Today we have the cover reveal for Kristin Mayer Dissipate and I am so excited to share it with you!!! Kristin is sharing an excerpt as well as a really fun giveaway, so make sure you check it all out!! :)
Title: Dissipate
Author Name: Kristin Mayer
Genre: Young Adult Romance
Release Day: May 21st
Synopsis
Kenzie Brooks needs to vanish. All she has ever known is a string of misconceptions, including her name. Upon her mother’s passing, Kenzie is left with no other choice but to disappear without a trace from all she has ever known which is The Society.
She must vanish.
Will Kenzie be able to fool The Society into thinking she’s dead? Or will they put the pieces together and discover she’s learned the truth about where she came from?
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Exclusive Excerpt
The rain pelted my face, making my tears
obsolete on the dreariest day of my life. I watched the wooden coffin being
lowered into the ground with long leather straps. My world had changed in a
matter of moments.
Part of me wished I could go back to those
precious seconds before my mom had revealed the truth about my name. What I
thought had been real was actually a lie.
A lie.
The
coffin touched down on the soaked earth. Three men, known as Watchers in our
private society, were to the right of the burial hole. They pulled the leather
straps from underneath the coffin, causing a sound that had me gritting my
teeth.
These were the last moments before my mom would
be buried for all eternity. Forever is a long time. It has no end and no
beginning.
The Watchers, men over eighteen years of
age who had taken an oath of commitment to The Light, stepped away from the
grave. Most of the time, they were nineteen before they officially took the
title due to the extreme training and discipline of the teachings. Essentially, they watched over our way of
life, keeping it pure and simple, ensuring all of our laws were followed. The outside
world was filled with sin and was doomed. Sometimes, I felt the position was
used as a way to keep females uninformed. Questioning thoughts were not
appropriate according to the teachings.
The rain continued as the men put their
hands behind their backs and looked toward the Keeper, the leader of our
community.
We never spoke of the outside world. There
were things we needed from it to survive, but we peacefully coexisted. All of
my life, I stayed within the walls of our community called The Society. At the
back of my mind, I always wondered what life was like beyond the borders.
Stoically, I stood at the head of the
burial hole next to the Keeper. An
eerie chill ran down my spine being so close to him. Normally, I tried to avoid
his presence at all costs.
Lightning struck and I had to fight not to
flinch. We patiently waited until the Keeper deemed it time to speak. The
Keeper made all the laws and saw to it that visions he received from The Light
became realty. I never understood what The Light was, but to question it was
blasphemy. Basically, we were to blindly follow. Something never seemed right
with that thought process, but that was life.
About Kristin Mayer
Kristin Mayer is a wife, a proud mother, and a full-time Analyst and Import Manager. Since an early age, she has always enjoyed reading and writing. While visiting her father one weekend, he suggested that she should take up writing again. With family and a career, she didn’t give it a lot of thought, until a story entered her mind and wouldn’t leave. It just kept forming and developing over a couple of months.
At the beginning of 2013, she decided to sit down and write it all down, but she kept it to herself. One sentence developed into two, and before she knew it, she had the makings of a novel.
Kristin tries to live life to the fullest during every moment. She loves to travel and meet new people. She holds a degree in International Business and uses it daily in her job. Kristin now adds “author” on her list of jobs, and feels very blessed and thankful.
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