Tempest Rising: Episode 1 (Rising Storm)
By Julie Kenner
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Secrets, Sex and Scandals ...
Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy... Get ready. The storm is coming.
Nestled among rolling hills and painted with vibrant wildflowers, the bucolic town of Storm, Texas, seems like nothing short of perfection.
But there are secrets beneath the facade. Dark secrets. Powerful secrets. The kind that can destroy lives and tear families apart. The kind that can cut through a town like a tempest, leaving jealousy and destruction in its wake, along with shattered hopes and broken dreams. All it takes is one little thing to shatter that polish.
Ginny Moreno didn’t mean to do it, but when she came home to Storm, she brought the tempest with her. And now everyone will be caught in its fury...
Julie Kenner
Julie Kenner's books have hit bestseller lists as varied as USA Today, Waldenbooks, Barnes & Noble, and Locus Magazine; have won numerous awards and have been lauded in industry publications such as Publisher's Weekly and Booksense. Julie writes a broad range of fiction, including sexy and quirky romances, young adult novels, chick lit suspense thrillers and paranormal mommy lit. Visit her online at http://www.juliekenner.com
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Reviews for Tempest Rising
12 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The series is going to be CRAZY! You can already see the storm building and its only the first book. On top it's all sunny smiles but dark waters churn below. Where there is love and family, at the same time secrets and deception are aplenty. Can't wait for the next episode. This is going to be a great series
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Tempest Rising is the opening salvo in a soap opera war with plenty of drama, intrigue and deceptions. This first installment didn’t have much in the way of romance but it did have some passionate scenes.Opening Sentence: Pounding rain battered the roof of Ginny Moreno’s twenty-year-old Toyota Camry, and she tightened her grip on the steering wheel even as she leaned forward, as if that would somehow help her see through the impenetrable sheets of rain.The Review:If you are a huge fan of soap operas, than you must check out the Rising Storm series. This soap opera event in print from was spearheaded by Julie Kenner and Dee Davis. A total of eight authors (including Lexi Blake, Elisabeth Naughton, Jennifer Probst, Larissa Ione, Rebecca Zanetti and Lisa Mondello) have come together to each write an episode set in Storm, Texas to tell the trials and tribulations of the residents.Tempest Rising is the set up novel laying out the cast of characters and the drama in this little town in Texas. Unfortunately, this review is going to be pretty short because I can’t say too much without giving a lot away. I will highlight the character of Ginny Moreno because it is upon her return to Storm that the secrets and lies come to light. Soap opera staples that you will read are a tragic accident, a surprise pregnancy, a game of “Who’s the Daddy?” plus much more.As with all soap operas there are many characters and many stories to tell so there are many POV’s. If you don’t like multiple views then you will not like this, but it is a soap opera and you can’t tell it without having all the different views, insights and secrets. I was a little surprised by the actual lack of romance (and considering the only hook up is a cheating couple, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have to read that). There is lots of passion and emotions are flowing after the death of the young man in town.I kind of wished that there had been a list of the characters and how they are related to the other characters in the novel because I did find I was forgetting who was who as the stories were laid out. Other than that, I really enjoyed the Sherriff’s story. I can’t wait to find out the fallout of what he did.Tempest Rising is everything you love and hate about soap operas. I really enjoyed Chapter One in the opening saga of Storm, Texas. I’m already hooked on the drama and I can’t wait to see how some of these stories play out.Notable Scene:Ginny glanced between the two of them, and as she did, she saw Luis and Jeffry standing outside the glass—and Sebastian Rush was standing there with them.Senator Sebastian Rush.The senator she’d slept with.The senator whose baby she was probably carrying.Was he there now to see her? To tell her how worried he’d been? To squeeze her hand in a silent, secret moment of compassion?“For Jacob’s best friend?” Celeste was saying. “For Ginny? Of course we’ll do whatever we can.”Ginny barely heard the woman. Instead, she was focused beyond the glass, on where Senator Rush pressed his hand on Luis’s shoulder. Ginny’s breath hitched and she stiffened, preparing for the moment he walked through her door.But he didn’t.He just took one more quick glance at her through the glass, then turned away and disappeared down the hall, not even bothering to ask if he could come in and say hello.FTC Advisory: Evil Eye Concepts, Inc/Inkslinger PR provided me with a copy of Tempest Rising. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The series is going to be CRAZY! You can already see the storm building and its only the first book. On top it's all sunny smiles but dark waters churn below. Where there is love and family, at the same time secrets and deception are aplenty. Can't wait for the next episode. This is going to be a great series
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Tempest Rising - Julie Kenner
Tempest Rising
By Julie Kenner
Rising Storm
Episode 1
Story created by Julie Kenner and Dee Davis
Tempest Rising, Episode 1
Rising Storm
Copyright 2015 Julie Kenner and Dee Davis Oberwetter
ISBN: 978-1-942299-01-1
Published by Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or establishments is solely coincidental.
Book Description
Tempest Rising
By Julie Kenner
Rising Storm, Episode 1
Secrets, Sex and Scandals …
Welcome to Storm, Texas, where passion runs hot, desire runs deep, and secrets have the power to destroy… Get ready. The storm is coming.
Nestled among rolling hills and painted with vibrant wildflowers, the bucolic town of Storm, Texas, seems like nothing short of perfection.
But there are secrets beneath the facade. Dark secrets. Powerful secrets. The kind that can destroy lives and tear families apart. The kind that can cut through a town like a tempest, leaving jealousy and destruction in its wake, along with shattered hopes and broken dreams. All it takes is one little thing to shatter that polish.
