J.A. Redmerski is a very, very busy lady. Not only does she write excellent New adult novels like The Edge of Never and The Edge of Always, she's also the author of In The Company of Killers, an adult suspense series. We are super happy to help celebrate the release of The Swan and the Jackal, the third book in the series.
If you're unfamiliar with this series, don't fret, we've got you. The first book, Killing Sarai, is on sale for $0.99! Or you can just enter for your chance to win a set of these books below courtesy of AToMR Tours.
To whet your appetite, check out the excerpt:
THE SWAN AND THE JACKAL (#3)
Fredrik Gustavsson never considered the possibility of love,
or that anyone could ever understand or accept his dark and bloody
lifestyle—until he met Seraphina, a woman as vicious and blood-thirsty as
Fredrik himself. They spent two short but unforgettable years together, full of
lust and killing and the darkest kind of love that two people can share.
And then Seraphina was gone.
It’s been six years since Fredrik’s lover and sadistic
partner in crime turned his world upside-down. Seraphina went into hiding and
has eluded him ever since. Now, he’s getting closer to finding her, and an
innocent woman named Cassia is the key to drawing Seraphina from the shadows.
But Cassia—after sustaining injuries from a fire that Seraphina ignited—suffers
from amnesia and can’t give Fredrik the information he desperately seeks.
Having no other choice, Fredrik has been keeping Cassia locked in his basement
as he not only tries to get her to recall her past—because she and Seraphina
share it—but also to protect her from Seraphina, who clearly wants her dead.
But Cassia is a light in the darkness that Fredrik never
believed existed. After a year subjected to her kindness and compassion, he
finds himself struggling with his love for Seraphina, and his growing feelings
for Cassia—because he knows that to love one, the other must die.
Will light win out over darkness, or will something more
powerful than either further destroy an already tortured soul?
(Note: THE SWAN & THE JACKAL is NOT a New Adult title.)
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Cassia pushes herself closer when I thought she couldn’t get
any closer and urges me to look at her. Her right hand moves toward my face to
console me, but I stop it, holding it at the wrist and pushing it back down.
“The only one of us who should be talking about our past, is
you,” I tell her.
Her doe-like eyes fall under a shroud of disappointment.
But she’s not going to give up so easily.
“You’ve asked so much of me, Fredrik,” she says with such
kindness, “but when I ask anything of you, you turn me away. I only want to
know this one thing. I don’t care anymore about Seraphina, or the history you
have with her. I don’t even care what I have to do with it.” Her soft hand ends
up touching the side of my face anyway, and I’m not sure how she slipped it
past my barrier. “All I care about anymore is you, Fredrik.” She peers deeply
into my eyes and ensnares my gaze, her face full of heartbreak and longing.
“What are your demons trying so hard to kill?”
I push her hand away more forcibly this time.
“Do you remember anything?” I ask, disregarding her question
altogether.
“Stop,” she says with more intensity than I expected.
“You’re going to give me this. Before you leave me alone down here another
night, you’re going to tell me.”
The desperation in her eyes bores into me. I look away, only
to look right back at her.
“Please…,” she says.
A lump moves down my throat and settles somewhere in my chest.
All ten of my fingers spear through the top of my dark, messy hair and I let
out a miserable sigh of defeat.
I never talk about my past to anyone. Ever. I try not to
think about it, but on some days that is as futile as trying not to breathe. It
wasn’t until I met Seraphina eight years ago that I learned to control it, that
I became a much different man from the one who hunted shit stains like Dante
Furlong, tortured and murdered them every other night, never feeling the
satisfaction that I longed to feel with every kill. I was like a drug addict,
always looking for a fix but never really satisfied enough to stop. Never
satisfied at all, because I only wanted to do it more and more.
Seraphina helped me control the perpetual urges. She showed
me how to release the darkness within me with quieter, cleaner methods so that
I didn’t leave a trail of bodies and evidence behind. But the biggest impact
that Seraphina had on my life was making me feel like I had one. Because before
her, I was just a speck of dust floating around in oblivion. I didn’t know the
meaning of happiness, or understand the thrill of pleasure or the hunger for
excitement. I was just a shell of a man who knew only darkness and death, who
only felt the emotions of anger, and hatred, and rage and vengeance.
But Seraphina, she was my dark angel, who came into my life
and showed me that there was so much more to living than I ever understood.
Ever since she left me in that field the night she set my house ablaze, I’ve
been slowly but surely succumbing to my old life again, and I need to find her
before I fall too far.
If I haven’t already.
About the Author
Born November 25, 1975, J.A. (Jessica Ann) Redmerski is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author. She lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
From the author of the New York Times, USA Today & Wall
Street Journal bestselling novel, THE EDGE OF NEVER, comes a story of passion
and survival…
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KILLING SARAI (#1) On sale now for $0.99
Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her to live
in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Over
Victor is a cold-blooded assassin who, like Sarai, has known
only death and violence since he was a young boy. When Victor arrives at the
compound to collect details and payment for a hit, Sarai sees him as her only
opportunity for escape. But things don’t go as planned and instead of finding
transport back to Tucson, she finds herself free from one dangerous man and
caught in the clutches of another.
While on the run, Victor strays from his primal nature as he
succumbs to his conscience and resolves to help
Sarai. As they grow closer, he
finds himself willing to risk everything to keep her alive; even his
relationship with his devoted brother and liaison, Niklas, who now like
everyone else wants Sarai dead.
As Victor and Sarai slowly build a trust, the differences
between them seem to lessen, and an unlikely attraction intensifies. But
Victor’s brutal skills and experience may not be enough in the end to save her,
as the power she unknowingly holds over him may ultimately be what gets her
killed.
This is their story…
Determined to live a dark life in the company of the
assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on
Sarai’s reckless choices send her on a path she knows she
can never turn back from and so she presents Victor with an ultimatum: help her
become more like him and give her a fighting chance, or she’ll do it alone no
matter the consequences. Knowing that Sarai cannot become what she wants to be
overnight, Victor begins to train her and inevitably their complicated
relationship heats up.
As Arthur Hamburg’s right-hand man, Willem Stephens, closes
in on his crusade to destroy Sarai, she is left with the crushing realization
that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. But Sarai, taking on the
new and improved role of Izabel Seyfried, still has a set of deadly skills of
her own that will prove to be all she needs to secure her place beside Victor.
But there is one test that Izabel must face that has the
potential to destroy everything she is working so hard to achieve. One final
test that will not only make her question her decision to want this dangerous
life, but will make her question everything she has come to trust about Victor
Faust.
You know the drill - good luck!
~ Bel
~ Bel
