It’s release day for Betrayed!

Happy Release Day and Happy Valentine's Eve!

I’m so excited to be sharing Part Two of The Darkest Legacy series with you!

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayed (Part Two)

Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz

Genre: YA Fantasy

Ages: 12 and up

Release date: February 13, 2015

Pages: 330

Content: Clean with mild curse words

  

Synopsis:

Trapped in Fanny’s house, with its mystifying occurrences and hidden rooms, Cara Corsi discovers a secret world that she never knew existed. And it’s far more dangerous than she could ever imagine.

As she is pulled into the unknown world of magic, secrets are exposed and new mysteries are thrown at her. Cara has many choices to make and she needs to dig deep to find the strength to face her fears. Will she be strong enough to overcome the magical challenges? Or will her smart aleck ways push her deeper into trouble and prevent her from finding her family?

 

The ebooks are currently live on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords. Other outlets will come later.

The paperback will be released soon, as I am finalizing the final print book cover. As soon as I have that ready, I will post another blog to give everyone the buy links.

To celebrate the release of Betrayed, both Betrayal (Part One) and Betrayed will be on sale for $2.99 until March 1, 2015. After that, both books will return to their regular price of $3.99. So if you held out, waiting to buy Betrayal and Betrayed so you could read them one right after the other, snag your copies now before the price goes up!

 
Buy links for Betrayed: 

Amazon

Barnes& Noble

Smashwords

(Coupon code: RE58Y expires 3-1-15)

Buy links for Betrayal:

Amazon

Barnes& Noble

Smashwords 
(Coupon code: PV53G expires 3-1-15)



 If you enjoyed Betrayal, you're going to LOVE Betrayed!
;)

Let me know what you think!

Happy Reading!

Until next time ~  

Excerpt from The Darkest Legacy: Betrayed

In pre-celebration of my upcoming release date, here is an excerpt of The Darkest Legacy: Betrayed:

I stared in horror at the grotesque figure standing in front of me. No… it couldn’t be. It just wasn’t possible.

The book I had grabbed off the bookcase dropped out of my hand and I gasped for breath as if someone had punched me in the gut. I tried to maintain eye contact with it… her… but oh, God! What the freakin’ frack was that thing?

The creature, or Fanny, was now altered back into her original form and stood right in front of me. She raised her arm and pointed a finger about six inches from my nose. I held my breath, waiting for whatever horrible thing she, it, was about to do to me.

“Don’t you ever disobey me again!”

I stared mutely at her, my eyes wide and my body still.

“Do you understand me?” she screamed out.

I couldn’t move and certainly no words would come out of my mouth.

“ANSWER ME!” the monstrous, gravel voice bellowed. Terrified, I watched as her face began to expand and she seemed to grow taller. A bloated finger jabbed at the air in front of my nose.

Oh my God! This was not happening. This was not real. I was in bed, having a terrible nightmare. I pinched myself–digging a nail deep into my skin–and cried out when I drew blood. I stared at the red mark and then at the Fanny monster in front of me. I still couldn’t say a word. My verbal abilities were gone and the creature’s anger increased the longer I stayed silent.

Fanny’s face turned into that unsightly combination of gray and cherry red. She reached her arms out and snatched me off the ground. I was elevated high in the air until we were eye to fiery eye and nose to bloated nose. Her breath reeked like a rotted carcass and I choked and coughed as the stench filled my nose and mouth. Stinging tears covered my eyes as I struggled helplessly in her grasp to find fresh, clean air.

She opened her mouth and a wave of her death air washed over me. She took one hand off my body but I remained suspended in the air as the other hand clamped down tighter on my rib cage. Her talon-like fingers grabbed my face and turned my head, forcing me to look at her.

I did not like what I saw.

Fanny had turned back into full monster mode. She had grown so tall that her head hit the high ceiling. I was like a toy in her clutches as I realized I was at least six feet off the ground. She opened her mouth and I gasped! Her teeth! There were so many! They were shaped like shark’s teeth and the jagged points glinted from the light in the secret room.

I lifted my legs up and kicked them out in the direction of her midsection. She deftly straightened out the arm that was holding me, elongated it and took a step backwards. When my legs fell helplessly back down, she grasped both of them in her free hand. My body was suddenly yanked forward as my legs were thrown behind her back. Straddling her deformed body, her arm tightened around my back, crushing me closer to her chest. My appalled face was now an inch from her monstrous, misshapen one. The wild beating of her heart thumped against my body as the stench of rotten flesh poured out of her gaping mouth.

