Something unique with a little snark, some romance, zombies and a Day of the Dead influence.
See the contests below.
About the Book:
Go on a cruise, they said. Learn about other cultures, they said. It’ll be fun,
they said.
Yeah, I thought my birthday cruise would be all sexy pool boys with fruity
drinks and me working on my epic summer tan. Instead, I sacrificed my favorite
Jimmy Choos and my gorgeous Coach handbag to some awful earthquake while
shopping in a crappy Mexican port. That place is getting zero stars.
Oh yeah, and I sacrificed my life. Lucky for me this totally hunky (but nerdy)
anthropologist, Jon, hauled my hot corpse in to the nearby ancient Mayan or
whatever temple and performed some sort of creepy voodoo ritual on me.
Forget all the garbage from Hollywood about shuffling, brain-obsessed,
homicidal corpses. Maybe that's how it was in the 70's but those misguided
souls also thought polyester was a good fashion statement. What the movies got
right is that someone always wants to kill off the undead, and I'm no
different. I'm too young and too hot to leave the party this soon. I've got a
second chance, but Jon and I need to know what's going on with my post-life
situation before someone finishes me off for good.
Excerpt of Juan of the Dead:
Through teary eyes, I looked over the side of the tub and
managed to find the towel. I wiped my face with the towel, but the tears
continued to flow. I gave up. I let the tears come, quietly sobbing. Something
snapped inside of me with the release of the tears. I sat in the tub, hair
dripping, crying until I could cry no more. I cried for the loss of my purse
and my belongings on the ship. I cried for the loss of identification, making
it hard to function in the world. I cried for the loss of my life, robbed from
me at such an early age.
I cried for the life I’d never known I wanted and now never
would. I was living on borrowed time and something inside of me knew that more
than just a slower heart and fantastic eyesight changed inside of me. I somehow
knew that the things I’d avoided in an attempt to remain young, footloose, and
fancy free were no longer options.
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