Cover Reveal & Excerpt!! Darker Days by Jus Accardo
Darker
Days (Darker Agency, #1) by Jus Accardo
Expected Publication: August 2013
Jessie
Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps
with the family investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen
inheritances? They’re your girls—but their specialty is a bit
darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool?
They’ll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal
fee, of course...
When
gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting
their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case—until
the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.
Seven
deadly ones, in fact.
They’ve
got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the
box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy—except
for one thing...
There’s
a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos
forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she
knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and
family—or lose everything.
Excerpt
“So
not
your biggest fan at the moment,” I said, closing the office door
behind me. The runofffrom my jeans had soaked my sneakers pretty
good. With each step, I gave a slight squishing noise accompanied by
an annoying squeak against the old tile floor.
From
across the room, Mom stared. “What happened to you?”
“It attacked
me.” Tossing my bag on the couch, I sank into her chair and made
sure to grind my butt into the cushion. Got it nice and wet. I was
all about sharing the love—and right now, the love
was soggy.
She laughed,
waving a folder in my direction. “Surely you’re overreacting. It
was one little zombie. They don’t attack people.”
“I’m serious,
Ma. It tried to drown me. And the client assaulted me with ugly
footwear. As far as punishments go, I’d say we’re probably
square. I’ve learned my lesson.”
“You’re
serious?” Amused expression now replaced by concern, she crossed
the room and leaned over her desk to get a better look at me.
“As a
coronary.” Once I was sure the chair had sponged up all it could, I
stood and huffed past her. Pulling at my favorite T-shirt—the word
Fate
inside a blood red heart, is
a four letter
word
on the back—I said, “Child welfare would not
be
happy to hear you tried to feed your only child to a walking corpse…”
“But
why would it attack? Did you provoke it?” Folding her arms, she
frowned. “Insult it, perhaps?”
I winked at her.
“Provoke
it?
Sure. I went and wiggled my ass in front of it yelling lunch
just to see what’d happen.” I’d called it Stinky, but that
didn’t count as an insult. Something couldn’t be considered an
insult if it was true, right?
Right eyebrow
twitching, she fought against a smile. “But you’re okay, right?
No bites, broken bones, head injuries, possessions…?”
I
smiled and did a little twirl. “All in one piece and still me.”
Mom
had a checklist she went through at the end of each job. I was known
for taking almost as much damage as I inflicted.
“Oh,
and you’re probably going to get a call from the client. I sorta
smashed her fence in the process.”
Mom groaned. “I
told you to be more careful.”
“It’s not
like I tried
to break anything.”
“Something
tells me you didn’t try hard enough not
to break anything, either.”
“In my defense,
it wasn’t a simple trap and slap…”
“We can’t
afford this.” She reached down and pulled a white envelope out from
under a stack of papers. “This is the bill for that Mercedes you
smashed.”
“Oh! So not my
fault. How was I supposed to know that Spring Heel was gonna land on
the
car? If it makes you feel any better, I think he was aiming for my
head…”
“If you keep
this up, we won’t even be able to afford the rent.”
She was right, of
course, and it made me feel horrible. “I’m sorry. I guess I’m a
wrecking ball wrapped in blue jeans. Take my cut of this job and put
it toward the repairs. Keep my paycheck for the next month, too.” A
good start, but it didn’t feel like enough. Sure, it would cover
the damages—I hoped—but I felt guilty about upsetting her. The
bills that were piling up kept her awake at night. This was only
going to make things worse. We got a fair amount of business, but the
overhead in our line of work was sky high.
As
much as I hated the idea, I knew what would cheer her up. “I’ll
even throw in pet possessions for the next month.”
About
Jus Accardo
JUS
ACCARDO
spent her childhood reading and learning to cook. Determined to
follow in her grandfather’s footsteps as a chef, she applied and
was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America. At the last
minute, she realized her path lay with fiction, not food, and passed
on the spot to pursue writing. Jus is the bestselling author the
popular Denazen
series
from Entangled publishing and is currently working on the first book
in a new adult series due out summer 2013. A native New Yorker, she
lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and
sometimes guard bear, Oswald.
Find
Jus Accardo
Website:
http://www.jusaccardo.com
Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/JusAccardo
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