Velvet by Temple West

Temple West is a brand new author who has busted onto the scene starting right off with a series. A vampire romance series none the less, brave lass in my book. Since I worked with Sandy Hall for an event at my store, I have been keeping my eyes on Swoon Reads knowing some good things were going to be coming from them. I was very right. Velvet is a book that despite it's climax an suspense at times reads light and refreshing, which I do enjoy for a YA romance.

Seventeen-year old Caitlin has just been ushered off to a tiny nowhere town after the death of her mother to live with an estranged aunt and uncle. Upon one of her first days at the new ranch, she goes for a walk in the woods on the property and find herself caught up in a very peculiar storm and then being rescued by possibly the most beautiful boy she has ever seen. Since Caitlin lost her mother she hasn't been the most chipper friendly person on the planet, she lashes out at her aunt, uncle and cousin and the people that try to interact with her at school. Despite her gruff responses she becomes close friends with a girl Trish and learns the very gorgeous boy that rescued her also goes to her school, enter Adrian. Every teen girls dream, tall, sexy, chiseled, well dressed oh and did I mention, vampire? Through some outrageous turns of event Caitlin comes to find some things that go bump in the night are much more true than she could have imagined, and one of them is after her. Now assigned to be Adrian's "fake girlfriend" so he can be her body guard at all times she comes to realize maybe her heart isn't as dead as she thought. Can Caitlin stick to the game and not get her feelings all caught up on a boy that will stop again and can never love her? Or is this a battle she is going to lose?

Coming out in May straight to paperback this book is definitely worth picking up for a good evenings read, cup of coffee highly recommended. Due to be a series (yay!) you will find yourself getting quite attached to some character by surprise and finding yourself really looking forward to seeing them again. Since I have read the ARC I have a very miserable year ahead of me waiting for the next installment. If you live in the East Brunswick,  New Jersey area I will be doing an event with this lovely authors and some others in May to celebrate the awesome publishing house Swoon and the incredibly stories that have come to grace us. Keep an eye out for the review of The Boy Next Door, my next Swoon ARC, that I actually started about 15 minutes ago.