Loitering in the Shadow #ScentofMemory #8Sunday #SnippetSunday

For this Weekend Writing Warriors and Snippet Sundays, I am using a snippet to transition to my new book, The Scent of Memory, Green Rising Book 2, which releases from Evernight Publishing on December 16. This snippet is from the first page of the book where we meet Marisol, our heroine.

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As she did every night, Marisol Martinez loitered in the shadow of her daughter’s bedroom door, sinking into the blended smell of watercolor paints, dog hair, and greenhouse sugar. A maelstrom of grief and anger punched through her chest, threatening to break through the wall of stoicism she built around her barely beating heart. Ariana carried Aren’s scent, was his last impossibly beautiful creation and the only remaining piece of the man death ripped violently from her life. Marisol inhaled deeper, shoving the sorrow back down and using the air to navigate through the tendrils of aroma the way Aren taught her. Seconds later, she honed onto the unique floral trace that distinguished Ariana from Aren. A small gift, but enough to calm the angry tremor in her hands and allow her heart to pump enough to be with Ariana.

The Scent of Memory Blurb

Twelve years ago, Marisol lost Aren. Now he’s back – pointing a gun at her head and treating her like a stranger.

Rebel hacker, Marisol Martinez, never thought volunteering to keep the hospital safe from cyborgs would lead her back to the man sabotage ripped from her arms. The man she swore to avenge by any means possible.

For over a decade, Cap protected the cyborgs under his command from every danger. Until he meets an insurgent, whose scent wreaks havoc on his control. She calls him Aren and insists she knows him. But she’s wrong. He has no past, no present, no future – only orders he’s programmed to complete.

Forced together, Marisol and Cap can’t resist the passion that keeps building between them.  With time running out, Marisol must use her computer skills to restore Aren’s memories or Cap will kill all subversives on the planet – starting with her.