Here's a bit about the book:
Born of a vampire father to a human mother, Elizabeth Bandores' life was never going to be normal, so she can't imagine why she thinks starting college will be any different.
Having grown up in the affluent Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and desperate to escape, she decides on the small college town of Sage Springs. With dreams of being a writer, she joins the college newspaper and is introduced to blond, confident Flynn Matthews, Sage Springs' rising swim star.
But a carnival has set up in the small town, and the boy running the Waltzer catches her eye. Dark-haired, leather-jacketed Riley is rude, with an air of danger. Elizabeth can't help but notice him. And when an accident thrusts them together, she discovers he's noticed her, too.
Sage Springs isn't the quiet little town Elizabeth had hoped for. The forests bordering the town harbour a dark secret--one some of the residents have been trying to protect, and the leaders of the carnival have set in their sights...
Excerpt:
I yanked myself out of his grip, tears blurring my vision. It was
happening again, the thing I’d tried so hard to deny to myself.
The person people saw on the outside wasn’t the same as the person who
lurked within the slightly scruffy, try-too-hard exterior. I had darkness
inside me. Writhing, coiling, scary darkness. I had been fighting it my whole
life, but recently the darkness felt so much closer to the surface. My jaw
ached, my throat running so dry I could barely swallow.
No, no, no, no. I closed my eyes, trying to focus in on my reaction, trying to will it
away. I wanted to tell the boy standing in front of me to run, to get away, but
the words wouldn’t come out of my mouth.
Movement and a yell, not one caused by me, made my eyes ping open, the
driving darkness at my soul retreating at the distraction.
“Leave her alone!”
Flynn stood between me and the new guy, his broad shoulders completely
blocking my view of the dark hair and brooding eyes.
“You don’t frighten me, jock-boy,” the carny said. “And I was only
talking to the girl.”
“I don’t want you even looking at her, never mind talking to her. Your
kind is dangerous.”
“Ay, don’t I know it? Maybe you should think about that next time you
take one of my kind on.”
I moved around the side in time to see the dark haired boy start to push
up the sleeves of his leather jacket.
“Hey! Quit it, both of you! I don’t even know what you’re fighting
about.”
Flynn looked to me. “He was bothering you, Beth.”
“So what if he was?” I said, suddenly angered for a different reason.
“Since when has it been your business to protect me? We barely know each
other!”
“Exactly. This is none of your business,” the carny guy said, picking up
on my words.
I turned to him. “And I told you to leave me the hell alone. You don’t
want to get on my bad side, or being confronted by a six foot something jock
will be the least of your worries.”
“Ouch. You’re a spiky one.”
I could see him repressing a smirk, which only served to make me
angrier. The aching in my jaw increased, my throat tightening. Both men were
watching me, Flynn with a confused, hurt expression on his face, the carny guy
with an amused smirk. I didn’t even know his name, I realized.
I don’t want to know his
name, I tried to convince
myself. But I did. Even with an annoying smirk that I wanted to slap off his
striking face, I longed to know his name with every fiber of my soul.
But right now, the darkness was creeping over me. I was seeing red,
literally. The veins on both of the men’s throats, the spreading network across
their inner wrists, all shone like a beacon to me. Threads of glowing red
rivers of blood.
“Just leave me alone!” I finished, needing to get away from them both.
I turned and started to run, leaving the sounds and smells of the
carnival behind me.
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