Title: Reaper’s Novice
Author: Cecilia Robert
Release date: January 10th,
2013
Genre: urban fantasy
Age Group: YA
17- year- old Ana Maria Tei’s life
has always been perfect: loving parents, good grades, and a future so
bright it outshone the sun. But now words like “separation” and
“divorce” are sending her world plummeting to hell. Determined to
keep her family intact, Ana plans a family-bonding trip from Vienna
to Tuscany. Except fate has other plans. Ana’s parents and siblings
are killed in a car accident on their way to pick Ana up from
school.
Enter Grim, aka Ernest. He promises to relinquish the four souls if Ana agrees to trade her soul for theirs and serve a lifetime as his novice. In order for Ana to graduate from her Reaper’s Novice station to a Soul Collector graduate, Grim puts her to test. To her horror, she finds out becoming a Reaper’s Novice didn’t happen by chance. It was preordained, and she is forced to make a choice: save her family’s souls or come to terms with who she really is and complete the task set for her
Enter Grim, aka Ernest. He promises to relinquish the four souls if Ana agrees to trade her soul for theirs and serve a lifetime as his novice. In order for Ana to graduate from her Reaper’s Novice station to a Soul Collector graduate, Grim puts her to test. To her horror, she finds out becoming a Reaper’s Novice didn’t happen by chance. It was preordained, and she is forced to make a choice: save her family’s souls or come to terms with who she really is and complete the task set for her
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About the
author:
Cecilia Robert lives in Vienna with
her two children, has an incurable obsession with books, TV and
medieval architecture. When not working in her full time job,
catching up with her two children, writing or reading, she can be
found, knitting or crocheting, taking photos of old buildings.
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Excerpt #2: Kissing Scene
As
soon as my bedroom door closes, Rolf swings me around and backs me up
against the door, his entire length to mine. He slides his arm around
my waist, pulling me closer. He leans down, pressing his lips on my
forehead. “Your dad doesn’t trust me.”
I
slide my hands up his firm chest and slip them around his neck,
tangling my fingers with the silky-soft hair curling on his collar.
“I don’t think my dad trusts any
boy in my room.”
He
chuckles, his warm breath caressing the shell of my ear. “Good
thing he doesn’t.” His voice is hoarse, tossing away any decent
thoughts from my mind. “I’ve missed you.” My knees barely hold
me up as his lips trail my jaw, in a slow torturous pace. His arms
tighten around me, melding us together. Hiking to my toes, I push my
body forward until all that surrounds me is his light sandalwood
aftershave.
“Missed
you—” His mouth covers mine, cutting me off. Every sound inside
the flat fades. Everything in me veers forward, focusing on him, on
his lips on mine, not caring that my parents could walk in on us, or
my siblings down the hallway could barge in. His hands travel down
the hem of my t-shirt, and under it, wrap around my waist and soon
his fingertips whisper into my skin. And I’m burning. They hike
farther up. Every nerve in my body narrows to his fingers. I’m sure
if he stops, my body will shatter into millions of worthless pieces.
And when they do move up to trace the outer line of my lace bra, my
body trembles with the promise of combusting. A whimper bubbles up my
throat, and I push myself further into him. If only I could get under
his skin, then we could be one. He groans low as he pushes me against
the door seeming as desperate as I am. I tighten my hold on him at
the same time fumble awkwardly with his shirt searching for the path
to his skin. As soon as my fingers touch his skin, his whole body
trembles.
He
lifts his mouth from mine, then buries his face in the crook of my
neck, breathing hard. I clutch him closer, tighter, my breath
mirroring his.
“Kissing
you has got to be the most pleasurable thing in the world, Ana.”
His voice is still rough, his breath deliciously warm on the nape of
my neck. I couldn’t agree more. I mean about kissing him.
Thank you for taking part in Reaper's release day, Abby.:)
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