Teaser Tuesday: My Soul To Take and Tempest

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly feature, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

Michel would have killed her father if she hadn't agreed to marry him. Perhaps everyone in her family. The veil of civility over the meeting between their two families had been flimsy, ready to shred. Fana was still surprised that Michel had let them go when he could have kept her with him by force: his one redeeming act.

~ My Soul To Take by Tananarive Due, pg. 67

My eyes flew open and I watched three drops of blood fall into the porcelain sink. A hand reached out and stuck a paper towel right under my nose. The bloody nose was yet another piece of evidence that this exact moment in time was my new present. 

~ Tempest by Julie Cross, pg. 47 (ARC edition)