The Hunt by Stacey Kade #BlogTour #Excerpt

Hello & welcome to the PROJECT PAPER DOLL: The Hunt blog tour!

The Hunt
By: Stacey Kade
Series: Project Paper Dolls #2
Published by: Disney Hyperion
Release: April 22, 2014

Ariane Tucker has finally escaped GTX, the research facility that created her. While on the run, Zane Bradshaw is the only person she can trust. He knows who-and what-she is and still wants to be part of her life.

But accepting Zane's help means putting him in danger.

Dr. Jacobs, head of GTX, is not the only one hunting for Ariane. Two rival corporations have their sights set on taking down their competition. Permanently. To protect Zane and herself, Ariane needs allies. She needs the other hybrids. The hybrids who are way more alien and a lot less human. Can Ariane win them over before they turn on her? Or will she be forced to choose sides, to decide who lives and who dies?

I didn't know how to go back. I didn't know how not to feel these things for him, now that I'd opened the door. And worse, admitted it to him. My face burned at the memory. Not with regret, exactly, but more with a realization of how vulnerable I'd make myself.

I dared a glance at him. His hands were tight on the wheel, his knuckles turning white, the only outward sign of his inner turmoil. He was afraid for me. My whole life I'd longed for someone who would care about me, just for being me. Not because of what I could do for him or because I reminded of him someone he lost.

But I hadn't considered the repercussions. That once you were no longer isolated, alone, but involved in a larger unit, a relationship or a family, there are additional considerations, obligations. Ties.

As an award-winning corporate copywriter, Stacey Kade has written about everything from backhoe loaders to breast pumps. But she prefers to make things up instead.

She lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, Greg, and two retired racing greyhounds, Tall Walker (Walker) and SheWearsThePants (Pansy). When she’s not reading or writing, you’ll likely find her parked in front of the television catching up on her favorite shows (Scandal, The Vampire Diaries, Almost Human, The Walking Dead, and Sherlock, among others.)

Stacey is the author of the The Ghost and the Goth trilogy (THE GHOST AND THE GOTH, QUEEN OF THE DEAD, and BODY & SOUL) and The Project Paper Doll Series (THE RULES and THE HUNT). You can find her (far too often) on Facebook and Twitter as well as her website.