Blog Tour and Giveaway: Death and the Girl He Loves (Darklight #3) by Darynda Jones

Blurb

The fate of the world is not something a girl wants on her shoulders, and that is especially true for Lorelei McAlister. Unfortunately for her, that is exactly where the world’s fate has decided to take up residence. Lorelei has seen firsthand the horrors that lie beneath our everyday world. And those horrors are getting her friends killed. Because of this, she agrees to leave the sanctity of her hometown and is sent to a different world entirely. A boarding school. But even here she is being watched. Someone knows what she is. What she carries inside her soul. And on top of that she’s seeing visions. This is nothing new for Lorelei. But these visions are something more: death, destruction, and the end of the world. Lorelei must face the fact that there are people who want her dead, and no matter where she goes, no matter how far she runs, the lives of her friends and family are in mortal peril. Lucky for her, her friends and family include the handsome Angel of Death, a fiercely protective half-angel, and a ragtag group of loyal supporters who aren’t afraid to get a little dirty in the name of fighting pure evil.

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Excerpt:

     After slamming the snifter down, I went back to the drawing.

I didn’t have much time. He was beginning to suspect.

But the drawing tilted. No, everything tilted until I could

hardly work. I’d drunk too much that evening, and my drawing

was not coming out as planned. I decided to give it a try

anyway.

     I lifted the journal, perched it on its side, and flipped

through the pages, slowly at first, then again only faster. The

images blurred together, blended to form the message, and I

smiled. Right up to the minute my stomach lurched and

     I threw up over the side of my desk.

     I rocketed back to reality, my head thrown back, my legs

kicking out, my muscles straining to break free, but at least

this time I seemed to have a little more control. Or so I

thought until I, too, heaved, and the contents of my stomach

raced up the back of my throat. I barely had time to pitch my

torso over the side of the bed and empty my stomach onto a

throw rug.

     It was not pleasant.

     I fell back onto my bed afterwards, swearing never to

drink whiskey again as long as I lived. In a valiant effort, I

gathered my strength and rolled off the bed. After tossing

the rug onto the fi re escape, I hurried to my bathroom and  

brushed my teeth. I could still taste the whiskey, could still  

feel it coursing through my veins.

     But I hadn’t really drank it. I tried to remind myself of

that when I staggered back to my bed, woozy and weak, and

took the journal again. Then I copied the man in the vision.

I turned it onto its side and flipped through the pages. It was

like watching a movie backwards. I did it wrong. Holding

the book high in the air, I turned it over and fanned the

pages again. A picture materialized. It was dark. Blurry.

     What looked like a simple line in one image became part

of a bigger picture when blended together with other lines

from another page. What looked like a simple box formed

a house of some kind. No, a building. Other lines became a

van. Curves became a face at the end, as though someone

were looking into a camera. And then it stopped as abruptly

as it started. That was it? A van? A face? What on earth?

About the Author

 

NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious Golden Heart®, a Rebecca, two Hold Medallions, a RITA ®, and a Daphne du Maurier, and she has received stellar reviews from dozens of publications including starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and the Library Journal. As a born storyteller, Darynda grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man and beast alike, and she is ever so grateful for the opportunity to carry on that tradition. She currently has two series with St. Martin’s Press: The Charley Davidson Series and the Darklight Trilogy. She lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband of almost 30 years and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys. She can be found at www.daryndajones.com.

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