In Death I could finally see the importance of Life…
After
being forced to become a Reaper Council member and being torn away from
the one she loves, Rowan Harper must learn to accept her altered Fate
as well as her death and move on. A task easier said than done,
especially when witnessing those you love suffer in the wake of your
death.
When an unlikely alli provides information that could
change everything, Rowan sets out on a journey through Purgatory with
her beloved by her side and a nonchalant Tracker to learn the true
meaning of the word sacrifice. Another task which seems easier said than
done, especially with the threat of Purgatory’s ability to corrupt your
soul the longer you’re in its grip looming above their heads.
Jet was what had made all of this seem tolerable. If I had
to be a Reaper, then I could endure it, but only if I was able to visit with
Jet from time to time. Sorrow cracked its way through my soul again. I didn’t
want this. I didn’t want the waiting and the yearning. I didn’t want to be a
part of the horribleness death was, not alone, not without Jet.
I didn’t want this
to be my hereafter.
“Rowan?” a familiar voice called out to me. I left my eyes
closed and smiled, afraid that if I opened them disappointment would crush me
because he wouldn’t be there in front of me, afraid that it was nothing but a
memory of him calling my name swimming to the surface of my broken mind in my
moment of heartbreaking want.
A hand softly brushed against my cheek, and I slowly allowed
my eyes to flutter open. Glistening sapphire eyes held my attention as I
fumbled to make sense of how Jet was in front of me. Happiness and excitement
bubbled through me and escaped in the form of laughter. My arms wrapped around
his neck, and I drew him in closer to me, vowing to never let him go again.
“I’m glad to see you, too.” He chuckled, a sound I’d missed
more than I knew.
“I feel like I’ve been waiting forever,” I said, releasing
the grip I had around his neck in favor of simply holding his hands in mine.
“Death has a way of making things feel eternal,” he said,
his tone etched with heartache.
I didn’t want to talk of death. I didn’t even want to think
about it. All I wanted was to savor this moment because I wasn’t sure how long
we would get. Leaning forward, I pressed my lips to his and felt my desire to
be with him always pulsating through my soul.
This book is the follow up to:
Touch by Jennifer Snyder
(Novella One In The Reaper Novellas)
Seventeen-year-old
Rowan Harper knows her life is forever changed the moment her
schizophrenic mother commits suicide. What Rowan doesn’t realize is how
much her mother’s choice altered her own fate. It’s not until after
meeting Jet, a sapphire-eyed dead boy, Rowan begins to learn of her new
destiny as becoming her mother’s replacement for something she never
knew existed.
Plus a bonus short story-Choice- told from Jet’s perspective!
People
often say everything happens for a reason. Seventeen-year-old Jet
Donavan Mathews is about to find out that statement is not always true.
Jet will learn that sometimes there are moments which were never meant
to occur, moments where you are left with a choice.
(Touch is a
Reaper Novella of approx. 18,115 words and is first in the series.Choice
is a Reaper short story of approx. 2,500 words.)
*Choice is now added in with Touch as a bonus short story!*
People
often say everything happens for a reason. Seventeen-year-old Jet
Donavan Mathews is about to find out that statement is not always true.
Jet will learn that sometimes there are moments which were never meant
to occur, moments where you are left with a choice.