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The Last Ghost
by Jamie
Blake
Genre: YA Urban Fantasy
Release Date: October 1st 2018
Summary:
Christian
Orland is dead, and everyone in his life is doing their best to understand what
happened.
Especially Woe, the sixteenth Fatality, who knows that she was assigned the
wrong case when she stopped his heart, but also knew she had to do it, or risk
being destroyed herself.
Woe only handles expected death, and not many people expect to die in an
accident. However, not many people have the history of Christian Orland. That
history is now tormenting his brother Noah, the keeper of all of Christian’s
dangerous secrets, his childhood friend Ellery, who he once swore he would love
“until he died,” and his girlfriend Melissa, who can’t understand why she is
the only person not haunted by ghosts.
Woe teams up with the Fatality who she thinks should have had Christian’s case,
and the ghosts of Christian’s past to try to solve the mystery of how he ended
up as her case. As they try to unravel some of Christian’s lies, they begin to
uncover something far more sinister.
Together, the most important people in Christian’s life and death must work to
restore order from the chaos his death caused in the lives of those who loved
him, and in realms he could not imagine, before free will is lost forever.
Excerpt:
The
sixteenth Fatality was surprised to find herself on a bridge, but that was
where her appointment book told her to go, and thus, that was where she went.
Not that she had a choice either way, but she didn’t mind, she liked the order,
the predetermination of things. Car after car drove by, and she watched them,
looking closely, knowing all the while that they couldn’t see her. A little
after eight in the morning, she noticed a car moving erratically on the bridge.
She watched as the car seemed to spin, and then crashed through the wooden
guard rail and into the water below. She looked over the edge of the bridge as
the car; front end first, began to sink into the depths. She peered down the
road, waiting for another car to come, some passerby to notice the broken guard
rail, someone to help the passengers. After a few minutes passed, she began to
wait for someone entirely different.
Knowing
that too much time had gone by for there to be a legitimate chance of rescue,
she floated down to where the car had entered the water, looking around
expectantly for the twelfth Fatality to come and bring a life to an end. He
didn’t come. She started to panic, aware of the pain the people in the car must
feel. She felt the familiar pulse of the appointment book as the realization
began to overtake her.
“This
is wrong. This is not how it is supposed to be,” she murmured, as she dove into
the water, passed through the passenger side door of the car, and gently took
the right hand of the young man, unconscious and bleeding in the front seat.
Her icy touch went up through the fingertips, up the arm, and across his chest
as it stopped the faintly beating heart.
She
pulled herself out of the water, dry, but still shivering, and walked back
towards the bridge to wait. For a Fatality, she hated the process of death. She
had heard that she did not have the glamorous part, that there were various
other beings that could comfort humans. Beings whose presence was welcomed, as
they said their last goodbyes, or made the pain stop. That was not her
assignment. Eventually, sirens blaring, the rescue workers came, and it was
with a dull throb that she realized they were already too late by the time that
she got to the bridge that day.
She
had three other appointments that morning, all in hospitals, which was where
she normally lingered. She knew some of the other Fatalities who spent time in
hospitals, but was not in the mood to socialize with them, to tell them about
her terrible day. She never truly felt like one of them anyway. Instead, she
knew where she had to go, she just didn’t want to visit that place.
About the Author
Jamie Blake writes smart books for young adults
and teens. Born in Massachusetts, she is the third of four sisters, which by
literary tradition makes her the bookish one. Jamie earned degrees in
literature at the University of Rochester and public policy at Cornell University.
She was an elementary school teacher in North Carolina before moving to Upstate
New York, where she lives with her family, including identical twin cats. The
Last Ghost coming October 1, 2018 from 50/50 press is her
first novel.
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