Monday, April 13, 2015

The Eighth Day by Dianne K. Salerni




Jaxon Aubrey is an orphan.  His cousin, Naomi, and her family have offered to take him in, but he has been sent to live with Riley Pendare, an eighteen year old who eats a lot, watches a lot of television, and forgets to pay bills.  

The day after his thirteenth birthday, Jax wakes up to find there is no electricity, the sky is a strange pink and purple, there are no cars on the streets and there are no people around.  Could this have been a result of the zombie apocalypse or an alien abduction?  

Jax wakes up the next day which proves to be a regular Thursday.  He goes to school, talks with his friends, and finds everything has gone back to normal.

Jax learns that he is a transitioner.  He, and others like him, have the ability to experience the eighth day, an extra 24 hour period between Wednesday and Thursday.  Others, the kin, only experience this extra day. Riley has been tasked with protecting Evangeline, the kin girl who lives next door.  Evangeline is the key to the spell that created the eighth day, and some transitioners and kin are after her so they can reverse the eighth day.    

This is an adventurous story with elements of science fiction and fantasy.  There are time warps, magic, fire, fights, kidnappings, bank robberies, a link to King Arthur, and the threat of human destruction.  

You'll have to read this story to experience all of it’s awesomeness for yourself.  Don’t wait until Grunsday to read it!

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