It is with great pleasure to announce the UK Done Dirt Cheap blog tour has officially started right here on The Book Chapter and I am so excited. To kick start off this epic tour, I have an amazing extract in store for you all.
Without further ado, I bring forth the extract - Tourmaline and Virginia. Even the extract is mind-blowing and captivating.
Done Dirt Cheap - Extract
Something told Virginia Campbell that Tourmaline Harris was the type of girl to arrive even to prison exactly on time, which meant Virginia was late.
Keeping a hawk eye turned to the thin streams of people flowing into the prison, Virginia sat on the truck bumper, thighs perched off the broiling chrome. If she had to wait until visiting time was over, she might as well get breakfast. Frowning, she glanced at her phone, looking up just in time to catch Tourmaline huffing against the flow of people in the parking lot.
The moment was so perfect it was as if Virginia hadn't planned it.
"Tourmaline?"
Tourmaline - pretty, blond, blue-eyed Wonder Bread-with-margarine girl, despite her father's reputation- turned and gulped like a goldfish wearing Lilly Pulitzer. "Virginia?"
Virginia smiled and pushed off the truck.
In all her years working for Hazard, Virginia hadn't once crossed paths with the Wardens of Iron Gate, but she knew plenty.
When motorcycles roared past her on the road, she'd seen the empty-eyed star of the horned and crowned skull sewn on the backs of the riders' leather vests. She'd heard their stories told like ghost stories - cloaked in fog, late into the drinking hour. She'd heard of their appetites. How their tires ate up the road and spools of darkness tangled in their spokes, sucking up damned souls and women alike, like air for the engines.
Thanks to Hazard, the secretive motorcycle gang was now her secret to gather. Make friends was the order. For what, Virginia didn't know. She'd been too focused on the how. Hazard hadn't said outright, but he'd sucked his lip and looked her over in a way that was plenty clear enough. It was a testament to Hazard that he's waited this long to use her best advantage.
Maybe he'd waited too long. A year long, she wouldn't have balked, and she wouldn't have ended up six hours from home, trying to lie her way into Tourmaline Harris's life.
Virginia tossed her waist-length dark hair behind one shoulder and drew herself up to her full five feet ten inches. "Well, you're the last person I expected to see. What're you doing? Some church thing?" As if she and the rest of their small high school hadn't followed along on the whole fiasco Tourmaline went through with her mom.
"No. I - What are you doing here?"
What else? Visiting unsavory relations." Virginia pulled a cigarette out of a pack and squinted in the bright sun. She lit the smoke, giving the moment space to breathe as she looked Tourmaline up and down.
"You're Tourmaline Harris, right? As in, the Wardens?"
If asked outright, everyone in Alleghany High could say who Tourmaline was, but Tourmaline seemed to do her best to make everyone forget it in the day-to-day - where all Virginia had ever seen was a studious, preppy blonde passing by in a clump of church kids in the hall.
Whatever might have been dangerous in Tourmaline's prettiness was always fast asleep underneath prime day dresses, or jeans and blouses. Her hair was the only thing that seemed to fit - long and languidly unstyled, where the Lilly crowd would have a shiny blowout.
"I always forget. You're not what I would expect." Virginia said over a long exhale.
About the Author
Born and raised in the Appalachians, Sarah Nicole Lemon spent the first fifteen years of her life doing nothing but reading and playing outside, and had yet to outgrow either. When not writing, you can find her drinking iced coffee in a half-submerged beach chair near her home in southern Maryland.
Her YA debut, Done Dirt Cheap, if put now from Amulet/Abrams on March 7, 2017.
Done Dirt Cheap
Tourmaline Harris's life hit pause at fifteen, when her mom went to prison because Toumaline's unintentionally damning testimony. But at eighteen, her home life is stable, and she had a strong relationship with her father, the president of a local biker club known as the Wardens.
Virginia Campbell's life hit fast-forward at fifteen, when her mom 'sold' her into the services of a local lawyer: a man go whine the law is merely a suggestion. When Hazard sets his sights on dismantling the Wardens, he sends Virginia, who has every intention of selling out the club - and Tourmaline. But the two girls are stronger than the circumstances that brought them together, and their resilience defines the friendship at the heart of this powerful debut novel.
(Summary from Goodreads)
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