Jennifer Lynn Catz: YA Fantasy Author: teaser

Friday, December 12, 2014

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

December 12, 2014 – Today’sTeaser

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

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

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.