Fairy,
Texas. A small town like any other.Laney Harris didn't want to live there. When her mother remarried and moved them to a town where a date meant hanging out at the Sonic, Laney figured that "boring" would have a whole new meaning. A new stepsister who despised her and a high school where she was the only topic of gossip were bad enough. But when she met the school counselor (and his terminal bad breath), she grew suspicious. Especially since he had wings that only she could see. And then there were Josh and Mason, two gorgeous glimmering-eyed classmates whose interest in her might not be for the reasons she hoped. Not to mention that dead guy she nearly tripped over in gym class.
She was right. Boring took on an entirely new dimension in Fairy, Texas.
Read an Excerpt:
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I was partnered with Mason Collier,
the infamous football-playing, cute, but possibly black-magicky
friend-of-Bartlef I’d heard about at lunch. I looked around and saw a guy
waving at me from across the room. He was looking at me kind of like he was
hungry and maybe I was breakfast. It worried me.
Still, at least I hadn’t been
paired up with Kayla. It could have been much worse.
“Okay,” Carlson said. “Go ahead
and meet with your partner and plan your strategy.”
Mason and I stood up at the same
time and walked toward each other. I was so busy making sure I didn’t trip over
any desks that I didn’t see Kayla headed toward me until she was right in front
of me. And then she leaned in close to my face and hissed at me. “Don’t get too
cozy. He’s way out of your league.”
I rolled my eyes and moved around
her without responding. Three days. Three days I’d been in Fairy, and already I
had an enemy. And I lived in her house. My life kept getting better and better.
Mason and I met in the middle of
the room. Kayla and her friends huddled nearby, watching us.
“Hey,” Mason said.
“Hey.” Nice, neutral word, hey. Can mean almost anything. Or
nothing.
“So,” he said, “where do you want
to start?”
He was asking me? Where I wanted
to start was away from here, where there weren’t any dead boys to trip over.
So much for that option.
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About Margo: Margo Bond Collins is the author of a number of novels,
including Waking Up Dead, Fairy, Texas, and Legally Undead (forthcoming in 2014). She lives in Texas with her
husband, their daughter, and several spoiled pets. She teaches college-level
English courses online, though writing fiction is her first love. She enjoys
reading urban fantasy and paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of
her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts, zombies, werewolves, and
other monsters.
Thanks so much for hosting Fairy, Texas today!
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