Everdeep
Night
Watchmen, #4
by Candace Knoebel
Publication date: April 14th 2016
Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult
There are some
sacrifices we never recover from…
BLURB
Faye Middleton is at a crossroads
in her life. After breaking the last seal and discovering their Rebellion camp
was destroyed, she returns to Ethryeal City, determined to avenge the deaths of
her mother and friends.
Faye and her team do what they
can to keep their Coven intact now that the Priesthood has fallen, but with
Darkyn attacks threatening the exposure of their kind, the Primeval Coven is
close to being cut off by the United Nations.
Until Meredith, a mysterious
Darkyn, appears, claiming she has information that will help Faye bring down
the two responsible for the deaths of her mother and friends, and for the fall
of her Coven. The only catch is that it requires returning to the very place
she lost her mother—the Underground.
Not wanting to risk any more
lives, Faye and Weldon agree to go with Meredith on their own. They know Faye
will have to face the one machine every Coven is after—the Exanimator. No one
who has ever stepped in has ever come out the same, if at all…
But Faye will do anything she can
to protect those she loves, even if it costs her life.
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Jaxen’s
on the edge of the bed with nothing but a pair of gunmetal gray sweatpants on,
an empty glass in his hand, and a half-empty bottle resting by his feet.
He looks
so tortured. Looks at me as if he wishes he were seeing someone else. Someone
less distant and broken. It feels like ice is eating away at my bones. Like
fire is scorching every one of my nerves.
“How did
your meeting go?” His strangled words slur a little.
“Okay, I
guess.”
I make my
way over to him, but everything feels so unfamiliar and shaky—like walking into
another plane of time. Like stepping on a spider web and finding myself caught
as the truth makes its way across, ready to spin me and drain my blood.
He makes
a haphazard gesture for me to sit next to him. “That good?”
“It was
fine,” I lie, taking the empty glass from his hand. I grab the bottle by his
feet, pour myself a shot, and toss it back, reveling in the fiery burn running
down my throat that washes away the awful taste the Belladonna I took a few
minutes ago left behind.
“So, this
is what we’ve become then?”
I hate
the desolation in his voice. There’s a desert between us without a hope for
either one of us crossing it.
“What’s
that?” I ask a little tersely, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand and
downing another shot. I’m trying to pretend I don’t know where this is headed.
That I don’t see and hear the heartache ripping our guts out right now, because
I need to pretend. I need to fake that everything is okay. Need him to believe
I’m fine because the moment I don’t… the moment he looks at me, knowing I’ll
die and seeing that death reflected in his gaze, then it will all be over.
Everything.
He tries
to clear his throat, but the sound is painful. Like he’s swallowing tears. “I
don’t know. Strangers? Two lovers who lie to one another? Who hide things from
each other? Who can’t turn to each other whenever something bad is happening?”
I don’t
recognize this Jaxen. This raw ache in his voice that scratches at the door of
my heart, waiting for me to open it. I find myself missing the old him. The one
who had his emotions under control. Who could take this pain and survive in it.
I set the
glass down. Brace my hands on my knees as the alcohol sends my brain spinning.
“I love you, Jaxen. More than I could ever explain to you.”
He laughs like he might be losing his mind. “Yet, here we are, our entire future splitting off from each other.” The cynicism in his voice is as thick as tar, and it’s choking my ability to think. To make sense of what I should and shouldn’t say.
He laughs like he might be losing his mind. “Yet, here we are, our entire future splitting off from each other.” The cynicism in his voice is as thick as tar, and it’s choking my ability to think. To make sense of what I should and shouldn’t say.
I need a
breath of fresh air. Need a new body to hide in. One where I’m safe from his
prodding. Safe from myself.
“Jaxen,
what am I supposed to do?”
“Stop
shutting me out.” His chest heaves, heart throbbing in his neck.
I find a
shadow across the room. Feel my regret slip down my cheek.
“I can’t
even feel your mind anymore. It’s like you’re… you’re purposefully pulling away
from me. Like you’re a ghost haunting me.” His eyes are flashing with anger
now. He’s two steps from falling off the edge. From losing it all. I want to
tell him everything. Want to tell him about my impending death, and that it’s
easier this way because he’s going to lose me, only, not because of his curse.
Because
of my curse.
“There
are things, Jaxen. Things we knew would happen one way or another,” I say, and
I find myself surprised by how calm I sound when my heart rattles at the cage
of my bones to be free from my irrevocable torture.
“Things,”
he retorts, spitting out the word with heavy distaste. “No, Faye. Things are
that dresser or this pillow. Things are not the secrets Mack, Weldon, and
Seamus has asked you to keep from me. Things are not the way you’ve been
handling everything lately. That’s called shutting down. That’s called knowing
about something that’s going to happen… that’s going to affect both of us, and
you deciding not to tell me.”
I can’t
believe the anger radiating off him like heat waves. The fury raging in his
eyes as his hands clench and unclench against his legs, like he’s trying to
contain the outburst that’s been coming my way since we returned here to
Ethryeal City.
Author Info
Candace Knoebel is the
award-winning author of Born in Flames-book one in a young adult fantasy
trilogy. She discovered in 2009 through lunch breaks and late nights after
putting her kids to bed, a world where she could escape the ever-pressing days
of an eight to five Purgatory. And an outlet for all the voices residing in her
head.
Published by 48fourteen in 2012,
Born in Flames went on to win Turning the Pages Book of the Year award in
February of 2013. In January of 2014, the last book in the trilogy, From the
Embers, was released, thusly completing the trilogy. She now works on the Night
Watchmen Series, while guzzling Red Bulls and pretending to be a ninja on
Heelys.
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