Pippa Jay: Six Sentence Sunday #41

Sunday, 18 December 2011

Six Sentence Sunday #41

Hello peeps! Welcome to another #sixsunday. Thanks to everyone who stops by and comments each week, much appreciated. Last week we were with Gethyon as he arrived home, but later that morning I got a nice surprise in my inbox - the cover for my first full length science fiction romance. Squee! So this week I'm going to share my beautiful cover and the six opening lines from Keir, due out on the 7th May 2012. Enjoy!

In the darkness and the silence, Keir sat with teeth gritted against the pain racking his body. With each ragged breath he sought to shift his focus from the agony of ribs that were surely broken. He tried not to feel the ache in his head where his hair lay matted with blood against his scalp. The cell's damp seeped through his rags and into his skin until he throbbed with the cold. He clenched his fists against the shakes that possessed him and wished he could force them still.

Wordlessly he raged against the injustice of it all, as though the anger could keep his life burning when all it really did was waste his energy, hastening the end.

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