Teaser Tuesday #2 (8/2/11)

"Teaser Tuesdays" is a weekly bookish meme hosted by 

MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

 

1. Grab your current read.

2. Open to a random page.

3. Share two (2) teaser sentences from somewhere on that page.

4. BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away. You don't want to spoil it for others.)

5. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

 

My Teasers

"Gareth's shadow flew past her toward the ramparts, a black spot against the grey sky. He had watched her all day, staying on the rooftops."

- from chapter 24 of The Greyfriar (Vampire Empire, #1) by Susan & Clay Griffith

*****

 

Vampire predators run wild in this exciting steampunk adventure, the first in an alternate history trilogy that is already attracting attention. In 1870, monsters rise up and conquer the northern lands, As great cities are swallowed up by carnage and disease, landowners and other elite flee south to escape their blood-thirsty wrath. One hundred fifty years later, the great divide still exists; fangs on one side of the border, worried defenders on the other. This fragile equilibrium is threatened, then crumbles after a single young princess becomes almost hopelessly lost in the hostile territory. At first, she has only one defender: a mysterious Greyfriar who roams freely in dangerous vampire regions.