Superstition
by Lucy Fenton
Release
Date: 08/03/15
Summary from Goodreads
What
happens when your childhood nightmares of being bitten by strange creatures in
a dark wood aren’t just dreams?
Sixteen-year-old
Arden St. John’s life takes a strange turn when she finds an unusual animal
injured near her new house on the south east coast of Australia. When she takes
it to the local vet, a terrible truth is inadvertently exposed to her.
She
discovers a secret underworld, where witches are commonplace and trolls
masquerade as queen bees, terrorising the other students with impunity. A world
where vampires traffic in the lives of children, draining their bodies once
they reach maturity. Where adults auction their own children to extend their
lives.
Arden
finds out she’s one of those kids, her life traded by the mother she never
knew. Now she’s caught up in this ancient and corrupt economy operating just
below the surface of modern society. She’s a hot commodity, and it’s only a
matter of time before the vampire who bought her comes to claim his prize.
But
Arden’s not going down without a fight.
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EXCERPT
The
further into the bush she went, the more anxious Arden felt. If something
happened to me, how long would it be before Dad noticed? I could be dead for
days before someone found me, Arden thought, unhappily. The compulsion to turn
around and seek out others grew stronger and her footsteps slowed.
And
then through the trees, she saw something. Curiosity overcoming her disquiet,
at first she thought it was a rocky outcrop and moved towards it, trying to see
what was veiled by the leaves of the trees. The flash of sunlight whitened out
her vision as she stepped out of the shade into the clearing. Blinded, she
waited for her eyes to adjust. Squinting, the blurred shapes gradually resolved
into the ruins of a stone building. The roof was gone and the walls stuck up
like the blunt teeth of a fallen giant. Arden walked around what had once been
a large structure that had been left to crumble back into the earth. It was
built on a headland, the view of the ocean clear on the far side. A lone gum
tree clung to the edge of the cliff, roots visible where the earth had crumbled
away. Dead, its bare branches stood out starkly white against the dark clouds
forming over the ocean. There was a storm coming in, but it was still a way out
to sea. Catching sight of a marking on the stone, she moved towards it to
examine it more closely. It was weathered almost flat, but tracing the rough
gritty surface with her finger, she made out the distinctive shape of a convict
arrow.
Amazed,
she walked in through a doorway, trying to work out what type of building it
had been. There had been a large central room with many tiny rooms opening from
it. They were small, storerooms perhaps? Exploring deeper into the ruins, there
was a room that had been more protected at the rear and the purpose became
apparent. The stubbed remains of bars were still embedded in the stone in one
section and in the corner of the room were cross hatched markings on the walls,
counting off the days. She was standing in a convict gaol.
About the Author
L.
C. Fenton lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and two children. In
addition to her cake- making business, she works as a freelance copywriter and
pens occasional articles for various online magazines.
Not
being one of those people who had a burning desire to be anything in
particular, L. C. worked her way alphabetically backwards through the available
degrees at Sydney University. Surprisingly, given the amount of fun she had at
school, L.C. finally managed to graduate with a completely unemployable degree
in Philosophy. A Law degree soon followed, however, simply to make it possible
for some organization to hire her.
After
ten soul-destroying years wandering aimlessly in the corporate wilderness, L.
C. threw it all in and reassessed. Deciding to bring the "one day I will
write a book" idea to the present, she started and hasn't stopped. As a
huge fan of the romance genre, she writes the kinds of books that she enjoys to
read.
In
her spare time, L. C. Fenton...actually she has no spare time. She sleeps or
reads copious amounts of romance novels instead of sleeping.
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