Hidden
| M. Lathan
Published November 12th, 2012
Sixteen-year-old Leah Grant has given up on being
normal. She’d settle for stopping the voices in her head, intrusive visions of
the future, and better odds of making it to her seventeenth birthday.
That’s
the thing about pretending to be human in a world where magic used to exist – at
any moment, her cover could be blown and she’ll be burned to death like the rest
of the witches.
Everything
changes when she loses control of her powers and flees the orphanage she grew up
in. She desperately wants to be invisible but finds her face plastered on every
news channel as humans panic over the possible resurgence of her kind. And now
the hunters won’t give up until they find her.
Making
friends for the first time in her life and falling in love with one of them
drives her to discover why she is unlike any being she’s ever met – human or
otherwise. The dangerous powers inside of her that would repel Nathan, her new,
handsome reason for living, are priceless to some. The locked up forever kind of
priceless. And to others, they are too dangerous to allow her to live.
Let’s
hope she can stay hidden.
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About the Author
About the Author
M.
Lathan is a young adult fiction author. She lives in San Antonio with her
husband and mini-schnauzer. She enjoys writing and has a B.S. in Psych and a
Masters in Counseling. Her passion is a blend of her two interests – creating
new worlds and stocking them with crazy people. She enjoys reading anything with
interesting characters and writing in front of a window while asking rhetorical
questions … like her idol Carrie Bradshaw.
Read on for an excerpt from Hidden!
Sienna snatched last week’s Chemistry test from my
desk. I hadn’t turned it over. I knew it was a D minus.
She cackled and passed it around.
“Leah, you would think someone who spends most of
her time alone would have better grades,” she said. Her birds laughed on cue.
“What do you do all day? Obviously not study.” She gasped slowly like she’d
gotten a revelation in that blonde head of hers. “You fantasize about us, don’t
you? You probably sleep in Whit’s old bed to feel close to her.”
Laughter spread around the room like an airborne
disease. Disease. I shivered. That was an
intriguing thought; I could almost hear the sound their bodies would make
against the floor when it hit.
“Leah, come on. Say something. Scream at me, it’s
been a while. At least cry,” Sienna said, laughing and leaning into my desk,
closer to danger.
I didn’t cry. I never cry. And if I were going to,
it wouldn’t be because of Sienna. I had bigger problems. I’d just broken a
promise I’d made to God to not think about hurting His people, His children. And
today was not the day to piss Him off.
My old roommate, Whitney Nguyen, graciously
returned my test as she cackled with the rest of the birds. She liked the idea
of me pining over her, but she knew I didn’t spend my free time thinking about
her or sleeping in her old bed. After fourteen years of hard labor as my
roommate, she’d given up on being friends or me being remotely normal. The
current theory to explain my oddness was that I was in love with all of the
girls and consumed by lust.
As long as they didn’t know it was
magic.
