SEEDS OF INIQUITY
Book #4
In the Company of Killers
Adult Crime/Suspense/Mystery
Released October 1, 2014
The first book in the series, KILLING
SARAI, will be on sale for a limited time for $1.99 (Kindle and Nook)
starting October 1st.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
SEEDS OF INIQUITY is NOT a prequel about Fredrik Gustavsson as previously
stated. It is a brand new present day book.
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?
OPTIONAL GIVEAWAY
- 3 signed sets (1
set each to 3 winners) of all four books in the series – KILLING SARAI,
REVIVING IZABEL, THE SWAN & THE JACKAL and SEEDS OF INIQUITY – open
Internationally (only 1 international winner allowed)
You may link to the
giveaway on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AToMRTours/app_228910107186452
Exclusive Excerpt
SEEDS OF INIQUITY – Book
#4 In the Company of Killers
J.A. Redmerski
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.
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!
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