[Mixed Blood 01] • Secrets Kept

Angels are good. Demons are bad. Humans are a random blend of both. The question is, where, and how, does someone of mixed blood fit in?

Jasmine Powers was just a normal teenage girl—an orphaned high school senior, with normal worries like passing Algebra, who lives with her little old lady aunt in a small town in the mountains of Northern California. Normal, that is, except for her built-in lie detector that without fail tells her when someone is not being truthful with her. And, except for her mojo, a secret ability to read what is going on inside another person’s body. Oh, and then there’s The Shadow, a dark, mysterious presence that has been hovering around her on and off for the past few weeks.

Suddenly, into Jasmine’s not quite so normal life comes Rafe Lange, a motorcycle bad-boy who, like Jasmine herself, is far more than he seems. When Jasmine and Rafe are thrown together by surprising events, and the two discover their growing attraction for each other, Jasmine also discovers that she is surrounded by secrets: the real reason why Rafe is in her small town, where her freaky abilities come from, and why many of her friends are suddenly disappearing under suspicious circumstances, and even who, and what, she really is.

Secrets Kept is a 63,000 word Fantasy/Romance novel for Young Adult Readers, the first of the Mixed Blood Trilogy.