Because You Exist (Light in the Dark Series, #1)
Release Date: 11/11/14
Limitless Publishing
Summary from Goodreads:
Life is good for LOGAN MIDDLETON.
He’s quarterback of the Shepherd High football team, nephew of the town’s most
successful lawyer, and boyfriend of Jenna Maples, a girl who has finally agreed
to take their relationship to the next level. But nothing good lasts forever.
With only a few minutes of last period English left between him and a weekend alone with Jenna, Logan blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself in a future where Shepherd High lies in ruins, nothing is what it seems, and everyone he loves is dead. Logan is a shifter. Chosen to travel through time, it’s up to him to figure out how to stop the terrible events that claimed his once perfect life.
Of course, all of this might be easier if he wasn’t paired with the one girl who’d rather see him dead than help him, JOSEPHINE. A girl he tormented during childhood. Strong-willed with biting wit, who lives in the shadows. Tough and dark, Jo is Shepherd High’s most notorious outcast and Logan’s opposite in every way. Together the two must overcome their many differences to figure out why they’ve been selected for such an overwhelming task, and who selected them in the first place.
Before it’s too late…
With only a few minutes of last period English left between him and a weekend alone with Jenna, Logan blacks out. When he awakens, he finds himself in a future where Shepherd High lies in ruins, nothing is what it seems, and everyone he loves is dead. Logan is a shifter. Chosen to travel through time, it’s up to him to figure out how to stop the terrible events that claimed his once perfect life.
Of course, all of this might be easier if he wasn’t paired with the one girl who’d rather see him dead than help him, JOSEPHINE. A girl he tormented during childhood. Strong-willed with biting wit, who lives in the shadows. Tough and dark, Jo is Shepherd High’s most notorious outcast and Logan’s opposite in every way. Together the two must overcome their many differences to figure out why they’ve been selected for such an overwhelming task, and who selected them in the first place.
Before it’s too late…
“How long did it
take you to find me?” Carrie asked, pulling out one of her
earplugs.
“What are you
listening to?” I countered. I didn’t want to answer her question.
I didn’t want to explain how it took me four hours to find someone
who knew anything about Scary Carrie besides the fact that she loved
hoodies and had zero friends. It involved one of those things where
you call a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend whose mom
also works at the public library. I used the JV football team as my
slew of detectives. They were always eager to please me.
Carrie laughed
quietly to herself, no doubt fully aware of the fact that I was
avoiding her question. She turned her iPod so I could read the
screen.
“Sia. Hmmm. Jenna
likes her.”
“Wow,” she said
shaking her head. “Why do you sound so surprised there, QB1? What
were you expecting to see?”
Um. I don’t know.
Maybe some screamo, emo band singing songs about death or how the
world sucks, or maybe how conforming to nonconformity is rad. I mean
if she was going to wear the hoodie and play out the loner routine,
she might as well really commit to the performance. Soundtrack and
all.
It was then I
noticed how her hood was off her head. Her curly, red hair was pulled
into a ponytail that lay in front of her shoulder. Her face was
flushed. She almost looked like breathing wasn’t the most painful
thing asked of her. She was almost...
Gross.
Don’t go there.
“Listen. Um. Can
we talk?”
She laughed again.
“Sort of late to ask me that, Mr. All-American. Since you
know...we’re already talking.”
“Right.”
Carrie didn’t wait
for me to continue. Instead, she pushed her cart of books further
down the aisle and began to place the books on the self.
“So, I was
thinking we could talk about...you know...that thing...that happened
to us.”
“You want to talk
about that thing that happened to us!” Carried exclaimed in a
louder than needed voice, waggling her eyebrows.
I felt the blood
rush to my cheeks. “Very funny,” I muttered.
“Oh, calm down,
Die
Hard.
It’s not like any of your friends spend their Saturday afternoons
at the public library.”
“Loving the
nicknames,” I replied dryly.
She didn’t
respond.
“So. Um. How long
have you been working here at the library?”
Why was I so
nervous?
I had talked to like
a million girls before. Granted, never about the end of the world
though.
“Don’t,” she
warned.
“Don’t what?”
“Play the I want
to get to know you act.”
“I wasn’t—”
“You were.”
Count to ten.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Why does she have to
be such a bit...
She lifted a book
from the cart, but I grabbed it out of her hand. “Enough.”
About the Author
Tiffany Truitt received her MA in literature from Old Dominion University. Her debut Chosen Ones, first in the Lost Souls trilogy, is a searing look at what it means to be other and how we define humanity, as well as a celebration of the dangerously wonderful feeling of falling in love.
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i really enjoyed the excerpt and i like tyhe cover too !!!
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I liked the excerpt and the book cover itself. Nice work. Look forward to reading the book.
ReplyDeleteI loved the humor, Her nicknames were great. looks like a good read. thanks for sharing.
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