November Rain
Bad Bloods, #1
by Shannon A. Thompson
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: July 18th 2016
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
by Shannon A. Thompson
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: July 18th 2016
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult
BLURB
Seventeen-year-old Serena isn’t
human. She is a bad blood, and in the city of Vendona, bad bloods are executed.
In the last moments before she faces imminent death, a prison guard aids her
escape and sparks a revolt. Back on the streets determined to destroy her kind,
Serena is spared by a fellow bad blood named Daniel. His past tragedies are as
equally mysterious as her connection to them.
Unbeknownst to the two, this
connection is the key to winning the election for bad bloods’ rights to be seen
as human again. But Serena is the only one who can secure Vendona’s vote. Now,
Daniel must unite with her before all hope is lost and bad bloods are
eradicated, even if it means exposing secrets worse than death itself. United
or not, a city will fight, rain will fall, and all will be threatened by
star-crossed love and political corruption.
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“She used to tell me that a
full moon is when mysterious things happen and wishes come true.” I stared at
the little paper in my hands. “Do you think she tells my sister those stories?”
Daniel
didn’t respond. He only listened. I had told him before I had a sister. He had
probably assumed I lied, but I hadn’t. It was the truth, and it tumbled out
like a story my mom created before bedtime. I tried to picture her telling
stories to my sister, but nothing came. I only saw the little girl, with Mom’s
hair and Dad’s eyes, standing in the road, saying my name.
“I’ve
never met her,” I confessed, staring at the writing bleeding through the folded
end. “I think her name is on this, but I can’t read.”
Daniel
reached for it. “I can—”
“No.” I
held the note against my chest. “I want to learn and read it on my own,” I
explained, softer than my previous snap.
Daniel’s
head tilted. “Robert never taught you.”
I wasn’t
sure if it was a question or a statement, but I responded anyway. “He can’t
read.”
Daniel’s
eyes swept over me. He took the time to rub his face before looking away.
“He can’t
read,” I repeated, studying his reaction. “Right?”
Daniel’s
hand lowered to his lap. “I can teach you,” he said, and when he faced me
again, he was remarkably closer than I realized. His hand moved to rest on my
knee. My heart stabilized. “What else do you want?”
It was a
question I had never heard before, and the way Daniel stumbled over the
sentence suggested he had never been able to say it before either. Bad bloods
weren’t allowed to want anything. Not even life. So, when I was asked, my mind
spiraled into obscurity, never actually solidifying an answer even though I
searched for one.
“I’ve
never been allowed to want anything,” I confessed.
“Me
neither,” Daniel agreed, and for a brief second, I was oblivious to the fact
that his lips were on mine.
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Author Info
Shannon A. Thompson is a
twenty-three-year-old author, avid reader, and habitual chatterbox. She was
merely sixteen when she was first published, and a lot has happened since then.
Thompson's work has appeared in numerous poetry collections and anthologies,
and her first installment of The Timely Death Trilogy became Goodreads' Book of
the Month. As a novelist, poet, and blogger, Thompson spends her free time
writing and sharing ideas with her black cat named after her favorite actor,
Humphrey Bogart. Between writing and befriending cats, she graduated from the
University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in English, and she travels
whenever the road calls her.
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