Category: In 27 Days by Ally

Chapter 4.      “Hey. Hey, come on, you need to wake up. HEY!” I let out a small squeak of shock and bolted upright, looking around frantically to try and find what the source of trouble was. As I looked around, as it happened, I noticed that a few things were completely out of the ordinary. For one, I was wearing a pair of jeans, a pretty blue blouse, […]

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Chapter 3.  You know that feeling you get after you’ve been doused in ice cold water and for just a few seconds it feels like you’ve been frozen in a glacier or something like that? That was the feeling I got as I stared up into the dark, fathomless eyes of the eerily creepy guy who’d just announced that he was Death itself. And, of course, being a sixteen year […]

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Chapter 2. I stood in front of the floor length mirror propped up against the wall in my bedroom and tugged awkwardly at the black cotton dress I was wearing. Sure, the dress was nice enough, my long dark hair wasn’t frizzy or anything, and I looked presentable enough, I supposed, but I was still nervous as hell. I only had a few more minutes before the taxi I called […]

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Chapter 1. In 2011 I began writing the first chapters of what would become In 27 Days while I was sitting on a plane on the way home from a youth conference one night. And now six years later – after various drafts and months of editing with my fantastic editorial team over at Blink/HarperCollins – I am so unbelievably lucky and fortunate to announce that this little piece of […]

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