RAKSHA BLURB
She has no name.
She has her knives, her training, and
her halo.
The first and second give her the
ability to defeat the opponents she is pitted against each month. The third
frees her from pain and fear. From any kind of emotion at all. Everything is as
it should be. Everything is as it should be, until…
Fear… Pain… Anger… Happiness… Desire…
Guilt…
Love.
When a newly named Kit escapes the
Sanctuary after killing her best friend, the last thing she needs is another
knife in her hand. Or Ryka, the damaged, beautiful blond boy, whom she refuses
to let save her. The sights and sounds of Freetown are new, yet one thing is
familiar: the matches. The only difference? Where the blood in the Sanctuary
landed only on the Colosseum floor, Kit will quickly learn that a river of red
runs through Freetown’s very streets.
Without her halo, the inhabitants of
Kit’s new home consider her saved, but is that really the case? Would she be
better off free of the guilt associated with all the blood on her hands, or is
the love of one boy worth living through all the pain?
Frankie Rose is a British expat, who is
currently enjoying the perks of living in Australia- her awesome husband,
sunshine, and vitamin D. She spends her time creating fictional universes in
which the guy sometimes gets the girl, the heroes occasionally die, and the
endings aren't always happy. But they usually are.
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I focus on him
and clench my dagger in my hand. The sea of voices swells, and I’m certain I
can pick out Miranda’s deranged shrieking, yelling over and over again, “End
him! End him!”
Falin Asha’s
brown eyes fix on me and it looks for a second like he’s crying. That can’t be
right, though. I hover just out of his reach, staring at him. “What’s going
on?”
He smiles
crookedly and brushes his hair back out of his face. “It’s going to be okay,
all right? Remember that.”
I’m so thrown by
his comment that I am utterly unprepared for what he does next. The knife in
his hand snakes out toward me, and I skitter away from him to the left. He knows how I react, however, and he moves
with me, my mirror image. He darts for me and does the unthinkable, something
that spells the end to the fight and me along with it: he grabs hold of my
striking arm at the wrist. A low gasp runs around the Colosseum, growing in
pitch until it’s a rushing echo in my ears. I try and fumble for the Balisong
on my belt, hoping I can flick it open and use it, but Falin Asha is there
before me. He doesn’t knock my hand away, just holds his over it. He pulls me
closer to him and sucks in a deep breath.
“Don’t let them
see,” he hisses. With that, I feel a twisting movement between our two bodies,
and then his eyes go wide. He looks stunned, the way Elin children do when they
fall and they’re unsure whether they’re supposed to cry or not. I look down and
see his own knife submerged up to the handle in his stomach. A cracking,
bubbling noise comes out of his throat, and he smiles slowly at me. The whole
Colosseum has gone deadly silent. I can think nothing other than this: What have you done? What on earth have you
gone and done?
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