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Title:
Eating Sarah
Author: Jaret Martens
Audience: YA
Genre: Thriller
Formats: E-book
Publisher: Immortal Ink
Publishing
Cover by: Rebecca
Hamilton
Editor: Rebecca Hamilton and Louise Caiola
Expected Date of Publishing: Mid-2014
BLURB supplied by Sparkle Book Tours
Ever since Sarah was young, all she could
dream about was participating in The Hunt — a monthly event in which her people
sneak into the nearby cities and villages to gather food. And in Sarah’s world,
the food they feast on most is human flesh.
In the deep forests of the Rocky Mountains,
Sarah lives in a community of man-eaters. With Fall ending and hunger running
rampant, Sarah and her cannibalistic community are forced to change the rules
of their Hunt. And with these changes come new risks. When her first Hunt ends
in catastrophe, and one of her only friends is lost, Sarah is sentenced to work
in the slaughter shack.
Among the dead and dying, Sarah is
introduced to Troy: a man she knows she will be forced to kill. As her life
crumbles around her, her feelings for Troy grow, along with the knowledge that,
if anyone discovers her secret, she will find herself in his place.
With nowhere to turn, and Troy’s time
running out, Sarah becomes set on leaving. But, in accordance with their laws,
to leave would be to dishonor the family name and, in turn, cause their deaths.
As suspicions of mutiny within the colony rise, everyone is watched and every
move Sarah makes could be her last.
And then there are the bodies–the ones that
are unmistakably their own, complete with missing limbs and markings that oddly
look like bite marks.
Boundaries are pushed, allegiances broken,
and the very question of what it means to be human is called into play.
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EXCERPT
Instead of looking intimidated, he
looked amused. “It’s your parents, isn’t it?”
The question took me off guard, and I
drew back slightly.
The
smile grew wider, twisting into something vile and grotesque. “They made you
come here, didn’t they?”
“How
did you . . . ”
“I
heard the way you and Steve talked about them out there. What kind of parents
would make their own daughter work in such a horrible place? My, my, my . . . ”
My
eyebrows fell. “This isn’t about them. This is about Darren and Amy, the two
people who are probably dead right now because you won’t give me an answer.”
“My
parents never really cared much for me either. I can still see their smug—no,
disappointed—faces. Then again, they never would have made me come to a place
like this. You must have really done something to tick yours off.”
“I
didn’t do anything. It’s not my fault Darren and Amy were hurt! My dad’s part
of the reason I even had to participate in the stupid . . . ” I stopped as the
captive’s face seemed to grow even more twisted.
“Oh,
don’t stop now. This is the best bit conversation I’ve had in weeks.”
I reached my free hand up to my cut. “I
can’t believe I almost fell for that, you turning me against my mother and
father. You’re good.”
He
shook his head, the ropes at his wrists pulling back with every movement. “No,
you’re just easy.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jaret was raised in the unremarkable town of
Hepburn, Saskatchewan where he spent most of his time doing things of little to
no consequence. Because of the boredom that encompassed his life, he sought
excitement elsewhere. While most of his adventures ended in as timid a matter
as they’d begun, writing proved to be the only thing worth doing twice.
Eventually, he managed to escape the confines of
his minuscule town and arrived in the small city of Saskatoon. It is here that
Jaret managed to finish his first novel and has since been hard at work on
various other projects. Jaret is drawn to big concepts and bigger characters
with a penchant for inflicting pain on all of them. Most days, you can find
Jaret stressing over his lack of solid life direction, all the while drinking
coffee and watching reruns of TV shows that almost nobody remembers. If you ever
see him, feel free to talk to him about the ending of Lost which, he assures
you, did not mean that they were dead the whole time.
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