The
Blue Effect
Renegade
Heroes
Book
One
Rose
Shababy
Genre:
Adult Urban Sci-fi/Fantasy
Date
of Publication: September 8th, 2014
Cover
Artist: Regina Wamba
Book
Description:
Blue
Brennan is jaded and bitter despite her pinup girl looks and quick
wit. Night after night, she scours the Seattle club scene looking for
someone or something to fill the emptiness inside.
When
she meets the mysterious Kasey, her world stops… literally.
He claims she has the ability to control time and stuns her even
further when he reveals his own gifts.
Blue
is inexplicably drawn to Kasey and reluctantly enters his world
filled with a new breed of humanity. They’re misfits like her,
blessed or cursed with powerful abilities, struggling to hide their
differences from the rest of society.
Then
the group discovers
a nameless, faceless sociopath with nightmarish powers; and he’s
coming for Blue. She’s left reeling when they discover her gifts
are the key to defeating his terrible evil and saving them all.
Now
she must race
against the clock to harness her own powers and save her new friends.
Can she be more than a renegade? Can she be a hero too?
Excerpt
As
I scanned the crowd my eyes fell on one person out of sync with the
rest. Close to my age, maybe a little older, he obviously didn’t
belong in the club. His clothes, messy looking slacks and a gray
t-shirt, hung on his lean frame. He finished his look with a tartan
scarf and brown fedora that seemed more at home on an old man than
one in his twenties.
He
pulled his hat off and shaggy brown hair fell across his eyes as he
danced. Well, he didn’t dance so much as sway to the music, his
eyes closed while a hint of a smile graced his lips. As he danced, he
bobbed his head back and forth and his hands moved like graceful
waves. His shadow grin seemed to infuse his entire body. He danced by
himself as if he didn’t care what anyone around him thought, as if
he danced for himself and no one else. He looked completely out of
place, yet he appealed to me and I felt myself wanting to go to him.
I
was shocked by the surge of jealousy that rushed through me as I
stared at him. His face broke through my drunken haze and I realized
this man was no paper doll. His face belonged to a truly happy man.
Hell, he looked fucking ecstatic.
He
had the face of an angel.
About
the Author:
Rose
Shababy and her family reside in eastern Washington State. Rose grew
up in the Northwest but swears she’s going to move to warmer
climates someday. She’s claimed this for over 20 years, however,
and has yet to move more than 75 miles away from her mother.
Rose
has a deep love of all things Star Trek and yearns to travel the
heavens, as well as an intense desire to be bitten by a radioactive
spider.
Unfortunately
she sucks at science and math so she hasn’t been able bring her
dreams to life, instead living vicariously through books, comics,
television and film. She hopes to someday make a million dollars so
she can afford to buy her way to the international space station, but
she’d settle for being able to fly around the world and leap tall
buildings in a single bound.
Rose
also loves to cook and worked for years in a gourmet Italian grocery
and deli where she learned to hone her skills. She prepares culinary
masterpieces for her family, but fervently wishes the dishes would
wash themselves. Especially now that her dishwashers/children are
nearly grown and only one still lives at home.
Rose
likes to use her free time wisely. For instance, she likes to
daydream, will often read for hours until she falls asleep on the
couch with an electric blanket and a warm tabby cat curled up on her
hip, as well as spending cozy weekend days watching Syfy movies like
Sharknado and Mega Piranha with her husband.
If
Rose were a cartoon animal, she’d prefer to be a wise old owl or a
sleek and sexy jaguar, but in reality she’d probably be a myopic
mole with coke-bottle glasses.
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