Blog Tour: Freefall by Mindi Scott [Book Excerpt] + Giveaway

I have been looking forward to Freefall since I heard about it months ago, and I have a treat for you today! I have an excerpt from Freefall!

As I walked down our front steps, Kendall followed closely behind. “Would you believe I sometimes wish I still lived here?” she asked.

“Not for a minute.”

Riverside Trailer Park was the roughest part of Kenburn, and the cops were constantly busting our neighbors for drug deals and drunken brawls. The mobile homes were all rusty and at least thirty years old, and the carports were crooked and loaded up with old tires, soggy cardboard, and long-abandoned sinks. I wish I could’ve said our place looked better, but we had our own mess of broken TVs and other crap that no one ever dealt with. The longer it sat, the more it blended in, to the point where I hardly noticed.

“It’s true. Most of my best times were here,” Kendall said. “And anyway, I feel like an imposter on the Hill.”

“I wish I had your problems.” I scooted past the out-of-control rosebush. Naturally, that’s when a breeze kicked in and gave a thorny branch the push it needed to hook itself into my skin. I pulled free. Blood ran down my arm. “Goddamnit,” I said.

I yanked open the driver’s-side door and tossed my bag in the backseat. But before I could get in, Kendall was standing next to me, making a face that looked like real concern. “I know how painful this is for you,” she said.

“It barely stings.”

“I’m talking about Isaac. About you finding him.”

I tensed up. Anytime I thought about the morning two months earlier when I’d found Isaac’s body, I wanted to puke. Which is exactly why I tried to never think about it.

Kendall touched the mini Magic 8 Ball dangling from the key ring on my belt loop. She knew it was Isaac’s. Everyone knew. It had been his good-luck charm for years and he never went anywhere without it—until the night he’d given it to me, saying I needed its advice more than he did. It was all a joke, really, and I would have given the stupid thing back to him the next day. If only he’d woken up.

Kendall went on. “I’m dealing with stuff too, but I’m really worried about you. I know you’re not okay. Everyone says you’ve been hiding and drinking all summer. I’ve wanted to talk to you since it happened, but during the few times that I’ve even seen you, I haven’t been able to figure out how.”

It was surprising how quickly she’d gone from obnoxious to caring. My annoyance melted a little. “I probably wouldn’t have wanted to talk, anyway.”

“Believe me, I know how you are.” She started rubbing my arm—the one that wasn’t bleeding—like it was a cat. “I just don’t want to see you blaming yourself forever. You need to remember that Isaac made his own choices. It isn’t your fault he died.”

“I know,” I said.

But I was lying.

Doesn't that excerpt make you want to go get Freefall like right now???

Freefall is Mindi Scott's first novel. She currently lives in Washington. She is a vegetarian and has completed two 5k races! You can find Mindi all over the web, be it her website, twitter, her youtube channel, or The Contemps!

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