I struggled to break free but I was squeezed closer and closer to her. My breath came out in short bursts. Any air that I could take in was clogged with Fanny’s foulness, causing manic coughing fits. Nausea took over and I hoped I would puke all over her… it… whatever this thing was. I had to get away from this nightmare. I would do anything, anything it asked me to do.

I hope you enjoyed the excerpt!

Betrayed will be released on February 13, only 4 days away!    :)

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayed (Part Two)
Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz
Genre: YA Fantasy
Ages: 12 and up
Release date: February 13, 2015
Pages: 330

Content: Clean with mild curse words

Until next time ~ 

It’s Cover Reveal Day!

Greetings from Catzland!

I’ve got GREAT NEWS!

My next book, The Darkest Legacy: Betrayed, is on track to be released on February 13, 2015! Yep! That’s next week… Friday the 13^th to be exact.

The final editing process is almost complete and the files are starting to get uploaded on line.

Woohoo!!

So, since things are looking fantastic for February 13^th, I’m going to do a cover reveal today. In keeping with the original theme, here is the cover for Betrayed:

I love the opposite look of both Betrayal and Betrayed. I can’t wait to see both books next to each other on my bookshelf.

Stay tuned to my blog… the next few days, I will be releasing an excerpt of Betrayed!

Until next time ~

Release Day! THE DARKEST LEGACY: BETRAYAL (BOOK ONE)

HAPPY 12-13-14 ! !

THE DARKEST LEGACY: BETRAYAL
(BOOK ONE) HAS BEEN RELEASED !

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz

Genre: YA Fantasy

Ages: 12 and up

Release date: December 13, 2014 (12-13-14)

Pages: 300

Content: Clean with mild curse words

 BLURB:

There are whispers of the darkest legacy that span hundreds of years... 

Sixteen-year-old Cara Corsi just wants her normal life back. After recently surviving a horrific car accident, her recent life has been anything but ordinary and normal sounds pretty good right now.

Fully recovered and out of the hospital, Cara has returned to school, hoping her life will finally get back on track. 

After only being back at her northern California high school a few days, weird and exciting occurrences happen, leaving Cara both perplexed and thrilled. When she is asked out by her longtime crush, Cara is elated that her life is quickly improving and her excitement explodes as she plans to attend the dance of the year. 

But then, events quickly go off course and things aren’t as they seem. New problems arise when Cara is abruptly overwhelmed by brain-splitting headaches and her family is targeted by strange people Cara's mother, Maria, seems to know.

Maria has kept a life-altering secret that could destroy any chance of normalcy for Cara. Unbeknownst to Cara and her sister, Maria has taken drastic measures to keep the family hidden for the past fourteen years.

A sinister plan brews when the family is eventually located. But when Cara’s family suddenly disappears, Cara is overtaken by the nosy neighbor who won’t leave her alone–the same neighbor Maria warned her daughters to never go near.

Not knowing whom to trust, Cara must fight to find her family and to stay alive in a deception she knows nothing about.

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Friday's Teaser from The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

ONE DAY LEFT!!

TOMORROW IS 12-13-14

AND IT’S THE RELEASE DAY FOR

THE DARKEST LEGACY: BETRAYAL!!

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz

Genre: YA Fantasy

Ages: 12 and up

Release date: December 13, 2014 (12-13-14)

Pages: 300

Content: Clean with mild curse words

Here is today’s teaser:

TEASER

I noticed it was much cooler on this side of the house. That would figure. Mom probably turned down the heat back here to conserve energy. I walked through the wing and entered the servants’ kitchen prep area. It was much colder in here, like I was walking outside on a thirty-five degree evening with no coat. I folded my arms around me to keep some of my body heat from escaping and walked to the end of the kitchen.

That’s when I saw the back door was opened.

No wonder it was cold. Who had left that opened?

It took me a few seconds to realize that no one ever used the old kitchen door and it should never be opened. I spun on my socks to run out of there but suddenly I couldn’t move.

That face from the front window was in front of me!

I opened my mouth to scream but he lunged at me and clamped his hand over my mouth. “Shut up, you little twit!” he whispered hotly into my ear. He went to wrap his arms around my body and I fought against him. Suddenly, my sock clad feet slid out from under me and I crashed to the ground. The man’s arms were wrapped around me and he fell on my right arm. I started pummeling him incessantly with my left fist, trying to wiggle and scream while he kept his hand tightly over my mouth.

