Thursday, April 14, 2016

Release Day! Thárros by C. Kennedy is out! Follow the Book Tour!

Θάρρος
Thárros. Greek. Meaning courage
Courage. n. /ˈkərij/
1. The ability to do something that frightens one.
2. Strength in the face of fear, pain, or grief.
~*~
Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear,
not the absence of fear. ~Mark Twain

High school senior Michael Sattler leads a charmed life. Almost. He has great friends, parents who love him just the way he is, and he was a champion hurdler until someone took out his knee when they kidnapped his boyfriend. Yet, Michael is determined to make the USATF tryouts in spite of his injuries.

Christy Castle is Michael’s entire world. Healing from years of abuse, his abduction by a predator has left him hiding a new secret as he tries to start his life again. Together, Michael and Christy work to recover from their wounds in time to make prom and graduate high school. To complicate matters, Christy is astonished to learn a fellow victim from his native Greece has survived. Christy will stop at nothing to bring him to the US to keep him safe.

But the prosecution of Christy’s kidnapper looms large in their futures and the struggle to return to normal only worsens. Christy's past continues to haunt them and, when the prosecution turns ugly and Christy’s new life is torn apart, only their unrelenting courage and determination can save them from the nightmare that threatens to destroy their future together.

Now available at Harmony Ink/Dreamspinner PressAmazon US

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Read Chapter One or Read en français

About Cody

Cody is an award-winning author who lives, most of the time, on the West Coast of the United States. Raised on the mean streets and back lots of Hollywood by a Yoda-look-alike grandfather, Cody doesn’t conform, doesn’t fit in, is epic awkward, and lives to perfect a deep-seated oppositional defiance disorder. In a constant state of fascination with the trivial, Cody contemplates such weighty questions as If time and space are curved, then where do all the straight people come from? When not writing, Cody can be found taming waves on western shores, pondering the nutritional value of sunsets, appreciating the much-maligned dandelion, unhooking guide ropes from stanchions, and marveling at all things ordinary. Among many other awards, Omorphi was a runner up in the 2014 Rainbow Awards, and Slaying Isidore's Dragons was a finalist in the 2015 Rainbow Awards. Cody does respond to blog comments and emails because, after all, it is all about you, the reader.

Find Cody on Facebook, Twitter @CodyKAuthor, Pinterest,
Booklikes, and read a free serial story, Fairy

Check out all the awesome blogs
that participate in release day!
Divine Magazine
Jo & Isa Love Books
Lou Hoffmann
Helena Stone
Tali Spencer
Jamie Fessenden
Andrew Q. Gordon
T.A. Moore
Anne Barwell
Anne Barwell
Shira Anthony
Vicki Reese
Renee Stevens
Jackie Keswick
Nicki J. Marcus
Jana Denardo
Kris T. Bethke



FOLLOW THE BOOK TOUR AND WIN SIGNED BOOKS!

April 14th - Release Day Celebration with The Novel Approach and What Thárros is Really About
April 14th - Release Day with Harmony Ink Press: What Does Frying Ants Have to do with Thárros?
April 16th - Jo and Isa Love Books - Cody talks Eternal Love
April 22nd - Divine Magazine - Author Spotlight
April 23rd - Bike Book Reviews - Facebook Author Chat 12p PST/3p EST!
April 24th - My Fiction Nook - The Notes Behind Thárros's Playlist
May 6th - Susan MacNicol - Why I Want to Have Tea with Susan
May 7th - Wade Kelly - Wade is Memorialized in Print as She Interviews Christy!
May 8th - Helena Stone
May 6th - Mia Kerick - Making a Fashion Statement
May 9th - Kimi-chan Experience - WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!