Reap
and Repent
The
Reaper Series
Book
1
Lisa
Medley
Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance
Reapers, Demons, Angels, Sex
Words 84K
326 pages
Book
Description:
They see death. Can they share a life?
Ruth
Scott can read the energy of every person she meets. Then she meets Deacon
Walker. She can see his ice-blue eyes, his black hair, and his gorgeous face.
But this beautiful stranger has no aura.
Deacon
is just as unsettled by Ruth—and, having spent more than two hundred years
ushering souls to Purgatory, Deacon is seldom shocked by anything. As he helps
Ruth to understand her true nature, she awakens desires that he decided long
ago a Reaper can’t afford.
A
demon invasion forces Deacon to confront the darkness in his own past even as
he fights to save the human souls he’s charged to protect. When he’s taken
captive, his first concern is for Ruth. But Ruth just might be able to save
herself—and the Reaper she can’t live without—if she can learn to wield her
newfound powers.
Excerpt
Not their first meeting but the
first with introductions:
“Ruth, my name is Deacon. You might
have noticed that I have some rather unusual abilities. For one, I’m very fast
when I want to be. For another, I can affect your mood by touch, which I did
just now to calm you. I don’t want to hurt you, but I do need to know a few things. What are you?”
What
am I? Uh, a girl would be a good start. What the hell?
She shook her head side to side,
indicating “No.”
“No, you don’t understand? Or no,
you don’t know what you are?” he asked, obviously growing frustrated.
She shook her head again.
“Okay, this isn’t going to work
unless you speak. I don’t read minds, you know.”
Good
to know,
she thought. What came out was, “I don’t understand.”
“When we ran into each other at the
hospital, you had no aura. What are
you? Are you a reaper? An angel? Christ on a crutch, you aren’t a valkyrie, are
you?” he asked, running a hand through his hair, pushing it away from his face.
“I’m betting no on the angel front because the Reiki energy doesn’t seem to
work on angels. So what are you?”
“A student. Or, I was a student.
Now I’m just… I don’t know what you’re talking about—angels and reapers and
valkyries. I’m…human?”
“You are more than human.”
“I’m not. What do you want with
me?”
“I want answers. In the hospital, I
sensed something about you when we met… Your mother was Mary Scott. Correct?
She died in that hospital room while you were there?”
“I didn’t do that. It wasn’t my
fault,” she blurted out.
“Okaaay,” he proceeded cautiously.
“Did you touch her before you left?”
She considered him, her mouth going
dry. She had touched her. She’d given
her that final kiss on the forehead.
“Yes,” she whispered.
Ruth couldn’t look at him as she
began to realize what all of this might mean. Had her bizarre handicap really
killed her father, and now her mother, too?
She was a killer.
“You’re not a killer,” he said,
rolling his eyes.
“I thought you couldn’t read
minds!” She sobbed, tears choking her throat closed.
It’s my fault. I AM a killer.
“You’re not,” he insisted. “I think
you’re a reaper, like me.”
Her heart starting beating faster
and her vision started to go blurry around the edges. The whole room sped down
a black chute into darkness. She was going to pass out. She was going to pass
out with a strange supernatural man in her house.
God
help me.
Author Bio
Lisa has always enjoyed reading about
monsters in love and now she writes about them, because monsters need love too.
She adores beasties of all sorts,
fictional as well as real, and has a farm full of them in her Southwest
Missouri home, including: one child, one husband, two dogs, two cats, a dozen
hens, thousands of Italian bees, and a guinea pig.
She may or may not keep a complete zombie
apocalypse bug-out bag in her trunk at all times, including a machete. Just.
In. Case.
Character Interview
Please welcome Deacon from Lisa Medley's Reap and Repent to Diane’s Book Blog.
What is your full name? Do
you have a nickname?
Deacon Walker. No nicknames.
How old are you?
Slightly north of 200.
What is in your
refrigerator right now? On your bedroom floor? On your nightstand? In your
garbage can?
Not much in the fridge. I’m rarely home. I eat out. A lot. Clothes
on the bedroom floor. Take-out containers in the trash.
Who are the people you
are closest to?
One’s dead. One’s a demon. I’ve tried not to get close to the
living since all that business. I’m acquaintances with a witch named Nate, but
we don’t hang out or anything.
What is your biggest
fear?
Death. Ironic, right?
What is your greatest
regret?
Not killing my friend Kylen after he was possessed by a demon more than
a hundred years ago. We had a pact. I broke it.
What is your motto?
Reap on.
Thanks so much for hosting me!
ReplyDeleteHe is such a cheerful hero. ;-) Great interview.
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