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Stormfront (Undertow #2)
by K.R. Conway
Release Date: 08/18/14
Summary from Goodreads:
Not long ago Eila Walker’s choices were limited: death by a bullet to the
head, or at the hands of her beloved bodyguard, Raef. Now, five weeks after
Raef triggered her power and she nearly leveled a historic mansion, Eila is
dealing with the fall-out of her decisions. While she doesn’t remember dying in
the arms of the soul thief who loves her, she knows that Raef remembers
everything about the night he nearly killed her.
Now on the mend and attempting to keep one step ahead of the FBI, Eila and her
team of misfits are desperate for a bit of normal. Eila is trying to navigate
high school, while her BFF Ana is cautiously hanging with past-boyfriend and
soul thief, Kian. Shape-shifter, MJ, is trying not to piss off his mother,
while Raef is coping with his fears that Eila will never be safe.
But just as “normal” seems within their grasp, a powerfully built newcomer
arrives. Raef knows the scarred man as a Blacklist Dealer – a soul thief, who
peddles the names of humans who deserve to die. Eila, however, knows him as the
protective hunter from the woods, who she nicknames Thor. Before long, Raef and
Eila realize they’ve met the same killer, and he has one hell of a story to
tell the five friends . . . if Raef doesn’t murder him first.
Excerpt:
Raef’s POV:
I shook my head to clear the ringing, and began to go after him again, but then I heard Eila’s voice behind me. I turned, and she was coming down the stairs, her stained t-shirt and old jeans still on. Kian and I immediately switched to a more neutral stance so she wouldn’t know we had just tried to start our own Fight Club.
“Oh,” she said, halting on the stairs, “I didn’t know you were here, Kian. Everything all right?”
He glanced at me, then to Eila. “Of course. I was just going to keep digging through Dalca’s journals. Ana might join me later.”
“Really?” she asked, genuinely surprised and happy.
He shrugged. “It will keep her mind busy.”
She nodded, “That’s a great idea. Thank you, by the way, for helping her yesterday.”
He shifted, looking more uncomfortable. The subject of Ana’s father was never mentioned around Kian. “I’m going to leave you two, so you can get back to whatever it is you have to do. I’ll be in the library.” Kian eyed me once last time as he turned to leave.
I looked back to Eila and she gave me a shy smile. I came to the stairs and walked my way up to her, “You didn’t take a shower?”
“I can’t raise my arms enough to get my shirt off. Do you have scissors? ‘Cause I’m just gonna cut it off – it’s old anyway.”
“Christian probably does somewhere, but I’d need to find them,” I replied, stepping closer to her and taking the edge of her t-shirt in my hands. “Turn around,” I instructed and she gave me a curious glance, but obeyed, turning her back to me.
With one good pull, I tore the t-shirt straight up her back, turning the top into a smock.
“Better?” I asked.
“Uh . . . yup,” she replied with a breathless squeak.
I have been a journalist for 15 years and serve on the Board of Directors for the Cape Cod Writers Center. I also drive a 16-ton school bus because I am ENTIRELY NUTS.In addition to working jobs that should come with a warning label , I hold a BA in Psychos (Forensic Psych), torment the tourists about Jaws, and occasionally jump from the Town Neck bridge in an attempt to reclaim my youth.
I live on Cape Cod with two smallish humans who apparently are my kids, my fishing-obsessed husband, two canines (adept at both flatulence and snoring), and a cage-defiant lovebird that sleeps in a miniature tent. Nope - that's not a type-o. The bird is quite the indoor camper.
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This is such an amazing series!! This is a great excerpt as well. This book just get so much better...ugh love it! Can't wait for Cruel Summer so I can learn more about Kain and my fav Ana!
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