Lisa Akers's Blog - Posts Tagged "trilogies"

One of the hardest things for a writer to do is write a blurb...seriously, it's harder than writing a book! So I've taken a stab at a new one, and although I don't feel good about adding "Bestseller" to my cover, I did hit it multiple times on Amazon and decided to use it in the blurb. Is that wrong? Should I take it out? Anyone willing to give me some feedback on the new blurb:

Bound by blood...Marked by the Dragonfly.

Amazon Top 100 Bestseller in three categories February, 2014:
#44 Sagas, #52 Family Saga's, #77 Coming of Age

The pasts of four women collide head-on with a mysterious present in this surreal and gripping family drama. One woman finds herself trapped. Alone. In a box. She battles to survive the terrifying darkness. With long hours of nothing to do but wait in terror for her captor to return, she grapples through obscure dreams and memories of their painful past, painting the story of the scarlet dragonfly tattoo--meant to be a beautiful, family mark of freedom--but instead seeming to become a prophetic brand to the four women who wear it.

When identical twins, Gabby and Olivia, and their little sister, Emma flee their less-than-perfect childhoods, they find they took more of their mother with them than her long chocolate-colored hair, startling blue eyes... and the exact copy of her tattoo.

Just wanting away... Olivia marries her first love--at age 17--and realizes later he's not what he seemed. She falls victim to his fists of fury when his mask finally slips. She attempts to break free, but finds herself unwillingly flittering back to the cycle her own mother had tried to leave so many times before. Meanwhile, her twin sister, Gabby, finds sweet love with Jake, a humble, well-mannered southern boy who saves her not once--but twice. But she is pursued by a dangerous admirer at work, and her happily ever after seems to be ending too soon. And little sister Emma has some secrets of her own, painfully bottled up inside of her, wrestling to get out for revenge.

Deeply evocative, Let Me Go is a suspenseful and heart-wrenching Coming of Age story with a beautiful ending for survivors.