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March 10, 2016
March Mania - Author Spotlight: Becky Doughty
Book Two of The Fallout Series
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Play with fire, you just might get burned...
On stage, Tish Ransome sings about heartache and passion, betrayal, and about love gone wrong… but she knows very little about any of it in real life. The rockstar princess who swears like a pirate—literally—is loved and adored by family, friends, and fans alike, and her world is filled with good things, her future bright.
Behind the scenes, however, trouble is brewing. When Tom, her best friend and co-founder of the Marauders, tells her he's leaving the band after graduation, Tish must find a new wingman to step into Tom's hard-to-fill shoes. The moment she hears Sebastian Jeffries play, she knows he's the one.
Yet with Sebastian comes a taste of the things Tish only writes about, and she can't resist the lure of the tortured artist. Sebastian, likewise, is drawn to Tish's brilliance, but like a moth that hovers too close to the flames, is he killing himself just to be near her? Can Tish save Sebastian before it's too late, or will he pull her down into the darkness with him?
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I’m part chameleon. Not because I can change colors on demand (which would be AWESOME!), but because I can move my eyes independently of each other. It gives me a serious eye-strain headache, but it’s entertaining. I may post a video one day ….I live in Southern California, but I can’t stand the sun. It burns my eyes and makes my skin turn glittery–er, I mean, red. I should live somewhere like Ireland or Scotland where it rains a lot. Or Forks.Speaking of Ireland, I ran The Dublin Marathon in Dublin, Ireland, in the year 2000, to celebrate the new millennium. It rained the whole 26.2 miles. Chafing and blisters commenced.I am adopted. It’s pretty cool. I come from nowhere, anywhere, and everywhere.Speaking of being adopted, one of my favorite pastimes is people-watching. In airports, and waiting rooms, etc., I pretend to read, but really, I look for people who might be my long-lost birth relatives, then I write reunion scenes in my head. Someday, I might publish those reunion stories.I still read aloud to our 20-something year-old married children after dinner during our weekly Family Night. We like all things Middle Earth, Otherworld, Time-travel, and non-Muggle. We keep it real, baby.I have a secret that I can’t tell you.My children have some incredible tattoos.Book stuff: I love to read historical fiction, but I usually write contemporary fiction. I keep threatening to put out a nonfiction book … but I kinda like the whole … ahem … ‘creative license’ thing with fiction. Baby, I was BORN TO LIE! (Bumper sticker, anyone?)I grew up in the boonies, so we had no television. But one of our supporting churches sent a shipment of all the Nancy Drew books ever published to us for Christmas one year. No, I wasn’t Nancy. I was George.Another of my favorite novels while growing up was Louis L’Amour’s Down the Long Hills . I first read it because my dad loved Louis L’Amour, and I wanted to be like him. (Dad, not Louis. Except for the writing a gazillion books and making a living at lying part.) I still have that original hard-back copy in my library.Speaking of Louis L’Amour, I’m what would be considered a “Pantser” – I write by the seat of my pants. I usually start with a general story or plot idea, but don’t map much out until I’m actually writing the book, and even then, my characters usually take off on their own. I’ve never written a book that ended up the way I originally thought it would. So what does that have to do with my buddy, Louie? This is from his memoirs: “One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter—who was a child at the time—asked me ‘Daddy, why are you writing so fast?’ And I replied, ‘Because I want to see how the story turns out!’”~ ~ ~
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March 8, 2016
March Mania - Author Spotlight: Sherry Ficklin
Today's spotlight is on Sherry Ficklin, author of the #Hacker Novels. Playing With Fire:
One brilliant young hacker.
One experimental government aircraft.
One chance to keep it all from going up in flames.
Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet—at any cost.
When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering… to all out murder.
About Sherry:Sherry is a full time writer from Colorado and the author of over a dozen novels for teens and young adults including the best selling Stolen Empire series. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.
Sherry also writes New Adult fiction under the pen name Ranae Glass and is a contributing writer for fangirlish.com. You can find her at her official website, www.sherryficklin.com, or stalk her on her Facebook page www.facebook.com/sherry.ficklin.
Playing With Fire is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes.
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March 5, 2016
March Mania - Author Spotlight: Lila Felix
To start off our month-long Author Spotlight, meet Lila Felix, author of Lightning Kissed, among many other, great books!Lila, if you were not an author, what would you be doing right now?
I would still be editing books for indie authors and loving every second of it.
Five years ago, what were you doing?
