Dissever - Chapter One

Dissever is coming soon! I'm thinking it will be out in February instead of March. I'm excited to release it. But be warned - there are no zombies. There is, however, some cool shit that happens and the love story (because I don't write books without them) is, in my completely biased opinion, pretty beautiful.

I'm finally uploading Chapter One to it's Goodreads page so people can take a look. It will also be on my website www.traceywardauthor.com. I hope you guys like it and will give it a read when it comes out :)

Here is a little piece of what's in Chapter One:

“You’re pretty,” he said suddenly.

I realized I had been staring at his face, memorizing it. I had no illusions I’d ever see him again. I wanted to bottle this time and carry the memory of it, of him, with me forever. But now he was staring at my face too and I felt myself blush.

“My father says I’m a piglet,” I muttered, looking away.

“You make a very pretty piglet.”

I snorted a laugh, looking up to find him smiling at me, his blue eyes laughing.

“What’s your name?”

“Roarke. But all of my friends call me Ro.”

“May I call you Ro?”

“Yeah, ‘course,” he said, his smile widening. “You’re my friend, aren’t you?”

I was. And he was mine. A true to the bone friend who thought I was pretty and played fantastic games with me as though I was nothing fragile and nothing special. Nothing other than Anna, which was all I ever wanted to be. It was the first friendship I’d ever had. It would prove to be the only one that would ever truly matter.

That moment hidden in the sun dappled orchard beneath a perfect azure sky, that was the first time I fell in love with him. It would happen again, many more times over the years. Sometimes more than once a day, in degrees and frequency too great to recall, but this particular one, this first one, I will remember forever. And forever, I now know, is a very long time.