By: Alexia Purdy
Blurb
"Never tease anything that wants to eat you. My name is April Tate and my blood is the new gold. Vampires and hybrids have overrun my world, once vibrant with life, but now a graveyard of death shrouded in shadows. I fight to survive; I fight for my mother and brother. The journey is full of turns that I am quite unprepared for. And I'm just hoping to make it to the next Vegas sunrise..."
In a post-apocalyptic world, a viral epidemic has
wiped out most of the earth’s population, leaving behind few humans but untold
numbers of mutated vampires. April is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in the
remains of Las Vegas one year after the outbreak. She has become a ferocious
vampire killer and after her family is abducted, she goes searching for them.
What she finds is a new breed of vampire, unlike any she has seen before. Unsure
of whom she can trust, she discovers that her view of the world is not as black
and white as she once thought, and she's willing to bend the rules to rescue her
family. But in trying to save them, she may only succeed in bringing her fragile
world crashing down around her.
Excerpt #1
Rye tilted his head as he narrowed his steely
eyes, sizing me up. “You think you’re so righteous, don’t you? This so-called
mission of yours–killing the wildlings like animals–and for what? Just to find
your family. Does that make you better than us?” He started shaking his head as
he further closed the gap between us, a sinister grin dwelling on his lips. “But
you’re not better than us, April. You, my dear, are just another kind of
vampire.”
Excerpt #2
My eyes fell on one thing that I had not noticed
before. The driver’s side door was slightly cracked open. My stomach lurched for
a moment as I slowly stepped around the front of the van to look at the door. A
smear of blood ran along the handle and up to the edge of the window. A bloody
handprint of dark brick red in color, painted the center of the door. I gasped
as my heart jumped, immediately drawing my machete out. I crouched against the
van as my eyes darted around, looking for anything that would lead me to where
they were. I searched the ground for blood trails but none could be found. If
scavengers were out here too, they could have snatched them and I’d have been
none the wiser. Not that I had seen any for almost a year.
Excerpt #3
I rounded the corner and came to dead stop. Before
me stood a woman, dirtied and with wild hair. Her face was streaked with grime
and rips ran through her clothing. Blood had dried in dark red and brown splats
on her shirt and pants and the large Rambo-like knife that she fingered in front
of me. She was ready to pounce, slowly shifting on her legs as she narrowed her
eyes at me. Sucking in my breath, I instinctively reached for one of the
machetes strapped to my side.
I was too slow.
About Author
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Alexia currently
lives in Las Vegas, Nevada–Sin City! She loves to spend every free moment
writing or playing with her four rambunctious kids. Writing has always been her
dream and she has been writing ever since she can remember. She loves writing
paranormal fantasy and poetry and devours books daily. Alexia also enjoys
watching movies, dancing, singing loudly in the car and Italian food. She is
the author of Ever Shade: A Dark Faerie Tale, published by Crushing Hearts and
Black Butterfly Publishing and Whispers of Dreams (A Poetic Collection), both
available via Amazon.com. Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2 will be released in
October of 2012. She is currently working on Ever Winter, the third installment
of the Dark Faerie Tale series.
Giveaway
(Us only)
Prize # 1 (One Winner)
One ebook copy of Reign of Blood, one signed bookmark, one
trading card, one Reign of Blood bookplate, one Ever Shade bookplate, and one business card.
Prize# 2 (Three Winner)
One signed bookmark, one trading card, one Reign of Blood
bookplate, one Ever Shade bookplate and one business card.
