{"id":712,"date":"2011-07-25T19:47:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chloeneill.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2011-07-25T19:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T00:49:46","slug":"a-bit-of-hexbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"A bit of HEXBOUND!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Elite-Chloe-Neill\/dp\/0451235886\/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311641268&amp;sr=1-8\">the DARK ELITE omnibus<\/a>, available August 2, 2011 at your favorite bookseller!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I looked up at Sebastian, expecting to see disdain or disagreement in his expression. But instead, there was something soft in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He looked down at his clenched palm, and then opened it. In his curled fingers sat his own small spark. Suddenly, it jumped out to meet mine, the attraction of opposite forces. Like long-separated lovers, the sparks entangled, then rose into the air and floated through the currents across Erie Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that you don\u2019t forget that the world isn\u2019t black or white,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s gray. And someone tells you otherwise, they\u2019re lying.\u201d He reached out, and with a finger, brushed a lock of hair from my face. \u201cYou deserve more than lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then he turned and walked away.<\/p>\n<p>I stood there for a moment imagining the world\u2014the city\u2014spinning on an axis around me.<\/p>\n<p>What if it wasn\u2019t so easy to pick out good from bad?<\/p>\n<p>How were you supposed to know who the bad guys were?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/hexbound_chap1.htm\">Read more<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dark-Elite-Chloe-Neill\/dp\/0451235886\/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311641268&amp;sr=1-8\">Preorder now<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is featured in the DARK ELITE omnibus, available August 2, 2011 at your favorite bookseller! I looked up at Sebastian, expecting to see disdain or disagreement in his expression. But instead, there was something soft in his eyes. He looked down at his clenched palm, and then opened it. In his curled fingers sat<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=712\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}