Title: Renegade (Heven and Hell #4)
Author: Cambria Hebert
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal
Publisher: Cambria Hebert
Format: Print and Ebook
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Renegade Blurb
The conclusion to the Heven and Hell series.
I’ve been beautiful. I’ve been ugly. I’ve died. I’ve
been brought back. I’ve had abilities awakened within me. My strength has been
tested. My beliefs have been tested.
Yet I stand.
What’s next when you’ve pretty much experienced it
all?
The end.
Sam and I are picking up the pieces. We’re trying to
come to terms with all we’ve lost. And as much as I would like to hide my head,
ignore the reality I live every day, there is no forgetting.
Riley is in hell—I’m still not sure of his agenda.
My mother’s past haunts me. And Kimber… Kimber is being herself. Cole sneaks
glances at Gemma and she returns them when she thinks I don’t see.
But I do.
When Beelzebub escapes he brings his war to places I
never thought he would. Earth. Maine. Home. Now everyone and everything is at
risk. This has become bigger than my circle of friends. This has become bigger
than me. I have to finish this. I have to find a way to stop him, to finish
this war.
The Heven and Hell series
Before (A Heven and Hell prequel)
Masquerade
Between (A Heven and Hell companion)
Charade
Bewitched (A Heven and Hell companion)
Tirade
Beneath (A Heven and Hell companion)
Renegade Book Trailer Masquerade:
Charade:
Tirade:
Renegade:
Cambria Hebert is the author of the young adult paranormal Heven and Hell series and the Death Escorts series. She loves a
caramel latte, hates math and is afraid of chickens (yes, chickens). She went
to college for a bachelor’s degree, couldn’t pick a major and ended up with a
degree in cosmetology. So rest assured her characters will always have good
hair. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and children (both
human and furry) where she is plotting her next book. You can find out more
about Cambria and her work by visiting http://www.cambriahebert.com
This is copyrighted material – all owned by the author.
Chapter One
Sam
It begins like
usual, the slightest disturbance to my sleep, making me toss and turn until I’m
in that place between rest and wakefulness—not fully coherent, but enough so I
could have groggy thoughts.
There is pain,
not the kind of pain that would make you squirm, just enough to make you feel
uncomfortable. It kind of squirms around in my limbs, like adrenaline, but not
as insistent, making my body twitch.
My eyes pop
open, and I shoot up off the couch, not bothering to grab a T-shirt or the
shorts that lay nearby. I won’t need them. I move silently like a cat—like a hound—to the door and slide the lock
over and let myself out. It’s cold out. The air doesn’t shock me back into
myself. I don’t even shiver.
Then I’m racing
through the yard, over the grass, and past the barn. I hear the horses in their
stalls, alerted at my presence, but I ignore them and keep running. My bones
come unhinged and realign. My spine stretches, begins to reshape, and my body
hunches. Black, thick fur sprouts, replacing the smooth skin of my human arm
and then finally the switch in my brain flips.
I am no longer
human.
I am hellhound.
But I’m still
me.
Only this me
can give in to the frustration and sadness that seems to well up inside my
human skin until I’m so full and there’s nowhere else for it to go. And so it
sloshes there. It soaks in until I feel like I’ll drown.
I hate it.
That’s when the
hound takes over. I can’t really deny it. It’s like a summons, a calling, a
command. Usually I can tell it no, or push back, but when you’re full of
sloshing emotion there’s nowhere to push it back to.
So I give in.
I run.
I lose all
thought.
It’s just me,
the night, and nothing else. It’s a kind of freedom I’ve never felt before.
And then I wake
up.
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