy to get back behind the keyboard and write.

I’ve vowed to make this year different, though.  Things at work are just as chaotic as before, but life at home has become a little easier now that my second son is almost a year and a half old and sleeping for longer periods at night (most of the time).  I’m still fighting the exhaustion, but I have the drive to write inspiring me to get through each day.

I also have coffee.  Lots of it.

There’s a point in the writing process when an author gets completely enveloped by their story.  Every idle moment of the day is spent thinking about what’s going to happen next, how to get out of a problem we’ve inadvertently written in the storyline, crafting conversation for the next turn of events.  I’m incredibly excited to say I’m there.  Actually, I’ve been there for months now.

And it’s exactly where I belong.

I’ve had this story in my head since the late summer of 2014 when I was still writing and finalizing Beyond Resistance, the third and final book in The Ransom Series.  I tried to start writing this story for the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) that November, a couple weeks after Beyond Resistance went live and my second son was born, but I was too busy with a newborn and exhausted from each day.  I tried again to start writing it for NaNoWriMo a year later in November 2015, but I faced the same challenges in not having the time or mental energy to do it.

Hello 2016.

I’m already 40,000 words into writing this story, and I can’t wait to keep going.  My commute to and from work has become my time for plotting out the next scene as I listen to the music that also inspires me.  This story is constantly on my brain, and in the coming months it will finally be down on virtual paper for the world to read.

It won’t be for everyone.  Those who have read The Ransom Series know I’m not afraid to delve into the darkness, and I’m jumping into it completely with this story.  Head first.  No looking back.

As much as I want to tell you the title and the genre and give you the initial blurb for the story, I’m going to torture you a little bit like authors sometimes do in telling you I’m working on a project without actually telling you about the project.  It will make it all that much better when I finally spill the details which, who knows, may be sooner than you think.

In the meantime, though, I hope to make it up to you by being more active on social media and giving you more frequent updates.  I’ll never be overly open and chatty as I tend to be a quiet person, more than happy to sit back in the shadows and observe, but I can certainly do better.  It’s time for me to actively engage in the indie author and reader communities again.

This year will be better than the last.  That flood of exhilaration at hitting the “Publish” button will flow through me again, and I’ll finally get another story out into the world for you to read.

There are a few more bumps to overcome on my way to the smoother path ahead, but I’m keeping my eyes trained forward.  I’ll get there eventually, and I can’t wait to see what happens when I’m finally there.

Beyond Resistance is live on Amazon!

The Ransom Series is complete (for real this time)!

Beyond Resistance, Part Three of The Ransom Series and a book that exists solely thanks to my readers’ support and encouragement, is live on Amazon. Actually, it’s been live since October 21st. I’m only just getting around to this blog post now because I’ve been a little busy since the actual release. After over a day and a half wait, the book finally went live within thirty minutes of the birth of my second son, and life has essentially been chaos since then.

I couldn’t have been more excited to bring these two creations into the world at once, though.

I hope fans of The Ransom Series enjoy this third and final installment that I had no intention of writing when the series was initially published. The fans were right that more of this story needed to be told, and I’m so glad I listened to them.

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Blurb Reveal for Beyond Resistance

So here it is. For the fans who have read Beyond Ransom and Beyond Revenge and inspired me to write more to this story, I’m happy to give you the blurb for Beyond Resistance, Part Three of The Ransom Series. I hope you enjoy this final sneak peek into the book before it’s released sometime in October.

If you haven’t read Beyond Ransom and Beyond Revenge, this blurb reveal isn’t for you. I don’t want to spoil the first two books in the series for you.

You can find the blurb for Beyond Resistance at the Goodreads link below. It’s a great opportunity to add the book to your TBR while you’re there!

~ Beyond Resistance on Goodreads ~