Reaper (End of Days)
Length: Novella
ISBN: 978-1-60928-630-9
Release Date: 11-01-2011
The World after the End of the World will never be the same again…
Sanctuary. Clichéd name, but the sentiment is still the same. Ten years after the end of the world, ex-soldier Mason and a small group of humans defend their fortified town against creatures of myth and legend made real. But with dwindling game to hunt and a lycan pack in the area looking for an easy meal, just surviving is getting harder every day.
Andy has a few screws loose, and she knows it. She’s been on the road since the bombs fell and changed humanity forever. Driven by inhuman instincts, she tracks the newly and soon-to-be dead and dispatches their souls to the afterlife. Sometimes they go quietly, most put up a fight. She doesn’t care either way. Her ambition in life is to find her next hit of coffee and one day, maybe, sleep in a real bed again.
Then Andy’s instincts bring her to Sanctuary and its enigmatic leader, Mason, and even the world after the end of the world will never be the same again…
Product Warnings
Contains a snarky female Reaper with a hair-trigger temper and a caffeine addiction, a hot ex-commando with an attitude and a twisted sense of humour and a happily ever after that defies death itself.
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Night Owl Reviews - 4 Stars
"...hugely intriguing and kept me glued to the pages... Mason had me from the start, and Andy's snarkiness promised more. For a very entertaining read that will engage your love of the spooky this is a recommended read."
Reviewed by Chris (read full review)
Excerpt:
Copyright © 2011 Mina Carter
All rights reserved — a Samhain Publishing, Ltd. publication
“They say she roams the old roads, looking for her victims. Human, paranormal…she don’t care. She’ll kill anything.”
The raspy voice echoed around the half-empty bar. Like a chill wind it reached into the corners of the candle-lit room, found all those who were listening and pulled a shiver from the very depths of their souls. Forget the bogeyman, since the war people had learnt there were far more dangerous things than the pretend monster under the bed.
Those in the room listened anyway. Chair legs scuffed on the worn wooden floor, disturbing the sawdust scattered over its battered surface. Shadows crowded against the steel-grilled windows that showed evidence of the bars use as a last line of defense.
At the back of the bar, Mason snorted into his whiskey. Good old Fred. He sure did like his ghost stories, even if they did scare the crap out of the customers. Not that they had many. Normally the place was filled with locals. It had been that way since the world went to shit in a storm of fire and brimstone.
Mason rolled a mouthful of the amber fluid around his mouth, before letting it burn its way down to his stomach. Stuff would rot your gut, but hell did it have a kick, exactly what a man needed at times. He leaned back against the wall and swirled the rich colored liquid around in his glass as he watched the bar as a whole. After wandering in here six years ago, badly busted up from an altercation with a couple of Lycans, he’d gone from recovering patient to self-appointed town protector.
Right now his attention was on a group of youngsters at the other end of the bar who’d waltzed into town earlier. After scoring refills on their water bottles and a pack-load of supplies, they were living it up in the bar, full of bravado, and crazy-ass stories of escaping a nest of Vamps.
Mason had been up close and personal with a couple of Vamps, and they were tough bastards. It’d be hard, not impossible to escape a whole nest of the bloodsuckers, but you’d have to be a combination of Bruce Lee, Rambo and the terminator.
Two girls, three boys. Way too young to have survived on the roads. He pursed his lips, feeling the scar at the corner pull slightly. He remembered his days as a wanderer. It was a tough life. Practically everything out there wanted to screw you over, and eat you. Or screw you, and eat you. Or screw you whilst eating you…there were some kinky-ass critters out there.
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4 Responses to “Reaper”
I loved the interview with Moira Rogers especially the following question and Mina’s response. I copied it and pasted it to make sure I got it correctly on this reply.
“The zombies are coming. Be honest. Are you a survivor, or zombie bait? Be sure to tell us why.”
“Survivor. Between hubby’s rifles and my sword collection, we’re set up for anything. If that doesn’t work, my cooking will finish them off. Rock cakes can cause a hell of a skull fracture if hurled right. And lets not even get into the dwarf bread….”
I also loved the end of the excerpt when Mason is reflecting on his time as a wanderer. This is going to be a very exciting book, it the comments are like that all the way through.
Hi Belinda! Thanks for stopping by
I’m glad you like the interview, I’m never sure how people will take my twisted sense of humour 
Mina xx
The book sounds interesting and the excerpt fun . I liked the interview and your response to Belinda — we like twisted that’s why we read Paranormal.