Booty Tuesday -- Darynda Jones' First Grave on the Right

Carrying home Booty

As you know, I returned from the RWA National Conference in August with Booty!
I haz signed books.  

I haz New Books, from writers I admire.  

Did I mention they are signed?

One of these books can be yours.

This week is your chance to win First Grave on the Right by Darynda Jones.

 I've been watching members of the Ruby-Slippered Sisterhood go from strength to strength these last couple years.  At the RWA National Conference Darynda had Two RITA Finals and WON the RITA for Best First Book.  Read about it here.

So I am offering you the RITA-winning book,

SIGNED,

and I collected that siggie before she won the RITA which shows some prescience on my part, does it not?

This copy has not even been opened because I read the book long before the conference.

Library Journal says, "Plenty of action.  And let's be honest -- the sex is pretty hot too."

From the back cover:

This whole grim reaper thing should

have come with a manual.

Or a diagram of some kind.

A flowchart would have been nice. 

 

 ... which is really good enough to qualify as a poem but, alas, didn't get entered.  

Here's a little excerpt:

The sun nested on Nine Mile Hill for several heartbeats before losing interest and slipping down the other side.  I sat in Misery – the jeep, not the emotion – and waited for the skyline to swallow it completely so I could get on with my breaking-and-entering gig.

I love language like this.  You will too, I believe.

To be eligible to win this wonderful book, write and post a poem in the comment thread of this post. 

Use one of the following words from the cover:

First, grave, right, novel, Jones, debut, read, year, hilarious, heartfelt, sexy, surprise, beg, next, one, ward, lover, unleash, grim, reaper, tension, hot, high, octane, signpost, paranormal, suspense, high, order.

Your poem can be a 
Limerick
Haiku 
(traditional or non-traditional)
Rhymed couplet
Quatrain  
blank verse
or any other rhyme or poetry form you fancy.  I am not particular.

I'll pick one lucky commenter (US only, sorry) from the comment trail on Friday.