The End is Here. Let There Be Light. #LUX by Courtney Cole #Nocte #Verum #Initium

The dramatic series finale to Courtney Cole's bestselling Nocte trilogy!

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My name is Calla Price and I’m broken.

My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them.

Who is dead? Alive? Insane?

What is the truth?

I don’t know.

I do know this: The darkness is strangling me. With every breath, I choke on another lie.

My mind has protected me, but that shield will soon be lowered.

All will be revealed.
Every answer to every question.

It’s all been leading to this.

Don’t be afraid.
Be terrified.

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Series reading order:

Nocte (#1), Verum (#2), Initium (#2.5), Lux (#3).

 

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REVIEW

This book will chew you up and spit you out faster than you can say LUX! It will twist you up, take you past the brink of insanity and then push you right back, until you feel you have a grasp on reality, before it sucks you right back into the madness.

I thought I had experienced it all in Nocte and Verum, but this story just took everything I thought I knew and ripped it to shreds. At times it got a bit confusing and there were plenty of WTF moments, but I loved that Cole wrote this book in such a way that it places the reader in Calla's shoes, quite literally. Never, EVER, have I experienced the emotions, confusion, sense of de ja vu, and heartache of a character, as I did with this read. It was superb, and I'm still not quite sure if I have the brain capacity to wrap my head around everything that went down.

The thing I really loved about this book was the author's note at the end of the story. The fact that Cole gives her readers the right to make up their own mind on whether what they read was real or not. Was Calla crazy? Were any of the unexplainable events that took place plausible?

This series has been one dark, completely messed up ride through crazyville. It was fascinating, thrilling, devastating and brilliant.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtney Cole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist who would rather write than eat chocolate. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business, but no amount of working in the corporate world could quell her urge to write.

Courtney was born and raised in Kansas, home of incredibly friendly people and the most horrendous weather on the planet. Because summer days were so hot, she grew up reading stacks of books... and when she didn't like the ending, she wrote her own.

Courtney has relocated to Florida where she writes beneath palm trees. To learn more about her, please visit her website.  To sign up for her newsletter and receive exclusive sneak peeks and super-fan perks, click here.

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NOCTE:

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VERUM:

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Release Day Launch: Review, Excerpt + #Giveaway: Verum by Courtney Cole #VERUM

 

We are absolutely over the moon about this Release Day launch for Courtney Cole's VERUM!! 

 

 VERUM is a New Adult dark romantic psychological suspense novel and the second book in Courtney's The Nocte Trilogy!

 

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The truth shall set you free.

My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I’m entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It’s just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

 

 

Excerpt

 

Together, we float to the surface, still intertwined.  We break through the top and I suck in a breath and Dare is staring into my eyes.

There’s tension here, but not the bad kind.  It’s the kind that ignites you, the kind that intoxicates you, the kind that once you taste it, you’ll crave for the rest of your life. 

I’ve forgotten that I was going to be careful, that I was going to reject him on every level.

All I can remember, all I can focus on, is how veryalive Dare DuBray is making me feel in this moment, how alive he always makes me feel.  

For a girl who has been surrounded by death her entire life, this is a very big deal.

“I’m a little afraid of you,” I blurt honestly, and Dare still has his arms around me.  Our treading water motions keep our legs rubbing together, the friction still there. 

Hot,

Hot,

Hotter.

Dare smiles, but there is no humor in it.

“Good.” 

“Why?”

My honesty makes me seem innocent, but I don’t know how to play games.  I have no experience with the opposite sex at all.

“Because that makes you feel something.” 

But he’s hesitant now and he looks away. There’s something he wants to say, it’s balanced on the tip of his tongue, but he swallows it. 

“What is it?” I ask softly.  “Just tell me.”

He wants to, I can tell. His secrets are killing him. He just wants to be normal, he’s just acting out a role.

I don’t know why I feel like I know this.  It’s just there, suddenly resting on my heart.

“You don’t have to be someone you’re not,” I murmur quietly.  His dark eyes snap up to mine and he pulls his hands away. There’s something in his eyes now, something guarded, and our easy afternoon has come to an end.

“What makes you think I am?” he snaps. “Pretending to be something I’m not, I mean.”

I’ve somehow annoyed him, and I don’t answer because I don’t know what to say.

“I’m not being someone I’m not, Calla,” he says coolly as he strides from the water.  “I’m being who you need me to be.”

I’m utterly confused, and I’m dripping wet.

“We don’t have towels,” is all he says when I follow him. My clothing soaks up the water and it is a very cold ride back home. 

Dare doesn’t say another word and I leave him in the garage. 

I don’t see him at dinner, and I don’t see him the rest of the night. 

But as I lay in bed around midnight, I see his car leave the garage. 

I don’t see him come home, and I’m awake for half the night waiting. 

I have no idea where he goes when he slips away. 

Somehow, I think he wants it that way.

There’s a fork in the road and even though I see it, I can’t avoid it.

One road goes left, one goes right, and neither of them end well. 

I feel it in my bones,

In my bones,

In my bones.

I sing a song of nonsense, and it sings back.  The notes echo and twist in the air, and I swallow them whole.

“Come out,” I call behind me, because I know they’re there.  

I can’t see them, but they’re always watching. 

Eyes appear, blood red, and they blink once, twice, three times.

