Dominion by Melody Manful




I Dare You.
Look Over Your Shoulders.
Do You See Them?
They are behind you...
They are always behind you.

Abigail Cells had a nightmare the day before she met Gideon, the new guy in school who has every girl drooling just to be near him. In her nightmare, she was murdered by a magical creature. As she gets to know Gideon, she begins to remember pieces of her nightmare, and was shocked when Gideon turned out to be the creature from her nightmare. Who is Gideon really, should Abby allow herself to fall completely for him, or is he the next disaster waiting to happen


Excerpt:

     I should have called the police the moment I woke up, but what was I going to say: “Hello. 911. Help. I think I’m going to die because I had a dream that I died?” Yeah, even in my head I sounded ridiculous.
What happened to me was horrifying. It still is. But you won’t read about it in the newspapers, because it never happened.
   
“It was only a dream.” That was what everyone kept telling me. Nevertheless, they were wrong. What happened to me wasn’t a dream. I was living it. I died that night. I was murdered in a firestorm.
   
 Yet, where I am, I’m alive.
   
One single white lie isn’t supposed to bring with it a lifetime of obstacles, right?
   
Wrong!
   
I lied. I said ‘Yes,’ when I was supposed to say ‘No’, and that was how I got here.
   
I committed a crime. Handcuff me. Sentence me to life. Execute me. Trust me, death will be a vacation compared to the punishment I’m serving.
   
“You’re such a terrible liar, Abigail.” This is what everyone I know says whenever I try to key up a lie. Then again, what does everyone I know, know for sure?  Nothing!

I wasn’t crazy. No, honestly, before I found myself in ‘wackoland’ I was a walking ray of sunshine. Everything in my over-idolized life was perfect.

Until he came.

First, I thought. Finally. Someone to chase away the monsters underneath my bed, but as it turned out, he didn’t come to chase them away. He was it.

My guardian angel.








Author Bio: Melody Manful was born on the 8th of June 1994 in Tema, A town in Ghana. She started writing at a very early age and has been doing it ever since. She has two siblings, and lives in Denmark with her family. She loves music, reading and writing, and puts a great deal into making her friends happy.






Be sure to check out the rest of the Dominion blog tour:



August 1st: YaReads (www.yareads.com) -Cover/Excerpt
August 2nd: Moonlight Gleam's Bookshelf (www.moonlightgleam.com) Guest Post
August 3rd: Banshees, Books, & Baseball (http://lsmurphy.com/) Interview
August 4th: Strands of Thought (http://kaistrand.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 4th: Paranormal Book Fan (http://paranormalbookfan.blogspot.ie/) Cover/Excerpt
August 6th: Cubicle Blindness Reviews (http://cubicleblindness.blogspot.com/) Guest Post
August 7th: Cubicle Blindness Reviews (http://cubicleblindness.blogspot.com/) Review
August 8th: Book Bite Reviews (http://bookbitereviews.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 9th: The Girl in a Cafe (http://www.thegirlinacafe.blogspot.co.uk/ ) Cover/Excerpt
August 10th: The Girl in a Cafe (http://www.thegirlinacafe.blogspot.co.uk/ ) Review/Giveaway
August 11th: Books Over Boys (http://booksoverboys.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 12th: Gen's Reviews (http://genessisliahut.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 13th: YaReads (www.yareads.com) Guest Post
August 13th: The Nerd in Heels ( http://thenerdinheels.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 14th: Fantasy's Ink (http://fantasysink.blogspot.ca/) Interview/Giveaway
August 15th: Teen Readers Diary (http://teenreadersdiary.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 16th: Cari Bella Creations (http://caribellacreations.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 17th: My Guilty Obsession (http://myguiltyobsession.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 18th: Charlotte Blackwell (http://charlotteblackwell.blogspot.com/) Cover/Excerpt
August 19th: My Guilty Obsession (http://myguiltyobsession.blogspot.com/) Review




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