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The Dark In-Between
Elizabeth Hrib
Published by: Swoon Reads
Publication date: May 5th 2020
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Action-packed and emotionally powerful like big- and small-screen hits such as The Sixth Sense and Supernatural, The Dark In-Between by Elizabeth Hrib is sure to stay with you long after the lights go out.
Something lurks in the shadows between life and death.
A terrible accident brings sixteen-year-old Casey Everett’s life to a halt—literally. Pulled from the water, Casey is rushed to the hospital and miraculously revived. But her sudden return to the living is shadowed by the drowning of her best friend, Liddy.
Overcome with grief, Casey returns home for the summer only to find the memories of the accident won’t let her go. Shadow-drenched nightmares. Whispers in the back of her mind. Her friend’s screams. Casey thinks she’s losing it… until she watches a boy fall from the sky.
Red—an angel fallen to earth to regain his wings—takes her to Limbo, a place that exists somewhere between the living and the dead. Now, in order to save her best friend, Casey must learn to walk these mysterious and dangerous paths or else risk losing Liddy’s trapped soul to something worse than death.
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EXCERPT
Casey
paces the length of the hall, studying the pictures on the floating mantels on
the wall. Most of them are of Evan. There’s some of her too, standing with a
younger Evan, their faces wind- kissed, freckled, and crazy- eyed due to
copious amounts of sun and sugar.
Casey
touches the photo. Her parents had still been alive then.
She
follows the tarnished silver frames through a scrapbook of her youth. There’s
her and Evan as babies, sharing teething rings. As toddlers, sharing chicken
pox. As cubby neighbors in elementary school when they swapped lunches almost
every day. Liddy had moved to town in the third grade, got assigned the coat
hook directly between her and Evan, and the three of them had been inseparable
ever since.
Until
now.
The
door pops open and Evan kneels, lacing up a shiny black shoe. When he
straightens up, she gets a proper look at him. He’s wearing a black dress shirt
tucked into gray pants. There’s no tie but he looks . . . good. All
sleek lines and sharp points and soft blue eyes.
“You
can say it,” Evan says.
She snaps back to reality. “Say what?”
“That I clean up nice.” He tugs on his pant leg. “Even my socks match.”
Casey huffs and turns away as warmth floods her cheeks.
She’s
been flirting with this line for a while now. These feelings. That space
between friendship and more than.
It’s not the right time to cross it. She knows that. Not while they’re
both missing Liddy. Honestly, she’s not really sure if there ever will be a
right time. Maybe the history between them is better left this way.
“You
look nice, too,” he offers. “I meant to say it before.”
Then
he goes and says things like that, and Casey’s unsure of everything all over
again.
“These
are my funeral clothes,” she says, trying to dismiss his comment. She picks at
the hem of her dress, crumpling it in her fist and then pressing it back into
smooth lines against her thighs.
Evan
sighs, hands in his pockets as he sways into the hall. “You can still look
nice.”
“Come
on,” she says, turning down the stairs. “You’re making us late.”
He
follows her to the car and climbs into the passenger seat.
Beside
him, she fumbles with her buckle, the nerves start- ing to return. It feels
weird being in the car without Liddy calling dibs on control over the radio.
If
I have
to hear
any more of Evan’s easy country listening, she’d say. I’m
gonna lose it. He’s like a little old man in the
body of a teenager.
The
memory almost makes her laugh, but she catches her- self. Casey stares at the
radio, then looks away, struggling under the weight of such heavy silence.
Evan
reaches over, his hand nudging her shoulder. When he pulls away, he twirls a
feather between his fingers and flicks it out the window.
Author Bio:
Elizabeth Hrib was born and raised in London, Ontario where she studied nursing at Western University. She now calls the East Coast home, where she works as a nurse in Halifax. When she’s not working or writing, she can be found at the piano, planning her next Netflix binge, or attempting to keep her small, windowsill garden alive.
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