“I can see you,” I announce and there’s a growl and then I’m crushed beneath the dark, beneath the weight, beneath the oppression.

“You don’t scare me,” I lie.

There’s savagery here, there’s grace. 

But above all, there’s oblivion and no matter what I do, I will be sucked into it. 

I know it.

I feel it.

I’m crazy.

And it doesn’t matter.

I’m the rabbitrabbitrabbit and I’ll never be free.

 

 

 

REVIEW

Holy. Freaking. Mind F*ck!!

So, I came across a Tweet by Courtney Cole that went something like, "I'm going to hand you your mind on a platter...", and Oh. My. Gosh. Did. She. Ever!! This book was a twisted tale that tortured my soul, shattered my heart, and left my mind in pieces.

If you thought NOCTE was a mind f*ck, this book will destroy you completely. It was NOCTE on steroids. Darker and more psychologically warped, with even more secrets and lies. I think the setting of this story really added to the eeriness and gave it a bit of a haunted horror feel. As Calla battled with her sanity, only to be yanked back under into total despair, time and time again, she continued to search for answers and the more she hunted, the more insane things got.

I loved how Cole so nonchalantly but purposefully allowed her characters to drop little clues along the way. It kept my mind working the entire time. I had to wonder what Dare was hiding from Calla, and why he wanted her trust while fearing she'd think him a monster when she found out the truth. And then, there were the many new faces who only added to the mystery of what Whitley was really hiding. 

And finally, that ending! The entire read I was in total suspense, and than BHAM! the truth hit me like a freight train, and I felt my mind crumble under the weight of it, slowly drifting away. I was the rabbit and Verum was the hole, and I was fallingfallingfalling. I NEED LUX NOW, BEFORE I GO COMPLETELY INSANE.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people. Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.    

 

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VERUM, the second book in Courtney Cole's psychological mind-bending NOCTE Trilogy, is here.

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My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don’t know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I’m entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It’s just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

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"There’s savagery here, there’s grace. But above all, there’s oblivion and no matter what I do, I will be sucked into it." 

VERUM, the sequel to Courtney Cole's spellbindingly dark, heartwrenchind new adult psychological suspense, NOCTE, is coming February 2, 2015.

 

 

 

Are you ready?

My name is Calla Price and I'm drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I'm being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don't know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I'm entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It's just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

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VERUM is coming. February 2.

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THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

My name is Calla Price and I'm drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I'm being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don't know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I'm entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It's just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

 

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Saturday, January 17, 2015, the prologue to VERUM (which gives the answer to the question everyone has been dying to know!) will go out EXCLUSIVELY to everyone who has signed up to the NOCTE List!!!

 

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SEE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...

 

 

 

 

SAVE ME AND I'LL SAVE YOU....

My name is Calla Price. I’m eighteen years old, and I’m one half of a whole. My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn--is crazy.

I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I’m terrified he’ll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me.

I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day. So I reach out for a lifeline.

Dare DuBray.

He’s my savior and my anti-Christ. His arms are where I feel safe, where I’m afraid, where I belong, where I’m lost. He will heal me, break me, love me and hate me. He has the power to destroy me.

Maybe that’s ok. Because I can’t seem to save Finn and love Dare without everyone getting hurt.

Why? Because of a secret.

A secret I’m so busy trying to figure out, that I never see it coming.

You won’t either.

 

 

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You loved Courtney Cole's NOCTE in all it's dark, twisted, spellbinding, messed-up awesomeness. You can't wait until VERUM (Nocte Trilogy Book 2) releases in February 2015. And now Courtney Cole is going to release an exclusive VERUM excerpt...but only if we can get it to the top 1000 on Amazon!

All you have to do is go to Amazon and pre-order VERUM right now. 

 

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If enough people do it, VERUM will climb up the ranks, and we'll get a sneak peek at the follow-up to what's being called "a haunting psychological suspense" and "the rare kind of story that leaves permanent marks on your heart and your soul."

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THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.

My name is Calla Price and I'm drowning.

My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I'm being pulled under by secrets.

Can I trust anyone? I don't know anymore.

The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.

I'm entangled in the darkness.

But the truth will set me free.

It's just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.

Are you scared?

I am.

 

>> PRE-ORDER VERUM ON AMAZON RIGHT HERE <<

 

>> JOIN THE NOCTE TRILOGY TEASER AND CLUE LIST RIGHT HERE <<

 

 

 

SEE WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...

 

 

 

 

SAVE ME AND I'LL SAVE YOU....

My name is Calla Price. I’m eighteen years old, and I’m one half of a whole. My other half-- my twin brother, my Finn--is crazy.

I love him. More than life, more than anything. And even though I’m terrified he’ll suck me down with him, no one can save him but me.

I’m doing all I can to stay afloat in a sea of insanity, but I’m drowning more and more each day. So I reach out for a lifeline.

Dare DuBray.

He’s my savior and my anti-Christ. His arms are where I feel safe, where I’m afraid, where I belong, where I’m lost. He will heal me, break me, love me and hate me. He has the power to destroy me.

Maybe that’s ok. Because I can’t seem to save Finn and love Dare without everyone getting hurt.

Why? Because of a secret.

A secret I’m so busy trying to figure out, that I never see it coming.

You won’t either.

 

 

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