Travel back
to Red Hill on Halloween!
AMONG
MONSTERS will be here on October 31st!
Title: Among
Monsters (A Red Hill Novella)
Author: Jamie McGuire
Among Monsters will be available in ebook and
paperback on Amazon!
*Amazon Exclusive
Being thirteen has pitfalls of its own, but growing up has
never been this hard.
Jenna had promised her mother that if the worst happened
during her dad’s weekend, they would meet at Red Hill Ranch. When she finds
seven words spray-painted on her dad’s wall the morning after a deadly
outbreak, she makes a promise to herself: to get to the ranch with her
seven-year-old sister, Halle, and to get them both there alive.
Among Monsters is the companion novella to Red Hill, both
exploring from different perspectives what many broken families experience
every other weekend: What if your children aren't with you when the world ends?
What would you do to get to them? What would they go through to get to you?
For Jenna, seeing her mother again is worth everything.
Determined to keep her promise, she is faced with experiences and decisions
that force her to leave her childhood behind.
The governor was elevated above the crowd on a make-shift
stage in the center of the room, speaking comforting words into a microphone,
as people yelled questions and concerns.
“I hear what you’re saying. I’m not saying not to worry.
With words like epidemic and now pandemic
being thrown around…it’s a worrisome situation. But we’re safe here, and that’s
what we need to focus on now. Panic won’t solve anything.”
“Is it the terrorists?” someone yelled.
“No,” the governor said, amused. “I’ve been told it’s a
virus.”
“What kind of virus?” someone else asked.
“We’re not exactly sure yet,” Governor Bellmon said.
He was being honest. I’d give him that.
“There are reports in Mississippi!” a man said, holding up
his phone.
The crowd erupted, and the governor leaned over to whisper
something in a man’s ear. He was dressed in a suit, and he nodded before
leaving the stage immediately. He walked over to Tom, the fire chief, just feet
away from where we stood. Tom listened intently to the man in the suit and then
waved to his men to come closer.
“The governor has ordered we gather water and supplies.
We’re going into disaster mode, guys. I know most of you came in for the photo
op, but you’re getting called in. Let’s get going.”
The men gave a nod and turned for the back door. Dad looked
around and caught Tom as he was making his way toward the police chief and the
mayor.
“Tom, I’ve got my little girls here,” Dad said.
Tom looked down at Halle and me and then nodded, giving Dad
an unspoken pass, before he continued on.
“Now what?” I asked.
“We wait for the guys to get back and help as best as we
can.” He leaned in, whispering in my ear. “Do me a favor, Jenna. Stay off your
phone. I don’t want any of the stuff on the news to scare your sister.”
I felt a small hand grip mine. I knelt down beside Halle.
Her stringy blonde hair was a ratty mess as it always was after school. Her
clothes were mismatched, and her heather-gray hoodie jacket was tied around her
waist. She pushed up her black-rimmed glasses, her ice-blue eyes glistening.
We couldn’t look more different—Halle with her light-blue
eyes and tiny frame and me with my honey-brown irises and chestnut hair. I was
always athletic, always pushing against boundaries, vying for independence,
even when I was little. Halle just always seemed so fragile.
As if she could hear my thoughts and personify them, she
squeaked her next words, “I want Mom.”
“I bet she’ll head this way as soon as she gets off work.
She’ll want to be here with us,” I said.
Halle shook her head. “She won’t come here, Jenna. She’ll go
to our place.”
“Red Hill? That’s just if something bad happens,
silly.”
Halle looked around at the roomful of frightened people.
“This is bad, Jenna.”
I stood and squeezed her to my side.
About the Author:
Jamie McGuire was born in Tulsa, OK. She attended the
Northern Oklahoma College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Autry
Technology Center where she graduated with a degree in Radiography.
Jamie paved the way for the New Adult genre with
international bestseller, Beautiful
Disaster. Her follow-up novel Walking
Disaster debuted at #1 on the New York
Times, USA Today, and Wall
Street Journal bestseller lists. She has also written
apocalyptic thriller Red Hill, a novella
titled A Beautiful Wedding, and the Providence
series, a young adult paranormal romance trilogy.
Jamie lives on a ranch just outside Enid, OK with husband
Jeff and their three children. They share their 30 acres with cattle, six
horses, three dogs, and Rooster the cat.
Find Jamie at www.jamiemcguire.com or on Facebook, Twitter,
and Instagram!
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