Release Day Blitz & Giveaway
Seeds of Iniquity
(In the Company of Killers #4)
by
J.A. Redmerski
(In the Company of Killers #4)
by
J.A. Redmerski
Genre: Adult
Crime/Suspense/Mystery
Release Date: October 1, 2014
IMPORTANT NOTE:
SEEDS OF INIQUITY is NOT a prequel about Fredrik Gustavsson as previously stated. It is a brand new present day book.
~ Synopsis ~
Victor Faust’s
new Order is growing. Business is good as there is no rest for the wicked in an
underground world of hardcore criminals and contract killing. Relationships
among the operatives have changed little over the past year—but things are
about to change now, and all six high-ranking members of the new Order will be
blindsided by an unlikely enemy.
Loved ones whose
only ties to Victor’s organization are their relationships with its members,
are abducted. The price to get them back safely—the six must confess their
deepest, darkest secret to this mysterious young woman named Nora, who is as
deadly as she is beautiful, and who seems to know more about each of them than
they know about each other. And although no one has any clue about who Nora
really is, it becomes clear that she also isn’t who she appears to be.
So much more is
at stake than secrets and the lives of innocent loved ones; with each member
that Nora forces to confess, the truth about their dark pasts and their present
objectives will cast suspicion, pit some against each other, and may tear
others apart.
Before the game
is over everyone will know who this woman is and why she is here, but the
damage she will leave in her wake could be the beginning of the new Order’s
destruction.
Whose dark
secret will be the darkest of all? And can Victor’s Order survive any of them?
~ Excerpt ~
Something
inside of me snaps, and my eyes spring open wildly in my face. I scream out
something I can’t even decipher and finally get my fingers between the chain
and my throat. I pull it away with everything in me, spurred on by rage and
vengeance and the will to live, until I overpower her and set my neck free,
slamming her legs down against the floor.
She
starts to crawl away on her hands and knees in the direction of my overturned
chair. I leap to my feet, pulling Pearl from my boot before I’m fully upright,
and I’m standing over her with the blade against her throat and the back of her
hair in my fist, pulling her neck back as far as it’ll go without snapping.
“I’ll
cut off more than your finger, bitch!”
She
freezes; her hips and pelvis and legs pressed against the floor; the whites of
her eyes visible to me as I stand over her from behind.
“Where
is Dina?!” I yank on her scalp, pulling her neck back even farther; if she even
flinches the wrong way the blade will break the skin and she knows it. “Fuck
these games of yours! Tell me where you took her!”
“Come
closer and I’ll tell you,” she says with difficulty, her voice strained.
Without
even thinking about it I do, but I keep the blade against her throat as I sit
down on her back.
“Try
anything and I’ll kill you,” I growl, my lips next to her ear.
She
doesn’t try to fight back, but I’m not feeling defeat from her. It’s something
else. That confidence about her that I’ve grown to despise. Even though I’m the
one sitting on top of her, the one with the knife pressed to her throat, I
can’t help feel like she’s still the one in control.
“Where
is she?” I whisper harshly against the side of her face.
“If
you want Dina Gregory to live,” she says, still in a whisper too low for the
audio to pick up, “then you and I need to have a talk about the specifics of
the relationship you had with Javier Ruiz.”
It
feels like an eternity that I sit on top of her, straddling her back, lost in
some kind of stunned submission. I can’t find words. Or my heartbeat. And my
mind is running away from me.
Then
my knife hand begins to tremble and my breathing becomes unsteady.
I
slide the knife away from her throat, push her head down forcibly against the
tile with the other hand, shoving myself angrily to my feet and off of her. I
don’t look at her when she gets up, struggling into a stand with her ankles
bound. And I look only at the floor when she shuffles right past me, picking up
her black heels along the way, and goes back over to her seat on the other side
of the table.
I
keep my back to her, unable to move; my eyes beginning to burn from the angry
tears pushing their way to the surface. My knife is gripped within my hand
firmly, resting down at my side. I feel like using it on myself.
“Shall
we begin?” Nora says as calmly as ever, waiting for me at the table.
Amazon ** Amazon UK Barnes & Noble ~ Why Seeds of Iniquity is NOT a Prequel ~
J.A.
Redmerski talks about why she chose not to do a Fredrik Gustavsson prequel with
SEEDS OF INIQUITY…
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My
original idea for the series, In the Company of Killers, was to eventually
write a backstory book for each of the main characters. With Fredrik
Gustavsson’s history with Seraphina being so volatile and bloody and sexual, I
thought that beginning the backstory books with him would be the best place to
start. However, after THE SWAN & THE JACKAL released, I admit that reader
opinions played a hand in my decision not to do it. Many readers, while
although they enjoyed THE SWAN & THE JACKAL, expressed their disappointment
in the 4th book, SEEDS OF INIQUITY, being a prequel—and their
arguments were, in my opinion, very justified. They didn’t want to read a book
that they already knew what had become of one of the main characters.
However,
on the flip-side of things, I still think it’s important that readers know
Fredrik’s (and everyone else’s) backstory. And I didn’t want to disappoint all
of the readers who did want the fourth book to be a prequel. So I decided that
to please both sides, I won’t write full-length prequels, but will still be
telling all of the character’s backstories throughout the series in bits and
pieces.
Lastly,
I came to the realization that prequels would only slow the series down instead
of driving it forward with current events.
Who
knows? I might write their backstories as novellas at some point, but right now
I want to keep this series moving forward because these characters have so much
yet to go through in future books!
J.A. Redmerski, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling
author lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas with her three children, two cats
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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