The 52nd
by Dela
Publication
date: October 27th 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young
Adult
Synopsis
Not
one of the sacrifices chosen over the long history had survived–until now.
On
the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, the immortal Castillo family gathers in
Tulum. Weary and haunted, they receive the names of fifty-two human sacrifices
chosen once every fifty-two years for the Underworld, a tradition thought to
have disappeared with the fall of the Aztec and Mayan empires.
Driving
home one night, college freshman Zara Moss swerves to avoid hitting a ghastly
figure in the road. Lucas Castillo witnesses the car crash, but when it comes
time to supervise her abduction from the wreckage, he intervenes. Something is
different about Zara: Lucas has been having dreams of her arrival for five
hundred years.
As
Lucas and Zara come together to put an end to the bloody sacrifices, they
discover that the ancient tradition isn’t so easily broken. The gods are angry,
and they have until the Winter Solstice to drag Zara to the Underworld.
Excerpt
A
mortal life was simple. Wake, eat, and dream. I had never cared about losing
that cycle when I changed, but I did now. Watching Zara made me miss its
simplicity. She was a pretty sleeper, and the desire for there to be an
us worsened a deep-rooted fear. I could get lost in her, and I would lose
sight of the consequence of what I was doing... and I, or she—or both of
us—could get killed. I would have to break with tradition first, without any
blood; otherwise I feared she would never forgive me for what I’d done to be
free of it. War and killing came easy for me because of my past, not so much
for her. She was too fragile, too clean to be involved in or even equipped with
a way to cope with the ugliness. I had to protect her from that, or I fear the
hurt would be unfixable.
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AUTHOR BIO
Dela
is the debut author of THE 52ND saga, a multicultural paranormal for young
adults. Before tracing the minds of Aztec gods, Dela worked as
a paralegal and could be found snowboarding at Brianhead, Utah. She
currently lives in Las Vegas with her husband, three kids, and two
exceptionally fat Chihuahuas. Her website is www.delaauthor.com.
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