Horror Month: Gregory Carrico's cover reveal for Shadow of the World (Sands 1)

Okay, so tonight we will open with a book cover reveal for the frighteningly fantastic Gregory Carrico.
 
His new book 'Shadow of the World' (Sand 1) came out September 3rd, and if it's anything like his other stories, then you're in for a real treat. We actually have Gregory Carrico coming up in horror month next week, but for now, add this to your kindle!

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'Shadow Of The World' (Sand 1) Blurb & Book Cover Reveal

In this gritty “Dark Knight meets The Wire” superhero series, an ex-con tries to overcome his blackouts and memory loss with the help of his prison psychiatrist. Along with his returning memories, he finds evidence that his daughter and grandson are in mortal danger from a brutal killer with a grudge. But he also discovers a side to his personality that only comes out during his blackouts: a superhero with telepathic powers. As he finds himself in a complex world of betrayal, dangerous alien biotechnology, and a dimensional rift to a world of waking nightmares, can he bring together the fragments of his broken mind in time to save his family, or is everything he thinks he knows just another figment of a deluded killer’s imagination?

Purchase Link For The Shadow of the World (Sand 1) 

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EZ4TAWQ

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Life Ever After (LEA): Nina's Story Part 1

Next tonight I have a sneak peak of Life Ever After for you.

Life Ever After or LEA as I like to call it, is my zombie contribution to an anthology entitled Fusion, and was released by Breakwater Harbor Books. It's also the prequel to Odium- my full length zombie novel which is releasing October 4th.

So, if you can't wait for Odium, then perhaps this will wet your appetite for now. If you do like the teaser then remember that the anthology is actually FREE on Smashwords, and uber cheap on Amazon!

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Life Ever After Excerpt

We drive in silence with only the pickup’s engine noise, and my racing heart to keep me company. My knuckles are white on the steering wheel as I drive us out of town. The place has been destroyed in only a couple of days. Bodies and blood litter the pavements and roads. Cars sit wedged together in collisions. And deaders roam the ravaged streets that I once called home. I blink once, twice, three times, but the image and my thoughts are still very clear. It’s all gone; all destroyed, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

Whilst Ben and I were tucked up tight in our home, people were being eaten alive. My eyes stray to a zombie huddled over a body on the floor, scooping the insides up to its mouth. It watches me as we drive past it, standing up and letting the long intestines of whomever it was eating trail from its blood-ringed mouth. Its cold dead eyes follow me long after we have passed, and in my mirrors I watch it crouch back down and continue its meal.

My own stomach gurgles in retaliation wanting to purge itself. I can’t look away from the windows and mirrors to look at Ben’s face and calm myself though. They’re everywhere. Blood flows through the streets like rivers of rain, and the dead are rife like vermin. The smell of death and decaying bodies is seeping in through the vents, making my nostrils flare in disgust. I reach for a dial on the dashboard; turning off the outside airflow and blocking the smell from me as much as I can.

Ben taps on the window to get my attention, his sleeve covering his mouth and nose. But I can’t stop. Inside I’m a volcano of emotions waiting to erupt, waiting to savagely tear myself apart and release every feeling that I have pent up inside me. Like a wild cat, my mind screams and shakes to free itself from the terrors it’s witnessing.

We leave our small town behind, the beauty of the countryside attempting to banish the visions that still haunt me, but they are still there. The images will always be there now, burned into my mind like history written into books.

I don’t know how long I’ve been driving. Our hometown has vanished from my view, and the congestions of vehicles which surrounded it have dissipated to just the odd few. I haven’t seen a zombie for a while, but behind my eyes they are everywhere. The world is crawling with their lifeless bodies.

“Pull over,” I hear Ben shout to me.

I shake my head no.

“Pull over. I’ll drive, it’s okay now,” his voice breaks through to me, gentle yet forceful at the same time, and I nod once and slowly pull the car to the side of the road.

Ben climbs down from the bed of the pickup and comes round to my door. My hands still grip the steering wheel tightly, and for the moment neither of us can say anything. I finally look at Ben and in his face is something that I have never seen in anyone’s face before. Not really; not until now.

It’s fear.

You know, you think you’ve seen fear before. You think you know it, but you don’t. You can’t truly know what it is to fear something or someone, to feel fear’s hands clasping you by the spine, ready to drag your body apart. Not until you have witnessed hell like this.

Ben climbs in and I switch seats awkwardly without leaving the safety of the pickup. At some point I drift off to sleep. The constant hum of the engine and the lack of adrenalin pumping through my veins send me off into a heavy slumber. When I wake it’s dark out and rain is hammering the windows. The wipers are squeaking as they swish the rain away from the glass.

LEA Trailer

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Purchase Links For Fusion

http://bit.ly/FusionBHB

http://bit.ly/smashwordsBHB

http://bit.ly/FusionBHBuk

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Claire  ♥