Marital Bitch (25 page)
“You okay?” the guy beside me asks. I realize what I must look like to him-- a sweaty rat, panicked and crazed.
He’s wearing a short-sleeved shirt and cargo pants-- entirely appropriate clothing for the weather. I, on the other hand, am over-dressed and have sweat through my long-sleeved t-shirt and jeans.
I try to speak but my mouth has gone dry. I realize how wet I am. The man slides a glass of water to me and I gulp it greedily. I set the glass down and the doors burst open. The gunman runs in and his eyes find me instantly.
“Help me,” I manage to whisper and the guy beside me stands to a towering height, a wall of flesh between myself and my pursuer. I peek my head around him. The gunman lifts his gun at my savior who backs us up into the kitchen. He turns us around, grabs my hand and pulls me through the kitchen.
“Run,” is all he says. I grip his hand and trust that this mystery man
will get me out of this safely-- even if I have no idea who he is.
THE AUTHOR
As a child, JC was fascinated by things that went bump in the night. As they say, some things never change. Now, as an adult, she divides her time between the
sexy law men, mythical creatures, and kick-ass heroines that live inside her head and pursuing her bachelor’s degree in English. As it is for most writers, finding balance is a challenge. JC is a San Francisco Bay Area native, but has also called both Texas and Louisiana home. These days she rocks her flip flops year round in Northern California and can’t imagine a climate more beautiful.
With the support and encouragement of her parents
and sister, JC set out to figure out what she wanted to do when she grew up. Most days, the jury is still out; however the thing that stuck with her no matter what she pursued was her love of the written word.
JC writes adult, new adult, and young adult fiction. She dabbles in many different genres including science fiction, horror,
chick lit, and murder mysteries, yet she is most enthralled by supernatural stories-- and everything has at least a splash of romance.
MARITAL BITCH is JC’
s first completed novel and the first book in the Men with Badges series.
Find JC Emery on the web!
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Upcoming titles
The Birthright Series: Anomaly (#1)
-- available 3/31/2013!
(new adult urban fantasy)
How far would you go to save your sister?
Life as a college senior is stressful enough. Between mid-terms, stupid boys, and a rare blood condition, Eliza Landry is just trying to figure out what normal is—whatever that means—when she discovers that vampires aren’t just a thing of legend.
In a matter of moments, her life changes forever when she and her older sister Kate suffer a vampire attack which leaves Eliza with two puncture wounds on her neck and an allergy to sunlight. But she’s still human, or at least she thinks she is. It doesn’t really matter—her main concern is that her sister is missing.
Sorrow turns to obsession, leading Eliza to piece together the p
uzzle of that terrifying night. Even stumbling upon a millennia-old vampire assassin named Luke Conrad who demands she stop looking into vampire affairs cannot deter her.
When bodies start piling up and
one of them is supposedly Kate, Eliza and Luke set out to discover who is behind the attacks. Soon, Eliza is drawn into the dark and dangerous world of the undead, with no guarantee she’ll make it out alive, and no doubt that she won’t like what she finds.
30 Days Series: January (#1)
-- available summer 2013!
(young adult contemporary)
January: Control your temper.
Seventeen-year-old Holly Taylor is mouthy, mean, and just doesn't give a damn. She's earned herself a reputation that has her on the brink of being kicked out of high school and tried as an adult. Unfortunately, that's causing problems for her father, their small hometown's only surgeon. Fearing for his daughter and his job, the doctor sets out to save his daughter one lesson, one month, at a time.
January is the first in a twelve-book contemporary YA series about a mean girl who is forced to go through a mean growth spurt 30 days at a time.