Hey everyone! I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the blog tour for BREAKING by Danielle Rollins!
I have an excerpt to share with you today! And make sure to enter the giveaway below!
I have an excerpt to share with you today! And make sure to enter the giveaway below!
Haven't heard of UMBERLAND? Check it out!
Companion novel to Burning.
Prep school gets a twist of supernatural suspense in this commercial YA thriller.
Charlotte has always been content in the shadow of her two best friends at the prestigious Underhill Preparatory Institute. Ariel is daring and mysterious. Devon is beautiful and brilliant. Although Charlotte never lived up to the standards of the school—or her demanding mother—her two best friends became the family she never had. When Ariel and Devon suddenly commit suicide within a month of each other, Charlotte refuses to accept it as a coincidence. But as the clues point to a dangerous secret about Underhill Prep, Charlotte is suddenly in over her head. There’s a reason the students of Underhill are so exceptional, and the people responsible are willing to kill to protect the truth…
Suspenseful and scintillating, with hints of the supernatural, this fast-paced thriller will keep readers hooked.
Now on to the excerpt!
Chapter Six
Ariel
and I met Jack on the same day. In the same class period. At the same moment.
He walked into our homeroom, and we looked up and—boom—Jack was in our
lives.
He was a transfer student from the
city. Started at Weston our junior year. I had the new-student thing down to a
science by then, and I knew the drill. No sudden movements or loud noises. No
unnecessary eye contact. You don’t want to spook the animals.
Jack . . . did not follow those
guidelines. His first week at Weston, he signed up to do a comedy set at the
under-eighteen club in town. Every single student at our school showed up to
see him. We figured he was a theater kid, that he must be some sort of comic
genius to take such a big risk.
He was not a comic genius. In fact, he
stank. It was like watching an oddly charming train wreck. He grinned like an
idiot when we all finally booed him off the stage. He bowed and doffed an
invisible hat. Everyone at Weston fell in love with him at the same second.
If Jack were a dog, he’d be a golden
retriever. If he were an inanimate object, he’d be something bouncy and
determined, like a tennis ball. He tries too hard and does too much and doesn’t
care about what anyone thinks, except that of course he cares about what
everyone thinks.
“Dibs,” Ariel whispered to me that
night, while we were watching him bomb onstage. It took me too long to realize
what she’d meant. Jack wasn’t her type. She liked dark, brooding boys with
leather jackets and bad attitudes. She liked tattoos and no futures and older,
bordering on inappropriate. She didn’t date goofy high school guys. She didn’t
appreciate determination and charm.
But Jack was different. Jack was worth
it.
I felt something shift then that I
couldn’t quite name. The sudden emptiness that comes with losing something you
hadn’t realized you wanted.
***
You’re wondering if I slept with
Ariel’s boyfriend.
If that was why we’d fought. Why she killed herself.
You think the guilt is driving me crazy. You think that’s why I’m so
messed up.
Well. I didn’t.
What I did was so much worse.
About Danielle:
Author of the best-selling
MERCILESS series, SURVIVE THE NIGHT, BURNING, and BREAKING. I'm currently
working on the last installment of the Merciless books, & starting a new
series to be announced later this year.
Giveaway Details:
3 winners will receive a finished copy
of BREAKING, US Only.
