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Kill or
Die
Nina Hardwick has had a rough life since
leaving high school, but inside she is still the girl looking for a silver
lining. The past several years have left their toll on her psyche, and just as
she feels like she’s climbing out of a deep abyss, her life and the lives of
millions of others fall into shambles as a virus overtakes the country and
leaves a plague of undead armies scouring the land.
In a desperate attempt to get away from
the infected, Nina and some neighbors speed out of town, nearly killing a man
on a motorcycle. When they stop to rescue him, Nina realizes that he is the one
man from her past she never got over, the guy who should have been her high school
sweetheart until she messed it up. But this unrequited love, Kevin Savage, says
he doesn’t even remember her. Or does he?
Nina, Kevin, and her neighbors head to
the wilderness and fight to survive not only the plague but also hunger, cold,
their inner demons…and even each other. Will they survive and, more
importantly, will her heart?
**Please
choose ONLY one excerpt**
Excerpt
#1
I lay in Kevin’s arms for longer than I could calculate,
staring out the window and watching as the sky grew darker. Part of me wished we could stay like this
forever, in this place the world seemed to have forgotten about, away from
everything bad and horrible and dark.
That might have been nice, but there was still the
question of my kids…and the rest of my family.
I needed to know they were all right, had to find out where they
were. I didn’t know how the hell I was
going to do that or when, but I needed to.
Up against my body, he felt strong where I felt weak, warm
where I could only sense cold. He had
become to me everything I always knew he was, and the realization that I had
fallen in love with him again struck me hard.
It had been an easy slide, one I hadn’t even known I was on until my
feet were back on the ground.
I decided there, in his arms, that I wasn’t going to fight
it.
But I also wasn’t going to acknowledge it. After our weird past as teens, I didn’t know
what to expect from him in the aftermath.
I only knew this moment, and I was going to cherish it, hold it tightly
in my heart like I might clench a locket in my fist, and then I was going to
let tomorrow bring what it would. I would
leave this room with no expectations, no hope.
It was something I’d grown pretty good at over the years.
As if he could read my mind, he said, “We should probably
head back.”
“Yeah, I was thinking that. I think a storm’s moving in, don’t you?” I turned around in his arms. Part of me didn’t want to. I was sad—profoundly—but felt like I
shouldn’t be drowning in that emotion. I
didn’t want to give away anything in my head.
His voice was soft when he said, “Yeah, I think so, so we
shouldn’t screw around.”
I smiled in spite of myself. “A little late.”
He grinned too, and I imagined that he was feeling inside
the same way I was but also wanted to try to put on a happy face. But he pulled me close and kissed me
tenderly. He didn’t say anything,
though, even after his lips left mine.
I wanted to acknowledge the significance of his earlier
revelation, even though part of me was afraid to go there, so afraid of what
the truth was. But I had to know. “Do you really remember me…or were you just
saying that?”
Excerpt
#2
I froze. My heart
was thumping in my chest and time seemed to have slowed to a crawl, so I
watched as they got closer and my friends steeled themselves for
engagement. As though I was removed from
the action, I saw chopping, swinging, lunging…as if I weren’t there on the
battlefield. Then I saw the violent gray
body lunge at me, teeth gnashing and fingers clawing, but I couldn’t make
myself move. All around me, I saw my
companions felling these creatures but I couldn’t seem to bring myself to do
it.
It would be my demise.
I could hear Kevin beside me, yelling at me while fending
off his own attacker, but then he lunged in front of me, shoving the tire iron
in the neck of the creature that was ready to eat me alive, making it drop to
the ground.
And then, suddenly, it was over.
They were all dead.
My friends’ weapons—and their response—had saved us.
Everything became more vivid then. The blood seemed even redder on the pristine
snow; the skies were a brilliant blue, the evergreens, the richest shade of
olive I’d ever seen.
And then time sped up again, and Kevin gripped my
shoulders, forcing me to look at him. I
could sense Larry beside me ready to say something too, but he was leaving it
up to the man who had my attention. “You
can’t just stand there and do nothing.
They’ll kill you, Nina. It’s you
or them. Kill or die, Nina Davis.” His jaw rippled before he repeated each word
with force. “Kill or die.”
In spite of the fear that had drained my body and despite
the new appreciation I suddenly had for living, it didn’t escape my attention
that he’d called me by my maiden name.
His face was so close to mine, his expression intense, his
eyes like cold steel. He was a thing to
be feared, and yet…I expected him to kiss me…
About the Author
Jade C. Jamison was born and raised in Colorado and has
decided she likes it enough to stay forever. Jade's day job is teaching
Creative Writing, but teaching doesn't stop her from doing a little writing
herself.
Unfortunately, there's no one genre that quite fits her
writing. Her work has been labeled romance, erotica, suspense, and women's
fiction, and the latter is probably the safest and closest description. But
you'll see that her writing doesn't quite fit any of those genres.
You'll have to discover Jade's writing for yourself to
decide if you like it.
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