Check out this exclusive excerpt from KendareBlake's 'One Girl in All the World,' the next chapter of DisneyBooks' 'Buffy: The Next Generation' series.
Collider is excited to exclusively reveal the cover and a chapter excerpt from an upcoming novel that you are going to really want to sink your fangs into. Kendare Blake's upcoming novel One Girl in All the World, is the second in Disney Publishing's Buffy: The Next Generation series, which centers around Frankie Rosenberg—the world's first Slayer-Witch.
It was a long walk, but she wasn’t tired; she was a slayer after all—it took a lot more than cooling desert and flat asphalt to wear her out—but she was weary. Weary in her bones, weary in her soul. She adjusted the bag on her shoulders and kept going until she reached the spot where their bus had stopped after they’d defeated the First. Where Buffy had gotten out and looked over the destruction. Where she had started making plans for all of their futures.
The woman swallowed. It felt foolish to even set one foot on that unstable ground, but she did it, one foot after the other, down and down and down, through shrubs and young trees, past silent bulldozers and construction equipment—because even after eighteen years, the city was still a work-in-progress—until she reached the street. From there she let her slayer sense guide her, but even if she hadn’t had it, she would have known the way to the Hellmouth by following the school signs.
She let go of it gently, expecting it to roll. But it stuck. So firmly and so fast she wondered if she’d have been able to pick it up again, not that she bothered to try. That’s where it belonged after all. A nice welcome-back present for the Hellmouth. Something to draw its favorite demons, like a demon magnet, or a demon beacon.“Phase one commenced,” she said before tugging her hood down lower and slipping out of the school the same way she came in.
The slayers were gone, whisked away, right off the earth; killed in an explosion said some, or by a massive spell said others. No fewer than five demon doomsday cults had tried to take credit, but the vampire didn’t care one way or another who was responsible. He only cared that they were dead, and Sunnydale was his for the taking.
And then, as if she’d heard his wish, there came a voice through the darkness. A girl’s voice, from several rows of graves over. A soft glow emanated from that direction, too, as if from candles, and he licked his fangs. The little idiot was in the graveyard holding a séance. Humans were a useless lot—useless in his time, and in the century between, it seemed they’d only gotten worse—but he did appreciate their constant fascination with the great beyond.
“Hi!” Frankie said, trying to keep her voice perky and semi-welcoming as the vamp rolled upright in the grass. “Where ya from?” Frankie lowered her stake. “Really?” Her eyes widened. It looked just like high-quality leather. “That is such a cool eco-alternative!”The vampire looked over the headstones at Hailey and Sigmund, who had stood, still holding their candles.“I know,” said Frankie. “But it seems like such a waste, to let the belt go poof with the rest of him. Think I can wrestle it off him first? Or maybe I can steal it with magic.
“I’m sorry,” said Frankie. “You’re right. This is supposed to be about you. So as I was saying, where ya from?” Sigmund jotted it down in his notebook just as Frankie drove her stake through the vampire’s back and into the heart. Frankie wiped the point of her stake clean against the leg of her jeans and tucked it into the pocket of her hooded sweatshirt.“What a condescending pig,” Hailey joked. “But no, seriously, what a condescending pig.”
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