I was working nights at Wal-Mart in their cash office, counting tons of money every night. Do you have a certain writing ritual?
My writing ritual is to listen to some inspiring music for about a half hour or read some before starting. After that, I try to write whenever I can, sneaking in the time gaps in our schedules.
What has been the toughest criticism given to you as an author?
My toughest criticism has been that my endings aren’t always what the reader expected. I see this as a criticism and a compliment. I don’t really want to write what everyone expects. Ever fangirled over another author? Who was it?
Absolutely! I’ve totally fan-girled over so many authors. I’m first and foremost a reader after all! It was actually Shelly Crane. I flew to Florida to see her and wigged out hard.
Is there an author you'd like to meet?
I would love to meet Jay Asher. 13 Reasons Why is a book that continues to impact my life every day. It makes me think about who I am and how I treat others in every situation. He’s a brilliant author. I’d probably faint.
Biggest writing pet peeve?
My biggest writing peeve is that horrible little word count box at the bottom of the page. Once I learned to make that sucker go away, I was in heaven.
Do you read other's reviews of your books?
I read other’s reviews of my books in the first month of their release. After that, I check them every 6 months or so. It can be painful and humbling to see what others think of our books.
Can you share more information about Lightning Kissed?
Colby Evans can leap from one country to the next in a heartbeat. She can see every sunset in every time zone in the same day. She can travel across the world in a flash. She defies gravity and physics with every breath she takes. She's tested her abilities and found them limitless.
She is the lightning. She is Lucent. And nothing can stop her.
Except him.
Theodore Ramsey isn't supposed to be able to flash like Colby. The power of travel is passed on from mother to daughter in their people. Except once in every hundred generations.
Theo is the one.
He can flash like Colby. And it makes him a target to their enemies and to himself. His abilities change everything he knows about life and throws his future into an uncertain tangent. In fact, the only thing certain in his life is the love he feels for Colby.
Their love defies time and space and has been the only constant thing in their lives since childhood. But even their infallible love will be stretched to its limits.
She will risk her life to protect him. But he will risk everything to protect them all.
About Lila:
I am a stay at home mom from the South and wife to the most giving and hard working husband ever. I love to cook and try out new recipes even if they don't always turn out like I want them to. I refer to my kids lovingly as the Three Stooges as they are constantly coming up with new ways to reek havoc in the house. Most recently that included putting a rubberband on the kitchen sink sprayer so it would douse me when I did the dishes. I love to go to roller derby bouts and read in my spare time. I write mostly at night when the house is silent and I can sneak cookies without having to share! If you're into stalking, try under the Cypress trees in the swamps of Louisiana, but watch out for gators!!
Lightning Kissed is available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes. Click here to sign up for Lila's newsletter. For additional information on Lila Felix, click here to visit her website.
March 3, 2016
March Mania Madness...
March rolled in like a lion here in southeastern Wisconsin. We awoke to a blanket of snow, inches deep. Yes, enough for the snow plows to come through. March is still winter for us—unless the groundhog’s early prediction of spring comes true—which doesn’t happen often.
So in between shoveling snow and salting walkways, we await the madness. The March Madness.Before I met my husband, I didn’t know the meaning of the term, or understand the significance to the rest of the world—or, um, to sports fans. Today, years later, March Madness is a big part of our “isn’t spring here yet” tradition. We fill out competing brackets, tease one another on our good or not-so-good picks, and watch as many games as we can as a family.Oh, who am I kidding?
I’m surrounded by die hard basketball fans. My house rocks to the theme from ESPN 24/7. Even my four month-old puppy is already conditioned to bouncing balls and the Sports Network.
So what’s a girl to do in March?
Celebrate with a month-long author spotlight and a March Madness contest. Watch for guest posts from remarkable authors and a chance to win a Mystery Prize.
Check back on March 5th for the first author spotlight, and on March 6th for the start of the Madness…
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February 29, 2016
Nora & Kettle Book Release
Nora & Kettle
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: February 29th 2016
Genres: Historical, Young Adult
What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason?
Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to—the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having “one drop of Japanese blood in them”—things are finally looking up. He has his hideout in an abandoned subway tunnel, a job, and his gang of Lost Boys.
Desperate to run away, the world outside her oppressive brownstone calls to naïve, eighteen-year-old Nora—the privileged daughter of a controlling and violent civil rights lawyer who is building a compensation case for the interned Japanese Americans. But she is trapped, enduring abuse to protect her younger sister Frankie and wishing on the stars every night for things to change.
