{"id":6151,"date":"2015-06-15T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2015-06-13T14:49:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:49:22","slug":"free-sneak-peek-read-chapter-three-of-the-veil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chloeneill.com\/?p=6151","title":{"rendered":"Free Sneak Peek – Read Chapter Three of THE VEIL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter Three of THE VEIL is now available!<\/p>\n

This is your final teaser before the August 4, 2015 release. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

\"Veil\"Instead of heading down Royal Street, I walked around the Square to Decatur. It was only a block out of the way, and I liked the route better\u2014I liked seeing the river and imagining the world hadn\u2019t really changed, that life as we\u2019d known it hadn\u2019t really ended. That my father and I still lived in a house in Central City, and I was worrying about dating and getting a good job. That a giant prison wasn\u2019t lurking behind me.<\/p>\n

When I was younger, I\u2019d roam through the store\u2019s antiques, making up adventures. I\u2019d always thought it was cool that so many people who lived or worked in the quarter knew my dad, considered him a friend. It was like being part of a secret club\u2014the secret guild of folks who weren\u2019t just tourists but who knew New Orleans. I guess I had a little of that now\u2014Burke seemed to know who I was, for example. But it wasn\u2019t the kind of familiarity I\u2019d expected. And now it was dangerous.<\/p>\n

I turned up Conti, reached the building that held the Louisiana Supreme Court, an enormous marble structure that took up an entire block between Royal and Chartres. It was square on the Royal side, and rectangular on the Chartres side with rounded towers on each end.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard the city had spent tons of money restoring it in the late nineties only to have most of the back half destroyed in the war. Now the building was abandoned, and the few surviving palms and magnolias around it overgrown. The windows were supposed to be boarded over, but plywood was a valuable commodity, so it disappeared more often than not. This time, someone had gotten creative, removing the plywood from enough windows in one curved flank that the dark holes looked like a grinning skull.<\/p>\n

You could take the people out of New Orleans, but you\u2019d never get all the crazy.<\/p>\n

I rounded the corner, saw movement near one of the magnolias. From the very unfortunate groans, War Night or Drink or both had gotten the best of someone.<\/p>\n

I nearly smiled in sympathy before she burst out of the foliage. She couldn\u2019t have been more than eighteen or nineteen, and she was screaming like a maniac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the rest of Chapter 3.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0Click here for\u00a0Chapter 1<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Chapter 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ready to preorder? THE VEIL is available at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Amazon\"<\/a>\u00a0\"bn1\"<\/a>\u00a0\"iBooks\"<\/a>\u00a0\"Books-A-Million\"<\/a>\u00a0\"powells\"<\/a>\u00a0\"indieboud\"<\/a>\u00a0\"kobo\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Add THE VEIL to your Goodreads shelf:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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xoxo, Chloe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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