Title: Charmed
Series: Death Escorts NOTE: you do NOT have to read Recalled to understand Charmed. You can just read Charmed. Reading Recalled will give you a little more background info though.
Author: Cambria Hebert
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance.
***Note: Due to Sexual content and some
language this book is recommended for readers 17+***
Synopsis:
Life or Death? Not many people would choose
death. But what if death chooses you? What if death doesn’t mean the end
of your life, but the beginning?
For a Death Escort, death is life. Death is your paycheck. Death is your job.
And Charming is the best Escort the Grim Reaper has ever had.
But when you piss off the Reaper, being the best doesn’t matter. So Charming is assigned a Target who is practically impossible to kill. He knows the Reaper hopes he fails—that he’s counting on it. So Charming vows to prove him wrong. He vows to make the kill.
But someone else vows to get in his way. Someone with a big mouth, a sugar habit, and blond hair. Someone who makes his heart start beating again.
And so Charming is left holding more than one person’s fate in the palm of his hand. He thought the choice would be easy, that there really wasn’t a question at all.
He was wrong.
Life or Death?
For a Death Escort, death is life. Death is your paycheck. Death is your job.
And Charming is the best Escort the Grim Reaper has ever had.
But when you piss off the Reaper, being the best doesn’t matter. So Charming is assigned a Target who is practically impossible to kill. He knows the Reaper hopes he fails—that he’s counting on it. So Charming vows to prove him wrong. He vows to make the kill.
But someone else vows to get in his way. Someone with a big mouth, a sugar habit, and blond hair. Someone who makes his heart start beating again.
And so Charming is left holding more than one person’s fate in the palm of his hand. He thought the choice would be easy, that there really wasn’t a question at all.
He was wrong.
Life or Death?
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Cambria
Hebert is the author of the young adult paranormal Heven and
Hell series, the new adult Death Escorts series, and the new adult Take
it Off series. She loves a caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of
chickens (yes, chickens). She went to college for a bachelor’s degree,
couldn’t pick a major, and ended up with a degree in cosmetology. So
rest assured her characters will always have good hair. She currently
lives in North Carolina with her husband and children (both human and
furry) where she is plotting her next book. You can find out more about
Cambria and her work by visiting http://www. cambriahebert.com
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Frankie
Sugar. I needed more of it if I was going to make
it through this day. The chocolate croissant and caramel latte I had
this morning wasn’t near enough to combat the massive lines, the noise,
and disgruntled people that filled the DMV. Whatever in hell made me
think that working at the Department of Motor Vehicles, here in Alaska,
was a good idea?
Maybe it was the good pay. Maybe it was because I
got weekends off.
Or maybe it was because I had a moment of temporary
insanity that unfortunately coincided with me saying, “I accept,”
when I got offered this job.
Besides the fact that the lines were permanently
out the door, the computer systems were temperamental at best, and my
boss was a complete broom rider, my stash of chocolate and Sour Patch
Kids was empty.
That meant someone was going to die today.
I glanced back up at the ninety-year-old woman whose
head barely cleared the insanely high counters we stood behind and tried
to hold on to my patience. “Mrs. Eldridge,” I said extremely
loudly. “Like I told you last week, you have to go and get new glasses
before I can renew your driver’s license.”
“I have new glasses,” she insisted.
Lord, save me now.
“You got those ten years ago. You need some from
this year.” Or decade I finished silently.
She shuffled out of the line like a turtle and I
took her slowness as a chance to really search beneath my station and
chair for a long-lost piece of sugar. Anything. Even a stray jellybean
would likely find its way into my blood stream at this point. Of course
there was nothing. I briefly considered hiding beneath my desk until
five o’clock. My car. I had an emergency
stash in my car. I glanced at my watch. I had another hour until I was
able to take a fifteen-minute break.
A pair of black pumps appeared before me and I inwardly
groaned. Just what I needed—a run-in with the witch. But instead of
being greeted by her condescending, screechy tone, an icy-cold red can
appeared before me.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord, it was caffeine and sugar!
I snatched the Coke out of her hand and popped the
top, taking a large, satisfying chug. The bubbles crowded down my throat,
slightly burning, and I took another swallow.
“I love you,” I murmured to Lela, the girl who
worked right beside me.
She laughed. “I know that look when I see it.”
Then she straightened and whispered. “Witch alert.”
I shot up, my head bumping into the counter on the
way. I wanted to shout out in pain, but I clamped my mouth shut, not
wanting to draw the attention of my boss, Satan’s assistant.
I turned back to my line, my eyes colliding with
a broad chest. I looked up, and the can slid out of my hand, hitting
the floor with a thud while fizzy liquid poured over my favorite boots.
I didn’t even notice.
“What the hell are you doing here?” I growled
as I looked around for something sharp I could stab him with.
A thick brow arched. “So is this where you spend
your days? As if the DMV isn’t a horrible enough place to visit without
the poor people of Alaska having to tolerate you.”
There wasn’t enough sugar on this planet that would
save him. I reached out and picked up the black phone. If I couldn’t
bludgeon him to death here at my place of employment, then I could at
least call the cops. I began dialing, but he reached over and cut the
connection.
I slammed the phone down on his hand, which was still
pressed on the hang-up button. Breath hissed between his teeth and his
green eyes shot to mine. “Careful, George, you’re pissing off the
wrong man.”
“My name isn’t George.”
He shrugged, pulling his hand away from the phone.
“When you have a man’s name, does it really matter?”
Grand Prize Giveaway
The giveaway includes (US only):
A signed PB copy of Charmed
A Death Escorts Swag pack featuring a wrist band
A Charmed dog tag necklace
A signed PB copy of Charmed
A Death Escorts Swag pack featuring a wrist band
A Charmed dog tag necklace
I have Recalled, and I hope to pick up this one too. thanks for sharing the excerpt.
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