You Don’t Know My Name
The Black Angel Chronicles, #1
by
Kristen Orlando
Published
by: Swoon Reads
Publication
date: January 10th 2017
Genres:
Contemporary, Young Adult
Fighter, Faker, Student, Spy.
BLURB
Seventeen-year-old Reagan
Elizabeth Hillis is used to changing identities overnight, lying to every
friend she’s ever had, and pushing away anyone who gets too close. Trained in
mortal combat and weaponry her entire life, Reagan is expected to follow in her
parents’ footsteps and join the ranks of the most powerful top-secret agency in
the world, the Black Angels. Falling in love with the boy next door was never
part of the plan.
Now Reagan has to decide: Will
she use her incredible talents and lead the dangerous life she was born into,
or throw it all away to follow her heart and embrace the normal life she’s
always wanted? And does she even have a choice at all?
Find out if you are ready to join
the Black Angels in the captivating and emotional page-turner, You Don’t Know My Name, from debut novelist Kristen Orlando!
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EXCERPT:
I love
Malika and Harper. They make me happy. They really do. But there’s something
about being with them that makes me feel lonely too. I can never really be
myself with them. I can’t really be myself with anybody. It’s ingrained in me
to lie, to stick to the cover story and blend in no matter what. And I feel
guilty about that. Because they think they know me so well. They think because they can finish my sentences
they know everything about me. But they only know Reagan MacMillan; the
quick-talking, tough girl I created. Sometimes I wonder which parts of my
personality are really me and which ones belong to the pretender.
But with Luke, it’s different. There’s nothing forced or strategic
about our friendship. He’s gotten to see glimpses of the real Reagan. And that
scares the shit out of me. Because I know how quickly it could all be torn away
from me. How quickly I could be torn away from him. There’s no such thing as a
happy ending for a girl like me.
“Come on, Reagan,” Harper says quietly, glancing over her shoulder
to make sure Luke is still out of earshot. “You guys are so cute together. He
broke up with Hannah months ago. I don’t know what you’re waiting for. I can
just tell by the way he looks at you he—”
“Harper,” I interrupt as her words compress my lungs, making each
breath labored and painful. I don’t want to hear this. “He doesn’t look at me
like anything. I don’t want to ruin our friendship.”
“You know some things are worth ruining,” Harper replies, reaching
out to touch my arm with her fingertips, her nails painted darker than my gray
cardigan. “You can’t tell me you haven’t at least thought of starting a
relationship with him or maybe—”
“There is no relationship,” I cut her off again, pulling my arm
away a little faster than I meant to. I snap new gloves onto my hands, pick up
the scalpel, and slice into the frog’s heart. “Next stomach.”
“Next stomach?” Harper repeats, scrunching her forehead.
“Next subject.”
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Author Info
Writing
is one of the great loves of Kristen Orlando’s life and she has been lucky
enough to make it her living, first as a television producer, then as a
marketer and now as a novelist. Kristen graduated with a B.A. in English
literature from Kenyon College. She lives in Columbus, Ohio with the other
great love of her life, Michael. You Don’t Know My Name is her debut novel.
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