Friday, June 7, 2013

Spotlight: Culture Shock


Culture Shock    

Culture Shock Series Book One

Jeanette Pekala

Genre: YA Paranormal

ebook: 978-0-9891584-0-4
paperback: 978-0-9891584-1-1
ASIN: B00BVMAF6K

Number of pages: 676
Word Count: 135,000

Cover Artist: Bonnie Alford


Book Description:  


CULTURE SHOCK is a witty tale of mystery and romance with a large helping of southern hospitality.

Macy Holmes is a seventeen-year-old socially-isolated introvert since her best friend's death a year ago. When her family decides to move from Manhattan to the quaint country town of Bougainvillea, Florida, Macy finds she's in a completely different world. Macy is no longer the outsider hiding behind designer clothes when she is sought out by three strange students, one of whom she is particularly interested in. The more time she spends with Chad the more things don't add up. When his true identity is finally revealed, Macy is pulled into a supernatural society with its saturation of inhabitants residing in Bougainvillea.

You would think she has enough on her plate, but no, then her dreams become infiltrated by an external magical force, Macy and her band of supernatural misfits must find the culprit behind the magic-induced nightmares. They must dodge zombie assassins, shifty shape-shifters and high school bullies in order to stop this perpetrator before Macy, her friends or her parents pay the ultimate price.

Especially when Macy has the sneaking suspicion that these dreams are reality...



Excerpt: 

We found a spot over by the water free of sawgrass. It was a beautiful view. On the back end of the lake was a dense forest. It was dark just beyond the first set of trees. That was the only end of the lake that had remained uninhabited. There was a syrupy mist rising slowly off the surface of the water. It was creepy, but romantic in a sinister way. The sights, sounds, and smells all mingled together to create a scene an artist would love to capture with the stroke of his brush.
Note: I would like to do the prologue and Chapter 1 but the word limit is too short, so I’ve included some samples above from the book to peak interest.









About the Author:

After finishing her degree in Sociology from the University of Florida, Jeanette Pekala had no idea what she wanted to do with her life.


While her husband was deployed overseas, she focused on what she loved to do, write, where she has finally found an outlet for her overactive imagination.


She lives a not so normal life just a wee bit north of Bougainvillea where she resides with her husband and two children working on Shock Wave, book 2 in the Culture Shock Series.







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1 comment:

  1. The book description certainly caught my attention. Fabulous!!

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