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She was born with a secret.
She swore to never reveal it.

But will love test that oath?

Gemma is a time spirit. She can travel through history in a blink. What if people knew her powers? Would they try to abuse her gift?

Life as a high school loner isn't so bad. But will Harrison change all of that? He seems to like her and falling for him is impossible to resist, but can she keep her secret?

Breaking her oath will have dire consequences.

You’ll love Golden Blood, because it’s filled with fast-paced action, mystery and a forbidden love that breaks all the rules.

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"This is a very easy read. If you like fast paced YA urban fantasy with a strong set of characters and want to explore a new writer, then I thoroughly recommend that you check this one out."

- Author, J. C. Hart

"Melissa Pearl is an absolute master of story telling. The way she weaves the plot and characters into her story leave you desperately wanting more."

- Author, Suzy Turner

"The action scenes were amazingly well-done, but what was even more well-done was the mystery of what is going on with Gemma's family, what her father is up to, who else is like her, what her special purpose is, and how she and Harrison can stay together."

- Author, Jeff LeFerney

"Golden Blood is filled with romance and exciting thrills that keep you entertained until the very end. Just when I thought I knew where the story was heading Melissa Pearl takes a complete twist that had me slightly panicking for Gemma an Harrison."

- Rachel Marks (Book Reviewer and Publicist)

From the Author

A GOLDEN BLOOD TEASER...

Opening the door, he stepped into the dimlylit space in time to see Gemma take a deep breath and disintegrate.
"Gemma!"
Pushing the cleaning cart out of his way,he knelt beside the pile of clothing left in her place. With shaking hands, hecollected them up. His heart thundered in his ears as he re-captured the imageof gold dust particles spiraling into the air.
Rapid breaths punched out of his lungs ashe tried to wrap his brain around the impossible.
Would she come back?
Was that the last time he would ever seeher?
The loss was intense, but not enough tooverride the mix of horror and wonderment churning inside him.
He wasn't sure how long he crouched inmuted silence before the room suddenly grew still. He jumped from his spot andheld his breath. A moment later Gemma stood before him. A grimace of paincrossed her face before she opened her eyes.
"Oh!" She quickly pulled the cleaning cartin front of her.
"Gemma." Harrison licked his lips. "Gemma,what...what just happened? You disappeared. You vanished! And now you're here.You're...you're here and you're... you're naked!"

ASIN : B0063N0XIM
Publication date : November 4, 2011
Language : English
File size : 2403 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 252 pages
Lending : Enabled

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fabrianne cloud

Gemma gem is Harrisons past

Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2017

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Im in love with this series! I hate falling asleep while reading because im that into it! Gemma is the one who defends her man instead of the traditional man defends women and i love that spin. How Gemma is so in love w Harrison is endearing but the forboding sense that the love is severed by fate hangs overhead. Unbelievably cruel parents who seem to care only for what they believe is important. The misery of being a teen and against the rules to trust outside of family is so backward for the reality of a teen. Love how Gemma arrives back in her ....birthday suit! Why the heat is always felt by harrison when he touches Gemma is curious too! I bet Harrison has a surprise in his family past too!...already reading 2nd book of this series! Love it

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Secrets and Consequences

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2016

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Belonging to a time traveling family makes for unique adventures in the past but a complete lonely existence in the present. Emma and her family are frequently whisked away to the past to right wrongs and to save many from an untimely demise. With so much happening and the need to keep everything hush hush, Gemma has no friends and struggles with never having someone to talk to.

When Harrison Granger drops into her life, Gemma is torn between her family's secret and her pull towards this boy.

A unique storyline that will have you guessing along with the characters. Hoping to learn more in book 2!

6 people found this helpful

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Hotcha

Golden Blood

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2017

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I freely chose to review this ARC from an unknown author to me and I'm glad I did and now want to read the whole series! To kids at her high school Gemma Hart was called a freak, but little did they know that she was hardly human and she had special powers that no one was to know about. She was friendless and avoided her classmates until a persistent Harrison Granger wouldn't take no for answer.

Harrison never expected a brief conversation with Gemma and when their hands brushed, it was like fire creeping throughout his body! Since that moment he couldn't stop thinking about her. He was supposed to meet his friends at the movies, but her spotted Gemma ahead of him in the ticket line and he hoped to talk to her again and maybe go on a date....

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Definite Summer Must Read!

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2019

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This was a good story with a well -thought-out plot and story line. There were few typos or misspellings to distract from the enjoyment of reading a well put together story.

My only complaint was the ending; I'd have liked just a little bit more closure with this one before leading into the next one. There are better ways to do it other than a "cliff-hanger". To me, those are annoying and a little bit of a cheat, like the author just didn't have the imagination to bring this thought to a close before beginning the next - which isn't representative of this author (in my opinion). This author really doesn't lack in imagination - I think it's more likely they were in a time crunch.

The ending, though, is NOT a reason to pass this story by! It's very well written, well thought-out, the characters are mostly believable, and it's a unique story - one I've never seen before, certainly! This is a definite summer must- read.

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NewHope

Hard to put down...

Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2017

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This book was written for the younger generation but I found it a very engaging read...I am 58. The story had suspense, young love, very believable.
I like when an author can surprise me... I was not expecting the ending... I will be heading to the site to search for the next installment.
I highly recommend this book for any age over 10.

4 people found this helpful

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Jam

Cliff hanger

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2018

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Not a bad story but very drawn out, constantly suggesting something more is in the background , but never producing. About a third of the way thru the story the book abruptly ends leaving you without an ending or even an idea of where the story was going.

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NatashaMay

I didn’t particularly like the family dynamic and I felt Gemma acted out ...

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017

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This story sounded familiar but Amazon says I hadn’t read it before so I can’t really say it was original. I’m not much of a fan of time travel because it can get confusing but it was all right in this book. The time travel past story didn’t intervene with the current one so there was no confusion.

It’s a series so we don’t get any answers in this book, only questions which can get irritating. I didn’t particularly like the family dynamic and I felt Gemma acted out of character when she stood up for herself and Harrison. The author made it look like it’s that easy to break out of a mold you lived in your entire life which made it very unrealistic.

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Galning

I would categorise this "young adult"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2016

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I think this would be better categorised as YA as its more about a teen romance than the time travel element. And the time travel element had holes in it as big as a universe. The first 40% of the book was promising - but then it started to fall apart at the seams, logically. Although the author is quite a nice writer for the errors described below I'm going to have to put it down to a 2*. I'll put in a **SPOILER ALERT** so you can stop reading now if you don't want to know any more.

The Time Spirits are 3 teens and their parents (who behave more like jailers than parents, their word goes and you don't question it). The father arbitrarily decides that someone in history, who is going to die, deserves saving because he/she will contribute something to future society. Which is my first bone of contention as, although I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for all manner of vampires and what have you, I'm not sure how you can go back in time and decide a child is going to become an important musician if the normal timeline events mean that she's just about to die. Even if you save her - she could die in adult life or not get a break etc. - so there's a logical flaw there. Were that the only one I might have been able to get beyond it.

The bigger niggle though is that, in saving these people, guards and other people are killed in sword or arrow fights (I'm assuming they died when an arrow hit them, by now I was flipping pages). You can't do that. England in the 1300s was a time when people were having 10 or more kids each and each of those kids would have had 10 more, roughly 3 generations per century. If you kill one person in the past then you are easily wiping 30,000 random people from the future timeline and this could potentially remove a world leader. So you go to rescue a potential musician and accidentally take out a future President. Doh!

The other thing that kept irritating was that the over bearing (unpleasant) father made these decisions in isolation and didn't tell anyone who he was going to have them go risk their lives to save, why or when. So the main character (Gemma) will be at school and get a tingling and have to quickly find a toilet before her clothes fall in a pile on the floor and she vanishes in a sprinkle of gold dust. Now seeing as much of the book goes on about how the teens must not let anyone know what they are - surely if he'd just warned the kids that he was going to summon them at lunchtime today it would have made more sense?.

The final criticism is how in the early part of the book Gemma is distraught several times because when she was 13 she told her friend what she was. This is given as the reason for why she isn't making any friends now (she's a bad liar) and yet she gets friendly with Harrison and very quickly tells him everything. In a matter of pages she flips a complete 180 degrees.

The author, if she reads this, probably hates me by now. I hope it can be taken as constructive criticism. Were this to be read by a teen audience it may be a greater success - but the category it's in made me, an older reader, pick it up and I struggled with the premise. That's not to say I've not read YA books in the past and enjoyed them as a bit of light reading - but I might have approached this one more with caution and checked out what else the reviewers who gave it 5* were reading.

I read a great time travel series of books called "The Chronicles of St Marys" and the reason they work so well (and are loved by thousands) is that the historians that go back to observe important events are instructed to change nothing, leave nothing behind and take nothing away. Much is made (as in other time travels books and films) about how a simple act of accidentally leaving a future weapon in the past, can have a catastrophic impact on what is to come. I would suggest that future Time Spirit books should adopt more of that.

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Lesley Luker

Brilliant!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2018

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I can’t compliment the author enough on this trilogy I loved the characters, a strong story line that didn’t faulter and well written. Strong praise from me who never usually purchases series of books because of the price you end up paying but I couldn’t resist these and although I hated to say goodbye to Gemma (Lucia) and Harrison 3 books was just right.

MARIE F.

Excellent book...can’t wait for the next book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2017

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This is the first time I’ve read anything from this author and I wasn’t disappointed. I thought the book was well written and I thought the story had depth. I loved the characters and their different personalities. I cant wait for the next book! Highly recommend! I received an arc for a voluntary review.

P. Ingram

Rubbish

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2020

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Very poor storyline. I certainly won't be reading any more in this series!
Seven more words required! Huh! I can hardly be bothered!

Really enjoyed this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 22, 2013

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I really enjoyed this. An easy going YA fiction book which isn't totally predictable. The characters drew me in and the plot had a few twists and turns which kept me wanting to find out more. I also liked the way it finished. Yes, there was a satisfactory conclusion of a couple of issues and a proper ending, but you also know there is a lot more to come. I finished it and immediately downloaded the next book. Content wise, it's hard to explain without giving things away, but it's definitely a supernatural YA with a bit of originality. Now I need to go and read the next one.

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