EXCERPT
The Blue Effect
(Renegade Heroes Book 1)
(Renegade Heroes Book 1)
by Rose
Shababy
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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
Clearly the time had
come for the two of us to have it out. “I may have thought you were hot when we
first met, and you got to listen to the nasty thoughts in my head, but every
time we meet I find it harder to like you. In fact, every time you open your
mouth, you get uglier and uglier. I don’t know if Val was right, and you really
are jealous, but let me make this crystal clear for you. There is no part of me
that wants you.”
His eyes narrowed
for a moment, and then, before I could do anything, his hands shot out and
grabbed my shoulders again. He yanked me close to him and I the heat from his
chest burned through my t-shirt. His face was so close to mine I could feel his
hot breath blazing against my cheek when he spoke. “You’re a little liar,” he
hissed. “There is a part of you that likes this,” he shook me a little and I
flushed with rage… and something else. “And goddamn me, there’s a part of me
that likes it too.” He hovered with his face still close to mine and for a
moment I thought he was going to kiss me. My head fell back slightly and my
lips parted involuntarily as I anticipated his invasion.
Then he released me,
almost flinging me away from him. I pressed my back against the wall as I
watched him and tried to catch my breath as my traitorous heart beat so hard I
thought it might burst out of my chest.
“Let me make this
crystal clear for you,” he mimicked. “Kasey is like a brother to me and if you
hurt him, you’ll wish you never met me.”
“I already do,” I
whispered with sincerity.
Praise for the Book
"The writing is
exquisite, and I felt drawn into the world of this book almost right away."
~ I Heart Reading
"Rose gave me
everything I look for in a book. Action, thrills, romance, and suspense. I am
now going to have to go through Amazon in hopes for more of her books. I highly
recommend you to read The Blue Effect.
You just might fall in love with not just another author but another story."
~ TB Recommendations
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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