Blog Tour: Opal by Jennifer l. Armentrout - 1st Chapter Preview Tour

Today we are extremely excited to kick-off the blog tour for Jennifer L. Armentrout's 3rd novel in her Lux Series - OPAL. How we are celebrating the release of Opal is starting today you can read parts of the 1st chapter from OPAL. You must visit each blog on the tour, to read the 1st chapter in its entirety. 

Here is the schedule to follow along: Once Upon a Twilight - 12/13/2012 (that's us) † Good Choice Reading - 12/14/2012 † Me, My Shelf, and I - 12/15/2012 † Mundie Moms - 12/16/2012 † Stuck in Books - 12/17/2012 † Girls in the Stacks - 12/18/2012

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USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn.

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Chapter 1 (1st 2 pages only)

      I wasn’t sure what woke me. The howling wind from the first hardcore blizzard of the year had calmed last night and my room was quiet. Peaceful. I rolled onto my side and blinked.
      Eyes the color of dew-covered leaves stared into mine. Eyes eerily familiar but lackluster compared to the ones I loved.
      Dawson.
      Clenching the blanket to my chest, I sat up slowly and pushed the tangled hair out of my face. Maybe I was still asleep, because I really had no idea why Dawson, the twin brother of the boy I was madly, deeply, and quite possibly insanely in love with was perched on the edge of my bed.
      “Um, is…is everything okay?” I cleared my throat, but the words came out raspy, like I was trying to sound sexy and, in my opinion, failing miserably. All the screaming I’d done while Mr. Michaels, my mom’s psycho boyfriend, had me locked in the cage in the warehouse was still reflected in my voice a week later.
      Dawson lowered his gaze. Thick, sooty lashes fanned the tips of high, angular cheeks that were paler than they should be. If I’d learned anything, Dawson was damaged goods.
      I glanced at the clock. It was close to six in the morning. “How did you get in here?”
      “I let myself in. Your mom’s not home.”
      With anyone else, that would’ve creeped the hell out of me, but I wasn’t afraid of Dawson. “She’s snowed in at Winchester.”
      He nodded. “I couldn’t sleep. I haven’t slept.”
      “At all?”
      “No. And Dee and Daemon are affected by it.” He just stared at me, as if willing me to understand what he couldn’t put into words.
      The triplets—hell, everyone—was coiled tight, waiting for the Department of Defense to show up as the days ticked by since Dawson escaped their Lux prison. Dee was still trying to process her boyfriend Adam’s death and her beloved brother’s reappearance. Daemon was trying to be there for his brother and to keep an eye on them. And though storm troopers hadn’t busted up in our houses yet, none of us were relaxed.
      Everything was too easy, which usually didn’t bode well.
      Sometimes…sometimes I felt like a trap had been set, and we’d galloped right into it.
      “What have you been doing?” I asked.
      “Walking,” he said, glancing out the window. “I never thought I’d be back here.”
      The stuff that Dawson had been put through and made to do was too horrific to even think about. A deep ache filled my chest. I tried not to think about it, because when I did, I thought of Daemon being in that same position, and I couldn’t bear it.
      But Dawson… He needed someone. I reached up, wrapping my fingers around the familiar weight of the obsidian necklace. “Do you want to talk about it?”
      He shook his head again, shaggy wisps of hair partially obscuring his eyes. It was longer than Daemon’s—curlier—and probably needed a trim. Dawson and Daemon were identical, but right now, they looked nothing alike, and it was more than the hair. “You remind me of her—Beth.”

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Opal
Lux #3
Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Reading Level: YA
Released: December 11th 2012
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Available: Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Book Depository

Summary: No one is like Daemon Black.

When he set out to prove his feelings for me, he wasn’t fooling around. Doubting him isn’t something I’ll do again, and now that we’ve made it through the rough patches, well... There’s a lot of spontaneous combustion going on. 

But even he can’t protect his family from the danger of trying to free those they love. 

After everything, I’m no longer the same Katy. I’m different... And I’m not sure what that will mean in the end. When each step we take in discovering the truth puts us in the path of the secret organization responsible for torturing and testing hybrids, the more I realize there is no end to what I’m capable of. The death of someone close still lingers, help comes from the most unlikely source, and friends will become the deadliest of enemies, but we won’t turn back. Even if the outcome will shatter our worlds forever. 

Together we’re stronger... and they know it.

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Just a friendly reminder if you live or are near the area:

OPAL Release Book Party

provided by Entangled Publishing will be celebrated at:

Barnes & Noble Deerbrook Mall
20131 Highway 59
Humble, TX 77338
281-540-3060
Saturday, December 15, 2012
7:00pm

Everyone is invited!
So grab you book loving friends and family and make plans to be there.

This is one event you do NOT want to miss.
Want to know why??

• First, Jennifer L. Armentrout will be there along with Pepe Toth (Book Cover Model) aka Daemon Black
• Second, there will be prizes galore:

*First 100 copies of Opal will be given away*
*Surprise Giveaways provided by Entangled Publishing*
*Lux Swag Giveaways provided by TX Bloggers*

• Third, you get to meet and chat with other Lux Series lovers and seriously what can be better than hang out with the author and cover model themselves.