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*~
“Kasey,”
I yelled stupidly, knowing it wouldn’t do any good but unable to stop myself.
“Kasey, where are you?”
I
burst through another door to find the bathroom, a layer of steam frozen in the
air. I pulled the curtain back without even thinking about who might be in the
shower, and slumped with relief when I found Kasey. He held a washcloth to his
face as a stream of water rained down on him, frozen in place.
“Kasey,”
I breathed happily, and reached out to grab his hand.
As
I touched him, the same spark I always felt when we made contact erupted and
the world came to life again. Water spewed all over me, soaking my clothes,
spilling over onto the floor, but I didn’t care.
Kasey
startled and yelped a little when he saw me. He recovered quickly. “Blue? What
happened?”
I
smiled, my tears mixing with the hot water from the shower as I launched myself
at him, hugging him tightly. He smiled back and wrapped his arms around me.
Thank
god I found you! I thought. “I’m so glad you’re here,” I whispered in his ear.
“I
knew you would come back,” he whispered back, just before his lips found mine.
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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