By: Kelley Armstrong
Pub date: April 12th, 2011
Maya lives in a small medical-research town on Vancouver Island. How small? You can’t find it on the map. It has less than two-hundred people, and her school has only sixty-eight students–for every grade from kindergarten to twelve.
Now, strange things are happening in this claustrophobic town, and Maya’s determined to get to the bottom of them. First, the captain of the swim team drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. A year later, mountain lions start appearing around Maya’s home, and they won’t go away.
Her best friend, Daniel, starts experiencing “bad vibes” about certain people and things. It does’t help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret…and he’s interested in one special part of Maya’s anatomy: Her paw-print birthmark.
Prologue
Serena stood on the rock ledge twenty feet above the lake, singing in a voice known to bring tears to the eyes of everyone who heard it. Everyone except me.
“For God’s sake, Seri,” I said. “Just dive already.”
Serena stuck out her tongue and shifted closer to the edge, toes wrapping around it. She bounced there, blond ponytail bobbing, cheeks puffing. Then she dove. It was, as usual, an effort worthy of the Olympics, and she sliced into the water so smoothly that barely a ripple pinged across the glassy surface.
She popped back up, sleek as a seal. “Your turn, Maya!”
I flipped her the finger. She laughed and dove again.
Serena was the swimmer—captain of the school team. It’s not my thing, really. This was the part I liked, just sitting on the rock ledge, bare feet dangling. I basked in the morning sun, drinking in the tang of fall air and the perfect view of the crystal clear lake, the distant snowcapped mountains, the endless evergreens.
As Serena swam to the middle of the lake, I squinted over at the path, looking for a familiar blonde head. Daniel was supposed to join us. ..
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I'm very excited for this new series by Kelley Armstrong mainly because I was such a huge fan of her previous YA series, the Darkest Powers trilogy. I love that hew novels are just filled with twists and turns not to mention I really enjoy her take on the paranormal world.
To read the remainder of this excerpt (which consists of the prologue and chapter one) you can do so here. For more on Kelley and her multitude of other novels you can visit her official website.
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