The Unwanted (Black Water Tales #2)
Genre: NA Horror/Psychological Thriller Release Date: March 31, 2016
Summary:
In the remote, eastern European town of Borslav there is St. Sebastian orphanage, a place where people discard their unwanted children. For the American, Blaire Baker, it’s the perfect place to volunteer her services. Paired with a cheerful volunteer nurse, Blaire is enthusiastic about the possibilities, but is quickly discouraged when she encounters the nefarious nature of the staff and the deplorable conditions of the facility and the children.
Upon
arrival, one of the children informs Blaire, “There’s something in the
basement.” It isn’t long before strange things begin happening,
including Blaire’s flashbacks of the accident that killed her parents.
The children soon suffer injuries that Blaire, first, fears may be the
deeds of the callous workers but she soon thinks the abuse may originate
from a source that is less than human, something unwanted.
Praise:
Houston, I've found your female master of horror @JeanNicole19 ! The Unwanted will leave you spooked. --Bookishjessp
OH MY GOD
I LOVED THIS STORY! If I could pick a novel to be turned into a major
motion picture, I would pick Black Water Tales: The Unwanted. This
thriller/horror story is sooo scary! And I loved every minute of it! --A Well Read Woman Book Review
I got chills so many times and couldn't read it before bed! --A Book Lover’s Life Book Blog
The book starts off right away with the creepy and it doesn't let up until the end. – Vik Booklover
I
was completely engaged in the story and had a hard time putting it
down, partly because I was interested in the answers and partly because I
was terrified, and also just because it was just a really well written
read. -- SMADA's Book Smack
That fall was one of the coldest Black Water had ever seen.
Blaire could not have been more
than eleven years old. Sabrina Langford had asked her if she
wanted to go walking up to the
Grammercy Bridge. Grammercy had once taken trains safely
from one side of the river to the
other and on through the picturesque town of Black Water,
but that was long ago. It was a place of little interest to two young girls and, from what Blaire
had known at her innocent age, it was, at most, a place where the older kids went to kiss on Friday
nights. When Sabrina suggested it as a play place that day, Blaire wanted to object, but
hesitated at the thought of turning off her newfound friend.
Long ago the bridge had become lifeless, but it still gave
an endless series of death breaths as the girls walked along it. The water flowed rapidly, and the
sound of the swishing and churning made Blaire shiver. After throwing a couple of rocks into
the river, a series of familiar faces emerged. Lacey Wright, Sharla Hig, Kiana James, and
Elizabeth Morrow claimed territory on the bridge, creating a poignant image that Blaire would
never forget. A pang of fear sliced through Blaire’s stomach: seppuku. Nothing involving Lacey,
Sharla, Kiana and Elizabeth could be good for her because the Frightening Four were
perpetrators of horrendous kiddie crimes. Just the week before they surrounded a girl on the playground,
who they teased relentlessly until she cried and admitted she was a “slut” as they kept calling
her. It was a word that Blaire knew vaguely from hearing it in R-rated movies that she snuck to
catch glimpses of from time to time, although she would have been hard pressed to define the word
if asked. Against her better judgment, Blaire stepped into the circle of doom on the
playground and screamed at all of them to leave the helpless girl alone. Within seconds of hearing
the commotion, Mrs. Bennett, infiltrated the mob of minors with a series of inquiries and
instructions that made Lacey roll her eyes. The kids scattered but not before Blaire received a
malevolent glare from the hellion gang’s little hierarch. The four of them were relentlessly brutal
BFFs, who stopped at nothing when they craved the blood of another in the form of utter humiliation
and in the name of pure adolescent wickedness.
JeanNicole
Rivers is a great lover of reading and writing. Though she loves
reading and writing varied genres, horror/thriller is her favorite. JeanNicole has been writing poetry and short stories since she was a child, but has always aspired to master the art of storytelling through novels. The Unwanted is the second story in her series of Black Water Tales, following The Secret Keepers.
Jean Nicole was awarded 3rd place in the National Black Book Festival’s
2013 Best New Author competition and she enjoys the honor of having
written featured articles for popular reader websites and blogs, such as
Digital Book Today and The Masquerade Crew.
Jean Nicole Rivers graduated from Florida International University with a
bachelor of arts in philosophy, and she lives in Houston, Texas.
