Hey, hey everyone! Welcome to Mera's YA Book List. Today is day three in YA Excerpt Week, in which I, along with a group of awesome authors bring you juicy excerpts of their books (new and old), along with some fab prizes.
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Today, we have YA author Kimberly Kinrade joining us for YA Excerpt Week!
About the Author
Kimberly Kinrade was born with ink in her veins and magic in her heart. She writes fantasy and paranormal stories for children, YA and adults and still believes in magic worlds. Check out her YA paranormal novels Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire and her illustrated children's fantasy chapter books Lexie World, and Bella World, all on Amazon.
She lives with her three little girls who think they're ninja princesses with super powers, her two dogs who think they're humans and the one man who is the love of her life. Learn more about her at KimberlyKinrade.com
Kimberly has awesomely brought with her excerpt from her two YA novels, Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire.
Paranormal teens with unimaginable powers. An evil organization with deep secrets. When Sam, a girl who reads minds, meets a boy who controls minds, she discovers her future isn’t what she thought.
Together they must escape and free the others… or risk losing everything–and everyone–they love.
“A thrilling, dark and deeply romantic read that had me sitting on the edge of my seta and eagerly awaiting the next installment.”
~Refracted Light Young Adult Book Reviews
Get the first two books in the Forbidden Trilogy (Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire) on Amazon and watch for the final installment (Forbidden Life) on June 26th, 2012.
Enjoy this excerpt from Forbidden Mind (Book 1 of the Forbidden Trilogy). Find it on Amazon here. http://amzn.to/pD0Wq8
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No matter how many times I’d been drugged, I still woke up in a slight panic. My body maintained no sense of how long it had been. My subconscious mind had been shut out—definitely the worst part of any assignment. Wait….
Mary lay in the bed next to mine. That sucked worse.
She sneered at me from behind her blond hair. “Well, look who finally woke up. Took you long enough. So, looks like you had some trouble. Is Higgins’s pet getting lazy?”
“What do you want, Mary?” Though sick of her games, ignoring her would only inspire her to greater taunts.
“Nothing. Just waiting on the good doctor, like you.”
I slipped into her mind, like being stuck in the poisonous trap of a viper. ‘Thinks she’s so great… not that great… not even as pretty as everyone thinks… tits too small… and look at that black eye… looks like she finally screwed up… hope she gets what’s coming to her… she’s just a goody two-shoes… little priss.’
Well, nothing new there. Did she ever have any other kind of thought?
I raised myself on the bed—no IVs or wires stuck to my arms. The world spun just a little through my swollen eyes. Fake flowers in artificially bright colors stood on the table by the window, a futile attempt to cheer up the dreary grey walls and fluorescently lit room.
“Ah, Sam, Mary, you both wake. Good,” Dr. Sato said with a soft voice.
Why is she nervous?
Her pronounced Japanese accent, stronger than usual, gave away her unease. “How you feeling?”
I stretched my arms and moved my neck around to work out the kinks. The inside of my mouth reeked. “Fine, just a bit of a headache.” Probably brought on by my roommate. Well, and the black eye.
“And you, Mary?” she asked.
“I feel wonderful.” Mary crossed her long legs seductively and purred. Her slinky silver gown showed off more than it covered. Who the hell was she trying to impress in here?
Dr. Sato took my blood pressure, checked my temperature, and examined my eyes and cheek. “You bruised. Bone hurts, but you be better soon. Just no jumping.”
Again with the nervousness.
I slipped into her mind but met only gibberish, having never had a chance to learn her particular dialect. It unnerved me—nothing clear, as if I’d lost my hearing or eyesight.
“You go now. Headmaster Higgins expects you. You get dizzy or have troubles with eye, come back. And you take it easy until eye sees better. And no jumping too. Okay?”
I nodded and bit back a comment about how hard it would be to refrain from jumping everywhere.
My backpack sat on the chair by the fake flowers. I hopped off the bed—oops, does that count as a jump?—grabbed it, and walked through the long corridors to the exit. Confronting Higgins always made my stomach hurt, but getting away from
Mary made it worth it.
Few people walked the corridors of the clinic. Where were all the normal personnel?
I stopped at the front desk to sign out. Something’s out of place.
A movement caught the corner of my eye.
A boy, about my age, tall and muscular, lay unconscious on a stretcher. I only saw a glimpse through the electric doors to the surgical area. His messy blonde hair had flecks of red in it. Dried blood. A gash ran over his forehead. As the doors closed, his eyes flashed open and held mine for one long moment.
‘Help me.’
The mental message sent me staggering back in its ferocity. An urgent compulsion to respond overwhelmed me, a need to do as he’d asked.
Then the boy lost consciousness. My mind cleared, and whatever had grabbed hold of me disappeared.
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Check out Forbidden Fire (Book 2 in the Forbidden Trilogy) and get it on Amazon here. http://amzn.to/ISOH5P
"She escaped, but she'll never be free."
"Time held no meaning as my mind darted in and out of memories. Past and present collided to create a full-sensory collage out of my life: playing hide-n-seek with my best friends Luke--who always cheated by walking through walls when he was about to be caught--and Lucy; Mr. Caldrin critiquing my sketches and offering ideas to make them more realistic; targets changing faces, blending into the same person, their thoughts rippling through my mind like waves. Through it all, a demon stalked me from the shadows of my memories, never quite showing its face, but crouching, waiting.
And then I dreamed...."
Sam and Drake may have escaped, but they aren't free--not with a powerful Seeker after them. As Sam struggles with the ethics of her new powers and embraces a blossoming physical relationship with Drake, Lucy and Luke face challenges of their own.
With forces coalescing inside and outside the Rent-A-Kid dorms, it's only a matter of time before the fire they started forces each of them to make choices they can't undo. But will it be enough to save them?
You can find Kimberly via these links!
YA and Children's Fantasy Author: Marketing Director for Evolved Publishing:
Sr. Project Manager for Novel Publicity.
Check out Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire from my best-selling, award-winning YA paranormal series, Lexie World and Bella World from my illustrated children's fantasy chapter books and more!
Also, follow along with my FREE serial novel, The Kiss of Life. "The path to life is paved in death."
Check out Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire from my best-selling, award-winning YA paranormal series, Lexie World and Bella World from my illustrated children's fantasy chapter books and more!
Also, follow along with my FREE serial novel, The Kiss of Life. "The path to life is paved in death."
Onto the giveaway! Kimberly has donated an e-copy of the first novel in her series, Forbidden Mind, for one of my lucky Listers! To enter complete the rafflecopter below!
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