Self-published author Nuayma Jeggels has been kind enough to stop by the blog today to share an excerpt of her recent release "Raven" with us and provide three E-copies of her book to three lucky winners!
From Goodreads: "A girl, a coma, a Plague, and an empty grave.
When Shardaie wakes up, she doesn’t
know who she is, why she can’t understand emotions, why she has been
unconscious for nearly nine of her thirteen years, or why the dead just
won’t stay dead. The only clue to her past is a locket, but the
Plague, which finally stretches its unnatural hand to her village,
forces her to leave and to learn to protect herself. But everything has
a cost: the protection against the undead reveals a secret that
Shardaie and her classmates just don’t want to accept, and at the end,
Shardaie realises that some secrets shouldn’t be revealed. Secrets have
the power to destroy, and the power to change her view on humanity for
ever."
Shardaie was lying on her side on the floor,
nose nearly pressed against the struggling lizard. Her violet eyes slowly
blinked, watching as the creature waved its limbs and tried its best to get up
and crawl away. Watching, but not understanding. She inhaled deeply, then
released the breath as she muttered, “What are you feeling?”
The lizard’s eyes flitted this way and that
way, and when Shardaie realised that the world had to look just too big
for it, she rolled onto her back and stared at the ceiling. What was it
feeling? She spread out her legs and her arms, trying to see the room from
the lizard’s perspective.
Window, too far away. She started to wave her
arms. Floor, too wide. She started to wave her legs. Walls, nearly
never-ending. Her stomach clenched, a sheen of sweat covered her brow. Shardaie
blinked, and as she stopped moving, she thought, that didn’t help. She
still didn’t understand what she was feeling.
Shardaie looked back at the lizard, but only
found an empty space bathed in sunlight. She rolled onto her side, in the
direction of her bedroom doorway, and watched as her guest scuttled away, its
broken tail twitching occasionally. “Go,” she whispered, remembering the words
a girl had once said to a different lizard, “be free.”
Then she pulled herself up, but when she
straightened, she accidentally knocked her arm against the edge of the
windowsill. Shardaie noticed the sudden prickling sensation in her flesh, and
when she raised her arm, brow twitching as her eyes narrowed, she took note of
the scratch and the thin line of blood that stood out vividly against her pale
skin.
Wasn’t she supposed to be doing something? she thought as she tilted her head
to the left and then to the right continuously, she was supposed to react,
wasn’t she? Her arm lowered to her side. She looked up and licked her lips,
thinking about the girl, who loved to speak to lizards, before turning to stare
at the floor.
Shardaie began with her face: she started to
arch her eyebrows and then opened and closed her mouth. Her calves twitched, so
she started to shake her legs, but that turned into a hopping-on-the-spot. She
tried her best to re-enact a scene she had witnessed a while ago, of a little
child noticing a wound, but when she spun around, arms flapping in the air, she
realised that she wasn’t alone.
Celio, her red-haired guardian, stood in the
doorway, his hand on the doorknob. He cocked his head and then frowned at her.
“What are you doing?”
Shardaie immediately stood still and smacked
her lips. She looked at her arm, then raised it and replied, “I’m reacting.”
Celio looked at her arm, then glanced over his
shoulder to address someone before turning back to her. “Give me a moment,
child,” he turned around, but kept his gaze on her face, “keep your arm clean.”
Shardaie nodded at the suddenly empty doorway,
turned around, marched up to her bed and sat down. She wriggled around for a
moment, but sat still and stared ahead. Her eyes blinked. Her fingers twitched
occasionally. A lock of her hair fell down to caress her nose. She looked at
her arm and then raised it before sitting upright and staring at the doorway
once more.
Stomp, stomp, stomp announced Celio’s presence, but Shardaie
didn’t move and didn’t look away from the doorway. Celio walked into the room
and sat down beside her, then took her raised arm and started to wipe a wet
cloth over the scratch. Shardaie watched him work, watched how he bowed his
head and slowly turned his wrist, but when he was done and he turned to her as
though he was expecting something, she remained silent for a while before
saying, “Thank you, sir.”
Celio nodded, looked away and studied his
cloth. “Everything’s all right now.” He smiled at Shardaie, placed a hand on
her shoulder and stood up. “It’s time for dinner. Come.”
Shardaie didn’t follow him, even when he made a
beckoning motion with his hand, and when he had left the room, she looked back
at her arm and thought. The prickling sensation was still there, but it was
fainter. She looked at the doorway that both Celio and the lizard had used,
then crawled across her bed and threw her blanket over her body and her head.
Her stomach clenched. Her bottom lip trembled.
Shardaie closed her eyes, and as she felt her breath flutter across her upper
lip, she started to wave her legs and her arms. Nothing. How was
everything all right? Shardaie continued to wave her limbs. She still
couldn’t understand what she was feeling…
And onto the fun stuff!
- The THREE (3) winners will receive an e-book copy of "Raven" by Nuayma Jeggels.
Hows it work?
- One only entry per person.
- There will be THREE (3) winners.
- Contest is International (as the prize is an e-book copy of the book).
- The prize is being distributed by a third party (the author), I am not responsible if the prize is eaten by your email or something along those lines.
- Giveaway ends Monday December 12th, 2011 at 11:59 p.m.
- Winners will have 48 hours after notification to respond.
- You do not have to be a follower of my blog to enter this giveaway!
- If you Tweet (or spread the word) about the giveaway you will receive an additional point in the draw (FYI: See that little "Tweet" button at the bottom of this post? Click on it and all of the information you should include in the Tweet is already in it!)
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