Blood Will Out by Jo Treggiari Official Blog tour, Excerpt & #giveaway @JeanBookNerd @JoTreggiari @TTCBooksandmore ~ '

Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Teen (June 5, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0735262950

ISBN-13: 978-0735262959

Ari Sullivan is alive—for now.

She wakes at the bottom of a cistern, confused, injured and alone, with only the shadowy recollection of a low-pitched voice and a gloved hand. No one can hear her screams. And the person who put her there is coming back. The killer is planning a gruesome masterpiece, a fairytale tableau of innocence and blood, meticulously designed.

Until now, Ari was happy to spend her days pining for handsome, recent-arrival Stroud Bellows, fantasizing about their two-point-four-kids-future together. Safe in her small hometown of Dempsey Hollow. But now her community has turned very dangerous—and Ari may not be the only intended victim.

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Excerpt...

At first I couldn’t see the path, but now it is clear to me when the transformation began. It began the first time I held a knife and knew it was for cutting.

I’m not a fan of all that psychological Freudian mumbo jumbo: blaming my parents; blaming my trouble with toilet training; blaming the world. Sure, my teenage mother had some drug and alcohol problems and some issues with anger, and Ma and Pa Cosloy weren’t ones for hugging and kissing, but they clothed me, they fed me, they sheltered me.

I can’t picture my birth mother, though I was told we share the same intense expression, the same bold eyes, which first pierce and then slide away when our gaze is met. Shifty-eyed, Pa Cosloy used to say. I was also told that when I was brought to the hospital, not yet five years old, deep-bruised and suffering from a dislocated arm and various broken bones, I did not go home again. I went straight into care and then one year later to the Cosloys for fostering. Not so much because they longed for a child but because they needed an extra pair of hands around the farm. My mother went to jail.

These people do not get the blame.

Nor do they get the credit for what I am becoming now.

Photo Credit: Madeleine Kendall

Jo Treggiari was born in London, England, and raised in Canada. She spent many years in Oakland, California and New York, where she trained as a boxer, wrote for a punk magazine, and owned a gangster rap/indie rock record label. Her novel Ashes, Ashes, a YA post-apocalyptic adventure published by Scholastic Press, was a multiple award nominee and bestseller. Her acclaimed novella Love You Like Suicide, appeared in the Fierce Ink Press anthology Becoming Fierce: Teen Stories IRL and as a limited edition of the long-running zine Cometbus. Her most recent YA is Blood Will Out, a psych-thriller, published by Penguin Teen (2018). She has a second yet-to-be-named thriller coming from Penguin in the summer of 2019.

WEBSITE: http://jotreggiari.com/