Title: The Blue Effect: A Renegade
Heroes Novel
Author: Rose Shababy
Genre: Adult Sci Fi Fantasy
Hosted by: Lady Amber's Tours
Blurb:
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 One
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.
Author Bio:
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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