So my publisher, Evernight Teen, is turning the big 1 today, and is having a great contest to celebrate!!! You can enter to win on the Evernight Teen Blog here.
The grand prize is a $100 gift card from iTunes, which is always a good find.
I'll also be giving a $10 Amazon gift card to a winner on my blog! Just leave the answer to the below question in the comments section of this post.
1) What does Jazz ask Khan to do if she ends up turning Suecai?
You'll find the answer below, so make sure to keep reading!
Just a little info on the fabulous book I published with Evernight Teen. Cursed is about one young girl’s journey to fight the darkness within herself. The main conflict is Jazz’s fight to maintain a sense of humanity in spite of the growing hunger that starts to take over her. This journey also forces her to open her eyes to new possibilities – to the love she’s always had for her closest friend, Khan.
You'll find a blurb from my book that's hot, hot, hot below:
When
he walked out the bathroom, the nerves I’d thought I’d turned to steel started
to quiver. What if he refused me? Khan was just as stubborn as I was. How could
I possibly ask this of him? How could I get him to understand?
I
took a deep breath and looked at him. “Khan, we need to talk.”
“Uh
oh, that’s never what a guy wants to hear from his girl.”
My
stomach fluttered, but I refused to give into the distraction. “I have a
plan…in case we don’t find and kill the Gunshi. But I need your help to pull it
off.”
He
didn’t look taken aback, just more determined than anything. “Jazz, it’s too
soon for you to give up now. We’ve got some really good leads, we can do this!”
I
shook my head. “I’m not giving up, Khan. I never give up…you know that.” I
smiled at him and was rewarded with one in return. “But…being a leader means
having to think outside of myself…you and my dad taught me that. We have to
prepare for all possibilities – even this.”
His
dark eyes flashed and, for a second, I thought I was in for a long and hard
fight. Then understanding washed over his features and he nodded. “As long as
you promise this doesn’t mean you’ve given up.”
“Not
even close – and giving in doesn’t even sound like me.”
He
snorted. “That’s for sure.”
I
rolled my eyes. “Okay, I think we can do this, but if not…I have a forgetting
tonic to erase my memories. That way, in the very least, the vermin can’t use
my knowledge against everyone I love.”
Khan
jerked. “Where in the hell did you…?” Then he groaned. “Claudine.”
I
couldn’t help but smile. “She always has been good at knowing what I need.”
His
face was hard. “Okay, so I’ll make sure to wipe away your memories. I’ll erase
everything that makes you, you – everything I’ve grown to know and care about.
We done?”
I
paused. “Not quite.”
He
flinched. “I figured something more was coming when you said, ‘In the least’.”
I
almost didn’t have the guts to continue. “Think about it, Khan. You can’t just
leave me there, a newbie Suecai with the urge to feed. What if I came across my
mom one day? Or your dad?
“You
might not be able to do it immediately – there’s no telling how strong I’ll be
at first or how protected – but eventually you’ll have to take me out! I
shuddered at the thought. “What else can we do?”
The
rage flew through his features even more quickly than when I’d told him I
couldn’t be his Valentine in the sixth grade.
“Anything,
Jazz,” Khan whispered. “We fight. We search. We keep pounding the pavement
until we find that bastard. We do anything and everything.”
Words
escaped me. A boulder set squarely on my chest and wouldn’t budge. I should’ve
known this wouldn’t be easy – hadn’t I spent my entire life traipsing around
Chicago with Khan? I shouldn’t have expected anything else.
Khan
seemed to take my silence as an opportunity to change my mind. “You could learn
control, Jazz, become a full-fledged Dorgai.” There it was, that secret hope I
held deep in my heart that I was too scary to speak out loud.
“Khan,
that’s impossible. There’s no way I can learn control if I’m forced into
feeding too fast. The only way we halfers manage it is by taking an entire year
to ease into the process. All of Dad’s advisors are agreed that I’ll become an
uncontrollable Suecai.”
“I
can’t believe that, Jazz. It can’t happen. Not to you.”
I
couldn’t focus. My need to be rational kept battling the little girl within me
reaching for a solution, any solution.
I
didn’t notice Khan moving until it was too late.
Before
I could say something to break the bubble, Khan stood over me, his face inches
from mine. His eyes were warm and I could feel the heat of his breath, minty
from his recent trip to the bathroom. My heart stopped. And then he was kissing
me, slow and deep at first, and then with a heat and passion I’d only guessed
he possessed.
Happy reading and writing!!!