For months, they’ve lived side by side, their paths crossing yet never meeting. But when Nora is nearly killed and her sister taken away, their worlds collide as Kettle, grief stricken at the loss of a friend, angrily pulls Nora from her window.
In her honeyed eyes, Kettle sees sadness and suffering. In his, Nora sees the chance to take to the window and fly away.
Set in 1953, NORA AND KETTLE explores the collision of two teenagers facing extraordinary hardship. Their meeting is inevitable, devastating, and ultimately healing. Their stories, a collection of events, are each on their own harmless. But together, one after the other, they change the world.
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I snort, push my sleeves up, and lean back on my forearms. She watches me, her eyes on my bare skin, and I wonder what she’s thinking. “Dances. Really? What’s to miss?” My experience with dances was one forced event in the camps where we watched the grownups awkwardly shift in lines to scratchy music. It didn’t look very enjoyable.
She releases the button she’s been playing with and smirks. “Says someone who’s clearly never been to one.”
“How do you know that?” I say, raising an eyebrow and touching my chest, mock offended.
She laughs. It’s starlight in a jar. I blink slowly. “Oh, I can tell just by looking at you, the way you move. You,” she says, pointing at me accusingly. “Can’t dance.”
The candlelight twinkles like it’s chuckling at me. “I can dance,” I say, not sure why I’m lying to defend myself. I’ve never danced in my life.
She stands up and beckons me with her finger, and I think there’s something wrong with my heart. It’s hurting… but the pain feels good.
She looks like a pirate’s cabin boy, shirt billowing around her small waist, ill-fitting pants rolled over at her hips to stop them from falling down. She points her bare foot at me. “Prove it!”
Shit!
I cough and stand nervously. I don’t know what to do with my hands, so I put them behind my back. She giggles. Touches me. Runs her fingers lightly down my arms until she finds my hands. She grasps my wrists and I gulp as she places one on the small dip between her hips and her ribs, extending the other out like the bow of a boat. Her hand in mine.
I follow her small steps and we wind in circles, avoiding the clumps of debris, painting patterns in the dust.
I stare at my socks and her narrow bare feet, listening to the swish of them across the dirt. “You know, this is pretty weird without music,” I mutter, looking up for a moment and suddenly losing my balance.
She exhales and brings us back to equilibrium. She starts humming softly. It’s a song I’ve heard before, but I pretend it’s the first time. Her voice is sweet, cracked and croaky, but in tune as she gazes at the ground and leads us up and down the back of the tunnel.
This moment is killing me. I don’t want it, but I do. Because I know it won’t be enough and it’s all I’ll get.
The end of the song is coming. It rises and rises and then softly peters out. We look at each other, understanding that something is changing between us, and we have to decide whether to let it. Please, let it.
She sings the last few bars. “And if you sing this melody, you’ll be pretending just like me. The world is mine. It can be yours, my friend. So why don’t you pretend?”
Her voice is like the dust of a comet’s tail. Full of a thousand things I don’t understand but want to.
She stops and starts to step away. She’s so fragile. Not on the outside. On the outside, her body is strong, tougher than it should have to be. It’s inside that’s very breakable. I’m scared to touch her, but I don’t want to avoid touching her because of what she’s been through. That seems worse.
So I do it, because I want to and I don’t think she doesn’t want me to. Her breath catches as I pull her closer. I just want to press my cheek to hers, feel her skin against mine. There is no music, just the rhythm of two barely functioning hearts trying to reach each other through miles of scar tissue.
She presses her ear to my chest and listens, then she pulls back to meet my eyes, her expression a mixture of confusion and comfort. She breathes out, her lips not wanting to close but not wanting to speak. She settles on a nervous smile and puts her arms around my neck. I inhale and look up at the ceiling, counting the stars I know are up there somewhere, and then rest my cheek in her hair.
I don’t know how she is here. I don’t know when she’ll disappear.
We sway back and forth, and it feels like we might break. That we will break if we step apart from each other.
I can’t let her go.
I think I love dancing.
Author Bio:
Lauren Nicolle Taylor lives in the lush Adelaide Hills. The daughter of a Malaysian nuclear physicist and an Australian scientist, she was expected to follow a science career path, attending Adelaide University and completing a Health Science degree with Honours in obstetrics and gynaecology.
She then worked in health research for a short time before having her first child. Due to their extensive health issues, Lauren spent her twenties as a full-time mother/carer to her three children. When her family life settled down, she turned to writing.She is a 2014 Kindle Book Awards Semi-finalist and a USA Best Book Awards Finalist.
