Teaser Tuesday: Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do as 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 any spoilers so as not to ruin the book for others!

Make sure to share the title and the author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR piles!

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Yes, I know I haven't been reading like a good girl, but writing called, and when writing calls, you answer. I've gotten 14K in five days, and I'm going to try and get to 20K in a week. I think that's a respectable goal. But back to the meme! And beware, this book is slowly coming close to becoming a DNF - and I'm on page 52 and it's not getting better.

A thrilling tale of adventure, romance, and one girl's unyielding courage through the darkest of nightmares.

Epidemics, floods, droughts--for sixteen-year-old Lucy, the end of the world came and went, taking 99% of the population with it. As the weather continues to rage out of control, and Sweepers clean the streets of plague victims, Lucy survives alone in the wilds of Central Park. But when she's rescued from a pack of hunting dogs by a mysterious boy named Aidan, she reluctantly realizes she can't continue on her own. She joins his band of survivors, yet, a new danger awaits her: the Sweepers are looking for her. There's something special about Lucy, and they will stop at nothing to have her.

"Lucy hurried along the narrow track - a muddle animal trail worn into the grass by sharp deer hooves when they came down from the heights to drink from the lake. Beyond the scrublands the ground rose sharply."