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Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when her town is attacked by raiders, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory where she is destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life her late mother warned her about.
Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society. He knows that in order to survive, he must abandon his morals and his conscience and become like those he is surrounded by. But when he meets Thais, morals and conscience win out over conformity, and he risks his rank and his life to help her. They escape the city and set out together on a long and perilous journey to find safety in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Struggling to survive in a world without electricity, food, shelter, and clean water, Atticus and Thais shed their fear of growing too close, and they fall hopelessly in love. But can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?
Now on to the excerpt!
EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN –
JESSICA REDMERSKI – COPYRIGHT 2017
EXCERPT #1: “I’LL WAIT FOR
YOU.”
“One
more night,” I said, not looking at her. “Give me one more night and I’ll get
you out of this city.” All I could see in front of me was the scenario: I’d
wait until very late, after most of the city was sleeping, and then I’d dress
her in my military clothes, make her pin up her hair underneath a cap, strap a
rifle to her shoulder, a backpack full of goods on her back, and set her atop
the mare waiting at the stables.
“But
there’s nothing for me anymore,” Thais said, wiping away the lingering tears on
her cheeks. “There’s nowhere for me to go, and no one waiting for me there if
by some miracle I make it alive. My mother and father are dead. My sister”—she looked up at me, and
although I didn’t meet her gaze, I could feel her eyes on me—“my
whole family is dead, and this world is dead and my soul is dead and everything
that was once good and beautiful and right, is dead.”
I
looked at her then, her words stirring me.
“That’s
not true,” I said, and got up from the chair and crouched in front of her. “You
may be the only good thing left in this world, and I’ll be goddamned if I let
your light fade.”
Tears
tumbled down Thais’ cheeks.
I
took the gun that had fallen from her hand, tucked it into the back of my
pants.
“Promise
me you won’t try anything,” I said as I went toward the door. “Promise me on
your sister’s soul, that you’ll stay in this room and wait for me.”
“Where
are you going?”
“To
get your supplies.” I placed my hand on the doorknob. “Don’t open this door for
anyone.” I opened it to blackness; the candles that had been lit in the hallway
had burned down.
“Wait,”
Thais called out, and I stopped.
She
stood up on wobbly legs.
“You
said to get my supplies—are you sending me away alone?”
I
thought on it for a moment. I’d never had any intention of going with her. I
couldn’t. Not if I was going to keep others from following her.
“No,”
I finally said. “You’re not going alone. I’ll go with you, at least until I can
get you somewhere safe.”
“Is
there anywhere safe, Atticus?” Her
voice was soft, hopeless, and hearing her say my name like that did something
to my heart. “Do you know where you’re taking me?”
I
sighed. And I looked at the wall.
“Yes,”
I lied, and then stepped out into the hallway.
Just
before I closed the door I added, “Promise me.”
Thais
nodded.
“I
promise,” she said. “I’ll wait for you.”
About Jessica:
J.A. (Jessica)
Redmerski is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling
author, international bestseller, and award winner, who juggles several
different genres. She began self-publishing in 2012, and later with the success
of THE EDGE OF NEVER, signed on with Grand Central Publishing/Forever Romance.
Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Jessica is a
hybrid author who, in addition to working with a traditional publisher, also
continues to self-publish. Her popular crime and suspense series, In the
Company of Killers, has been optioned for television and film by actor and
model William Levy.
Giveaway Details:
5 winners will receive signed paperbacks of EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN
with bookmarks and post cards (United States and Canada only).
Tour Schedule:
Week One:
6/1/2018- Here's
to Happy Endings- Review
Week Two:
6/4/2018- Savings
in Seconds- Review
6/5/2018- Peaceful Oblivion- Review
6/6/2018- Bookhounds- Interview
6/7/2018- Two
Chicks on Books- Excerpt
6/8/2018- Vylithylia Reads- Review
Week Three:
6/11/2018- A Dream Within A Dream- Review
6/12/2018- paseandoamisscultura- Review
6/13/2018- Simply
Daniel Radcliffe- Review
6/14/2018- Rainy
Day Reviews- Guest Post
6/15/2018- Perspective
of a Writer- Review
Week Four:
6/18/2018- Fall
Into Books- Excerpt
6/19/2018- Infinite Lives, Infinite Stories - Review
6/20/2018- Hauntedbybooks- Review
6/21/2018- Literary
Chaos- Spotlight
6/22/2018- BITTERSWEET ENCHANTMENT- Excerpt
Week Five:
6/25/2018- Dani
Reviews Things- Review
6/26/2018- Sincerely Karen Jo- Review
6/27/2018- Book-Keeping- Review
6/28/2018- Ziggy's
Reading Corner- Excerpt
6/29/2018- The Desert Bibliophile- Review
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