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Choice Reading! I have a small excerpt to share with you today and it’s a
good one! Black City is an awesome
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A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the
aftermath of a bloody war.
In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and
tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war,
sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a
human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall
in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart
to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden
feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but
their feelings are too strong.
When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy
that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make
hard choices that could result in both their deaths.
Now onto the excerpt!
The
atmosphere in the kitchen drops by a few degrees when Ash spots me sitting at
the table. Surprise registers on his face.
He’s
changed out of his school uniform and is now wearing dark trousers, leather
work boots and a fitted black shirt that accentuates every inch of his
powerful, muscular frame.
He
looks at me, into me, like he can see every secret I have, every rush of my
blood. My pulse races with fear and a much more disturbing, unexpected emotion:
desire.
I
turn away, horrified at my body’s reaction to him. It’s sick and irrational.
He’s a Darkling, a predator that would gladly rip my throat out, given the
slightest provocation. Then why are my cheeks burning so red?
I’m
just hot from the fire, that’s all.
“Ash!”
MJ beams.
“Hey,
MJ. I swear you’ve shot up another inch since I last saw you,” Ash replies,
ignoring the frosty look from Day.
“You’ll
be almost as tall as me one day.”
MJ
laughs at this. I doubt anyone will be as tall as Ash. He has to hunch over to
stop his head from hitting the low ceiling as he walks over to Michael, passing
him a crate of canned goods. It all seems so absurd. Ash is a Darkling, not to
mention a Haze dealer. He’s a monster.
If
that’s true, then why is Ash giving Day’s family all that food? my father’s
gentle voice whispers inside my head. Is that the action of a monster?
A
Darkling murdered you! I angrily silence him.
Great,
now I’m having arguments with my own imagination. That’s how much Ash Fisher’s
unsettling me.
About Elizabeth:
Elizabeth Richards is an award-winning journalist, who spent her
early career reviewing videogames before making the bold (or crazy) move into
travel writing, despite suffering from terrible travel sickness.
In her spare time, she ran a successful lifestyle website aimed at
teenage girls, where she got to interview many of her favourite bands, go to
gigs and basically blag loads of free swag all in the name of ‘research’.
Elizabeth lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her husband. Black
City is her debut novel.
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