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Genre: Urban Fantasy
Audience: 18+
Synopsis:
Kala Hicks never imagined she’d be fighting demons, angels and gods when she joined the Navy. But when her elite covert military team is on a mission aboard Air Force One and Kala is forced to shoot the President her life changes forever.
The moment the President is killed the Titan god, Atlas, speaks to Kala, telling her that she has to do his job by committing one act of atrocity every four days… or the world will end. Kala faces off against creatures of legend; from demons determined to make her fail and plunge the Earth into chaos, to angels who don’t trust her to do the job and are willing to kill her to claim it for themselves.
Pitted against the forces of good and evil, Kala must choose whether to save the world by doing the unthinkable, or sit back and let it burn.
Four days later, she’ll have to do it again.
My Thoughts: This is a great read. I was hooked from the first chapter. Kala has incredible instincts and she needs to listen to them more. Her life and relationships are complicated. This is all by her choosing, although, I don't think she is aware that she actually made a choice. Kala is thrust into an extraordinary situation that she is well suited for. Kala is faced with saving her true love or saving the world which will she choose? Pick up this breathtaking read and enjoy the ride. It will not disappoint.
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Excerpt End of Chapter 3:
Very carefully, Jack opened the door that led to the President’s
office.
What awaited them was terrifying.
President Jareth Wilton stood behind his desk. He was wearing a
vest that held five grey bars of C-4 wired into a bomb. Wilton was a tall man,
well over six feet with stark black hair and a long face. He was a young
President, only fifty years old, but he looked like he’d aged twenty years
since the last time Kala had seen him at a press conference, with dark rings
under his eyes and worry lines on his forehead.
But his smile was what made the scene surreal and horrific. His
thin lips were grinning as if he’d just climbed Mt. Everest.
President Wilton stared directly at Jack as the door swung open
the rest of the way. “I figured it out! I figured out how to break it! No one
will ever have to do what I’ve had to do again! Do you realize what this
means?”
Kala knew then and there that the man was cracked. Figured what
out? Break what? He was rambling like a mad man.
But the more frightening moment came when Jack responded back to
Wilton. “Killing yourself is impossible. People have tried that in the past.”
Not only was President Wilton talking crazy, but apparently Jack
knew his language and was responding accordingly.
Kala noticed that Wilton’s eyes lit up when Jack spoke. “You’re
the one they sent to replace me.”
Jack nodded.
What? Kala was seriously
confused.
Kala spoke up, “What’s going on Jack?”
Replace him for what?
Jack didn’t acknowledge Kala or the rest of the team, which was
shifting uncomfortably behind him.
Wilton shook his head, serious. “You can’t do it. You have to
let me detonate this bomb. We have to crash the plane! It’s the only way to
stop it!”
“You can’t stop it!” Jack yelled back.
“I can and I will!” Wilton talked into an earpiece. “NOW!”
The plane nose-dived.
Everyone jolted forward and stumbled from the force of it.
Jack barked orders, “Lali get up to the Flight Deck and by any
means necessary take over this plane!”
Lali paused for a second, she looked more confused than Kala
felt, but after a moment to gain her bearings as the plane was falling fast,
she managed to high-tail it out of the room and up to the Flight Deck.
Kala was sure they’d hit ground at any moment.
Jack aimed his gun at the President’s head.
Wilton was frantic. He ducked behind his large oak desk that was
bolted to the ground.
“You can’t kill me! You’ll ruin everything!” Wilton yelled.
Jack turned to Kala and Derek. “No one shoots him but me!”
Kala kind of nodded, but she was in shock at the fact that they
were about to flatten a part of the capital with Air Force One. She really
didn’t care what Jack was saying. She couldn’t let President Wilton set off
that bomb and kill thousands.
Jack shot at the desk, trying to hit the president, but he
didn’t come close.
Only Kala could make a shot like that and not get them all
killed from shooting a hole through the plane.
Kala and Derek made eye contact. Kala could tell Derek was
thinking the same thing. He whispered so only Kala could hear, “Do it.”
Kala’s nod was barely perceptible.
Jack saw her and his eyes went wide. “Kala STOP!”
Kala shrugged. “I can’t let him do this, Jack. I’m sorry.”
Only the top of Wilton’s head was showing.
It was enough.
Kala took her shot.
Author Bio:
Becca C. Smith received her
Film degree from Full Sail University and has worked in the Film and Television
industry for most of her adult life. In 2010 Becca published her first novel,
Riser followed by the sequel, Reaper, in 2011, and the finale, Ripper in 2013.
In 2012 Becca wrote the children’s novel Alexis Tappendorf and the Search for
Beale’s Treasure. She is also the co-author of the teen graphic novel Ghost
Whisperer: The Haunted. Becca currently lives in Los Angeles, CA with her
husband, Stephan and their two cats Jack and Duke.
First of all, that cover is STUNNING. I'm not sure how I haven't come across it before, but I'm certainly glad I did here. The story sounds fascinating, I can't imagine having to do something awful every few days and what that could do to a person. I think I'll have to give this a read and see how she handles it!
ReplyDeleteThis one sounds so unique...definitely something I would be interested in reading :)
ReplyDelete-Amber Terry-