Author: K.A. Tucker
Genre: YA Fantasy/Paranormal
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Description:
Evangeline finally got what she longed for – the cursed pendant off her neck and Caden in her arms - only it has come at a steep price. An unknown poison now courses through her body, slowly morphing her into something no one but the Fates can foresee. She has her suspicions though...and, if she is right, it will spell certain ruin for her and Caden. She won’t last long enough to realize that though, if Viggo and Mortimer uncover the treasonous secrets she keeps from them– that Veronique is now free of her entombment and in the torturous clutches of the Witches and the Sentinel or that she is protecting a Sentinel within their very midst.
Always the naive human caught in the midst of the vampires’ web of deceit, Evangeline is now weaving her own dangerous web in order to keep her friend alive, rescue Veronique, and stop a seemingly inevitable war from starting. But can her honorable nature handle the depths of duplicity for which she must go to be in league with the Vampires?
Dark and gripping, full of angst-riddled scenes, Allegiance will have readers anxiously turning pages to find out if Evangeline can survive this spiraling disaster.
I stood, bile churning the meager contents
of my belly, and moved toward the hall. Wraith was
instantly on guard,
mirroring my steps. “Bathroom,” I grumbled, my irritation
growing with each
second. I anticipated the upcoming argument.
As expected, he barged into the bathroom to
inspect it, shoving me out of the way. “It is empty,” he
announced.
“Wow. If this grim reaper gig doesn’t pan
out for you, you could always take over for Sherlock
Holmes.”
“I do not understand your suggestion.”
“Of course you don’t,” I pushed past him
with a loud snort.
“I will wait outside,” he added, unfazed by
my snippy attitude. That only made me feel guilty. He was
doing his job. He
stepped out and turned his back to me. I shut the door and
flipped on the fan,
wanting added background noise given I had an audience.
Finally,
alone. The
treacherous girl with more deadly secrets than the
Secret Service, deceiving
her way through her days, misleading those she cares
about most. All for the
greater good. I had no right to get angry with any
of them ever again!
Everything they were doing was for the greater good of
something. Whether it
coincided with keeping me alive or not was irrelevant.
I sighed, my hands rubbing my eyes
fiercely. “Caden, where are you …” I whispered, more
acutely aware of the
emptiness in my chest than ever before.
A slight breeze kissed my cheek and then a
hand fastened onto my elbow and yanked me backward into
darkness. My jaw
dropped, a blood-curdling scream rising in my lungs but
someone’s palm muzzled
me, stifling it.
“Shhh …” I heard, the source only an inch
from my ear. It was enough for me to identify Caden,
though. All of my anxiety
expelled with a breath.
“Shhh,” he warned again, his proximity all
the more intense in pitch dark.
I nodded slowly. His hand slipped from my
mouth. “Where are we?” I whispered, pawing through the
murkiness , my
fingertips grazing cold rock behind and in front of me.
The space was narrow
and held a musty chill. “In the secret passageway,” I
answered for myself, suddenly
remembering. I waited for him to acknowledge my guess, to
say something.
Anything.
But Caden wasn’t speaking. Dread tore away
at my insides. This is it. He’s going to
tell me he hates my guts. Or… I ran into the wall as
I took a step back,
feeling my eyes widen in sudden alarm. He was a vampire
and he was angry and
jealous. I had already experienced an angry, jealous
vampire earlier. She tried
to kill me. And now I was in a dark, hidden passage with
another one …
My
hands trembled, my
heart pounded in terror. Was Caden about to kill me?
Born
in small-town Ontario, Kathleen published her first book at the age of
six with the help of her elementary school librarian and a box of
crayons.
She is a voracious reader and the farthest thing from a
genre-snob, loving everything from High Fantasy to Chick Lit.
Kathleen
currently resides in a quaint small town outside of Toronto with her
husband, two beautiful girls, and an exhausting brood of four-legged
creatures.
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