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Dear Readers,October 27, 2008 What follows is a special preview of my upcoming vampire novel, Pretty WhenShe dies. It will soon be available for purchase via my online shop located off my blog at www.rhiannonfrater.blogspot.comand my websitehttp://www.freewebs.com/rfrater/. I will announce the official publication dateon my blog.If you like your vampires with a mix of sexy, deadly, fierce, and bloody, you'lldefinitely like Pretty When She Dies.I hope you enjoy!--Rhiannon Frater
Pretty When She DiesbyRhiannon Frater
copyright 2008 by Rhiannon Frater All Rights ReservedThis is a free excerpt. Please feel free to share it with others, print it out, or whatever else you desire as long as you do not take credit for the story or use itfor profit.
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hen she began to stir from her deep slumber, she had no idea she was buriedunder several feet of moist, dark earth. Curled into a tight ball with one handover her face, she shivered as her brain slowly switched on. Flashes of randommemories full of distorted images burst through her mind.
Time to wake up
, a voice whispered.Her eyelids fluttered.Before she could fully awaken, her body was seized tight in a spasm of pain. Her body contorted in on itself as her hands trembled around her face. The seizure released her and,slowly, she opened her eyes.Darkness greeted her.Trembling, she strained to see into the blackness that enshrouded her. She could barely make out the outline of her fingers curled over her face. Something heavy and moist waspressing down on her.Suddenly claustrophobic, she thrust her left arm upward in a desperate attempt to throw off whatever was covering her.Dirt poured into the tiny space around her face and filled her mouth and nose. Terrified,she plunged her arm into the earth, trying to push it away. She tried to roll onto her back andshoved upward with her other hand. Warm, wet earth pressed down all around her body.For a horrible moment, she had no sense of up or down and feared she was frantically tunneling deeper into the ground. Shoving fear aside, she clawed at the dirt desperate to befree.To her relief, her hands and arms broke through the soil and into the empty space aboveher. Managing to get her feet under her, she shoved her body through the earth. She brokethe surface of the forest floor and stood, blinking in the moonlight. Standing in what was leftof the hole that had been her prison. she raised trembling hands to sweep back her raven hair.Her blue-gray eyes blinking hard, she tried to take a deep breath. She choked and gagged,then fell onto her hands as she threw up streams of muddy liquid. Coughing, she wiped her
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