Awakening Syn

Very quickly, he was out of the tire swing and standing in the wood chips facing me. His dark blond hair hung in front of his right eye, and his left eye was fixed squarely on me. It glowed red. His black silk shirt was open in a V that bottomed at his belly and swept up to his shoulders. His collar was exaggerated and flung open, with a white frilly undershirt sticking out. He had three belts around his right thigh, silver buckles glinting in the sunlight."Well hello, Marcia," he said...
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Very quickly, he was out of the tire swing and standing in the wood chips facing me. His dark blond hair hung in front of his right eye, and his left eye was fixed squarely on me. It glowed red. His black silk shirt was open in a V that bottomed at his belly and swept up to his shoulders. His collar was exaggerated and flung open, with a white frilly undershirt sticking out. He had three belts around his right thigh, silver buckles glinting in the sunlight."Well hello, Marcia," he said in his strong, smooth voice. The man was dead sexy. But he was also incredibly terrifying."But, you don't really smell like Marcia."He made a show of sniffing the air. I could see now that his white frilly shirt was stained red in three places- both sides of his chest and his belly.Where he'd been shot.I was totally paralyzed by fear, not even breathing. Of course, I was already dead, so breathing was optional.

Synesta Shepard is a normal teenage girl with a normal teenage life. She has friends, a boyfriend, and an annoying little brother. But one night she is confronted by the specter of a dead classmate, and everything that was once normal about Synestas's life spirals quickly out of control. Now surviving Algebra 2 doesn't seem as hard as... surviving.