PROMO EVENT: Demon Royale (The Dream Slayer Series, #2): excerpt, book trailer + giveaway
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Title: Demon Royale (The Dream Slayer Series, #2)
Author: Jill Cooper
Age Group: YA
Genre: Paranormal
Release date: Oct. 10, 2012
Event date(s): Oct. 12, 2012
DREAM SLAYER (Book, #1) will be FREE Oct. 12-14, 2012.: Amazon
The only thing worse than dying, is running away…
Since becoming employed by a supernatural protection agency, Natalie Johnson’s life has been more interesting than ever. While most teens are working on their summer tans, Natalie works on slaughtering the undead lurking just outside her town’s borders.
The workload takes more than just a toll on her love life, it dampens her spirit and her health, as the town is plagued by a mysterious murderer intent on stealing the residents’ souls. Natalie’s investigation is hampered by her declining health and the sicker she gets, the more inadequate she feels.
Guilt over her inability to act, weighs heavily on Natalie’s shoulders during a time when her strength is needed more than ever. As some of those closest to her begin to lose faith, she must make the hardest stand yet to save the soul of the one person she can always count on:
The Slayer.
Excerpt:
His face twitched, his lip snarled,
and his hands grabbed at her arms. “You!”
“Me?” Natalie said innocently as she
made a fist and swung at his head. He caught her wrist like he was some sort of
expert, twisting her arm behind her back and slamming her chest into the wall.
“To think we fear you. You can’t
even throw a decent punch.”
“Hey,” Natalie huffed, storing extra
air in her lungs as the man threw her down the hall. Natalie tumbled and her
head collided into the wooden molding against the wall hard enough that her
head crunched, and she saw a multitude of stars. The man was walking towards
her, flexing and cracking his neck from side to side.
She didn’t want to stick around long
enough to find out what he was going to do with her. Natalie bolted to the side
through the kitchen and out into the night air. She ran, scampering like a dog
up the side of the cliffs, using old roots to pull herself up.
When she got to the top of the
cliff, she saw her friends sitting, Marcus juggling stakes, and Michelle
combing her hair. For a moment, her eyes narrowed in anger that they weren’t
more prepared, but behind her came the sound of men charging.
“Run!” Natalie said. Her heart was
charging, and she had trouble catching her breath, but she couldn’t stop—couldn’t
slow down. She ran to her friends, gave them a shove and shouted it again.
Kenneth fell behind, so Natalie grabbed his hand and charged him through the
trees.
Natalie glanced over her shoulder
and saw the glow of flashlights coming through the trees. She was like ET on
the run from the federal government, and it didn’t feel that far off. But who
would be after her? Who would know?
They couldn’t be, as WOMP was on her
side—heck, she worked for the federal government! They signed her weekly paychecks!
“Which way?” Michelle hissed as they
came to a ravine. If they took a right, it would take them farther up the
mountain and into nature. Long paths and sharp cliffs would be in their future.
But if they turned left down the dirt path, it would lead them to the city, and
the lights from downtown were a beacon through the trees.
“Head to town before they catch us.”
Natalie took the lead, heading down
the mountain. Her feet skidded along the dirt path, and her foot lodged on an
old tree root. She tumbled end over end until she landed on her butt right
beside the state highway. Following it for less than a mile would lead them to
the core of the city and a short jaunt to downtown.
Natalie was glad that Michelle
helped her up with little to say about it, and they charged on ahead. “We’re
headed to Buckle’s Gifts, aren’t we?” Michelle asked.
The paladin nodded and looked back
at the men standing on the side of the highway. For some reason, they weren’t
pursing her any longer. Instead, they were standing with grim expressions on
their faces, their sunglasses steady as they stared ahead at her, even in the
dark. They hadn’t broken a sweat and barely hit their stride.
“Why aren’t they coming?” Tristan
asked.
“They’ve done enough.” Natalie
couldn’t keep the dread out of her voice. “They’ve scared me, and for tonight,
I think that’s enough for them.”
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