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Synopsis
Bryna feels his eyes on her.
Hot, seductive, enticing.
He’s at least ten years older than her seventeen years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing to her with that look.
Walking away would be the smart thing to do…
But she can’t. Not that first night when he takes her home and claims her body. Not when he shows up in her life again with expensive gifts to win her trust. Not even when she’s falling for him, and everything else is falling apart…
Find out how Bryna goes from golden girl to gold digger in this tantalizingly scandalous first book in the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
Hot, seductive, enticing.
He’s at least ten years older than her seventeen years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing to her with that look.
Walking away would be the smart thing to do…
But she can’t. Not that first night when he takes her home and claims her body. Not when he shows up in her life again with expensive gifts to win her trust. Not even when she’s falling for him, and everything else is falling apart…
Find out how Bryna goes from golden girl to gold digger in this tantalizingly scandalous first book in the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
~Chapter One~
Broken—mind, body, and soul.
Begging
to forget her meaningless existence, to be commanded and molded and remade into
someone else, she needed the embrace of the nightlife, the pounding of the
music, the sweat, the intoxication just to feel
again.
If even
for one night.
Allure
wasn’t Bryna’s usual scene. She preferred exclusive nightclubs in Beverly Hills
and house parties that catered to her and her überwealthy friends at Harmony
Prep. She favored places where everyone knew her name, and she could rule as
queen bee. But, tonight, she didn’t want to rule her throne.
She
wanted to forget her own reality and get lost in the imagined one that Allure
provided. The room was full to the brim with bodies grinding to the music and
people drinking top-shelf liquor and indulging in the dark secret desires of
their hearts.
She
swirled the gin martini in her hand and pursed her lips as she surveyed the
room.
It was
easier here.
Easier
to forget about her Hollywood parents and their pathetic divorce. Easier to
forget that her high-profile director father had remarried this summer to some
Valley trash he’d been having an affair with while he was with her mom. Easier
to forget that she had three new stepsiblings and that the oldest, Pace, was
only a year younger than her and the new starting quarterback at school.
Easier
to forget about everything.
At
least everything that was cluttering up her picture-perfect life. Despite the
heinous drama consuming her, she needed to remember who she was and what she stood
for.
She was
fucking Bryna Turner.
A
goddess at Harmony. Queen bee. Head cheerleader.
She had
started dating Gates Hartman before his breakout role, and now, he was the
hottest up-and-coming actor who had hit Hollywood since Ryan Gosling.
She
refused to give two shits about what anyone thought of her, especially her
parents. Her world might have shifted with the upheaval of their marriage, but
she had remained strong for all the eyes always watching her.
But
tonight was different.
Tonight,
no one was watching.
Tonight,
she could lose herself, lose control.
And
maybe that was what brought him closer.
~REVIEW~
There is one thing that Ms. Linde knows how to do and that's the ability to make me dislike her characters but with that being said, I was glued to the story. Diamonds is about the story of an adolescent girl, Bryna, who wants to rule. Either it's with her click of friends or with the men in her life; she goes after what she wants to get the proverbial crown on her head to call herself Queen B. At a party, Bryna meets a mystery man. Their love affair is a catalyst of yearning, longing and need...even if it's one sided. It's instant attraction on both parts and from that moment there are plenty of highs just as there are plenty of lows. You see, Bryna and her mystery man have secrets. Secrets that will destroy their worlds. Those secrets will change everything and everyone. How will everything play out? You're guess is as good as mine.
Diamonds is angsty and sexy with more angst. Even though I didn't care much for the characters, it didn't draw me away from the story. Gold, which is the next book, will be one I'll be patiently impatiently waiting for.
~Amanda~
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Gold (All That Glitters, #2)
July 7, 2015
July 7, 2015
The prey becomes the predator.
Love. That cursed four-letter word no longer belongs in Bryna’s vocabulary. The only four-letter word she knows now is gold.
…and fuck.
She’s well acquainted with that one. And that’s exactly what she plans to do. She’s no longer the golden girl, and when she meets a businessman who promises everything she could ever want from the arrangement, she intends to get her money’s worth.
Follow the conclusion to Bryna’s gold digging story in this scandalizing, duplicitous second book to the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
Love. That cursed four-letter word no longer belongs in Bryna’s vocabulary. The only four-letter word she knows now is gold.
…and fuck.
She’s well acquainted with that one. And that’s exactly what she plans to do. She’s no longer the golden girl, and when she meets a businessman who promises everything she could ever want from the arrangement, she intends to get her money’s worth.
Follow the conclusion to Bryna’s gold digging story in this scandalizing, duplicitous second book to the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
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Platinum (All That Glitters,
#3)
Release TBD. The third stand alone book in the All That Glitters series. Follows Trihn Hamilton, one of Bryna's best friends, in their junior year of college as she navigates her parent's expectations and the heady lifestyle she and her friends have created in fabulous Las Vegas.
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Silver (All That Glitters, #4)
Release TBD. The fourth stand alone book in the All That Glitters series. Follows Stacia Daniels, the second of Bryna's best friends, in their senior year of college as she struggles with the consequences of her jersey chasing desires in fabulous Las Vegas.
Goodreads http://bit.ly/1Mve90q
Release TBD. The third stand alone book in the All That Glitters series. Follows Trihn Hamilton, one of Bryna's best friends, in their junior year of college as she navigates her parent's expectations and the heady lifestyle she and her friends have created in fabulous Las Vegas.
Goodreads http://bit.ly/1zMi5jb
Silver (All That Glitters, #4)
Release TBD. The fourth stand alone book in the All That Glitters series. Follows Stacia Daniels, the second of Bryna's best friends, in their senior year of college as she struggles with the consequences of her jersey chasing desires in fabulous Las Vegas.
Goodreads http://bit.ly/1Mve90q
About
the Author
USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde has written the
Avoiding series and the Record series as well as the new adult novels Following
Me and Take Me for Granted. She grew up as a military brat traveling the United
States and Australia. While studying political science and philosophy at the
University of Georgia, she founded the Georgia Dance Team, which she still
coaches. Post-graduation, she served as the campus campaign director for the
2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
An avid traveler, reader, and bargain hunter, K.A. lives in Athens, Georgia,
with her fiancé and two puppies, Riker and Lucy.
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