Against the Darkness (Cimmerian Moon #1)by A.M. GriffinRelease Date: 06/04/14Summary from Goodreads:This one time, at band camp…aliens invaded earth. Sounds like a bad riff on an old joke, doesn’t it? Unfortunately for me and my friends, it’s all too true. I thought a mess like this only happened in the movies but, as I watch the alien ships hovering over the major cities, I suddenly realize I’m a thousand miles away from my Mom. From home. From safety.
Darkness may have fallen over the world, but I won’t let it claim me. I’ll do anything I have to get back to Michigan. Yet nothing could prepare me for what we find on our trek north from Tallahassee. There’s hardly anything the aliens haven’t bombed. Survival, at any cost, is the name of the game for the few people who haven’t been killed or captured. As if trying to stay free and alive isn’t enough, I think I just met the love of my life. And he’s just the kind of bad boy who’ll tear down the walls I’ve built around my heart—then break it.
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He snaps his fingers, bringing my attention back
to his face.
He mouths something that I can’t make out. I
shake my head.
He creeps closer. I notice a few other things
about him. Like the gun that he’s holding in one hand and some kind of knife in
the other.
My eyes widen in understanding.
He’s here
to save us.
I peer to my right and left. No one else is
paying attention to him. I turn back to him.
“Where are they?” he mouths again.
I nod toward the cabin where Ms. Burgess is
screaming.
“How many?” he mouths.
“Three,” I mouth back to him.
He nods and goes back into the woods.
No, I want to yell. Come back, don’t leave us here.
I’m about to do just that when he returns with
another man, this one older, but similar looking. They creep closer to us,
their eyes scanning everything around them. As they come closer I see the
rifles strapped across their backs, the guns in shoulder holsters, the knives
strapped around their legs and pistols in their hands. I want to cry.
If anybody can save us from the Tanners it’s
them.
The tickle of a tear is on my cheek. I use a
shoulder to wipe it away.
I don’t say a word as the younger one crouches
behind me and uses his knife to cut through the ropes that bind my wrists. The
other man goes behind MJ to do the same. I see him whispering something to MJ
and MJ nodding in response. Once my hands are free, he moves down to my ankles
and begins to saw away at the ropes there.
He glances up to me, his eyes focused squarely
on mine. I have a hard time looking away and I think that’s his intention.
“What’s your name?”
Instead of my name a cry escapes my lips.
“It’s going to be okay,” he says, still sawing
away at the ropes. He takes a quick peek to his right, where the other man is
working to free MJ’s feet. “My name is Jason, but all my fraternity brothers
call me JC.” He attempts a smile. “You can call me JC.”
“I…I’m not your frat brother,” I say, in a
stutter, as confusion clouds my mind. “I’m a girl.”
Why did I
point that out?
“Really? I hadn’t noticed.”
“Huh?” I’m as confused as ever.
With my feet free, he crawls quickly up to my
side.
“Are you still with me? You look like you’re
about to freak out and bolt.”
I nod. Yes
I’m okay and yes, I’m going to run.
“Stay with me sweetheart,” he says, in a rush.
“I’m going to give you this knife and you’re going to free the other girls.
After they’re free, I want you to take them where you first saw me, okay?
Behind those trees are some backpacks, you wait there for us. Do you hear me?”
Yes.
“Answer me. Do you understand what I want you to
do?”
“But what if you don’t make it. They can kill
you,” I whisper. I can’t cover up the fear that is smothering me.
The smile he gives me this time is genuine, not
at all forced, and all I notice are the deep dimples in his cheeks. “We got
this.”
And for some reason I believe him. “Okay.”
About the Author
A.M. Griffin is a wife who rarely cooks, mother of three, dog owner (and
sometimes dog owned), a daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She’s a hard worker
whose two favorite outlets are reading and writing. She enjoys reading
everything from mystery novels to historical romances and of course fantasy
romance. She is a believer in the unbelievable, open to all possibilities from
mermaids in our oceans and seas, angels in the skies and intelligent life forms
in distant galaxies.
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