The Mortality Box Set: Parts 1-4: The Complete Collection

by Cege Smith

How far would a person be willing to go to escape an inevitable death? Find out by following Laney Grey's pursuit of her cure throughout the course of the Mortality PART ONEAfter battling a terminal illness for the last two years, Laney has only a few weeks to live. With her body betraying her and her hope snuffed out, she's left alone to face the reality of her mortality. Then Victor Franks offers her the the cure to her disease and the promise of a long, healthy life. Laney thinks she understands the price she'll have to pay to get her cure, but in the end, she finds it’s even higher than she ever imagined possible. PART TWOAs the newest resident of Chateau Franks, Laney Grey is on the cusp of discovering why Victor Franks chose to grant her a temporary stay from the sure fate of death.Her first round of treatment complete, Laney’s body has regained the strength and stamina that her disease stripped away. Victor demands her loyalty and obedience, and will use her cure to get it. Drake Mathers, her trainer and only confidante, is hiding his own secrets. As her body and mind are pushed to their limits, Laney begins realizes that there is much more to the effects of her treatment than meets the PART THREEWith less than forty-eight hours to go before her final trial, Laney still isn't certain that she'll be allowed to participate although it would change the course of her life forever. Tested in more ways than one, she finds that her body and mind betray her at the worse possible times. The side effects of her treatment protocol are proving to be as much of a mystery to her as to those around her.Drake, who she once thought an ally, treats her with only professional courtesy. He has made it clear that beyond her training, she's on her own. Then an unexpected turn of events leads him to disclose a shocking secret that Laney can't ignore.Laney walks a fine line between right and wrong, and she realizes it won't take much to sway her one way or the other. With her future on the line, she will be forced to make choices that could come back to haunt PART FOURThe time for the final medical trial has arrived. Laney is given her objective, which she must accomplish in the time allowed or she forfeits her cure forever. With her enhanced mental and physical abilities from her advanced treatment protocol, Laney is confident of her success.Right away, Laney encounters barriers to her mission that cause her to question how far she’s strayed from her moral compass. With her life and future on the line, can she really do what needs to be done to win her cure? In this predefined game, the odds are stacked against her. She’s about to find out that even if she wins her cure, she can also do so by giving up something else.

157 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 17, 2014

About the author

Everyone loves a good origin tale. Cege's started when she was eight years old. She snuck out of bed late one night and into the living room to watch TV. Flipping through stations with the volume turned down low, she came across a rerun of a movie called The Exorcist. She was terrified yet mesmerized.

Cege wasn't unfamiliar with the idea of the battle between good and evil. She attended Catholic school in a small town in rural Wisconsin, and at the time knew the 'age appropriate' stories from the Bible. Nothing in those stories prepared her for the visual onslaught of watching the battle between the priests and the demon for the soul of the young Linda Blair. Cege was deeply disturbed by the movie, but nonetheless a seed was planted that night. That seed grew into a rampant fascination with all things supernatural.

Sleepovers turned into B-rated horror film marathons. Her library card was used to bring home piles of books about ghosts and vampires. She still isn't quite sure who she loved first, Stephen King or Freddy Krueger. By the time she was twelve, Cege took a turn at penning her own spooky tales. That love of things that go bump in the night and scare you to death has only grown stronger throughout the years.

The paranormal and supernatural take center stage in all of Cege's stories. Over the years, she has crafted her own origin stories about vampires (the Bloodtruth series), zombies (the Twisted Souls series), and ghosts, angels, and demons (the Shadows series). She's also taken on the folklore around the Fountain of Youth (the Immortal End series beginning with Ageless). There is something for every reader of the paranormal in Cege's books.

Reviews

[Lynn Mccarthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This box set was really good not my normal kind of books but i enjoyed them.
It is a collection of 4 books in the Fantasy genre I would say for all ages from young adults and up.
Loved the series.

Thank you Netgalley the Author and publisher for a chance to read these books