Title: Sins & Needles (The Artists Trilogy #1)
By: Karina Halle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Ellie Watt is used to starting over. The daughter of a grifting team, Ellie spent her childhood being used as a pawn in her parents’ latest scam. Now she’s much older, wiser and ready to give her con artist life a rest. But returning to the dry desert town of Palm Valley, California means one more temptation than she bargained for – Camden McQueen. Once known as the high school weirdo, Camden is bigger and badder than the boy he used to be and a talented tattoo artist with his own thriving business. Ellie’s counting on Camden still being in love with her but what she’s not counting on is how easily unrequited love can turn into obsession over time. When Camden discovers Ellie’s plan to con him, he makes her a deal she doesn’t dare refuse, but her freedom comes with a price and it’s one that takes both Ellie and Camden down a dangerous road.
***The Artists Trilogy is a dark and sexy contemporary ride about three flawed individuals caught in a world where it’s so easy to justify the bad things we do. This is a pure adult read (Not YA or NA).
This is the 1st book in the trilogy. It is followed by the novella On Every Street (released in March 2013) and the sequel Shooting Scars (released in May 2013). The third and final book in the series will also be released October 15, 2013.***
Title: On Every Street (The Artists Trilogy #0.5)
By: Karina Halle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
When young con artist Ellie Watt decides to call herself Eden White and go after the drug lord who ruined her as a child, she never expects to fall for one of his henchmen. But Javier Bernal is no ordinary man. Subtly dangerous and overwhelmingly seductive, Eden finds herself passionately in love with Javier, the very person she’s set-up to betray. With her body and heart in a heated battle against her deep need for revenge, no one will walk away from this con a winner.
This 50K word (100+ pages) novella takes place six years before Sins & Needles. It can be read before or after Sins & Needles and may also be read as a standalone.
Title: Shooting Scars (The Artist Trilogy Book #2)
By: Karina Halle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Sometimes the right choice can be the deadliest.
When Ellie Watt made the ultimate sacrifice for Camden McQueen, she never thought it would be easy. But walking away with her ex-lover, Javier Bernal, in order to ensure Camden’s safety has brought a whole new set of dangers. With Javier’s plans for Ellie growing more secretive by the moment, Ellie must find a way to stay ahead of the game before her past swallows her whole.
Meanwhile, Camden’s new life is short-lived. Fueled by revenge and pursued by authorities, he teams up with an unlikely partner in order to save Ellie. But as Camden toes the line between love and retribution, he realizes that in order to get back the woman he loves, he may have to lose himself in the process. He might just turn into the very man he’s hunting.
Told in dual POV from Camden and Ellie.
Title: Bold Tricks (The Artist Trilogy Book #3)
By: Karina Halle
Genre: Contemporary Romance
With more lives at stake and games in motion, Ellie, Camden and Javier form an uneasy alliance that will take them from the treacherous streets of inner-city Mexico to the wilds of the Honduran jungles in order to find their freedom. But with liberty just on the horizon, the cost might come at their own redemption.
Oh my sweet, sentimental Camden…this note only makes me love him more – I didn’t think he could be any more perfect…but he proved me wrong!
Keep reading to see the full Love Note!
My dearest Ellie,
Though this is the first Valentine’s Day we’ll be spending together as a couple, I know it’s not the first Valentine’s gift I’ve given to you. One dark February day in the ninth grade, I watched a lot of the girls – some of them your “friends” – receive boxes of chocolates, cards and flowers throughout the school day, all from secret (and not-so-secret) crushes and admirers. I also watched your face…the way it fell every time the coveted gifts would be handed out to nearly everyone except for you. You had so much anger in your eyes and yet so much hope, those commercial and crass items meaning so much more to you than they ever could to any of them.
I decided that, though we were no longer friends, I couldn’t take that hope from you. I would do anything to make you smile.
If you’ll remember, the next day, February 15th, you had a delivery of daises during Mrs. Slevin’s English class. They weren’t roses but they were all that I could afford and from the way your eyes lit up with wonder and the way your cheeks flushed, trying to figure out who the flowers could be from, I knew it didn’t matter. I’d given you happiness and I’d given you hope – if only for the last class of the day.
We’re older now and we both still think the holiday is commercial and crass but I just wanted you to know that I’ll do whatever it takes to once again give you happiness and hope. I don’t need a day. I don’t need a reason. I just want to see that look in your eyes.
I love you. Happy Valentine’s Day. Happy Every Damn Day.
Forever.
Camden.
With her USA Today Bestselling The Artists Trilogy published by Grand Central Publishing, numerous foreign publication deals, and self-publishing success with her Experiment in Terror series, Vancouver-born Karina Halle is a true example of the term “Hybrid Author.” Though her books showcase her love of all things dark, sexy and edgy, she’s a closet romantic at heart and strives to give her characters a HEA…whenever possible.
Karina holds a screenwriting degree from Vancouver Film School and a Bachelor of Journalism from TRU. Her travel writing, music reviews/interviews and photography have appeared in publications such as Consequence of Sound, Mxdwn and GoNomad Travel Guides. She currently lives on an island on the coast of British Columbia where she’s preparing for the zombie apocalypse with her fiance and rescue pup.”
Gavin Blake from Collide !