Book Excerpt
“Thais,” I said, “I do think you’re beautiful. I just—.” I
couldn’t force myself to say the things I really wanted: I want you to want this kiss,
not because I’m the only man here to give it to you. But her heartfelt
speech about todays and yesterdays and tomorrows and the very real possibility
that there might not be another one, didn’t alleviate that thought—it only
reinforced it.
In the end, after fighting with myself,
all that mattered to me was what Thais wanted, what Thais needed. And if it was
simply a kiss she asked of me, then I would do it. For her. Not for myself,
though as much as I, too, wanted it, as much as I knew it would only make my
own needs and wants more unbearable, I would endure the impending ache if it
would ease hers.
I leaned toward her slowly; my eyes
swept the curvature of her lips, the tiny hollow beneath her nose, and I
touched the left corner of her mouth with my own.
The right corner.
The center.
The
impending ache…
About the Book
Title: Everything Under The SunAuthor: Jessica Redmerski
Genre: YA/NA Crossover; Dystopian
Thais Fenwick was eleven-years-old when civilization fell, devastated by a virus that killed off the majority of the world’s population. For seven years, Thais and her family lived in a community of survivors deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains. But when her town is attacked by raiders, she and her blind sister are taken away to the East-Central Territory where she is destined to live the cruel and unjust kind of life her late mother warned her about.
Atticus Hunt is a troubled soldier in Lexington City who has spent the past seven years trying to conform to the vicious nature of men in a post-apocalyptic society. He knows that in order to survive, he must abandon his morals and his conscience and become like those he is surrounded by. But when he meets Thais, morals and conscience win out over conformity, and he risks his rank and his life to help her. They escape the city and set out together on a long and perilous journey to find safety in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Struggling to survive in a world without electricity, food, shelter, and clean water, Atticus and Thais shed their fear of growing too close, and they fall hopelessly in love. But can love survive in such dark times, or is it fated to die with them?
Author Bio
Jessica Redmerski is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, international bestseller, and award winner, who juggles several different genres.
She began self-publishing in 2012, and later with the success of THE
EDGE OF NEVER, signed on with Grand Central Publishing/Forever Romance.
Her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.Jessica is a hybrid author who, in addition to working with a traditional publisher, also continues to self-publish. Her popular crime and suspense series, In the Company of Killers, has been optioned for television and film by actor and model William Levy.
She also writes as J.A. Redmerski.
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