{"product_id":"book-one-bonded-souls-book-one","title":"Book One: Bonded Souls Book One","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York Times Bestselling Author S.J. Tilly brings us a brand new series where the men are still possessive. The women are still curvy. There's just a bit of a twist... and a bite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVOLIK - Bonded Souls Book One\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForget what you think you know.\u003cbr\u003eForget the fairy tales and lore of old.\u003cbr\u003eVampires are real.\u003cbr\u003eAnd for the past seventy years, they’ve walked openly among us.\u003cbr\u003eThey’re bigger and stronger than humans, with black eyes, horns, and powers that shouldn’t be possible.\u003cbr\u003eVolik is one of these vampires.\u003cbr\u003eLiving in the small town of Hemlock Hills, he spends his days locked in his office at Stalden University. Wasting time. Waiting.\u003cbr\u003eUntil Nix, the new journalism professor, arrives … and changes everything.\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story about the day they met. What happened after. And how their bond started a sequence of events that changed the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNIX\u003cbr\u003eIt’s my first day as a substitute professor. I’m in a new city, with new coworkers, and all I want to do is keep my head down.\u003cbr\u003eAnd maybe catch a glimpse of Volik.\u003cbr\u003eI’ve read everything there is to read about vampires. The good and the scary.\u003cbr\u003eBut I have all semester to sneak a look, so I focus my attention on the clock. Because in three minutes, I turn thirty.\u003cbr\u003eBut when the moment strikes, an invisible force slams into me.\u003cbr\u003eWeight swells inside my chest, and heat roars through my veins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVOLIK\u003cbr\u003eI pause, feeling a shift in the air, telling me something is about to happen.\u003cbr\u003eThen the clock ticks. And my world tilts.\u003cbr\u003eThe power inside me pulses. The building shakes around me. And I grow.\u003cbr\u003eI get bigger. Taller. Stronger. Thicker.\u003cbr\u003eMy fangs lengthen. Sharpen. And I smile.\u003cbr\u003eBecause the moment I have waited centuries for has finally arrived.\u003cbr\u003eThe other half of my soul… She is here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNIX\u003cbr\u003eScreams echo down the hallway while people flee.\u003cbr\u003eImpossibly heavy footsteps shake the ground.\u003cbr\u003eBut I don’t run. I can’t. The pull in my chest won’t allow it.\u003cbr\u003eThen the giant vampire I’ve been daydreaming about ducks through the doorway.\u003cbr\u003eAnd when he calls me his Mate, I do the opposite of run.\u003cbr\u003eI reach for him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inchstone Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67610335281521,"sku":"9781962096348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0981\/7420\/6321\/files\/9781962096348.jpg?v=1790781369","url":"https:\/\/inchstonebooks.com\/products\/book-one-bonded-souls-book-one","provider":"Inchstone Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}