Title: Disarming
Author: Alexia Purdy
Published: Dec. 2012
Genre: PN/YA/Horror
Rating: 4 Stars
Blurb:
The world has changed. One must adapt to survive or
hold on to the crumbling shards of humanity.
April continues to hold her fragile world together,
but the ties that hold her family together are quickly unraveling. Rumors of a
massive human underground settlement draw her to the shadows of the city once
more in search of other survivors more like her, even with the hybrid vampires
opposing her every move.
The darkness hides secrets along with the continued
threat the Feral Vampires create, but a greater evil hides within the city.
Something tells April that the humans will be less than welcoming of her, and
that's if she can find them before the Vampires do. Joining sides with the
enemy might be the only choice she has left.
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Author Bio:
Alexia Purdy is a Rock Star!!!
Alexia currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada–Sin
City! She loves to spend every free moment writing or playing with her four
rambunctious kids. Writing has always been her dream and she has been writing
ever since she can remember. She loves writing paranormal fantasy and poetry
and devours books daily. Alexia also enjoys watching movies, dancing, singing
loudly in the car and Italian food.
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Purdy
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FEATURE:
Disarming (Reign
of Blood #2) Teaser #1
Testing out my
fingers, I slowly curled them into my palms, making sure it wasn’t obvious
enough for Miss Dictatorship to notice. If I could gain control of my body
before getting thrown into the cell, maybe I’d have a chance against whatever
was lurking in there. The sedative was strong and made me question what sort of
heaping dose they had given me. I hoped I would get a separate cell and
discover they had been joking all along. Come on body, wake up!
“No, not that
one! Put her in the cell with him.” The woman’s voice hissed. She sounded upset
but I was pretty sure it wasn’t completely my fault. “I brought you a little
snack.”
This was not
going to be pleasant.
Disarming (Reign
of Blood #2) Teaser #2
In the distance,
the snarls and moans of the feral vampires filled the air as they descended
from their daylight tombs. It sent a different kind of shiver down my spine as
I concentrated on breathing deeply, attempting to slow my frantic heartbeat
down. It was unnerving, sleeping in the middle of the city, surrounded by fangs
and death. I hated this and doubted I would get much sleep tonight, if any. I’d
just have to do without.
“Going to be a
long night, try to sleep some.” Rye’s voice was soft, but it did nothing to
soothe my nerves. The chair creaked with his weight as he came to sit near me.
“Okay.”
Disarming (Reign
of Blood #2) Teaser #3
Before long, I
could hear it coming. One scrawny straggler, inching its way toward me like a
tiger focused on prey. I must have looked incredibly savory, for it ignored the
beaming lights blinding its searing red eyes and headed right toward me. For a
half-starved beast, it was incredibly fast, its body looking bony and
malnourished. A growl snarled through its withered lips, exposing rotting teeth
and fangs. I took a quick step back before arching my sword right across its
neck, sending its head tumbling and spraying ink-black blood across the
cracked, muddy floor. Its body was left to twitch its last moments away near my
feet. I dodged the puddle it had created near me and crept farther down the
walls of the silent casino.
One down, how
many more to go?
Disarming (Reign
of Blood #2) Teaser #4
The woman, or
girl—he wasn’t quite sure for he hadn’t asked her what her age was, though it
seemed pretty certain that she was in her late teens, maybe early twenties—made
her way in easily. She slipped quietly into the rear of one of the main
greenhouses. It was lit up in there like twilight all night long with the full
spectrum of light slowly growing as daybreak came. It was sufficient to see a
lot of the floor, though the foliage and abundance of greenery would be
sufficient to hide her for a while. Elijah knew she had figured this out and
was now weaving her way through jagged rows of saplings, fruit and eucalyptus trees.
Her black clothing hid her enough that no one noticed the svelte woman dodging
people, sticking to the shadows and snapping quick, concise pictures of
everything she saw.
She’s studying us.
Elijah shook his
head, amused by this revelation. Of all things, this human was studying other
humans! Ha! But what for? What did she want to do with those pictures? Why
didn’t she just waltz right up to the door and introduce herself? She was
definitely human and might have been welcomed.
Or maybe not. He
frowned. Katrina was volatile and could decide she was a threat to the city
instead. And what if she was a hybrid human? Could she be?
