<— Oooooooh eeeerieeee!!! I love the sound of this one and I’m excited that the author is this week’s newsletter sponsor ’cause not only has he sent over the blurb, but a short and creepy excerpt that has me wanting more. She’s in college and wakes up one morning and everything is just a bit… off. Is it a psych-thriller? Is it a time travel thriller? Is it horror? What is going on??!!! YES!!! 😀 I love when a blurb jolts me like that! P.S. It’s super-bargain priced today AND it’s in KU!!
PLUS OMG THIS GIVEAWAY!! FIVE lucky winners in this one, and one of ’em gets not only a signed book, but the $100 Amazon gift card!!! *thud*
What’s it about?
After a vicious fight with her boyfriend followed by a night of heavy partying, college freshman Amanda Greene wakes up in her dorm room to find things are not the same as they were yesterday. She can’t quite put her finger on it.
She’s sharing her room with a peculiar stranger. Amanda discovers she’s registered for classes she would never choose with people that are oddly familiar. An ominous shadow is stalking her. Uncomfortable memories are bubbling dangerously close to her fracturing world, propelling her to an inevitable collision between fantasy and reality.
Is this the mother of all hangovers or is something bigger happening?
Excerpt
She walked slowly to the window and rested her hands on the filthy sill, her face pressed against the glass. It was so familiar, yet it had a strangeness, as if she’d never seen it before. It was different.
Amanda let her eyes roam over the vista before her, trying to put her finger on the change. It seemed like yesterday that the landscape had been filled with lush, verdant leaves. The Indian summer refused to move on, the maples, hickories, and birches filling branches abundantly in varied shades of restful green, so that the school looked crisp, fresh, and inviting. Overnight, autumn painted a new picture, fading thelandscape, ushering in the next season; the leaves withering, curling, setting the branches on fire with vivid oranges, yellows, and reds; the bases covered with the remains of dead leaves, shriveled and brown. It was too early; Amanda was puzzled by the change.
A dark shape raced across the lawn, too fast for her to discern, but the feeling of unease returned. The shadow disappeared quickly behind one of the great gnarled tree trunks that Patrick had told her were theentrances for the goblins that terrorized the campus. She smiled, wishing Patrick were there so she could point it out to him. She squinted hard, trying to figure out what exactly had caught her attention, but the bleak landscape offered nothing. She laughed for the first time, her ribs protesting, missing Patrick so hard that it hurt more than her bones.
Amanda’s brow furrowed, and the hammer clanging behind her eyes filled her skull, but the memory of how she had gotten there eluded her.
NOW FOR THE GIVEAWAY!
The author is giving away a $100 Amazon gift card giveaway, plus five signed books! One lucky winner will get the grand prize of a signed book plus that $100 gift card (eeeeeep!!!! 😀 ) and four lucky commenters will get a signed copy of the book.
How to enter for a chance to win the book box? Just leave a comment below (and better yet, let us know – if you have one – what book gave you chills and kept you guessing?) and by 10pm EST, Sunday January 19th, 2020, I will randomly select five lucky commenters as the winners.
The winners will be contacted and will have 48hrs to respond confirming their mailing addresses, so if you are picked, do not delay or you will lose your chance. The signed books and the gift card will be sent to the winners directly by the author.
Giveaway open to USA
Thanks for the chance!!
I remember when I was younger Something Wicked This Way Comes was one of the first books that really creeped me out!! Thank you for the opportunity! I love a good horror story!
The blurb sounds so intriguing, maybe a fae story? I love having the chance for a signed book, plus the bonus of a chance at the gift card! That would turn into books, books and more books (maybe an audible thrown in)!!
Definitely It by Stephen King!!!! Book scared the heck out of me!!!!!
Thanks so much for the chance!!!! And Maryse, thanks for this website! I’m on it every day!!!!!!
wrong email on the first post!!! Sorry! got to excited!
Defintely It by Stephen King!!!! Book scared the heck out of me!!!! thanks so much for the chance. And Maryse, thanks for this website! I’m on it every day!!!!!
This book sounds intriguing! Verity by Colleen Hoover was a total mindf**k! It gave me the chills and kept me guessing to this day and I read it over a year ago.
Oooh This books sounds interesting…
My favorite book that kept me guessing and at the edge of my seat was the Historian. So good. Even several years later I think about that book.
Loved Salem’s Lot by Stephen King! Thanks for the giveaway!
The blurb and excerpt have me intrigued. Thanks for the chance!
It does sound creepy..hair on the back of my neck creepy. I remember reading The Shining by Stephen King when I was just a teenager and I scared myself half to death! Ahhh, those were the days LOL.
Kim
Love the teaser. I also love reading true crime and Anne Rule always kept me on my toes and the edge of the seat. Gone Girl was a nail-biter, head scratcher too.
Thank you for the chance.
This book sounds intriguing. I wonder what happens. Thanks for the chance to win.
Oh my goodness! This sounds like an amazing read……! Thanks so much for the chance ♥
This book sounds so good!
I haven’t read any horror/mystery in a long time. This remibds me to get back to it. Thank you for the chance.
Thanks for this great opportunity. Most recent read that kept me guessing was The Wife Between Us.
I do not think I have ever had a book give me chills! But I mostly read romance and fantasy. Thank you for the chance!
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What an amazing opportunity! I would love to win the books. Thank you so much!!
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Sounds interesting for sure. I would have to say Verity gave me chills or at least the last one I read.
Thanks for the chance! You by Caroline Kepnes definitely gave me the chills, Joe is crazy scary but I found myself liking him so much and that scared me! 🙂
The series that gave me the most chills is Karen Marie Moning’s Fever series. History major sounds intense. I’ll have to read it during the daylight hours only!
This sounds so good!! I think the last suspense book I read was Meghan March’s Savage Trilogy, so it’s been a little while!
The book sounds really good. I would say Christine by Stephen king was a book that gave me chills when I was younger.
This sounds so intriguing! Wow cannot wait! Verity from Colleen Hoover made me stay up all night to finish and a bit crazy. Fabulous read!!
What a fascinating book! Great excerpt. I’d love to win a copy. The Shining by Stephen King was a book that sent chills down my spine.
I don’t usually read these kinds of books because I don’t like to be creeped out, but I did go through a period where I was reading stuff by Stephen King. Somehow, I think his grocery list would even give me chills!
This sounds soooo good!!!
Hoping to win! 🤗
The first book that ever spooked me was Christine by Steven King. I read it as a teenager. I LOVE any book that can keep me on my toes. (or checking the closet and under the bed!)
Sounds intriguing, great for a snowy night read.
I love mystery and thriller books! I have not read one in a while though.
Thank you, Maryse for allowing us to have all these great opportunities! And obviously, Mr. Cash, thank you to you as well, for your incredible generosity.
I think Stephen King, of course, like so many others would definitely take the cake for me. He is just in a class of his own.
Full Tilt by Emma Scott! I feel in love with the book and the couple. I laughed, I cried. I didn’t want it to end!
Stephen King’s IT has always given me chills! I just listened to the audiobook again a couple of weeks ago..nothing has changed, still creepy!