“Stop fighting me!” he managed to say as he tried to evade my fist.

I switched my position and started kicking him anywhere I could reach. I kicked him in the leg and the thigh before I swung my leg up to kick him in the stomach. Seeing my leg coming at him, he shifted his body and threw his leg over mine, stopping all of my movements from the lower half of my body.

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A Little Teaser from The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

It’s 2 days before release day so here is a small teaser to get you ready!

TEASER

“Natalia!” my mother screamed, “Natalia! Call 911. Now! Your sister is dying!”

Was I dying? It actually felt like I might be and I prayed that the ball of pain would just explode so that I could experience the sweet ease of relief.

I tried to lift myself up but all the fingers touching me had other ideas. My mother’s hands gently pushed me back down while the evil fingers in my skull decided to use my brain as a stress ball. They weren’t very gentle as they squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. The tighter they squashed my brain, the tighter my body curled up into a ball. I needed the pain to stop. I wanted to just rip my head off my neck and toss it into the San Francisco Bay.

I reached out and grasped my mother’s hand. “Mom” I whispered to her, my voice sounded very light and thin. Maybe I was dying. “Make it stop. Please, make it stop!”

That sentence. That one simple sentence.

It was like a hole had been drilled open and all the pain started to ooze out. The white sheets in front of my eyes began to lift and I could make out the fuzzy edges and the blurry shape of my terror-stricken mother slowly came into focus. I cautiously lifted my head and used my free hand to feel the ground around me. Where was the pain? What did it look like? I thought I would feel the sharp, wet stickiness of it underneath my head but the ground was bone dry.

BOOK INFO

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz

Genre: YA Fantasy

Ages: 12 and up

Release date: December 13, 2014 (12-13-14)

Pages: 300

Content: Clean with mild curse words

Now, a little reward for my fans and soon-to-be readers!

Comment on each blog post to receive autographed bookmarks from me! You must comment on the blog posts for the following days:

December 10, 2014 – Cover Reveal
December 11, 2014 – Today’s Teaser

December 12, 2014 – (Tomorrow’sTeaser, coming soon)

December 13, 2014 – (The DarkestLegacy: Betrayal Release Day!, coming soon)

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Feel free to share the information about my debut novel!

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Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for another teaser and your comment!

Until next time ~

 

It’s My Very Own Cover Reveal!

Here it is: my official cover reveal for
The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal!

Title: The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal

Author: Jennifer Lynn Catz

Genre: YA Fantasy

Ages: 12 and up

Release date: December 13, 2014 (12-13-14)

Pages: 300

Content: Clean with mild curse words

Blurb

There are whispers of the darkest legacy 

that span hundreds of years... 

 

Sixteen-year-old *Cara Corsi just wants her normal life back. After recently surviving a horrific car accident, her recent life has been anything but ordinary and normal sounds pretty good right now.

Fully recovered and out of the hospital, Cara has returned to school, hoping her life will finally get back on track. 

After only being back at her northern California high school a few days, weird and exciting occurrences happen, leaving Cara both perplexed and thrilled. When she is asked out by her longtime crush, Cara is elated that her life is quickly improving and her excitement explodes as she plans to attend the dance of the year. 

But then, events quickly go off course and things aren’t as they seem. New problems arise when Cara is abruptly overwhelmed by brain-splitting headaches and her family is targeted by strange people Cara's mother, Maria, seems to know.

Maria has kept a life-altering secret that could destroy any chance of normalcy for Cara. Unbeknownst to Cara and her sister, Maria has taken drastic measures to keep the family hidden for the past fourteen years.

A sinister plan brews when the family is eventually located. But when Cara’s family suddenly disappears, Cara is overtaken by the nosy neighbor who won’t leave her alone–the same neighbor Maria warned her daughters to never go near.

Not knowing whom to trust, Cara must fight to find her family and to stay alive in a deception she knows nothing about.

(*Cara is pronounced Ca-ruh)

Here it is!

I’m so excited! I love how it came out! What do you think?

Don’t forget to stop by my blog this week for a teaser, info on where you can buy The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal, an excerpt and a surprise!

Here’s to 12-13-14!

It will be here soon!!

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December 10, 2014 – Cover Reveal
December 11, 2014 – Thursday’s Teaser

December 12, 2014 – (Friday’s Teaser, coming soon)

December 13, 2014 – (The Darkest Legacy: Betrayal Release Day!, coming soon)

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Feel free to share the information about my debut novel!

Until next time ~