COVER REVEAL
Title: The Initiation
Series: The 4 Horsemen #1
Author: Elena Monroe
Genre: Dark New Adult Romance
Cover Design: Maria, Steamy Reads
Photo: Peter Stimson
Model: AJ Jarrad
Release Date: August 4, 2020
BLURB
The seals have been revealed and God’s judgments
on the earth is in. The Clave is here to deliver the news.
ABIGAIL
LA wasn’t home… just home for now.
Transplanted here to model I learned Hollywood
isn’t where dreams survive the harsh reality of millions all sharing that same
dream.
Executive assistant is who I am now.
Slave.
Hollywood’s darling took a liking to me. One not
easily ignored when they give you a taste of the high life.
I was supposed to give up hope and give in to
LA’s bad reputation but I had rules.
Well, just one: read the rules before you
break them.
Unwilling to abandon all my morals, the filter
came off my life to see the world I was one foot in was invitation only...
GRIMM
I’m not sure I was ever really Jason.
Whoever he was, was a distant memory now.
Grimm is who I am now.
Death.
I abandoned my birth name, companionship,
happiness that wasn’t shaped like Xanax all because I was expected to be the
kind of elite that pulls the strings.
Pull the strings but follow the rules.
No distractions.
No serious relationships.
Keep what we do secret.
Born into a rite I didn’t ask for, a society of
puppeteers.
An invitation I marked not attending...
GOODREADS LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53338190-the-initiation
We were all related to monsters.
All heir to corrupt kingdoms.
Forced to uphold some delusion that we are doing God’s will by ridding
the world of the bad people when we should be included in that kind of
purge.
“It’s down to the right. There’s a bunker. That’s where they keep the
sacrifices,” I was finally tired of wondering around when I knew exactly where
to go.
I found them by mistake one year when I was ten, back when inviting your
whole family was more common. They expected everyone to be present even if you
weren’t weilding a musket and shooting real people down.
The four of us used to play hide and seek on the grounds just to keep
ourselves entertained. I always had the best hiding places, this was our
vacation home when it wasn’t being used for some ceremony the Clave
hosted.
I was ten years old when I found people in cages in the bunker we were
told to stay away from. They were all dugged, out of it like they were dreaming
with their eyes open. I envied them. Dreaming with your eyes wide open seemed
like the perfect antidote to life, too bad that kind of safety only came before
you died.
It wasn’t until my first attendance I realized these people weren’t lucky
at all. They were bait, aggression running wild, enemies of the Clave that we
hunted for sport.
None of them were going to survive - the least we could do was let them
dream with their eyes wide open.
AUTHOR BIO
Elena Monroe grew up in Florida scribbling down stories from a very young age. These stories were really just wavy lines filling the paper, but she knew each word, each emotion, each character's name, and there was no tricking her into forgetting what each line signified. Just like her unconventional way of writing as a toddler Elena is setting her own rules and just telling stories.
Much like her debut novel, The Best Years, life certainly imitated art.
Transplanting from the South to the East Coast, Elena currently lives in
Connecticut with husband, reformed bad boy.
Find her on her social media through Twitter at @elenamonroe, Instagram at
@elenamonroewrites, Facebook at @elenamonroewrites, and more
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