Lost Girls by Merrie Destefano
Publication Date: January 3, 2017
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Fight Club meets Black Swan—Rachel
wakes up in a ditch to find she doesn’t remember the last year of
her life, and that everything—including herself—is vastly
different than she remembers.
Yesterday, Rachel went to sleep
listening to Taylor Swift, curled up in her grammy’s quilt,
worrying about geometry. Today, she woke up in a ditch, bloodied,
bruised, and missing a year of her life.
She doesn’t recognize the person
she’s become: she’s popular. She wears nothing but black.
Black to cover the blood.
And she can fight.
Tell no one.
She’s not the only girl to go missing
within the last year…but she’s the only girl to come back. She
desperately wants to unravel what happened to her, to try and recover
the rest of the Lost Girls.
But the more she discovers, the more
her memories return. And as much as her new life scares her, it calls
to her. Seductively. The good girl gone bad, sex, drugs, and raves,
and something darker…something she still craves—the rush of the
fight, the thrill of the win—something she can’t resist, that
might still get her killed…
The only rule is: There are no rules.
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***EXCERPT***
His
Harley was parked at the curb, in a pocket of shadow, blocked from
the streetlight and behind one of the flowering trees Dad had planted
earlier this year. Dylan started to hand me a helmet, but stopped, as
if there was something else more important.
“There’s
something I have to do,” he said.
I
thought maybe he needed to give me a few pointers on how to ride a
motorcycle, that I should lean into the curves, that I should hold
onto him, that I shouldn’t be afraid because he was a great driver.
I
was wrong.
He
slipped one arm around my waist and pulled me close, so close that I
couldn’t have gotten away if I wanted to, while his other hand
cupped my jaw, thumb just below my mouth, long fingers brushing
against my ear. “I’ve wanted to do this since you got back,” he
said, his voice a low, hoarse whisper.
I
wanted to say, me,
too,
but I didn’t get a chance.
His
lips found mine in the darkness where we could barely see each other,
where the heat of his body melted into mine. There were two short,
gentle kisses as if he didn’t believe I would be here very long,
that I might disappear at any moment, and then after that came the
third kiss—
The
third kiss stole my heart.
And
my soul.
I
didn’t remember our first date or what we had in common or who was
his favorite band, but I remembered this. I remembered a thousand
kisses, a hundred nights, a million stars glittering overhead. We
leaned into each other, as if we were each drawing an electric charge
from the other, as if we’d been unplugged and powerless but now we
were stronger, invincible, immortal. The world stopped spinning and
we were all that existed; there were no other people, no cities, no
countries; there was only this.
His
lips pressed against mine, his scent filling the air, his hands
touching me.
And
then at last, the kiss ended and we stared into each other’s eyes,
me remembering, him knowing, both of us breathless.
“I
almost lost you,” he said, his words soft as if he couldn’t say
them very loud because it would show how strong the emotion was.
“I’m
here, I’m safe.”
He
shook his head. “I’m not going to let anything happen to you,”
he said. “I haven’t always been”—he hesitated—“a very
good person. But I’m going to do everything I can to make sure no
one ever hurts you again.”
He
had a way of enchanting me with his words, maybe it was the poet in
him, maybe this was easy for him, but it didn’t matter. I knew he
was telling the truth.
I
just didn’t know if I wanted to be safe.
***
***DREAM CAST***
The
Dream Cast for Lost Girls
By
Merrie Destefano
If
I could cast anyone I wanted for the roles in Lost
Girls
some of the actors would need to change their hair color. Other than
that, I think the people listed below would do an amazing job!
Rachel
Evans:
Chloe Grace Moretz
Dylan
McCarthy:
Austin Butler (with dark hair)
Kyle
Evans:
Dylan Minnette
Lauren
Maxwell:
AnnaSophia Robb or Maddie Hasson
Molly
McFadden:
Elle Fanning (with red hair)Rachel's
Dad:
Ewan McGregor
FBI
Agent Ryan Bennet:
Channing Tatum
Brett:
Alexander
Ludwig
Zoe:
Joey King
***
CURRENTLY
A FULL-TIME NOVELIST and magazine editor, Merrie Destefano’s next
novel, LOST GIRLS, releases on January 3, 2017. Her other novels
include AFTERLIFE and FEAST, both published by HarperCollins, and
FATHOM, which was self-published. The editor of Victorian Homes
magazine, she has also been the editor of American Farmhouse Style,
Vintage Gardens, and Zombies magazine, and was the founding editor of
Cottages & Bungalows magazine.
With
20 years experience in publishing, she worked for a variety of
publishing/broadcasting companies that include Focus on the Family,
The Word For Today, and PJS Publications (now Primedia). Besides
editing and writing, her background includes print buying,
writing/producing radio promos, directing photo shoots, developing
new products, writing jacket copy for books, creating sales media
packets and organizing direct mail campaigns.
Born
in the Midwest, she currently lives in Southern California with her
husband, two German shepherds, a Siamese cat and the occasional
wandering possum. Her favorite hobbies are reading speculative
fiction and watching old Star Trek episodes, and her incurable
addiction is writing. She loves to camp in the mountains, walk on the
beach, watch old movies, listen to alternative music—although
rarely all at the same time.
Blog
- http://merriedestefanoauthor.blogspot.com/
Giveaway
Information:
Blog
Tour: All prizes listed below will be given to one prize
winner.
Prizes
listed are for a US winner only; if an International winner is
chosen, the prize will be a $50 Amazon gift card.
1
- Kindle Fire Tablet, black: 7" Display, Wi-Fi, 8 GB, 1.3 GHz
quad-core processor, with the Alexa cloud-based voice service—just
press and ask.
1
- digital Kindle copy of LOST GIRLS
1
- Pack of 14 vintage-style Swan Lake postcards
1
- pr. Black Swan earrings, handmade by author
1
- "Always" temporary tattoo
Fight Club meets Black Swan—Rachel
wakes up in a ditch to find she doesn’t remember the last year of
her life, and that everything—including herself—is vastly
different than she remembers.
