THE
SWAN & THE JACKAL
(In
the Company of Killers, #3)
By
NYT Bestselling Author J.A. Redmerski
An
Adult Suspense/Crime/Thriller/Romantic
Suspense
Releasing
March 5, 2014
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Fredrik
Gustavsson never considered the possibility of love, or that anyone could ever
understand or accept his dark and bloody lifestyle—until he met Seraphina, a
woman as vicious and blood-thirsty as Fredrik himself. They spent two short but
unforgettable years together, full of lust and killing and the darkest kind of
love that two people can share.
And then
Seraphina was gone.
It’s been
six years since Fredrik’s lover and sadistic partner in crime turned his world
upside-down. Seraphina went into hiding and has eluded him ever since. Now,
he’s getting closer to finding her, and an innocent woman named Cassia is the
key to drawing Seraphina from the shadows. But Cassia—after sustaining injuries
from a fire that Seraphina ignited—suffers from amnesia and can’t give Fredrik
the information he desperately seeks. Having no other choice, Fredrik has been
keeping Cassia locked in his basement as he not only tries to get her to recall
her past—because she and Seraphina share it—but also to protect her from
Seraphina, who clearly wants her dead.
But
Cassia is a light in the darkness that Fredrik never believed existed. After a
year subjected to her kindness and compassion, he finds himself struggling with
his love for Seraphina, and his growing feelings for Cassia—because he knows
that to love one, the other must die.
Will
light win out over darkness, or will something more powerful than either
further destroy an already tortured soul?
(Note: THE SWAN & THE JACKAL
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Release
Event Exclusive Excerpt
Cassia pushes herself closer when I thought she couldn’t get any closer and urges me to look at
her. Her right hand moves toward my face to console me, but I stop it, holding
it at the wrist and pushing it back down.
“The only one of us who should be talking about our past, is
you,” I tell her.
Her doe-like eyes fall under a shroud of disappointment.
But she’s not going to give up so easily.
“You’ve asked so much of me, Fredrik,” she says with such
kindness, “but when I ask anything of you, you turn me away. I only want to
know this one thing. I don’t care
anymore about Seraphina, or the history you have with her. I don’t even care
what I have to do with it.” Her soft
hand ends up touching the side of my face anyway, and I’m not sure how she
slipped it past my barrier. “All I care about anymore is you, Fredrik.” She
peers deeply into my eyes and ensnares my gaze, her face full of heartbreak and
longing. “What are your demons trying so hard to kill?”
I push her hand away more forcibly this time.
“Do you remember anything?” I ask, disregarding her question
altogether.
“Stop,” she says with more intensity than I expected.
“You’re going to give me this. Before you leave me alone down here another
night, you’re going to tell me.”
The desperation in her eyes bores into me. I look away, only
to look right back at her.
“Please…,” she
says.
A lump moves down my throat and settles somewhere in my
chest. All ten of my fingers spear through the top of my dark, messy hair and I
let out a miserable sigh of defeat.
I never talk about my past to anyone. Ever. I try not to
think about it, but on some days that is as futile as trying not to breathe. It
wasn’t until I met Seraphina eight years ago that I learned to control it, that
I became a much different man from the one who hunted shit stains like Dante
Furlong, tortured and murdered them every other night, never feeling the
satisfaction that I longed to feel with every kill. I was like a drug addict,
always looking for a fix but never really satisfied enough to stop. Never
satisfied at all, because I only wanted to do it more and more.
Seraphina helped me control the perpetual urges. She showed
me how to release the darkness within me with quieter, cleaner methods so that
I didn’t leave a trail of bodies and evidence behind. But the biggest impact
that Seraphina had on my life was making me feel like I had one. Because before her, I was just a speck of dust floating
around in oblivion. I didn’t know the meaning of happiness, or understand the
thrill of pleasure or the hunger for excitement. I was just a shell of a man
who knew only darkness and death, who only felt the emotions of anger, and
hatred, and rage and vengeance.
But Seraphina, she was my dark angel, who came into my life
and showed me that there was so much more to living than I ever understood.
Ever since she left me in that field the night she set my house ablaze, I’ve
been slowly but surely succumbing to my old life again, and I need to find her
before I fall too far.
If I haven’t already.
About
the Author
Born November 25, 1975, J.A. (Jessica Ann) Redmerski is a
New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal
bestselling author. She lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three
children and a Maltese. She is a lover of television and books that push
boundaries and is a huge fan of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
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