Title: Incandescence
Author: Xunaira J.
Release date: February 14th, 2016.
About the book:
CAN LOVE REALLY HEAL ALL WOUNDS?
Alisha had everything she ever
wished for: a loving family, a career and friends who doted on her. But a late
night at work, a cup of coffee, and a burning candle changed her life forever.
Then Anis--a tall, dark, and handsome engineer, heir to his father's vast
empire--walks back into her life. After a brief meeting a few years ago, she
isn't sure he'll remember her. When he does, he wants to help her overcome her
life-changing injuries. Has her accident scarred not only her skin, but also
her soul?
Incandescence is a story of love
and friendship in the face of disaster, and one young woman's quest to make the
most of her new life.
Excerpt
What happened next was totally
unpredictable. One second, I was looking at my picture on the desktop, all
smiling and beautiful on my graduation day, while the next second, I thought
I’d seen a ghost. The face that was looking back at me had a rather distorted
face with a leathery texture. The right side of the face was covered in
something that was a weird color of yellow and white; it looked like it was
made up of play dough, while the left side was all clean, normal and soft. The
skin looked leathery, almost gaunt and scary. It was charred at some part of my
cheeks and towards my neck.
The eyes that stared back at me
were the same colors as mine, chocolate brown, and the skin on the normal side
of the face looked like my skin as well. It was my face; just a distorted
version. I tried to touch the left side of my face, but it felt smooth under my
skin. My breathing hitched as I realized that the ghostly skin, the gauntness
in the eyes—it was all mine.
And then I screamed at the top of
my lungs. I saw the ghost in the screen in front open her mouth, but the only
noise that I heard was of my own howl. This can’t be me! This can’t be me! I
tried to tell myself again and again.
The door flung open, and the nurses
rushed in, looking around at my source of terror, but she found nothing. She
came towards me and glanced at the laptop. Seeing the Photo Booth application
open, she quickly, picked up the laptop from my knees and shut the flap.
“You’re not supposed to use that
yet!” she scolded me as she put the laptop back on the side table. I was having
difficulty breathing and my heartbeat was going a mile a minute.
About the author:
As a thirteen year old teenager,
Xunaira J. aspired to be an author someday. From short stories to novellas, she
has written them all but as an adult now, she has published two short stories
and is now aiming to publish her first Novel, Before Time, scheduled for
November release. Xunaira resides in Islamabad, Pakistan and enjoys a hot cup
of cappuccino, a good romance novel and her favorite music from the 80’s. Apart
from that, when she’s not working on her current literary project, she loves
developing mobile applications and studies as a software engineer.
Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads
*Cover Reveal Organized by:
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