Teaser Tuesday: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today I am reading The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong. I am a fan of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series. So I was excited to see that she had started a new young adult series. This series is about mysterious things that are happening on Vancouver Island.

Here is the product description:

Strange things are happening in Maya's tiny Vancouver Island town. First, her friend Serena, the captain of the swim team, drowns mysteriously in the middle of a calm lake. Then, one year later, mountain lions are spotted rather frequently around Maya's home—and her reactions to them are somewhat . . . unexpected. Her best friend, Daniel, has also been experiencing unexplainable premonitions about certain people and situations.


It doesn't help that the new bad boy in town, Rafe, has a dangerous secret, and he's interested in one special part of Maya's anatomy—her paw-print birthmark.

My teaser comes from page 11 and has three sentences:

I can't say the same for the woman clinging to the branch above the cat. She was the one screaming. The cougar -- a ragged-ear old tom I called Marv -- just stared at her, like he couldn't believe anyone would be dumb enough to climb a tree to escape a cat.