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February 15, 2016
Inner Demons by Amanda Strong - Release Day!
The Sequel You've Been Waiting For.Readers have been waiting patiently for the sequel to the best-selling young adult novel— Hidden Monster. Reviewers boasted about the surprise twist, the romance, and the uniqueness of this paranormal romance. Now the sequel by Amanda Strong is here! This is the second book in the Monsters Among Us series. Inner Demons is scheduled to release on February 15, 2016. If you haven't started this series yet, now is the time! Hidden Monster is now FREE for a limited time!
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For seventeen-year-old Samantha Campbell, running back woods trails usually means freedom from her less-than-perfect life. That is, until the day a morning run turns into a living nightmare. When Samantha wakes up to find herself bound to a dirty, pinstriped mattress, she realizes she’s anything but free. With a masked abductor repeatedly injecting her arm with an unknown substance while holding her captive, Samantha tries in vain to find out what he wants, but he refuses to speak. Until the day he breaks his silence and his twisted words are worse than what she’d imagined. He promises her one day she will fall in love with him but the best part will be that she won't know who he is... until it's too late.
Finding herself freed from captivity, with her captor still at large, Samantha is on guard against everything and everyone around her. Unfortunately, walling up her heart proves difficult when eighteen-year-old Blake Knightley moves in next door. When Samantha starts experiencing strange changes within her, she realizes her captor may have left her more damaged than she originally thought. Now she must turn to Blake for help in order to unearth the truth behind the monster who started this all... or risk experiencing worse things than just falling in love.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28zPQ... AMANDA STRONG:
Born in Dekalb, Illinois, Amanda Strong has called Utah, Arizona, Hawaii, Virginia and now New Mexico home. Amanda has been spinning tales since she was a child. Her family still remembers finding young Amanda with her bright pink glasses, hiding in random corners of the house while scribbling away in one of her many spiral-bound notebooks. You could say that some things never change since Amanda is still writing today. Amanda began her writing career when she uploaded The Awakener, her first full-length novel, on Wattpad where it received over 430,000 reads in four weeks. She was blown away and humbled by the reader support and feedback she received. Because of The Awakener's success as a non-published book, she was asked to talk on 1400 KSTAR about her story.In September 2013 Amanda Strong signed with Clean Teen Publishing for publication of The Awakener, which is scheduled to release in late October of this year. The Awakener is the first book in an all-new young adult paranormal romance series called: The Watchers of Men.When Amanda isn't writing, you can find her chasing her three rambunctious children around the house and spending time with her wonderful and supportive husband. On some occasions you can still find Amanda with her not-so-pink glasses, hiding in a corner reading her favorite young adult fantasy novels or working out only to blow her diet by eating ice cream.
February 8, 2016
Release Day Blitz - Digital Horizon by Sherry D. Ficklin
Clean Teen Publishing is excited to announce the release of Digital Horizon, book three in Sherry D. Ficklin's #Hacker series.
Reeling from the death of her father, Farris is on the verge of losing everything. When an unexpected offer lands her a summer internship inside a secret government think tank filled with hackers, she leaps at the opportunity to get some answers. Someone has done the unthinkable, penetrating a hack-proof system and stealing vital military intel--which may have lead to her father's death.
Finding those responsible will mean teaming up with old enemies, trusting strangers with secrets of their own, and sacrificing what little happiness she's managed to cling to, all in the name of revenge. But when the trail leads her deep into the dark web and a hacker capable of launching an attack on US soil, Farris and her team will have to go further than they thought possible to bring him to justice and avoid all out war.
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Playing With Fire (#Hacker Series Book 1)
One brilliant young hacker.
One experimental government aircraft. One chance to keep it all from going up in flames.
Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet--at any cost.
When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering... to all out murder.
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In Too Deep (#Hacker Series Book 2)
One talented hacker. One dead body. One explosive secret.When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she’s as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Ferris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all. Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded.The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.
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About The Author
Sherry D. Ficklin is a full time writer from Colorado where she lives with her husband, four kids, two dogs, and a fluctuating number of chickens and house guests. A former military brat, she loves to travel and meet new people. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.
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February 7, 2016
Beautiful People - Valentine's Edition 2016
This month's Beautiful People is a special edition for Valentine's Day, and all about Ben Parker and Emma Bennett. In case you missed earlier posts, Beautiful People is a monthly blog linkup hosted by Paperfury and Further Up and Further In. Look for monthly updates on characters from The Afterworld Saga, or on writing topics and challenges author's face.
