Haunted Halloween: Rebecca Maizel + A Giveaway!

I have to say, this isn’t very scary but it’s very true and the feeling I had driving through this place was mortifying.

        My friend Carey needed a ride home from the DMV. His license had been revoked so I was in charge of driving.
        “Hey, we’re close to the L. Center,” Carey said pointing ahead at an old sign clinging to a silver pole.
        “What’s the L. Center?” I asked.
        “You’ll see,” he said. “It’s cool.”
        So we turned down an access road which at one time must have been made of asphalt. What we bumped and rolled over a decomposing road, a left behind road that was filled with pot holes and rot.
        “Take a right here, a right,” he pointed and pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
        “There’s only one road in,” I said.
        “It’s just up ahead,” Carey said casually. Tree branches reached into the road, as though extending their arms.
        “Hey, hey, slow down,” he said and rolled down his window.
        On our right was an old stone building. The grey rocks were weathered and some fell out of their structure into a messy pile on the ground. All of the building’s windows were open, and some jagged shards make odd angles in the windows.
        “People went crazy in there,” he said pointing at the abandoned building.
        “Is that the L. Center?” I asked.
        He shook his head and pushed his glasses up again.
        “This is only one of the buildings. The main building is ahead.”
        “I feel really, really weird right now, I said. A shiver rolled over me.
        We turned the corner. In the middle of all of these green trees and quiet was an circular orange building. The windows were smashed, the grass uncared for. The paint on the building was stripped away, so some of the orange looked broken and peeled.
        “What the hell was this place?”
        “An old insane asylum.”
        “Why did they close it down?”
        “The state closed it down because they treated people so badly. Chained them up, abused them.”
        This round, huge orange building, broken and falling apart was where people lost their minds. If they weren’t crazy when they first came, they were locked away in that orange monstrosity and tortured until they went insane.
        So, like I said, maybe this story isn’t that scary but I will tell you, in my life, I’ve never had an emotional reaction to a place I didn’t already have preconceived notions about. The moment we drove into the L. Center grounds, I felt horrible. I knew without being told that bad things happened there. I was sure of it. I don’t know why but they won’t tear it down. The building stands there, a circus orange colored, round building in the middle of nowhere. This monster of a building just lurks, waiting to be found without all of its horrible history. And that history is seeped into the air. You can feel it immediately when you cross on L Center’s grounds. You feel…bad like something horrible is coming, like something is truly wrong with you or the world.
        What really freaks me out is imagining that building standing in the middle of the night. I imagine all those discarded souls wandering the abandoned buildings and deserted road late into the night, moving branches, groaning as all ghosts do.
        Wandering, wandering, asking, where did my life go?

Title: Infinite Days (The Vampire Queen, #1)

Synopsis:  Lenah Beaudonte is, in many ways, your average teen: the new girl at Wickham Boarding School, she struggles to fit in enough to survive and stand out enough to catch the eye of the golden-boy lacrosse captain. But Lenah also just happens to be a recovering five-hundred-year-old vampire queen. After centuries of terrorizing Europe, Lenah is able to realize the dream all vampires have -- to be human again. After performing a dangerous ritual to restore her humanity, Lenah entered a century-long hibernation, leaving behind the wicked coven she ruled over and the eternal love who has helped grant her deep-seated wish.


Until, that is, Lenah draws her first natural breath in centuries at Wickham and rediscovers a human life that bears little resemblance to the one she had known. As if suddenly becoming a teenager weren’t stressful enough, each passing hour brings Lenah closer to the moment when her abandoned coven will open the crypt where she should be sleeping and find her gone. As her borrowed days slip by, Lenah resolves to live her newfound life as fully as she can. But, to do so, she must answer ominous questions: Can an ex-vampire survive in an alien time and place? What can Lenah do to protect her new friends from the bloodthirsty menace about to descend upon them? And how is she ever going to pass her biology midterm?

Available now from St. Martin's Griffin.

Title: Stolen Nights (The Vampire Queen, #2)

LOVE the cover!! Loved Infinite Days, can't WAIT to read Stolen Nights.

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