Run for Your Life! - Excerpt Only
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Vampires want her blood. Werewolves want her flesh. Zombies want her brains. Nobody else wants Dinah.
An apathetic misfit who lives in a junky trailer on the edge of Doolittle, Indiana, sixteen-year-old Dinah is pale, passive and puny. So when a horde of vampires invades, she waits for everyone else to solve the problem. Soon, though, all the tough guys are dead and it looks like she'll have to make a decision: fight back or run for her life. As she flees in the middle of the night, two friends join her: Mort, a dorky intellectual, and Leticia, a loud-mouthed kleptomaniac.
But running only leads to more monsters, all of whom see her as a tasty snack. And there's a mysterious voice whispering in her head, luring her in. To keep from getting her blood drained, her flesh devoured and her brain digested, Dinah realizes that she might have to fight back after all.
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! is a funny young-adult horror / fantasy novel. It has some blood and guts. It also has slight romance (nothing graphic) and mild profanity (no "f" word). It's written for teens and up.
Please note: This is an excerpt only. It includes everything from Kindle's "Look Inside" feature (the prologue & most of chapter one). The rest is available on Amazon here:
http://www.amazon.com/Run-for-Your-Life-ebook/dp/B00DG6YVLO
Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy it enough to continue. -MK Winterath
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