Blog Tour + Review: The Graveyard Shift by Darynda Jones
The Graveyard Shift, an all-new, incredible, out of this world novella in the award winning paranormal Charley Davidson Series by New York Times bestselling author Darynda Jones, is available now!
Series: Charley Davidson #13.5
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Guarding a precocious five-year-old who is half-human, half-god, and 100% destined to save the world is no easy feat.
Garrett Swopes was the ultimate skeptic until he met a certain hellion and her husband. They vanished after stopping a catastrophic event and left him, a mere mortal, in charge of protecting their gift to mankind. But when she disappears as well, he needs the help of another breed of hellion. One who can see past the veil of space and time. One who betrayed him.
She will get a truce in the deal, but she will never earn his forgiveness.
Marika Dubois’s son—a warrior in the coming war between heaven and hell—was foreseen long before his birth. But to create a child strong enough to endure the trials that lay ahead, she needed a descendant of powerful magics. She found that in Garrett Swopes and tricked him into fathering her son. A ploy he has never forgiven her for. But when he knocks on her door asking for her help, she sees the fierce attraction he tries to deny rise within him.
And Marika has to decide if she dares risk her heart a second time to help the only man she’s ever loved.
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There is absolutely no way for me to explain my love for the Charley Davidson series. I discovered this series back in 2012 and fell in love with the characters. Last year the author concluded the series with the 13th book, which was a very bittersweet moment for me. Spending seven years with a group of characters, you just can't help but feel a bond with them. They become more than just fictional characters, you start to care for them. So when I saw that Darynda Jones was writing a novella, I just couldn't contain my excitement. It was absolutely amazing catching up with all my favorite characters. I loved that this novella focused on Garrett and his relationship with the mother of his child, Marika. There is some strong tension between the two because she tricked him into getting her pregnant. He hasn't been able to trust her (which I can't blame him), but they will finally have to deal with their feelings when their lives are in danger.
I am usually not a big fan of novellas, but the author did an incredible job in telling a whole story. Would I have loved for it to be longer? Of course, I wouldn't want it to end. Fans of this series, you are in for some big surprises. I seriously can't wait for you to read this novella. My mind is blown, and I need Beep's spin-off to happen ASAP. I hope that readers who haven't heard of this series will get a taste and fall in love with the world Darynda has created. The Charley Davidson series is hilarious, sexy, action-packed and so emotional at times. It will have you laughing one moment and crying the next. This is one of my all time favorite series and I hope it will become one of yours as well. You may ask was it really a five star read. And my answer is YES, especially if you have read the series and feel a strong bond with the characters. But I still think it is a great introduction to the series for readers who are new to it.
Excerpt
Charley Davidson, a god with a penchant for maiming
first and asking questions later, was going to kill Garrett. No, that wasn’t
right. Charley’s husband, Reyes Farrow, also a god with a penchant for maiming
first and asking questions later, would start the whole process by ripping him
to shreds, then letting Charley finish him off. Gladly. And with much glee.
Garrett had one job. One. Fucking.
Job. Watch his best friends’ daughter, Beep, aka Elwyn Alexandra Loehr, a kid
who just happened to be destined to save the world from a catastrophic demon
uprising. He was supposed to guard her with his life. To keep her safe. To
protect her from all the ghosts and goblins—metaphorically speaking since he
didn’t have a supernatural bone in his body—hell-bent on doing her harm before
she could prevent said catastrophic demon uprising.
He failed.
Yesterday, at exactly 3:33 p.m., the
precocious five-year-old was running across a sun-drenched field of sagebrush
and wild grasses when she disappeared right before his eyes. One second she was
tripping over, well, absolutely nothing—so much like her mother, it startled
him—and the next, she was gone.
If he hadn’t been looking right at
her, if his gaze hadn’t been laser-locked on the long, dark tangles cascading
down her back, if she hadn’t disappeared between his strategically placed
blinks, he would’ve questioned the entire event. But there was simply no doubt
about it. She’d vanished into thin air.
The way she disappeared would suggest
a supernatural influence, especially considering the fact that she was the
daughter of two gods, but her celestial parents had placed a shield over the
entire area. No supernatural entity could penetrate it. Was there some loophole
they’d missed? Some escape clause they’d overlooked?
Garrett didn’t hesitate. He
immediately called in his entire team, but even his most preternaturally
enhanced members couldn’t figure out what had happened, and one of them was a
bona fide angel. Well, former angel.
After thirty-six hours of scouring
every inch of Santa Fe and the surrounding area for even a sign of the little
hellion, a storm had rolled in, and the search had to be abandoned. Garrett
left his team at the compound, as well as the Loehrs, Elwyn’s grandparents,
panicked and scrambling to figure out what’d happened. In the meantime, he went
in search of the only woman he knew who could see past the veil of not only
space, but time as well.
He had one clue to go on. Elwyn’s
last words before she took off across the rugged New Mexican terrain.
Surely, he’d heard her wrong. He
prayed he’d heard her wrong as he fought the winds and icy pelts of the desert
storm, then raised a fist and pounded on the door of his ex, Marika Dubois.
About Darynda Jones
NYTimes and USA Today Bestselling Author Darynda Jones has won numerous awards for her work, including a prestigious RITA, a Golden Heart, and a Daphne du Maurier, and her books have been translated into 17 languages. As a born storyteller, Darynda grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, and she is ever so grateful for the opportunity to carry on that legacy. She currently has two series with St. Martin's Press: The Charley Davidson Series and the Darklight Trilogy. She lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys.
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