Dark Vengeance - Summer, Fall

Informationen zum Autor Jeff Mariotte is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels, including thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil's Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, and horror epic The Slab. With his wife, the author Marsheila Rockwell, he wrote the science fiction/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS, and numerous shorter works. He also writes comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and graphic novels Zombie Cop and Fade to Black. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, including bookselling, marketing, editing, and publishing. He lives in Arizona, in a home filled with books, art, music, toys, and love. Klappentext A bind-up of the first two novels in Mariotte's spellbinding series of romance, revenge, and witches. This first volume includes "Summer" and "Fall." Dark Vengeance 1 She couldn’t see the ocean from where she stood on a grease-caked cement step just outside the kitchen’s back door. A row of bungalows— identical dark boxes, some with glowing windows—blocked her view. She could hear the water, though—the steady, dull thunder of the surf reminding her that it was close, at the edge of both the Seaside Resort and the continent. And she could smell it, a sharp tang that battled for supremacy over the smells of steak, seafood, and smoke that blew out from the kitchen. Towering above the bungalows, underlit by the resort’s floodlights, incredibly tall palm trees swayed on their skinny trunks in the evening breeze, looking like skyrocket bursts frozen in time at the ends of their own contrails. A sliver of crescent moon dangled above them, high and distant. Kerry Profitt was a daughter of the Great Plains, born and raised near the confluence of two great rivers in Cairo, Illinois. But the Mississippi and Ohio, powerful as they were, had nothing on the Pacific Ocean. The ocean was magical to her, its depths and mysteries were boundless, its call irresistible. She had made a point, since hitting La Jolla, California, for her summer job, of keeping it in sight whenever possible. Bad for the skin, all that sun and salt air, and she, with her complexion like fresh snow (“whitest white girl I’ve ever seen” was what Brandy said) knew better. But she couldn’t deny the ocean’s magnetic pull. Lost in thought, she didn’t see the shadowed figure slip into the alley, didn’t know she wasn’t alone until the voice startled her. “Hey, Kerr, where is it the swallows go back to?” Startled, she managed to keep her cool, and she smiled when she recognized the voice. She knew it belonged to Josh Quinn, one of her housemates, but it took her a moment to refocus her gaze and pick him out in the dark alley. His skin was every bit as pale as hers, but by choice, not genetics, and the black of his hair came from a bottle, unlike hers. He looked as out-of-place in the valet’s uniform—white shirt, maroon vest, black pants—as a lion on a kindergarten playground. “Umm … Capistrano, I think,” Kerry replied after a moment’s consideration. She was used to this kind of thing from Josh, king of the nonsequitur. If his middle name isn’t Random, it should be. “Yeah, that’s right,” he agreed. Since it didn’t seem like he was going to take the discussion any further, she decided to press the point. “Why?” He struck a match in the darkness and shielded it with cupped hands to a cigarette held between his lips. “These tourists, man,” he said around the butt. Then, blowing out a plume of smoke—away from Kerry, because she would have killed him if he hadn’t—he continued with an exasperated tone. “They’re like those swallows.” “The ones in Capistrano?” “Yeah, those.” “In what...

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Mariotte
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9781442429758
• ISBN: 978-1-4424-2975-8
• No. of pages: 512
• Subject: Children's and young people's books