Welcome to New Adult Scavenger Hunt! This bi-annual event was inspired as a way to give readers a chance to gain access to exclusive bonus material from their favorite authors…and a chance to win some awesome prizes! At this hunt, you not only get access to exclusive content from each author, you also get a clue for the hunt. Add up the clues, and you can enter for our prize–one lucky winner will receive one book from each author on the hunt in my team! But play fast: this contest (and all the exclusive bonus material) will only be online for 72 hours!

Go to the New Adult Scavenger Hunt page to find out all about the hunt. There are THREE contests going on simultaneously, and you can enter one or all! I am a part of TEAM BLUE–but there is also a red team and a purple team – giving you the chance to win two different sets of books!

If you’d like to find out more about the hunt, see links to all the authors participating, and see the full list of prizes up for grabs, go to the New Adult Scavenger Hunt page.

***THE SCAVENGER HUNT***

Directions: Below, you’ll notice that I’ve listed my lucky book number. Collect the lucky book numbers of all the authors on Team Blue, and then add them up (don’t worry, you can use a calculator!).
Entry Form: Once you’ve added up all the numbers, make sure you fill out the form here to officially qualify for the grand prize. Only entries that have the correct number will qualify.
Rules: Open internationally, anyone below the age of 18 should have a parent or guardian’s permission to enter. To be eligible for the grand prize, you must submit the completed entry form by May 1st, at noon Eastern Time. Entries sent without the correct number or without contact information will not be considered.

***RASHELLE WORKMAN***

Start the series that’s sold more than a million copies! BLOOD AND SNOW, book one is FREE.

RaShelle Workman is a bestselling hybrid author with books published through Curiosity Quills and her own company, Polished Pen Press. She loves baking, coming up with new taco recipes, and spending time with her family. Currently, she lives in Utah with her husband, three children, and their three dogs.

Her writing motto is: Love Hurts. Love Heals. so Love Hard! And it shows in the many different genres she writes.

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***BECAUSE OF YOU***

There’s a first time for everything… and sometimes that means a first time at a second chance.

It’s been seven years since Maddie Martin’s parents died. Their killer wasn’t just a random stranger, but her best friends’ father. Kyle Hadley. The boy she’s been in love with since she was old enough to understand the emotion, the boy she promised all of her firsts to. Worst of all, Kyle’s father got away with it, and Maddie hasn’t seen Kyle since.

That changes on her first day of college. Seeing Kyle again brings back all of her childhood feelings of friendship and love for him, but it also brings back the anger, sorrow, and pain she’s been trying to bury because of his father.

Kyle Hadley has no idea why Maddie quit talking to him, especially when he needed her most. But he got over it, refusing to waste his life mourning the only girl he ever loved. There are too many women, too much of life to experience to bother thinking about Maddie. Except he does. And when he sees her again, he knows it.

But there are problems beyond Kyle and Maddie and their old feelings. The two of them are in danger and one or both might end up dead.

***EXCERPT***

The room is full of smoke and a strange smell. Two guys are sitting on the lower bed of a set of bunks, holding a python. It must be ten feet long. Its slithery body is trying to coil around one of the guys’ thighs. A couple of girls are in chairs across from them. They’re laughing. One girl passes a pipe to the guy getting his leg throttled. He takes it, inhales, and holds his breath. The girl across from him stands and places her lips on his. As he exhales, he rubs one of her breasts over her shirt.

They notice me and the guy whose thigh isn’t being strangled says, “Come on in.” He gives me a lopsided grin, showing off a dimple.

“That’s okay.” I close the door and head down the stairs. My sticky shirt is going to remain sticky—at least until I get back to my room.

This house reminds me of a fun house at a carnival, and it’s exhilarating. Every step, every turn is filled with strange and thrilling horrors.

I carefully make my way back to the living room and search for Gina. She’s talking to a couple of guys. They laugh. A coy smirk flashes across her face and she places a hand on each guy’s chest.

“Gina! Gina!” I wave, but the party is too loud. Moving past people, I make my way toward my roommate.

Another set of girls is being couch tipped. It’s like a weird ritual. I can’t help but stare. Which is bad, because that means I’m not watching where I’m going.

I walk into a hard body.

“Hey,” he says, his voice low. “Watch it.” He smells like fresh laundry and beer. The kind my dad used to drink.

Glancing up, I’m about to utter an apology but the words freeze on my lips. His eyes are brilliant blue. Twin glaciers. Bright. Cold.

“It can’t be.” I step back, falling into someone. My heart is pounding against my ribs, dying to break free, to run like wild horses. It’s in my throat. He’s here. Kyle. Right now. In front of me. He’s here.

Kyle catches me and pulls me against his chest. I know I should twist out of his arms, ignore the way his warm fingers ignite memories I thought I left behind. Instead, I cling to him. We promised each other all of our firsts. “Kyle,” I whisper, smiling against his shirt. Smiling like I haven’t smiled in seven years.

He pulls me from the stranglehold I have on him. I blink and realize what I’ve done. How long was I holding him like that? He’s grinning. “If you’d care to join us, I’m sure we can make room.” Sexy lips form a bigger smile, showing his straight white teeth. Last time I saw him he had braces. Kyle glances to his left and I follow his gaze. Two girls, both with perfect chestnut hair and over-done faces, look at me like I’ve slaughtered a lamb.

I peek at him. Surprised. What is he asking? Doesn’t he remember me? I take in all of him at once. He’s probably two feet taller than the last time I saw him. Dark, wavy hair, a little on the longer side, hangs in his eyes. He keeps flipping it. His body is lean but muscled, like he plays a sport. He always liked basketball and hockey. His skin is tanned, but then, it always was. His eyes are the same, as is the way his lips form a smile.

Kyle, I think, my heart smashing itself to pieces. Have I really changed so much?

Something like recognition flickers in his eyes. “Or it could just be you and me,” he whispers enticingly.

I blink several times.

The girls to his right let out a string of expletives.

My body is saying yes, yes, yes. Another first. With Kyle, the boy I’ve loved since I was nine.

My mind remembers why I haven’t seen him in seven years. Even with all the alcohol, I snap back to reality. And pull myself from his grasp.

“Sorry.” I move away. The smoky air, the stench of sweat and perfume, and the loud music—it twirls my stomach in knots.

“Hey,” he calls after me, but I don’t turn back.

I can’t.

Because of You sounds like an amazing book, and I just added it to my 11 page long TBR. Now that you’ve met RaShelle and learned a little about her newest novel, click over to Marnee Blake‘s page and continue the hunt!

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