Othersphere (Otherkin #3)
Dez thought she knew who her mother was, who she was. Thought she had friends,
a boy who loved her, and a school where she finally fit in.
But across the veil linking our world and the next lurks a monster which can annihilate. . .or liberate her. Now she must confront it there with help from one boy who loves her and one who can’t stand the sight of her.
Dez thought she understood her tiger form, her deepest self. But in this treacherous place, she’ll have to choose between the two halves of her soul–and determine which world survives.
Othersphere is the third and final installment in Nina Berry’s acclaimed young adult Otherkin series, which blends romance, fantasy, and action in a powerful story of friendship and self-acceptance.
“Filled with suspense, action, friendship, and love, this book will have you on the edge of your seat until the end, when you’ll cry out, ‘I need more!’”
– ParanormalReads.com review of Otherkin, book 1.
Excerpt
from OTHERSPHERE
By Nina
Berry, published by KTeen, 2013
“The Amba are coming!” I yelled
to Caleb, and pointed down the hall.
His eyebrows came together in a
puzzled frown, and he turned. The beam of his light skimmed past a huge,
striped, four-legged form as it slid around a corner a hundred feet down the
hall and shot toward us like an arrow. Behind it there were more.
“Run!” I screamed.
The tiger-shifters in the cells
shrieked en masse a half-second later.
Caleb zoomed past me, taking the
light with him. “Come on, Dez!” he shouted. “There’s no time.”
As the light faded away, I saw
the hands reaching through the bars, taut, outstretched in terrible
desperation. Voices called to me to let them out, to set them free.
Forty feet farther on four
tigers, bigger than horses, flew toward me, fangs bared, ears back.
I shifted.
It took no more than a single
pulse of my heart here in Othersphere. One moment I was an elongated version of
my girl self, the next I was tiger-incarnate.
I had never felt such might, had
never controlled my every muscle, every whisker with such ease. Coiled within
me was all the potency of the earth beneath my feet, of the air within my
lungs, of the great living moon outside. I was a nation, a symphony. And
nothing in this world or the next would stop me.
In a single bound I was at the
entrance to the cells. The people inside drew back, squawking with fear. The
Amba were pouring down the hallway like water unleashed from a dam, two seconds
away.
I touched the roots guarding the
cell on the right with one paw, and on the left with my tail, snarling a
command. They parted for me. I had time to see the astonished faces in the
prison cells, time to find the flashing dark eyes of the man who had first
called out to me. I nodded to him.
He smiled, and the air around him
parted like a curtain. He was a tiger now, too, a Bengal tiger smaller than I
or the Amba ahead, but unafraid and ready to fight.
The other tiger-shifters saw and
followed suit in both cells. They spilled free like a striped, roaring
river. It was an army of tiger-shifters.
Nina Berry is the author of the acclaimed YA paranormal OTHERKIN series from KTeen and the upcoming historical thriller PAGAN JONES series from Harlequin Teen. She grew up bodysurfing in Hawaii, learned to throw snowballs at the University of Chicago, and now lives and works in Hollywood, pretending to lead the glamorous life.
When she’s not traveling, reading or tweeting links to save the tiger, she writes all kinds of things, some of which might surprise you.
Nina blogs at ninaberry.com, and you can follow her on Twitter @Ninaberry or hang out with her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/writerninaberry.
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