Maggie is unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits her. It isn’t until she lands in New Orleans for a full year at a private high school and her unknown enemies find her does she realize that her life is in danger.
As a mystifying stranger repeatedly intervenes and blocks the attempts on her life, she begins to learn that there is more to him than his need to protect her and that he may be the key to understanding why her enemies have just now arrived.
Excerpt
“So
you’re warning me away from you?” I was appalled. “Then why are
you doing this…guarding me at all? Why the torment? Why watch over
me when you know that…that we should be more?” I felt on the
verge of tears, which amazed me. How could pain be so sharp in the
afterlife? “Answer me, Eran. Why?”
He
sighed. “Because it is my job.”
I
gasped, more offended than I’d ever been. “I’m a job to you?”
I stared at him and waited for his head to rise but he refused to
look at me.
“Yes,”
he said weakly, defeated. His beautiful, rugged voice released as a
whimper and the pain inside me grew. “You are just a job.”
I
didn’t think it was possible but the emptiness I’d felt with Eran
being gone those many weeks held no comparison to the magnitude of
what I was experiencing right now.
I
felt as if I had been gutted.
“No…”
I shook my head. “I don’t believe you because you see, Eran, I
can feel your emotions run through me. Whether you want to admit them
or not, I know how you feel about me.”
Stunned,
his head jerked up, his brilliant blue-green eyes drilling into mine.
“You feel me too? How can that be?”
“I
don’t know. But I do know that I feel in you the same emotions I
have.”
He
groaned and turned away. “That’s not possible…” he muttered,
pausing. When he spoke again his voice was strained, determined. I
drew in a breath as the intensity of these emotions ran through me.
“It doesn’t matter. I won’t let this happen. This will not
happen…I will not let us be together.”
“Because
you are my guardian? Then let me make it easy on us…You’re
fired.”
“It
doesn’t work that way, Magdalene,” he said, quieter but still
resolute.
“I
didn’t want you to watch over me, Eran. I never asked for it.”
As
if he’d become an entirely new person, his reply was flat and
detached. “You’re a messenger. You require a guardian. It’s as
simple as that.”
“Then
we’ve just solved the issue, didn’t we?” I said causing him to
finally look up. “This will be my last message. It’s from me to
you…goodbye Eran.”
Turning
swiftly, I walked away just before the tears came.
Laury Falter is the bestselling author of the Guardian Trilogy (Fallen, Eternity, & Reckoning). When she isn't writing, she likes to take her two stray dogs for walks and enjoy date nights with her husband.
Laury's debut novel, Fallen, hit Amazon's Top 100 list in three genres and the remaining two books in the trilogy made showings in the Top 100 of the same genres as well. With a new series available, Residue, about a teenage girl who learns she is a witch and falls in love with a boy from a feuding family, her reader following continues to grow rapidly.
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Short and sweet blurb but I enjoyed the excerpt. Thanks for the giveaway. This one may find its way onto the tbr :)
ReplyDeleteOh no this sounds like a great but heartbreaking read! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteTeresa @ Readers Live A Thousand Lives
This sounds a like a fabulous read!!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds good, but I'm so not an angel book person. I have liked very few angel books. I might have to give this a try though.
ReplyDeleteLove this, =) Happy Tuesday!
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So loved this series when I read it last year. I'm happy to see you hosting a giveaway for this much deserving series, it definitely deserves more love!
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to keep my distance from angel books for awhile, but maybe it's time we got reunited. lol
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