Today I am part of the exciting Bewitched by Cambria Hebert cover reveal. Bewitched is the next installment to the Heven and Hell series. I hope everyone likes the cover and enjoys the excerpt. Everyone loves teasers right?
Bewitched by Cambria Hebert
Expected Release Date: October 5, 2012
For years, I accepted that Heven was more popular than me. I
never liked it but I lived with it. I walked in her shadow, I stood by her when
no one else would. When I finally thought her spotlight was mine things began
to change. She began to change. Now she hardly ever calls me back, she spends
all her time with her hot new boyfriend and everyone at school thinks she’s
back on top. She had it all. But apparently she wants more. She wants Cole – my boyfriend. What’s worse is that it
looks like she got him. I’ve had enough and she’s going to be sorry. Why?
Because I am bewitched. (Provided by author)
Excerpt:
Working out was for
jocks. Homework was for nerds and I wasn’t a jock or a nerd. Yet, here I was,
sweating through my favorite Victoria Secret yoga pants and tank with a
headache the size of Macy’s. Learning about my powers was hard work. I thought
it would come naturally. My brain was hurting from concentrating and my muscles
were actually sore from effort. I thought longingly of the potion in the green
bottle that Hecate had given me—a little sip would make it that much easier to
use my powers, but she took it away. Apparently, I had all the power she wanted
me to have. It kind of pissed me off.
In fact, I was feeling pretty
disgruntled all around.
I was hot, I was sweaty, my head
hurt and my hair was frizzy. Not to mention I had been wearing sneakers far too
long. Thank goodness Hecate was gone. I actually had been glad not to be alone
after the “bone incident,” but now I was ready for some alone time. I felt
stronger.
Feeling strong plus feeling
disgruntled equaled somebody was gonna get hurt.
I was standing in my yard near
the lake and I glanced up at the moon before heading inside. It was low and
swollen tonight—a haunting moon. It sent a shiver up my spine. I thought briefly
about going to Heven’s and treating her to a little of what she deserved. I
even looked toward the driveway as I walked, but I wasn’t going anywhere
looking like this.
I went into the house and began
climbing the stairs. Halfway up, I heard a noise in the kitchen and I paused.
My parents were still out of town. It wasn’t the maid’s day to be here… unless
she came early. Another thud in the kitchen had me spinning on the stairs to
see what it was.
“Mary?” I called out. “Is that
you?” Maybe she switched her schedule around and I didn’t know about it. Maybe
I could get her to make me a latté.
No one answered, and the noises in the
kitchen fell silent. I stopped at the bottom of the stairs and listened,
wondering if I had heard anything at all. “Hello?” I called again, this time
more unsure. This time a fine chill raced up my back.
Suddenly being alone in this big
house was scary.
Clink, clink, clink.
Okay,
I wasn’t hearing things. Someone was there.
I stepped off the stairs and walked
through the foyer in the direction of the kitchen. I heard the cat hiss and I
paused again. Clover was too lazy to hiss at a mouse. Something in my stomach
turned cold and hard.
I looked over my shoulder at the
massive front doors to the alarm keypad and the distress button.
But it was too late for
pressing buttons.
Clover burst around the
corner with a hideous screech and barreled into me, hitting me in the knees and
causing me to stumble. The cat didn’t even stop. I could hear his claws scraping
frantically across the tiles. “What the…” I began as I straightened, but then
something lurched around the corner after the cat.
It was hideous.
It stood about a foot
taller than me with wide shoulders that were uneven looking—one was lower than
the other—and a wild mane of bushy orange hair that seemed to create a cloud
around its pasty, white face. Its lips were black and it had a nasty row of
teeth that had seen a lot of decay. It had large purple circles around its
eyes, which seemed to have no color at all.
It looked like a psychotic
clown.
I screamed and took a step
backward, and the thing grinned. I went running but it lunged and caught me
around the wrist, pulling me back. I struggled, kicking out, but it was no use,
his grip was too strong.
Without any warning
it reached up and snatched my silver pendant right off my neck. “Hey!” I
screamed as it shoved me away. I fell onto my butt and stared up at the
glittering silver heart as it dangled from the nasty clown’s hands.
Cole had given that to me.
It was the last gift he had given me before we broke up.
Anger surged into my chest,
making me hot. “Give that back.”
Freaky Clown gave me
another frightening grin and ran back into the kitchen, disappearing from
sight. I ran after it, running into a solid wall of… offensiveness.
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Cambria Hebert is an author who wrote her first book at the age of fifteen. It was terrible. But the passion for writing never went away so years later when she opened her laptop and started typing she worked until she wrote a book that she hopes everyone will be as excited about as she is.Cambria is obsessed with werewolves and is terrified of chickens (they are creepy!)She is an animal lover that would choose coffee over food and her favorite TV show is the Vampire Diaries (Hell-O Damon!)Please visit her blog and her author website:http://www.cambriahebert.com
