I am a huge fan of Sarah Alderson and I
can’t wait to read Conspiracy Girl which is scheduled for release on the 12th
February! I am pleased to be able to share an excerpt with you today.
Conspiracy Girl by Sarah
Alderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Publication Date: 12th February
2015.
Synopsis:
Everybody knows about the Cooper
Killings.
There was only one survivor – fifteen year-old Nic Preston.
Now eighteen, Nic is trying hard to rebuild her life. But then one night her high-security apartment is broken into. It seems the killers are back to finish the job.
Finn Carter – hacker, rule breaker, player – is the last person Nic ever wants to see again. He’s the reason her mother’s murderers walked free. But as the people hunting her close in, Nic has to accept that her best chance of staying alive is by staying close to Finn.
And the closer they get to the truth, and to each other, the greater the danger becomes.
Excerpt
Next thing I
know I’m on my feet,
throwing myself against something, kicking hard and punching harder, screaming
and yelling and sobbing at the same time, but then my arms are pinned against
my body and my feet lift off the floor. A part of me realises that it’s Finn, that
he has his arms around me and is holding me from behind.
I try to
scream; ‘Get off me!’ But it comes out as a sob.
‘Shhh,
shhhhh,’ he whispers
in my ear, his arms a vice around my torso.
I put up a
struggle, kicking out with my legs and connecting sharply with his shin. He
grunts but doesn’t let me go
and then the fight evaporates out of me as fast as it arrived and I sink to the
floor sobbing.
Finn drops
with me, his arms still wrapped around me, my back pressed to his chest. My
head falls forwards and with one hand Finn sweeps my hair out of my face and
holds me while I cry, rocking me back and forth.
‘What can I
do?’ he asks after
a few minutes when I’ve calmed a little.
I lift my
head, my skull throbbing. My throat is stripped and raw and my body aches all
over.
‘Nic,’ he says and
the way he says my name, the anguish in his voice, makes me stop crying
instantly. I tilt my head backwards against his shoulder. My hair falls in
front of my face and Finn brushes it away again, his palm resting against my
cheek. My focus falls to his lips.
I wrench my
arm free of Finn’s embrace and
twist so I’m sitting on
his lap, then I lace my fingers around his neck and tug him closer.
He doesn’t
kiss me back at first and I almost give up but then I hear him sigh. His arms
snake around my waist and he pulls me tight against his chest, and the kiss
becomes frantic, breathless, all consuming.
I’ve never
known a desperate hunger like the one that overtakes me. It cancels out
everything; the memories, the pain in my shoulder, the thoughts slamming
themselves around my skull. It turns the volume down on my mother’s screams.
All I can feel is Finn.
My hands
slide beneath his T-shirt, running over the hard slabs of muscle, feeling the
ridges of his scar and following it down inside his jeans with absolutely no
hesitation. It’s as if my
body is acting independently of my mind, purely on instinct. Finn groans even
as he kisses me harder, his teeth biting down on my lower lip. I tilt my head
back and he kisses along my jaw.
I rip his
T-shirt off over his head. I bury my lips against his neck and inhale deeply,
the scent of him filling my lungs, making me cling to him even more. Then I
realise Finn has stopped kissing me.
Author Bio:
Sarah is the author
of Hunting Lila (winner of the Kingston Book Award), Losing Lila, Fated, The
Sound, Out of Control and Conspiracy Girl (all Simon & Schuster).
Having spent most of
her life in London, Sarah quit her job in the non profit sector in 2009 and
took off on a round the world trip with her husband and daughter on a mission
to find a new place to call home (a journey that was documented on this blog and which is shortly to be turned into a
book).
After almost a year
spent travelling the world, they settled in Bali where they lived for five
beautiful years before the vagabonding urge became too great and they decided
to embark on Can We Live Here part two. They are currently located somewhere
between India, London, Canada and the US.
As well as writing
young adult novels and screenplays, Sarah also writes adult fiction for Pan
Macmillan (Simon & Schuster in the US) under the name Mila Gray.
Her first adult
novel, Come Back To Me, was published in June 2014. The second, This One
Moment, will be out in August 2015.
Sarah has co-written
the Hunting Lila screenplay, which is currently in the early stages of
production, and continues to blog about her life and travels.
Author links:
Giveaway
Giveaway is International and four
prizes are up for grabs!
1 prize of 1 x signed copy of Out of
Control, 1 x signed CG, 1 x signed The Sound, signed bookmarks
2 prizes of signed copies of CG,
signed bookmarks
1 prize of having a character named
after you in next book
Intense excerpt, this sounds good Sharon. Thanks for sharing it with us :)
ReplyDeleteIt sounds so good! I can't wait to read it.
DeleteThis sounds like a pretty cool read! I like the excerpt a lot, and it makes want to try this one. I like the element of mystery in it.
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