Mundane Monday #26

We thought we'd do something a little different today. To celebrate the upcoming release of The Clockwork Angel we're going to post a little teaser from I.D. You can find the link to read more of the excerpt in the post below.

“Will!” Tessa called to him, though she wasn’t sure if he could hear her over the din. “Will —”

Something seized her by the back of her dress and hauled her up and backwards; it was like being caught in the talons of an enormous bird. Tessa screamed once, and found herself flung forward, skidding across the boards of the stage. She hit the stack of chairs; they crashed to the floor in a deafening mass and Tessa, sprawled among the mess, looked up with a gasp of pain.

The Russian vampire, Alexei, stood over her. His black eyes were wild, rimmed with red; his white hair straggled over his face in matted clumps, and his shirt was slashed open across the front, the edges of the tear soaked with blood. He must have been cut, though not deep enough to kill him, and had healed: the skin under the torn shirt looked unmarked now.