THE
SWAN AND THE JACKAL
(In
the Company of Killers, #3)
By
NYT Bestselling Author J.A. Redmerski
An
Adult Suspense/Crime/Thriller/Romantic
Suspense
Releasing
March 5, 2014
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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.)
Release
Event Exclusive Excerpt
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.
(3) Signed print copy sets of KILLING SARAI, REVIVING IZABEL and THE SWAN
& THE JACKAL – International
Additional Series
Information
KILLING SARAI (In
the Company of Killers, #1)
Released June 20,
2013
KILLING
SARAI (Book, #1) is on sale for .99 cents for a limited time!
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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Sarai was only fourteen when her mother uprooted her
to live in Mexico with a notorious drug lord. Over time she forgot what it was
like to live a normal life, but she never let go of her hope to escape the
compound where she has been held for the past nine years.
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…
REVIVING
IZABEL
(In
The Company of Killers, #2)
Released
December 10, 2013
An
Adult Suspense
Determined to live a dark life in the company of the
assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a
score with an evil sadist. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the
events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when
nothing goes as planned.
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.
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.
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