SYNOPSIS:
Infinite Fear -
A Scared Series Novella
Spending his days
drunk and his nights high, priding himself on his perfection
of the one night
stand, Jackson Jones has hit rock bottom. He is caught in a
vicious cycle,
spiraling downwards, at war with a formidable opponent:
himself.
Life for
Jackson
wasn't always like this. At eighteen, he thought he had it
all: a beautiful
girlfriend who he loved, good friends, and even better
grades that would help
him get into any college he chose. But one event changed
everything, and now
his bright future has all but disappeared
completely.
With some
help from
an old friend and a sexy, mysterious woman, will Jackson be
able to find the
closure he needs to move on from his past and reclaim his
future? Can he shut
his demons out, for good? Or will he remain stuck in a cycle
of Infinite Fear?
PURCHASE
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EXCERPT:
For the
first year after she left, my calls went to her
voicemail, allowing me to hear the sound of her voice as if
she was right here
beside me. Then, one fateful autumn morning, about a year
ago, the voicemail
didn’t pick up. A robotic voice informed me that the number
had been
disconnected. I still call, though. It’s been two years. Two
years since she
walked out of my life. Two years that I have been waiting
for her to come back.
Two years that I have spent worrying, obsessing over what I
could have done
differently. Two years since she ripped my heart out and
fucking stood on it.
Every morning, I fight the urge to fling my cell across the
room when I hear
that fateful
recording.
Rinsing
the empty coffee cup, I go to the fridge and grab a
Corona from the bottom shelf before making my way out to the
front porch with
it and a cigarette. My neighborhood is rough, but at the
same time, it’s so
real. Children play on their front porches, and the local
women gather in small
tight circles, gossiping about the one that hasn’t yet
joined them. Every
family on my street has painted their house in various
colors of the same cheap
ass paint from the local hardware store, with the result
that it’s peeling and
flaking in wide
sections.
A few
locals walk by. I raise a hand to the guys. The women who
have been unfortunate enough to end up in my bed all walk
by, eyeing me quickly
then rushing past. I can never figure out if they truly hate
me, or if they
just wish they were riding my dick again, and they’re so mad
because they
aren’t. The ones that I have yet to conquer walk by more
slowly, stealing
glances at my bare chest. To those, I offer a small smile,
always keeping my
options
open.
But for
the last two years, this neighborhood has been a painful
reminder of Shana’s absence. We’d been friends since middle
school. Back then,
she hadn’t grown into her breasts or her face, but once she
did, she was
beautiful. We began dating in high school. She was my first
kiss. Right here on
this porch, in the fucking love seat. We carved our names
into a heart on the
tree that bordered between my house and the neighbor’s, like
lovesick children.
Heart, arrow, and all. A few months ago, I had ceremoniously
taken my knife and
gouged out the offending reminder. I was drunk and regretted
it the next day.
My bed, which has now been relegated to entertaining random
women, was where we
lost our virginity to each
other.
ABOUT THE
AUTHOR:
Jacqueline Abrahams is the author alter
ego for an ordinary mum to three
children (two human and one canine) and wife to one husband.
Born in South Africa,
she now calls Sydney, Australia her
home.
A collector all things books and bookish,
she in an avid reader and has a
tiny obsession with filling bookshelves. When she's not
preoccupied wearing her
aspiring author or mummy hat, she is working her way towards
completing a
degree in Primary and Secondary Teaching (with an English
major of course!)
Scared of Beautiful is her debut new adult novel, the first in The
Scared Series.
AUTHOR
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Twitter username:
@authorjabrahams
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