
We are absolutely over the moon about this Release Day launch for Courtney Cole’s VERUM!! VERUM is a New Adult dark romantic psychological suspense novel and the second book in Courtney’s The Nocte Trilogy! To celebrate the release NOCTE is on sale for only $.99 through tomorrow! Grab both now! Thank us later.

About VERUM:
The truth shall set you free.
My name is Calla Price and Iâm drowning.
My new world is a dark, dark ocean and Iâm being pulled under by secrets.
Can I trust anyone? I donât know anymore.
The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues. And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.
Iâm entangled in the darkness.
But the truth will set me free.
Itâs just ahead of me, so close I can touch it. But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.
Are you scared?
I am.
Excerpt:
Together, we float to the surface, still intertwined. We break through the top and I suck in a breath and Dare is staring into my eyes.
Thereâs tension here, but not the bad kind. Itâs the kind that ignites you, the kind that intoxicates you, the kind that once you taste it, youâll crave for the rest of your life.
Iâve forgotten that I was going to be careful, that I was going to reject him on every level.
All I can remember, all I can focus on, is how veryalive Dare DuBray is making me feel in this moment, how alive he always makes me feel.
For a girl who has been surrounded by death her entire life, this is a very big deal.
âIâm a little afraid of you,â I blurt honestly, and Dare still has his arms around me. Our treading water motions keep our legs rubbing together, the friction still there.
Hot,
Hot,
Hotter.
Dare smiles, but there is no humor in it.
âGood.â
âWhy?â
My honesty makes me seem innocent, but I donât know how to play games. I have no experience with the opposite sex at all.
âBecause that makes you feel something.â
But heâs hesitant now and he looks away. Thereâs something he wants to say, itâs balanced on the tip of his tongue, but he swallows it.
âWhat is it?â I ask softly. âJust tell me.â
He wants to, I can tell. His secrets are killing him. He just wants to be normal, heâs just acting out a role.
I donât know why I feel like I know this. Itâs just there, suddenly resting on my heart.
âYou donât have to be someone youâre not,â I murmur quietly. His dark eyes snap up to mine and he pulls his hands away. Thereâs something in his eyes now, something guarded, and our easy afternoon has come to an end.
âWhat makes you think I am?â he snaps. âPretending to be something Iâm not, I mean.â
Iâve somehow annoyed him, and I donât answer because I donât know what to say.
âIâm not being someone Iâm not, Calla,â he says coolly as he strides from the water. âIâm being who you need me to be.â
Iâm utterly confused, and Iâm dripping wet.
âWe donât have towels,â is all he says when I follow him. My clothing soaks up the water and it is a very cold ride back home.
Dare doesnât say another word and I leave him in the garage.
I donât see him at dinner, and I donât see him the rest of the night.
But as I lay in bed around midnight, I see his car leave the garage.
I donât see him come home, and Iâm awake for half the night waiting.
I have no idea where he goes when he slips away.
Somehow, I think he wants it that way.
Thereâs a fork in the road and even though I see it, I canât avoid it.
One road goes left, one goes right, and neither of them end well.
I feel it in my bones,
In my bones,
In my bones.
I sing a song of nonsense, and it sings back. The notes echo and twist in the air, and I swallow them whole.
âCome out,â I call behind me, because I know theyâre there.
I canât see them, but theyâre always watching.
Eyes appear, blood red, and they blink once, twice, three times.
âI can see you,â I announce and thereâs a growl and then Iâm crushed beneath the dark, beneath the weight, beneath the oppression.
âYou donât scare me,â I lie.
Thereâs savagery here, thereâs grace.
But above all, thereâs oblivion and no matter what I do, I will be sucked into it.
I know it.
I feel it.
Iâm crazy.
And it doesnât matter.
Iâm the rabbitrabbitrabbit and Iâll never be free.
Don’t miss the first book in the Nocte Trilogy…


ABOUT COURTNEY COLE:
Courtney Cole is a novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. She loves chocolate and roller coasters and hates waiting and rude people.
Courtney lives in quiet suburbia, close to Lake Michigan, with her real-life Prince Charming, her ornery kids (there is a small chance that they get their orneriness from their mother) and a small domestic zoo.
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