LINES by Ashley C. Harris
An intense, coming of age story where the film CRUEL INTENTIONS meets a world of high school, racism, and drugs, where Romeo and Juliet should have never crossed paths.
Title: LINES
Genre: Contemporary Young Adult
Release Date: January 20, 2015
ISBN: 9781310636943 | 9781310444067 | 9781311639011
About the book(s):
Grace was only dating bad boy Danny Cross to get her father’s attention. Danny was only dating Grace to help his friend get revenge. But when Jessie, the new kid, comes to town and brings hidden secrets about Grace’s family with him, suddenly everyone’s plans turn upside down.
As secrets are brought to the surface, Grace finds herself sinking deeper into Danny’s world of drugs and partying, uncovering truths that could destroy them all.
Enter the world of high school, blackmail, racism, and drugs, a world where there is no escape from crossing the LINES.
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
GRACE
“Skipping
class?” she asks as she finds her voice. It’s airy, cracky, like she is trying
to summon the courage to be like Julie, crude and pissed off.
I
give her my best fake nice guy smile, it can be convincing. “Not worth going if
you’re not there.”
“You
never go to class anyway,” she points out the obvious.
“Well,”
I try to pull something out of my ass. “Today’s special, so I’m driving you to
school.” Then I grab her hand, her porcelain skin so much cooler and more
fragile than my own. I try to lead her toward my car when she plants her feet
hard into the ground and pulls away, making me face her gold eyes again. Here we go, she’s gonna end it now, I think,
as I paint on my face a look that says I have no idea what’s coming. This look
is for Storm, but I think Grace knows perfectly well that I know this is a
scam. Somehow, everyone is fooling everyone here.
“And
why is today special?” Her face holds demands I don’t understand, testing me,
like I should know something that no one has cued me in on. Why is it girls
always expect men to magically read their thoughts and know the answers?
“Because,
ah, today’s a good day apparently?” I’m losing my smoothness.
She
glares at me with disappointment, like everyone has disappointed her except for
moronic Julie. “Well Julie’s already here so … ” She says this like that’s all
that matters, like it doesn’t matter that I’m here too.
“I’m
sure Julie can figure out her way to school,” I remind her as if Julie’s five.
Grace rolls her eyes crossly and starts turning around to go, just leaving me
standing, dissed, in front of my best friend. Girls are cold. Then again, I
deserve this, and I’m relieved that this hopefully spells out that we’re done,
though I suppose I’ll miss several things about this jest.
Before
she can leave my reach fully a noise comes. Her garage door opens and stops her
as if it has the power to turn Grace into solid ice. Or maybe that’s her pop’s
power. He comes out of the garage fast, briefcase in hand, not even looking my
or his daughter’s way. He uses his remote to pop open his Mercedes as he
screams into his phone. “I told you to hold that patient until I get there.
Don’t do a thing!”
And
then abruptly Grace suddenly turns fast toward me. What the … I feel her cool fragile skin get dangerously close to
mine as she takes ahold of my arms. They come right around my neck as I feel
her perfect body press right into mine. Then she kisses me. Grace’s whiplash
really shouldn’t have shocked me anymore.
I
know right away she’s only doing this, kissing me, to make her father mad. I
take full advantage, kissing her back and pulling her further to me as I wrap
my own arms around her, tasting her as the light perfume she has on drives me
crazy. Yes, I know, I’m a messed up individual. She fills my head as I feel her
tremble and kisses me harder. She’s the gem I’ll never be able to afford but I
get to touch right now. How the hell can I really resist when she suddenly just
kisses me like this?
Sounds
of her dad leaving, and Julie yelling, finally make her lips slow, then they
stop. As she pulls away and our eyes meet, our reality crashes back, yet we
both totally want to keep going. How far would she really be willing to go?
“Grace!
We are going to be late!” Julie is screaming. She’s been yakking for a while
now. “And I’m going to throw up!” Her voice is like that of an angry hag, mad
someone was stealing her plaything. Grace pulls completely away from me, steps
back, and any look or want between us is gone.
“I
can’t ride with you. You should have called and let me know you’d be here.”
“Come
on,” I try to protest. Am I glad she is leaving or do I want to grab her and
kiss her again, maybe up against Julie’s car to really piss the man hater off?
I
hear Storm sneer and I suddenly want her to go, get away from him and away from
me, as I keep my face the same, shaking my head at her for guilt, but also
backing off.
“Why
don’t you just drive me home,” she offers. “If I go with you now she’ll kill
me. After school we can finally … talk.” Talk as in not make out, talk as in
tell me to take a hike. Fine, after school it is. With that, she turns and is
gone.
Julie
makes sure to give Storm and me extra dirty looks before taking off with my
“girlfriend.” She is in such a hurry she almost brakes the speed limit to get
Grace away from me. Almost, but not quite.
I
hear Storm laugh.“Pick me up, do my laundry,” he mocks me. “Yeah, you’ve really
got this one, Danny.”
LINES has also been made into a movie, directed by Ashley herself!
Find out more about LINES, the movie below:
Lines The Movie - Directed by Ashley C. Harris -Special Movie Clip 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqL5f8O17M&list=UUa3CsFvTntFyOnNlgFNRzFA
Lines The Movie - Directed by Ashley C. Harris -Special Movie Clip 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7-q5TiCA1c&list=UUa3CsFvTntFyOnNlgFNRzFA&index=1
About Ashley C. Harris:
Author and film director Ashley C. Harris resides in Florida. Ashley was first recognized for her edgy writing and unique film work when she wrote and directed the teenage film Lines. Lines was the first feature film in the world captured using only Mac Laptops..
In 2013 Ashley teamed up with Barclay Publicity to release the first title in a new young adult series Shock Me. Ashley then went on to release the first of a new NA series, One Night In Heated Snapshots, that quickly reached Amazon's Best Selling top ten list for sports romances.
When she is not dreaming up new books and working on film sets, she loves to spend time with her friends and family.
Keep a close watch for Ashley's newest young adult books releases!
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