Blog followers know M. Lauryl Lewis is the badass babe behind the sexy scary Grace series. As she works on book four Fallen from Grace (check out an excerpt here), Lauryl is also writing a novel titled Schiessl House. The creepy tale is still months away from enchanting readers, but we have an excerpt to share. Plus, check out that awesomely eerie cover.CHAPTER ONE: DEATH COMES
The truth is, I was born dead. It was a consequence, I was told, of my mother not loving me. It wasn't the doctors or the nurses who brought me back to life. It wasn't my mother wrapping her arms around my lifeless newborn body nor was it her aching heart reaching out in desperate need of knowing me. She never held me. She never named me. As the story goes, she refused to even look at me. It wasn't the miracle of modern technology that brought me back from the land of shadows and silence. It was my father's tears that brought me to life, nearly two hours after my birth.
I grew up without either of my parents in my life. Beyond that first day, I didn’t know either of them. The woman who raised me said that she had been there at my birth and the hours that followed. She had witnessed me draw my first breaths as my father held my cold blue body to his chest. My mother had thought I was a child of the Devil, implanted within her womb by aliens from space. My father felt compelled to care for her even in her insanity, so for my own safety he painfully left me behind to be cared for by others. I was told that he sobbed in the end when they took me from him. I had never really thought badly of him for his decision. After all, my life so far had been one filled with happiness and love. At least that’s what I told myself and the rest of the world. *********************************************
Until we can get our hands on Schiessl House, we'll have to make due with the bloody awesome Grace books. Get all three at Amazon including the newest Dark Grace.
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