Reap
and Repent
The
Reaper Series
Book
1
Lisa
Medley
Genre: Urban Fantasy Romance
Reapers, Demons, Angels, Sex
Words 84K
326 pages
Book
Description:
They see death. Can they share a life?
Ruth
Scott can read the energy of every person she meets. Then she meets Deacon
Walker. She can see his ice-blue eyes, his black hair, and his gorgeous face.
But this beautiful stranger has no aura.
Deacon
is just as unsettled by Ruth—and, having spent more than two hundred years
ushering souls to Purgatory, Deacon is seldom shocked by anything. As he helps
Ruth to understand her true nature, she awakens desires that he decided long
ago a Reaper can’t afford.
A
demon invasion forces Deacon to confront the darkness in his own past even as
he fights to save the human souls he’s charged to protect. When he’s taken
captive, his first concern is for Ruth. But Ruth just might be able to save
herself—and the Reaper she can’t live without—if she can learn to wield her
newfound powers.
Excerpt: Not their first
meeting but the first with introductions:
“Ruth, my name is Deacon. You
might have noticed that I have some rather unusual abilities. For one, I’m very
fast when I want to be. For another, I can affect your mood by touch, which I
did just now to calm you. I don’t want to hurt you, but I do need to know a few things. What are you?”
What
am I? Uh, a girl would be a good start. What the hell?
She shook her head side to side,
indicating “No.”
“No, you don’t understand? Or no,
you don’t know what you are?” he asked, obviously growing frustrated.
She shook her head again.
“Okay, this isn’t going to work
unless you speak. I don’t read minds, you know.”
Good
to know,
she thought. What came out was, “I don’t understand.”
“When we ran into each other at
the hospital, you had no aura. What
are you? Are you a reaper? An angel? Christ on a crutch, you aren’t a valkyrie,
are you?” he asked, running a hand through his hair, pushing it away from his
face. “I’m betting no on the angel front because the Reiki energy doesn’t seem
to work on angels. So what are you?”
“A student. Or, I was a student.
Now I’m just… I don’t know what you’re talking about—angels and reapers and
valkyries. I’m…human?”
“You are more than human.”
“I’m not. What do you want with
me?”
“I want answers. In the hospital,
I sensed something about you when we met… Your mother was Mary Scott. Correct?
She died in that hospital room while you were there?”
“I didn’t do that. It wasn’t my
fault,” she blurted out.
“Okaaay,” he proceeded
cautiously. “Did you touch her before you left?”
She considered him, her mouth
going dry. She had touched her. She’d
given her that final kiss on the forehead.
“Yes,” she whispered.
Ruth couldn’t look at him as she
began to realize what all of this might mean. Had her bizarre handicap really
killed her father, and now her mother, too?
She was a killer.
“You’re not a killer,” he said,
rolling his eyes.
“I thought you couldn’t read
minds!” She sobbed, tears choking her throat closed.
It’s my fault. I AM a killer.
“You’re not,” he insisted. “I
think you’re a reaper, like me.”
Her heart starting beating faster
and her vision started to go blurry around the edges. The whole room sped down
a black chute into darkness. She was going to pass out. She was going to pass
out with a strange supernatural man in her house.
God
help me.
My Review
Reap and repent
This was such a fun new story! It's definitely clearing a path for a great series. This one is about Ruth and the discovery of who she is and Deacon learning how to relive again. And the world of reapers and angels and demons.
Ruth lost her dad at a young age. Her and her mother didn't see eye to eye. But now she lost everything. And on top of that she's always seen a light surrounding people. Their auras. But she knows when someone's mad, sad, dying. Yeah. She when her mother dies and she runs literally into deacon, it all opens the flood gates. Ruth is a witty, kind, courageous. She really has had a rough time with a lot of crap thrown at her for a quick period of time.
Deacon can't let things go. He's got guilt and anger from long before. So when Ruth knocks into him, she has no aura and she can see him. Really see him. And he follows her and scared the crap out of her then releases a bomb that she's an untrained reaper.
The plot is so intriguing. The mystery and suspense kept me glued to the pages. I loved the demon twist of possession. I loved Grim. And Kylen and Nate are fantastic characters that added so much to this story!
The writing is fantastic. I thoroughly enjoyed this story! I'm so glad I picked it up and I can honestly say I will be picking up book two!! This is a fantastic paranormal romance with some fascinating twists on reapers and their ways. 5 PAWS!!
About the
Author:
Lisa has always enjoyed reading about
monsters in love and now she writes about them, because monsters need love too.
She adores beasties of all sorts,
fictional as well as real, and has a farm full of them in her Southwest
Missouri home, including: one child, one husband, two dogs, two cats, a dozen
hens, thousands of Italian bees, and a guinea pig.
She may or may not keep a complete
zombie apocalypse bug-out bag in her trunk at all times, including a machete.
Just. In. Case.
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