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Haunted Halloween: Desires of the Dead Prologue!

Kimberly Derting, who is one of the sweetest people on the planet, has given me an absolutely amazing honor! I get to bring to you, for the first time anywhere, the Desires of the Dead prologue. *happy dance!*
I am a huge fan of The Body Finder (you can see my review of it HERE) and I can't wait to read Desires of the Dead! So now, I give to you… the prologue!

Prologue
Violet leaned forward on her hands and knees over the frozen landscape. Inside her boots, her toes felt as if icy shards were burrowing beneath her skin and slithering into her veins. Her fingers were very likely frostbitten within her gloves. The flashlight’s beam slashed through the veil of blackness that had settled over the wintry forest, creating a spotlight where Violet had been trying to uncover the ground beneath the soft layer of snow. In her drugged state, she couldn’t be certain that she wasn’t hallucinating as she stared at the man who towered over her. His weathered skin seemed to glow with an unnatural life of its own. It was both strange and beautiful. But her thoughts were thick, and she struggled for each one, dredging them up from the swampy depths of her confused mind. He spoke to her, unaware that her brain filtered his words, jumbling them and making them something less than coherent. She tried to concentrate as the tranquilizing sensation bled through her, deadening her senses. But she was cognizant enough to be afraid—terrified, even—of this man. She could understand enough of what he was saying to recognize that he was disturbed. And dangerous. He’d followed her. In the middle of the night. And even through the haze that distorted her awareness, she realized that he must have known why she was there. That he somehow knew she had found the body. She glanced down at his hand, at what he held there, and her tangled thoughts immediately cleared.
She watched while he gripped the handle of the shotgun tightly in his fingers, and then he looked at her. “I’m really sorry that you found her,” he explained sadly. “I didn’t want anyone else to die.”

Desires of the Dead by Kimberly Derting Publisher: HarperCollins (March 21st, 2011) Reading Level: Young Adult Hardcover: 368 pages Series: The Body Finder, book #2 The missing dead call to Violet. They want to be found.

When Violet Ambrose's morbid ability to sense the echoes of those who've been murdered leads her to the body of a young boy, she draws the attention of the FBI. She is reluctantly pulled into an investigation that will endanger more than just her secret… but her relationship and possibly her life as well.

- Kim- I can not thank you enough for letting me post the Desire prologue!
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Haunted Halloween: Desires of the Dead Prologue! + TIME