Against the Darkness
by A.M.
Griffin
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BLURB:
(book intended for 15+)
Seventeen
year old Sinta Allen has one objective, to get from Tallahassee, Florida to her
mother in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seems simple enough right? Wrong. Hostile aliens
have invaded Earth—and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that we’re
losing the fight. While the aliens bring devastation and destruction and take
people away to God knows where in their spaceships, Sinta, along with some of
her classmates must rely on their survival instincts, a little luck and each
other if they want to survive the venture across the country. The last thing
she needs is for Wade, her school friend and Jason, her rescuer, to distract
her along the way.
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Excerpt
Three:
He snaps his fingers, bringing my attention back to his
face.
He mouths something that I can’t make out. I shake my head.
He creeps closer. I notice a few other things about him.
Like the gun that he’s holding in one hand and some kind of knife in the other.
My eyes widen in understanding.
He’s here to save us.
I peer to my right and left. No one else is paying attention
to him. I turn back to him.
“Where are they?” he mouths again.
I nod toward the cabin where Ms. Burgess is screaming.
“How many?” he mouths.
“Three,” I mouth back to him.
He nods and goes back into the woods.
No, I want to yell. Come back, don’t leave us here.
I’m about to do just that when he returns with another man,
this one older, but similar looking. They creep closer to us, their eyes
scanning everything around them. As they come closer I see the rifles strapped
across their backs, the guns in shoulder holsters, the knives strapped around
their legs and pistols in their hands. I want to cry.
If anybody can save us from the Tanners it’s them.
The tickle of a tear is on my cheek. I use a shoulder to
wipe it away.
I don’t say a word as the younger one crouches behind me and
uses his knife to cut through the ropes that bind my wrists. The other man goes
behind MJ to do the same. I see him whispering something to MJ and MJ nodding
in response. Once my hands are free, he moves down to my ankles and begins to
saw away at the ropes there.
He glances up to me, his eyes focused squarely on mine. I
have a hard time looking away and I think that’s his intention. “What’s your
name?”
Instead of my name a cry escapes my lips.
“It’s going to be okay,” he says, still sawing away at the
ropes. He takes a quick peek to his right, where the other man is working to
free MJ’s feet. “My name is Jason, but all my fraternity brothers call me JC.”
He attempts a smile. “You can call me JC.”
“I…I’m not your frat brother,” I say, in a stutter, as
confusion clouds my mind. “I’m a girl.”
Why did I point that out?
“Really? I hadn’t noticed.”
“Huh?” I’m as confused as ever.
With my feet free, he crawls quickly up to my side.
“Are you still with me? You look like you’re about to freak
out and bolt.”
I nod. Yes I’m okay and yes, I’m going to run.
“Stay with me sweetheart,” he says, in a rush. “I’m going to
give you this knife and you’re going to free the other girls. After they’re
free, I want you to take them where you first saw me, okay? Behind those trees
are some backpacks, you wait there for us. Do you hear me?”
Yes.
“Answer me. Do you understand what I want you to do?”
“But what if you don’t make it. They can kill you,” I
whisper. I can’t cover up the fear that is smothering me.
The smile he gives me this time is genuine, not at all
forced, and all I notice are the deep dimples in his cheeks. “We got this.”
And for some reason I believe him. “Okay.”
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
A.
M. Griffin is a wife who rarely cooks, mother of three, dog owner (and
sometimes dog owned), a daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She’s a hard worker
whose two favorite outlets are reading and writing. She enjoys reading
everything from mystery novels to historical romances and of course fantasy
romance. She is a believer in the unbelievable, open to all possibilities from
mermaids in our oceans and seas, angels in the skies and intelligent life forms
in distant galaxies.
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