How did they first meet?
Emma Bennett first set eyes on her Prince Charming, Ben Parker, when she stood in line to rent a jet ski at her aunt's resort on Lake Bell. He busted her checking him out several times as she waited her turn. But it wasn't until soccer practice that Emma actually met Ben and learned his name.
Ben, on the other hand, knew who Emma was long before she moved to Westport, Wisconsin. After all, Ben was an agent for the Afterworld's Bureau of Investigation. Not only did he know Emma, but he loved her.
What were their first impressions of each other?Emma was lost in a daydream, oogling over Ben. Since Ben was an immortal agent, he was trained to maintain his composure. But when he sees her at a school dance, he does get a little flustered.
How long have they been a couple?
Ben and Emma were together in a few past lives. I won't give away too much details to ruin the series!
How committed are they to each other? Would they break up over a secret or a disagreement? Could stress drive them apart? Would they die for each other?
Wow. Lots of questions all at once! Here goes... Ben is very committed to Emma. He searched for her for decades, after he died in World War II and joined the Bureau. He didn't actually find Emma until decades later. But Emma was a human and no longer remembered Ben and their lives together. Ben needs to win her heart the old fashioned way, and if he does, would anything drive them apart? You'll have to check out Aftermath to see!
List 5 "food quirks" they know about each other.
For starters, Emma likes Mentos mints, but not Altoids. Ben prefers cinnamon flavored Altoids. He also avoids pepper.
Does anyone disapprove of their relationship?
No one disapproves... well, not really. But when Ben is too busy with his real job of being an immortal agent, Lucas Crandon sneaks in, spending too much time with Emma. In the end, who will she choose?
What would be an ideal date?
Ben and Emma's first date in their last life together was a movie, followed by an ice cream soda. Today, they'd probably spend the afternoon on Lake Bell jet skiing.
January 8, 2016
Beautiful People - January 2016
It's a new year and time for a new edition of Beautiful People, a a monthly blog linkup hosted by Paperfury and Further Up and Further In. This month is all about goals and plans for the new year. It's a great opportunity to regroup and set your plan for success.
Was is your top priority writing project for this year?
In 2016, I'm looking forward to the publication of Afterlife and have already started book 3 in the series.
List 5 areas you'd like to work the hardest to improve this year.
Great question. I really plan to focus more on marketing and blogging. When I first started writing, I was a closet writer. It was just a hobby that no one knew I had. After Aftermath was published, obviously, it was no longer my secret and I grew comfortable with people reading my work. But blogging was different. I find myself struggling to pick topics and draft posts, so I'll definitely put more effort into that in 2016.
Are you participating in any writing challenges?
I'll probably participate in the fall NaNoWriMo event again. Last year, I was focusing on editing Afterlife, so I didn't progress to the level I set as a personal goal.
Pick a character you'd like to get to know better, and will you achieve this in 2016?
The character of Molly Preston has always fascinated me. She is a very complex person with much history. I'd love to get to know her, but that isn't in my plan for this year. Perhaps she'll come up in a short story or novella in the future... but today, it's not my intention to do that.
What's your critique partner/beta reader situation like and do you have plans to expand this year?
I have been blessed to have a few great critique partners over the past few years, but a fresh set of eyes is always welcome. Any readers that are interested in being a beta reader, should contact me. I'd love to hear from them!
November 30, 2015
#GetHacked New Release
The #Hacker Novels by Sherry D. Ficklin have gotten a lot of attention since the first book Playing With Fire released last month. Clean Teen Publishing is excited to announce that now readers can dive deeper into the world of a young hacker in book two— In Too Deep. Hang on to your keyboards, because trouble is only a keystroke away. If you haven't started reading this young adult mystery series, you can start today with a free digital copy of Playing With Fire.START READING IN TOO DEEP:
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One talented hacker. One dead body. One explosive secret. When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she's as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Farris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all. Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded. The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.
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One brilliant young hacker. One experimental government aircraft. One chance to keep it all from going up in flames.
Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet—at any cost.
When all signs lead to someone close to her as the mastermind, Farris will have to burn more than bridges to get to the truth. She will have to risk her fragile new life to uncover the identity of the cyber criminal before they can escalate from harmless tampering… to all out murder.
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Sherry is a full time writer from Colorado and the author of over a dozen novels for teens and young adults including the best selling Stolen Empire series. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she's on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs. Sherry also writes New Adult fiction under the pen name Ranae Glass and is a contributing writer for fangirlish.com.
