stick together! Also, thanks for being so awesome.
To Andrew James, thank you for creating real beauty out of this. Thank you for putting a soundtrack to my words. I didn’t know what to expect, but what came out of long, confusing emails and your musical genius is so insanely good there are not even words to accurately describe. Thank you for I Believe and thank you for Blackheart. There have never been greater songs.
To Kristen, thank you for supporting this, and your husband. And thank you for playing Just Dance with mine!
And to the reader, each and every reader, thank you so very much for all your support, for buying this book and making it all the way to here. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you and thank God for you!! I seriously have the most amazing fans ever. Thank you!
The Music
While I was writing The Rush, I had the incredible opportunity to work with Andrew James. He is a truly talented musician, based in Omaha. His sound is this raw blues that draws you in and makes you appreciate the authentic sound of genuinely good music. And because he’s so awesome, he agreed to collaborate with me and this series and write some original music.
For The Rush, he gave Ryder a voice, and a sound and he took the concepts talked about in the book and brought them to life.
The first song released for The Rush is called I Believe and is available wherever music is sold, iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify.
The second song, Blackheart, talked about specifically in the book, will be released very soon!
If you enjoyed Ryder and Ivy I hope you take the time to check out the songs!!!
You can find Andrew James on Facebook at The Andrew James
Or on Twitter at @Andr3wJames
About the Author
Rachel Higginson was born and raised in Nebraska, but spent her college years traveling the world. She married her high school sweetheart and spends her days raising their growing family. She is obsessed with bad reality TV and any and all Young Adult Fiction.
The Rush is the first book in The Siren Series.
Look for The Fall, the second book in The Siren Series, coming fall 2013
Other books by Rachel in 2013 are Sunburst, the second book in the Starbright Series, The Relentless Warrior, the sixth book The Star-Crossed Series and Bet in the Dark, a contemporary romance.
Other Books Out Now by Rachel Higginson:
Reckless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book 1)
Hopeless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book 2)
Fearless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book 3)
Endless Magic (The Star-Crossed Series, Book 4)
The Reluctant King (The Star-Crossed Series, Book 5)
Starbright (The Starbright Series, Book 1)
Follow Rachel on her blog at:
www.rachelhigginson.blogspot.com
Or on Twitter:
@mywritesdntbite
Or on her Facebook pages:
Rachel Higginson
Or
Reckless Magic
Keep Reading for an Excerpt from Rachel’s new contemporary romance Bet in the Dark, a never before seen chapter from Lila Felix’s Down N’ Derby and a chapter from Shelly Crane’s newest Wide Awake.
Chapter One
I blamed this on Kelly Clarkson.
On Kelly-Freaking-Clarkson.
The angry man standing across the kitchen island looked like he was about to throttle me. I had visions of large hands gripped firmly around my neck shaking me like a rubber chicken. His eyes flashed with frustration and I cursed Kelly Clarkson straight to the grave.
Things started out so good this morning, so unbelievably, unnaturally good. I should have known better. But at the time, I woke up in my bed to the powerful chords Kelly Clarkson was belting through my radio alarm, and laid there for the length of the song just to let her words sink in.
Stronger.
In fact I started to think Kelly Clarkson was a genius. And like maybe we were these soul sisters that had survived something awful but came out on the other side of it stronger. I started to think maybe she got me….
Because the bed did feel warmer.
I did dream in color.
I wasn’t lonely when I was alone.
And best of all I was standing taller.
Well “was” as in the seriously past tense because with monster-man looming over me, pissed off and yelling about money he wanted and I definitely did not have, I wasn’t standing taller anymore. I was more like shrinking slowly into what I assumed would soon be the fetal position.
But this morning, even as the warm sun sifted through my bedroom window and heated my exposed skin, everything seemed possible. I felt strong enough to get out of bed today and conquer the world- or at least the closest Starbucks and my econ class.
Which come on, that’s close