Ginny Moreno didn’t mean to do it, but when she came home to Storm, she brought the tempest with her. And now everyone will be caught in its fury…
About Julie Kenner
Julie Kenner (aka J. Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and #1 international bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas, and short stories in a variety of genres.
Praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations,
JK writes a range of stories including super sexy romances, paranormal romance, chick lit suspense, paranormal mommy lit, and, with Rising Storm, small town drama. Her trilogy of erotic romances, The Stark Trilogy (as J. Kenner), reached as high as #2 on the New York Times list and is published in over twenty countries, and her Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom series (written as Julie Kenner) has been optioned by Warner Brothers Television for the CW Network.
A former attorney, JK lives in Central Texas with her husband, two daughters, and several cats. One of her favorite weekend activities is visiting small towns in the Texas Hill Country. Visit her website at www.juliekenner.com and connect with JK through social media at http://www.facebook.com/juliekennerbooks,
http://www.facebook.com/jkennerbooks, http://www.twitter.com/juliekenner, and as @juliekenner on Instagram.
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Demons Are Forever
The Demon You Know
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Demon Ex Machina
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Torn
Turned
The Blood Lily Chronicles (boxed set)
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The Cat's Fancy (prequel)
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On My Knees
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Sure As Hell (Julie Kenner)
Hell’s Fury (Dee Davis)
Acknowledgments from the Author
For Dee. Who rode the storm with me.
And for Liz and MJ, for helping the storm to brew!
Foreword
Dear reader –
We have wanted to do a project together for over a decade, but nothing really jelled until we started to toy with a kernel of an idea that sprouted way back in 2012 … and ultimately grew into Rising Storm.
We are both excited about and proud of this project—not only of the story itself, but also the incredible authors who have helped bring the world and characters we created to life.
We hope you enjoy visiting Storm, Texas. Settle in and stay a while!
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Table of Contents
Book Description
About Julie Kenner
Also from Julie Kenner
Author Acknowledgments
Foreword
Family Trees
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Rising Storm
Teaser for White Lightning: Rising Storm Episode 2 by Lexi Blake
1001 Dark Nights
Special Thanks
Family Trees
Allen Family
Alvarez Family
Douglas Family
Grossman Family
Johnson Family
Moreno Family
Murphy Family
Prager Family
Rush Family
Salt Family
Chapter One
Pounding rain battered the roof of Ginny Moreno’s twenty-year-old Toyota Camry, and she tightened her grip on the steering wheel even as she leaned forward, as if that would somehow help her see through the impenetrable sheets of rain. A flash of lightning illuminated the dense trees that lined this section of the country road, turning them temporarily into grasping skeletons. A crack of thunder shook the car and Ginny jumped, then cursed herself for being so on edge.
Beside her, Jacob took his feet off the dashboard. Want me to drive?
he asked gently.
I can drive my own damn car,
she snapped.
He held up his hands as if in supplication. Sorry. I just thought...
He trailed off with a shrug, but Ginny knew exactly what he’d been thinking. Jacob Salt had been her best friend since forever, and he knew how much she hated thunderstorms—and why. He’d been at her house the morning that Dillon Murphy, then just a deputy, had come to the door and delivered the news. An eighteen-wheeler had lost control on the rain-slicked surface of Interstate 10 in San Antonio. Her parents had been coming home from a concert.
They’d died instantly.
So, yeah, Jacob got it. And even though Ginny might be pissed at him right now, she knew that he was only trying to help.
I’m fine,
she lied. I just want to get past Bryson’s Creek before it floods, okay?
That was the trouble with the Texas Hill Country. It might be absolutely beautiful, but with the latticework of creeks and rivers, flash flooding was a common thing, especially in the summer when rain clouds tended to roll through on a daily basis.
Bryson’s Creek intersected the country road just past the Storm city limits, and right then, all Ginny wanted was to be home. She wanted to see her little brother Luis. And, yeah, she even wanted to see her older sister Marisol, who was half parent and half pain-in-the-butt.
For the first time since she’d started at the University of Texas, Ginny was excited about coming back home for the summer. The year had been weird for a lot of reasons, mostly because of men she had slept with even though she probably shouldn’t have. And, yeah, men
included the guy sitting next to her, otherwise known as her best friend and The Guy Who Should Have Been Off Limits.
So, yeah. She needed a breather. She needed Storm.
And, yes, she knew she was being bitchy. But that was only because he’d been such an ass lately.
We probably should have left earlier. Avoided the storm and gotten home before dark.
He spoke casually, as if he had no clue that anything other than the storm was bothering her. Then again, wasn’t that the problem? Ever since that night, he’d acted like there was absolutely nothing filling the space between them.
I had to work,
Ginny said. Some of us have jobs at school. And you didn’t have to drive with me. You have a car, too, you know.
He popped a CD into the player. Max wanted to borrow it,
he said, referring to his roommate. It’s not like I need it in Storm,
he added, his voice rising a bit to be heard over George Strait, whose soothing, sexy voice now filled the car, competing with the timpani of the rain on the roof.
It was The Chair, the same song that had been playing the night they’d sat on the roof drinking tequila. The night they’d done so much more than just talk.
What the hell was the matter with him? Was he intentionally rubbing it in?
Can you turn that down? It’s already loud enough in the car with the rain pelting us.
We should have stopped in Fredericksburg,
he said, referring to the popular Hill Country tourist destination about an hour