Monday snippet & title of Book 6

Before today's Bewitched & Betrayed snippet -- the winner of the "Name Raine's 6th Book" contest.

The winner is Katie Lovett with the absolutely priceless ALL SPELL BREAKS LOOSE.

Excellent mirroring of "all hell breaks loose" which is EXACTLY what happens in Book 6.

Katie, If you'll send me your mailing address, I'll send you a book goodie gift pack with postcards, magnets, and bookmarks from all of my books, signed & personalized. PLUS, your name will appear in the Acknowledgements section of All Spell Breaks Loose. Congratulations and thank you for giving me such a completely and utterly awesome title!

Now, on to today's snippet. . .

Dad didn't say a word; he just let Talon see him, truly see him. The real him with his old soul, not the twenty-year-old, baby-faced Guardian whose body he inhabited. I knew why he did it. Talon was the type that you had to scare the shit out of to get his attention. And for once we had to have Talon's complete attention and unquestioned cooperation. All of our lives depended on it.

Talon knew what he was seeing and his eyes went as wide as saucers. I thought he was going to faint. The last time he'd done that was after seeing Phaelan slice the ear off of an undead minion of the demon queen. I had to admit that ear plopping on the floor followed by oozing black blood was kind of gruesome.

The kid's mouth opened and words finally made it out. "Who . . . what are you?"

"Talon, meet my dad."

"How can you be --"

Dad didn't bat an eye. "I'm 934 years old."

"Damn, you're old," Talon blurted.

And who said teenagers aren't tactful?